{"id":5040,"date":"2016-05-09T15:39:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T13:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drama-panorama.com\/?page_id=2869&lang=en"},"modified":"2022-11-24T13:00:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T12:00:04","slug":"ein-stueck-tschechien-2016-new-czech-plays","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.drama-panorama.com\/en\/event\/ein-stueck-tschechien-2016-new-czech-plays\/","title":{"rendered":"EIN ST\u00dcCK: TSCHECHIEN 2016 (NEW CZECH PLAYS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

22nd and 23rd June 2016, Berlin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary plays from the Czech Republic in Berlin: Drama Panorama e. V. and the Czech Centre Berlin present a two-day festival of contemporary Czech drama \u2013 Ein St\u00fcck: Tschechien 2016.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Press release Ein Stueck: Tschechien 2016<\/a><\/p>\n

After a successful start in 2014, the biannual festival of contemporary Czech drama Ein St\u00fcck: Tschechien<\/strong> once again presents a selection of new Czech plays.<\/p>\n

There is a new generation of playwrights in the Czech Republic whose plays are relevant for audiences all over Europe, but which nonetheless are barely known outside of their own countries. The two-day festival organised by the Berlin association for translation and theatre Drama Panorama: Forum f\u00fcr \u00dcbersetzung und Theater e. V.<\/strong>, in partnership with the Czech Centre Berlin<\/strong>, aims to fill this gap.<\/p>\n

On the 22nd of June, 2016, there will be a staged reading of three contemporary Czech plays in German translation in the Czech Centre Berlin, followed by a discussion with the playwrights. On the second day of the festival, the 23rd of June, there will a guest performance by a Czech theatre with a production of a contemporary Czech play.<\/p>\n

The guests at the staged reading this year will be the renowned and award-winning (for example, winner of the most important Czech prize for literature, the Magnesia Litera, in 2014) Czech poet and playwright Kate\u0159ina Rud\u010denkov\u00e1<\/strong>. Her play Niekur<\/em><\/strong> is a \u201cdramatic poem\u201d about a romantic relationship between a young Czech writer and an older, more established Lithuanian poet during a writer\u2019s residency in Germany, inspired by Ernst Jandl\u2019s dramatic opera Aus der Fremde (From a Foreign Land)<\/em>. This multi-lingual and linguistically playful drama was awarded the Alfr\u00e9d Radok prize.<\/p>\n

Roman Sikora<\/strong>, currently one of the most frequently produced dramatists outside of the Czech Republic, will also be represented at the reading with his short play Auf dem Weg zum Sieg<\/strong> (On the Path to Victory)<\/em>. The play was commissioned by the Schauspielhaus Graz and, in a bitterly satirical manner, investigates the mentality of the war machine. Tonda and Alois, two Czech soldiers in the Royal and Imperial Austro-Hungarian Army in the First World War are travelling by train to the Ukrainian front at night. Their experiences of war and longings are keeping them awake, until one of them presents the other with a macabre souvenir from Thalerhof. In the Czech Republic, Sikora is considered one of the most political playwrights working today, ironically revealing the dehumanisation in neoliberal society in his plays. His characters speak an artificial, fragmented language that takes apart commonplace turns of phrase and idioms and reassembles them..<\/p>\n

The young Czech playwright Helena Eli\u00e1\u0161ov\u00e1<\/strong>, winner of the Evald Schorm prize, will be presenting her \u201cexistential cyber-comedy\u201d Cyberlove<\/strong><\/em>, which explores the blurred lines between our real and cybernetic worlds. In it, computer freak IT-Hans tries to fundamentally change the world of technology using his programming skills, but ends up drifting further and further away from reality, and getting increasingly fatter. When he succeeds in bringing a porn actress from a computer game to life, his life is overrun by computer reality. Eli\u00e1\u0161ov\u00e1 has been active in the Czech theatre scene as a writer since she was eighteen. Her writing describes the generational conflict of her contemporaries and explores themes such as the search for identity, exclusion and the breakdown of human relationships.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s guest performance is Die Anh\u00f6rung<\/em> (The Hearing) by Tom\u00e1\u0161 V\u016fjtek, directed by Ivan Krej\u010d\u00ed from the Czech theatre Komorn\u00ed sc\u00e9na Ar\u00e9na from Ostrava. The play relocates the character of Adolf Eichmann to Ostrava and confronts him with local events.<\/p>\n

Adolf Eichmann is waiting for an appointment \u2013 with God, no less. He\u2019s certain of his case. He explains his actions as he remembers them to the audience. V\u016fjtek contrasts statements from Eichmann\u2019s court case with the jovial discussions about Jerusalem that Eichmann had in Argentina with Willem Sassen. The author relocates Eichmann\u2019s \u2018story\u2019 to a provincial region of the Czech Republic, linking his crimes to historical events in Ostrava. Then there\u2019s Vlasti\u010dka, a simple, lower class Czech woman who adapts to every regime, using each to her own advantage. V\u016fjtek uses this theme for a series of satirical moments \u2013 for example the play also contains a clever parody of the Wannsee Conference. The play ends in the present, reminding us that anti-Semitic thinking still persists today.<\/p>\n

The director Ivan Krej\u010d\u00ed has been working successfully with the playwright Tom\u00e1\u0161 V\u016fjtek for many years now. His staging of the play Die Anh\u00f6rung<\/em><\/strong> (Sly\u0161en\u00ed<\/em> in Czech) demonstrates his sensitive method of slowly revealing the dramatic situation and gradually heightens the movement on stage towards the audience. The accomplished ensemble of actors perform with precise, stylised gestures, especially the lead, Marek Cisovsk\u00fd.<\/p>\n

In 2016, Sly\u0161en\u00ed<\/em><\/strong> was awarded the \u201cTheatre Journal Prize\u201d (Cena Divadeln\u00edch novin) as best production of the year and came first in no less than three categories in the renowned \u201cTheatre Critics\u2019 Prize\u201d (Cena divadeln\u00ed kritiky): best production of the year<\/em>, best new Czech play<\/em> of the year and best actor<\/em> for Marek Cisovsk\u00fd in the role of Eichmann. The theatre Komorn\u00ed sc\u00e9na Ar\u00e9na was also named Theatre of the Year<\/strong> at this awards ceremony!<\/p>\n

Festival Programme<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, 22nd June 2016, 7:30 pm<\/strong>
\nCzech Centre Berlin, Wilhelmstra\u00dfe 44\/entrance Mohrenstra\u00dfe, 10117 Berlin<\/p>\n

Kate\u0159ina Rud\u010denkov\u00e1: Niekur<\/em><\/strong> (translated from the Czech by Doris Kouba)<\/p>\n

Roman Sikora: Auf dem Weg zum Sieg<\/em><\/strong> (translated from the Czech by Barbora Schnelle)<\/p>\n

Helena Eli\u00e1\u0161ov\u00e1:<\/strong> Cyberlove <\/em><\/strong>(translated from the Czech by Doris Kouba)<\/p>\n

A staged reading of the plays (some slightly shortened), followed by an audience discussion with the playwrights.<\/p>\n

Staging of the readings: Eberhard K\u00f6hler<\/p>\n

Free entrance<\/p>\n

After the reading, the festival\u2019s audience prize will be awarded.<\/p>\n

Thursday, 23rd June 2016, 8:00 pm<\/strong>
\nTheater unterm Dach, Danziger Stra\u00dfe 101, 10405 Berlin<\/p>\n

Die Anh\u00f6rung (The Hearing)<\/em><\/strong>
\nby Tom\u00e1\u0161 V\u016fjtek<\/p>\n

Theatre Komorn\u00ed sc\u00e9na Ar\u00e9na, Ostrava, Czech Republic
\nIn Czech with simultaneous interpreting into German
\nTranslated from the Czech by Mirko Kraetsch<\/p>\n

Directed by: Ivan Krej\u010d\u00ed
\nStage design: Milan David
\nCostume design: Marta Roszkopfov\u00e1
\nMusic: Nikos Engonidis
\nDramaturgy: Tom\u00e1\u0161 V\u016fjtek
\nWith: Marek Cisovsk\u00fd, Alena Sas\u00ednov\u00e1-Polarczyk, Petr Panzenberger, \u0160imon Krupa u. a.<\/p>\n

After the performance, we invite you to stay for a panel discussion with the Czech theatre-makers moderated by Barbora Schnelle<\/p>\n

Tickets 12 \u20ac\/8 \u20ac. For reservations please call the Theater unterm Dach at 030 \u2013 902 95 38 17<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Organised by:<\/span>
\nDrama Panorama: Forum f\u00fcr Theater und \u00dcbersetzung e. V.
\nwww.drama-panorama.com<\/a>
\nCzech Centre Berlin\/\u010cesk\u00e9 centrum Berl\u00edn
\nberlin.czechcentres.cz<\/a><\/p>\n

In partnership with Komorn\u00ed sc\u00e9na Ar\u00e9na, Ostrava<\/p>\n

Dramaturgy\/Production:<\/span>
\nBarbora Schnelle and Henning Bochert<\/p>\n

The festival is funded by:<\/span>
\nGerman-Czech Future Funds
\nThe Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic
\nThe city of Ostrava
\nThe Institute of the Arts \u2013 The Prague Theatre Institute
\nDilia o.s., agency for theatre, literature and the audio-visial arts
\nTheater unterm Dach, Berlin<\/p>\n

For more information: info@drama-panorama.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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