On 1 July 2023, the time has come: Deutsches Theater Berlin launches their brand-new programme – the first under the new artistic directorship of Iris Laufenberg, ETC Vice-President and former General Manager & Artistic Director at Schauspielhaus Graz.
Alexander Eisenach will kick things off on 16 September 2023 with the world premiere of 'Weltall Erde Mensch' on DT Bühne. Ten world premieres and premieres by András Dömötör, Claudia Bossard, Anita Vulesica, Jan-Christoph Gockel and Rainald Goetz among others, parties, puppetry, new formats as well as beloved ones - this and much more awaits you in September and October at the Deutsches Theater.
A first glimpse of the new 2023/24 season can already be found in the digital season booklet.
Iris Laufenberg
Iris Laufenberg studied applied theatre studies in Giessen. Since her time as artistic director of the Bonn Biennale festival, one of her focusses has been on new drama, which she has done in her 10-year activity as director of the Theatertreffen of the Berliner Festspiele, among other things with the profiling of the authors' promotion at the Stückemarkt, as well as subsequently expanded as theatre director at the Konzert Theater Bern.
At the Schauspielhaus Graz, Iris Laufenberg founded the annual International Playwrights Festival Graz at the beginning of her artistic directorship in 2015, within which, in addition to contemporary drama, the cross-border, content-related understanding of theatre professionals and young talents is promoted. Iris Laufenberg's focus on the thematic and aesthetic possibilities of the public space (city) theatre between local roots and global necessity is reflected in interdisciplinary and cross-genre projects.
Iris Laufenberg is involved nationally and throughout Europe in representing the interests of theatre and in the further development of the art form. She is a board member and vice-president of the European Theatre Convention. Iris Laufenberg is the designated director of the Deutsches Theater Berlin, which she will direct from 2023/24.
Photo: Julia Baier
