Karlsruhe as "capital of the radio play"

Julia Gonchar, dramaturge, playwright and scholar at the Badisches Staatstheater Karslruhe, about the ARD Hörspieltage 2015 in Karlsruhe.

Last week I could experience an audio Garden of Eden for playwrights in Karlsruhe: after a long working day I was thrown into the ocean of sparkling sounds and refreshing tones.

This year we could hear twelve plays in the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe. Remarkably, the festival takes place not only in Karlsruhe, but also worldwide thanks to the online broadcasting. We enjoyed the video live streams of the Festival multimedia reportage and events, even those which took place in Austria or Switzerland.  Via online voting tool Hörspiel motivated audience to choose our favorite play and vote, thus determining winners of the ARD Online Award 2015.

Competitions were underpinned with a unique blend of radio drama performances, live performances, discussions and lectures, concerts and a spectacular "Night of the Winners".

Each year the radio play festival attracts around 10,000 radio play fans from Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) and in the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) in Karlsruhe. For five days once a year Karlsruhe is turning into a "capital of the radio play" (Jochen Hieber, "FAZ"). The festival is considered to be the largest German-language event around radio play and sound art and takes place in 2015 for the 12th time. I had a great opportunity to talk to radio play directors and eat some German sausages at the “Ear worm stand”. Unbelievable!

P.S. I also got this super cool green bag J

"What is modern Ukraine through the subject, which I do, [...] the theatre"

Dima Levytskyi, author and performer, scholar at Kote Marjanishvili State Drama Theatre in Tbilisi led a seminar about Ukrainian contemporary playwrights.

Arriving in Tbilisi, I immediately noted the ties that have been established in recent years between the Ukrainian and Georgian society. An expression of this were the questions: And what about in Ukraine now? What war? But there comes a Russian? Of course, many asked about the Georgian politicians who are now working in Ukraine. Probably, most of the questions I was not able to respond adequately. But I wanted to meet this request what is modern Ukraine through the subject, which I do, I mean the theatre. I decided to do a report on publications, texts and plays of Ukrainian modern authors, thanks to which, in my view, it may be possible to learn more about the Ukrainian realities.

List of authors
Mariam Aghamyan (Kiev) "Test"
Olga Matsyupa (Lviv-Lublin) "Double"
Pavlo Ar'є (Lviv-Berlin) "At the start and end times"
Alevtina Kakhidze (Kiev), "Live out war"
Stanislav Vasin (Makeevka) Texts of Facebook
Natalia Vorozhbit (Kiev) "Sasha ruled garbage"
Natalia Astaseva-Block (Kherson), "Decabrists’ street"
Piotr Armianovski (Donetsk- Kiev) "Red Plowman"

In addition to Ukrainian authors I decided to introduce also one Polish contemporary author, Szymon Adamczak (Krakow) and his experiments in drama.

 

Impressions of Oleksandr Martynenko

Puppeteer, actor and author, scholar at Schauspiel Leipzig

Autumn in Germany:

The weather was quite bad for the first 10days

During the rehearsals of "Der Herzlfresser":

Mask from production

One of the actors

Scholarship Meeting in Leipzig, 24 - 26 October 2015:

All that problems of Ukrainian theatre

Bolano project