Transeuropa (Theater festival)

Transeuropa
Genre	Youth theatre
Frequency	Every three years
Location(s)	Hildesheim, Germany
Inaugurated	1994
Website
www.transeuropa-festival.de

Transeuropa is a triennial theater festival in Germany organized in cooperation with the University of Hildesheim that brings together young performers from different countries to explore avant-garde theatre around a defined theme.

Description

The Transeuropa festival has been held every three years since 1994. The Transeuropa organization was founded in 1993 to promote and maintain free and student theater at the European level. The festival is organized in cooperation with the University of Hildesheim and the Institute for Media and theater, and brings together young performers from the avant-garde theater scene of three or four European countries.^[1] The goal is to promote cultural and artistic cooperation through mutual understanding between people of different nationalities, ideologies and ways of life, and to detect new aesthetic and discursive developments in the independent theater scene. Transeuropa has become one of the largest of such festivals in Europe.^[2]

History

In the 1990s, after the opening of borders in Europe, Transeuropa explored links between East and West through the young theater scene in the partner countries. Transeuropa continues to explore developments and promote discussions by young European artists within a thematic focus.

• 1994: Partner countries: Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands
• 1997: Partner countries: Czech Republic, Great Britain and the Netherlands
• 2000: Partner countries: Denmark, Russia and the UK. The festival was hosted at the World's Fair (Weltausstellung) building in Hanover.
• 2003: "Theater as training for reality", with theater from Norway, Estonia and Switzerland
• 2006: "New Collective", current trends of young European theater and performance art, with special focus on current productions from Switzerland, Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia
• 2009: "Crossing borders" Young groups from Belgium, Germany, Serbia and Turkey
• 2012: The festival in Hildesheim invited guest performances from Iceland, Portugal and Lithuania

References

Citations

1. "Theater- und Performancefestival transeuropa". Stiftung Universität Hildesheim. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
2. "Archiv". Transeuropa Sv. 2012. Retrieved 2013-09-26.

External sources

• "Transeuropa 2003, Hildesheim". Kulturstiftung des bundes. 19 June 2003. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
• "Homesongs". University of Exeter. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
• "transeuropa 2003 4. europäisches Theater- und Performancefestival Hildesheim 12. – 19. Juni 2003". Kultura. 12 May 2003.
• ""CampLand": Internationale Koproduktion mit Osteuropa im Rahmen des 5. Europäischen Theater- und Performancefestivals "transeuropa 2006"". Allianz Kulturstiftung. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
• "Sixlets". Ragnheidur Harpa. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
• "transeuropa-festival 2009". Theaterhaus Hildesheim. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
• "Europäischer Jugendkarlspreis: Entscheidung am 15. Mai / transeuropa vertritt Deutschland". Stiftung Universität Hildesheim. 14 May 2012. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
• "Das Europäische Theater- und Performancefestival "transeuropa" aus Hildesheim gewinnt nationale Ausscheidung". Europäisches Parlament Informationsbüro in Deutschland. 15 March 2012. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
• "Vangaveltur um Transeuropa". Reykvélin. 2012-05-24. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
• Buchinger, Amelie (11 July 2012). "transeuropa, ein Festival forscht. Das Bankett als Begegnungs-Raum für Theater-Machende". theaterpolitik.de. Retrieved 2013-09-26.