Award-winning ceremony with scenic reading
Thursday, April 23, 2015, 8.00 pm
venue: GRIPS Hansaplatz
in German with English surtitles
Only by invitation, reception from 7.30 pm onwards.

GRIPS and GASAG invite you to the “Long Night of Authors”!
 
Authors writing for children’s theatre and their promoters will be at the centre of the night’s events. GRIPS and GASAG are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the berlin children’s theatre prize. They are rightly delighted with the quality and quantity of the impressive output over the past 10 years, with the many plays that have received – and are suitable for – further productions, and with their work with writers like Milena Baisch, Jan Friedrich, Reihaneh Youzbashi Dizaji, Thilo Reffert and Kristo Šagor.
 
The berlin children’s theatre prize is a competition in which selected dramatists develop new contemporary plays on the lives of children with the help of theatre specialists (dramaturgs, directors, actors, theatre educationalists and academics). The first prize also includes a world premiere production at the GRIPS Theatre.
 
On this evening we shall be presenting successful formats for promoting writers, we will be granting the prize which is given to authors every two years and celebrating deep into the night over a legendary buffet at Hansaplatz. Plays by Kirsten Fuchs, Mathilda Fatima Onur, Sarah Trilsch and Stefan Wipplinger have been nominated, and they will be appearing for the first time on the stage of the children’s theatre. At the centre of the evening are scenic readings from the texts, arranged by Grete Pagan, and performed by members of the GRIPS company.