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The next Festival Theaterformen will take place in Braunschweig from 13 - 23 June 2024.

The British architect Richard Dougherty (The DisOrdinary Architecture Project) was already responsible for the design of the festival centre for the last festival edition in Braunschweig in 2022. This year we invited…

This poster, currently hanging on one of the large columns at the entrance to the Schauspielhaus, was designed by American artist and activist Melissa Malzkuhn.

Her campaign Hu - to sign is human aims to raise…

DJ and Deaf Rave founder Troi Lee is offering a DJ workshop for people from the local DJ scene in Hanover that takes place on June 30, 2023 from 6:00pm to 7:00pm in Hanover. In the workshop, participants will…

This year, for the first time, Festival Theaterformen is focusing on the culture of Deaf* people, who bring exciting artistic impulses to the use of language, body, new technologies and community. As guest curator,…

This year's programme of Festival Theaterformen has been published! For eleven days in June and July, international theatre, dance, and performances will once again be shown in Hannover. The festival trailer offers…

This video gives you an insight into our programme. Rita Mazza, our curator for Deaf culture, presents the festival’s Deaf focus and offers for Deaf people as well as information about the festival.

A new chapter for the dance scene in Hanover: We warmly congratulate Melanie Zimmermann on her position as the artistic director of the new dance festival in Hanover!

With Melanie Zimmermann, the annual…

The 2023 edition of Festival Theaterformen will take place from June 22 until July 2 in Hanover. Currently, we are working on our new program. From April 27 onwards, our new program will be available on our website…

In 2022, Jess Thom from Touretteshero was our guest at the GATHERING IN A BETTER WORLD in Braunschweig. With the "Journey To A Better World", disabled and non-disabled astronauts were invited to go on a journey…

At the end of the year, we take a look back at this year's festival in Braunschweig and the GATHERING IN A BETTER WORLD. Together with the Goethe-Institut, we invited the artists Jess Thom / Touretteshero, Edu O. and…

From January 2024, Hannover is to have a new annual dance festival. The concept for this was jointly presented by the state capital of Hannover, the Stiftung Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony Foundation) and the state of…

The Festival Theaterformen 2022 is over and we look back on eleven exciting and eventful days. A total of 150 artists* from 12 countries traveled to Braunschweig for the festival for a "meeting of art and audience in…

If you have passed the Herzogin-Anna-Amalia-Platz in the past few days, you have surely noticed the various small "islands" of our festival center - this is where we are pitching our tents for eleven days this year.…

We, the team of the Festival Theaterformen, look with concern and horror at the devastating Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. We stand in solidarity with the people in Ukraine and with all those who are working f…

On Thursday, 5 May 2022, we will publish the programme for this year's Festival Theaterformen in Braunschweig at 10:30 am. At the same time, advance ticket sales will begin, right here at www.theaterformen.de…

During the winter we reopened our colour fan and now proudly present this year's colours for the Festival Theaterformen in Braunschweig! A bright neon green replaces the neon red of the Hannover edition from 2021.…

We are in this together but we are not the same: The long-awaited video documentation of our urban laboratory, which we set up for the Festival Theaterformen 2021 on the Raschplatzhochstraße in Hanover, is finally…

Festival Theaterformen ended yesterday, and we can draw a positive balance with an occupancy rate of 96 percent for the theater performances. Eleven plays, seven of which were premieres, were on the theater program.…

Dear Audience,

this edition of Festival Theaterformen is in many respects a new beginning on familiar ground. For me personally, it is a return to the city I grew up in, a city whose theatres made an impression…

Welcome to our new website, which we developed together with the Hanover-based graphics duo kalagrafik and the Munich-based agency mindscreen, who are experts in digital accessibility. Technical accessibility and the…