{"id":2601,"date":"2019-01-27T01:20:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T23:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2019-01-28T00:44:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T22:44:01","slug":"special-teddy-award-goes-to-falk-richter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/2019\/01\/27\/special-teddy-award-goes-to-falk-richter\/","title":{"rendered":"Special TEDDY AWARD goes to Falk Richter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year’s Special TEDDY AWARD goes to the director and playwright Falk Richter<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“For the\u00a0emancipatory work of the performing arts, Falk Richter’s theatre has produced the most convincing\u00a0contemporary works. The combination of aesthetic and analytical communication, with the\u00a0prominent inclusion of works by video artists such as Chris Kondek, Michel Auder and Bj\u00f6rn Melhus,\u00a0also contributes to the inspiration of current film-making.The TEDDY Foundation awards the Special\u00a0TEDDY AWARD to Falk Richter as an activist from whom we hope to receive lasting impulses for the\u00a0future of queer and cosmopolitan cinema”. Wieland Speck Chairman of the TEDDY Foundation\u00a0<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Falk Richter<\/a> (*1969) is one of the most important contemporary theatre directors and playwrighters.\u00a0His plays are all highly topical and are performed in more than 35 languages worldwide. For over two\u00a0decades his texts have been staged on the most renowned international and national stages, such as\u00a0the Festival d’Avignon, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Burgtheater Vienna, Th\u00e9\u00e2tre National de Bruxelles,\u00a0K\u00f6nigliches Dramaten Stockholm, Melbourne Theatre Compagny, Schauspielhaus Z\u00fcrich, Salzburger\u00a0 Festspiele, Th\u00e9atre National Strasbourg, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Schaub\u00fchne Berlin,\u00a0Maxim Gorki Theater and the Ruhrtriennale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His most famous and successful texts include “Gott ist\u00a0ein DJ”, “Electronic City”, “Unter Eis”, “TRUST”, “FEAR” and “Je suis Fassbinder”. With the production\u00a0“Am K\u00f6nigsweg” (2017) by Elfriede Jelinek, Falk Richter and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg\u00a0were invited to the Berlin\u00a0 Theatertreffen, the most important contemporary meeting of theatres in the German-speaking world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The specialist journal “Theater heute” voted Falk Richter “Director of\u00a0the Year” in 2018. At the beginning of 2019, Falk Richter received the highest French cultural award\u00a0from the French government and was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year’s Special TEDDY AWARD goes to the director and playwright Falk Richter. “For the\u00a0emancipatory work of the performing arts, Falk Richter’s theatre has produced the most convincing\u00a0contemporary works. The combination of aesthetic and analytical communication, with the\u00a0prominent inclusion of works by video artists such as Chris Kondek, Michel Auder and Bj\u00f6rn Melhus,\u00a0also contributes to … Continue reading Special TEDDY AWARD goes to Falk Richter<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[519,517,521,518,523,13,522,520,60],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-electronic-city","tag-falk-richter","tag-fear","tag-gott-ist-ein-dj","tag-je-suis-fassbinder","tag-special-teddy-award","tag-trust","tag-unter-eis","tag-wieland-speck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2729,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions\/2729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}