September 13, 2023, Berlin: Naming of Piscator Hall and 35th Annual Erwin Piscator Award Ceremony
Thursday, September 13, 2023 at 7.00 pm
Kulturvolk / Freie Volksbühne Berlin e.V.
Ruhrstraße 6 | 10709 Berlin | Germany
Naming of the Piscator Hall and Presentation of the 35th Annual Erwin Piscator Award
To this day, neither a street nor a square in Berlin commemorates the work of the important director, artistic director, lecturer and founder of epic and political theater Erwin Piscator. This is now changing. To honor Erwin Piscator, the association Kulturvolk │ Freie Volksbühne Berlin e.V. is naming its event space Piscator Saal. Afterwards, the Erwin Piscator Award Society in conjunction with Elysium – between two continents will award the 35th Erwin Piscator Prize to the great theater and film actor Ulrich Matthes. Mr. Matthes will then read from texts by Erwin Piscator. The evening will end with a reception in the ambience of the exhibition “Piscator: Political Theater in Exile” in the foyer of the Kulturvolk.
Registration requested by email at service@kulturvolk.de or by phone at (030) 86 00 93 – 51/52.
Photo Ulrich Matthes: Florian Nitsch
From November 25, 2022 to December 31, 2023, Berlin: Exhibition:
Erwin and Maria Piscator: Political Theater in Exile
Through DECEMBER 31, 2023, open MO / DO 10 am – 6 pm; DI, MI & FR 10 am – 4 pm
Kulturvolk / Freie Volksbühne Berlin e.V.
Ruhrstraße 6 | 10709 Berlin | Germany
Exhibtion
Erwin and Maria Piscator: Political Theater in Exile
Posters, photographs, documents and letters illustrate Piscator’s importance for the development of theater in the 20th century. In addition to Piscator’s work in Berlin in the 1920s and ’60s, a focus is on his work in exile in New York, where he founded an important acting school with his wife, the dancer and choreographer Maria Ley.
