With the festive award ceremony in the afternoon in Dresden tjg. theater junge generation the East German, interstate children and youth theater festival WILDWECHSEL came to an end. According to the artistic directors Katrin Behrens and Christoph Macha, the festival’s claim to be both a festival for the public and a professional meeting point, which can be further developed in the future, is also a special feature of the festival. All three juries award a prize of 1,000 € each to one of the productions invited to the festival by a selection jury.

This year’s prize of the youth jury (Amalia, 13 years/Anton, 16 years/Felix, 14 years/Marlene, 15 years/Oskar, 13 years) goes to the production “Beate Uwe Uwe Selfie Klick” (premiere, by Laura Linnenbaum, with texts by Gerhild Steinbuch and documentary material, director: Laura Linnenbaum, Die Theater Chemnitz, Dokumentartheater, from 16 years)

In its statement, the jury praised, among other things, the “sheer endless possibilities of interpretation”, the particular expressiveness and emotionality of the production, the ensemble’s interplay and, last but not least, the intensive stimulus to continue to deal with the topic of NSU after the theatre visit.