AUGENBLICK MAL! 2025 will take place from May 6-11, 2025 in Berlin. There are still a few remaining tickets available.
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You can now view the entire programme, an introduction to our team and information on ticketing on this website.
AUGENBLICK MAL! is the only nationwide festival of theatre for young audiences in Germany. The event has been taking place in Berlin every two years since 1991. At the festival, ten productions selected from proposals by the theatres are shown and reflected upon and discussed in an ancillary programme. The events are aimed at theatre professionals from Germany and around the world, young audiences and all other interested parties. A warm welcome!
News
BERLIN – The city of children's and youth theatre
5 May 2025
Following AUGENBLICK MAL! 2025, we would like to publish a list of children's and youth theatres in Berlin here. We would be delighted if you could write to o.becht@augenblickmal.de during the festival to tell us which theatres you know and what stories you associate with them!
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This is our awareness team for AUGENBLICK MAL! 2025
4 May 2025
This year's festival will once again be accompanied by an awareness team. We want everyone at AUGENBLICK MAL! to feel comfortable, safe and respected. The awareness team is there to help anyone who needs support and ensures that no one has to deal with boundary violations or discrimination alone.
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A laboratory for youth participation: ‘Theatre should change and evolve’
29 April 2025
A theatre festival for children and young people needs the participation of children and young people. That's why this year's edition of AUGENBLICK MAL! will feature not only the children of the BLICK'S MAL group, but also the youth group AUGENtagMAL! Over the past few months, the 15- to 24-year-olds interested in theatre have been able to gain insights into almost all areas of the festival's planning.
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Festival trails: The particularly intense AUGENBLICK MAL! 2025 experience
24 January 2025
If you want to experience the festival in a particularly intense way, you should take a look at our ‘festival trails’: Harmonious combinations of productions, conversational formats and celebrations that are coordinated in terms of time and content.
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Early Bird Tickets for AUGENBLICK MAL! 2025 in Berlin
16 January 2025
The Early Bird Ticket sale for delegates and professional visitors from abroad begins on February 10, 2025 at 10 a.m. Two weeks later on February 24, 2025 the general sales start.
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Decision made: These are the 10 guest performances for AUGENBLICK MAL! 2025
12 September 2024
The four-member selection committee has chosen five plays for children and five for young people from 233 production proposals submitted. In May, these ten guest performances will become the centerpiece of AUGENBLICK MAL! 2025.
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Teaser Inszenierungen von Johanna Benz, Sara Bock und Sandra Barth
28 April 2023
Some of you were able to admire them at our festival opening: Graphic recording artist Johanna Benz, together with the animation team Sara Bock and Sandra Barth, expressed their own artistic perspective on the ten invited productions in short and fine films. Enjoy!
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These 10 productions are in!
20 November 2022
Here you can find the 10 invited productions for AUGENBLICK MAL! 2023! We would like to thank our board of trustees Antigone Akgün, Malte Ketel Andritter, Dr. Dorothea Lübbe, Elena Philipp and Winfried Tobias and the advisory "Representation for Young Perspectives" for reviewing well over 200 submissions!
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Who is the representation for young perspectives?
10 October 2022
Originally, we were just an outraged youth editorial team. After our outcry about the AUGENBLICK MAL!2021 led to us being integrated into the festival structures at the request of the conceptual team and the management, we also first had to find out who we wanted to be within these structures. Are we the ones who are annoying, the ones who co-curate, the ones who make their own programme?
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The nominated productions for AUGENBLICK MAL! 2023
16 September 2022
What a season 2020/21! Many theatres had to stay closed for a long time due to the pandemic. Nevertheless, pre-productions were made. In many places, plays were performed digitally or open air. Indoor "premieres" without young audiences were the rule. Then, towards the end of the season: redemption. Finally, the theatres were allowed to invite young people back into their rooms and halls, even if the number of visitors was significantly reduced.
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