AUGENBLICK MAL! 2025 will take place from May 6-11, 2025 in Berlin.

You can now view the entire programme, an introduction to our team and information on ticketing on this website. The open pre-sale starts on 24 February, the early bird pre-sale for trade visitors on 10 February (both at 10 a.m.).

We are currently looking for people to join our awareness team - you can find the job advert HERE.

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

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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New job advertisement: Awareness team wanted for AUGENBLICK MAL! 2025!

24 January 2025
For the festival from May 6-11, 2025 in Berlin, we are looking for five people for an awareness team who will take action in the event of discriminatory incidents and border violations and raise awareness of these issues.
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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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In einer geschwungenen Landschaft gehen zwei Schauspielende umher, die in Tierkostümen stecken. Im Vordergrund sieht man eine kleine Stadtlandschaft aus Pappe. Das Licht ist Pink und violett. Die Luft ist rauchig, der Wald brennt. Darüber scheint der Mond.

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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Das Logo von Augenblick mal! 2023

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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Ein roter Vorhang, der feierlich beleuchtet wird.

Open Call für AUGENBLICK MAL! 2023

9 November 2021
Hier findet ihr alle wichtigen Informationen für die Einreichung eurer Vorschläge für AUGENBLICK MAL! 2023.
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Eine knallrote Fläche

30 years of children's theater festival for adults

1 May 2021
After Arne Vogelgesang said on stage that theater can't do anything, the chat among the audience was quite busy asking what theater can do. And once again it became clear: there are more professionals than young people at this festival. I felt slain after the play.
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Articles by the youth editorial board

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