In this project, I was commissioned by Goethe-Institut to search for new perspectives in German-speaking dramaturgy for translation and publication in Russian: radical plays about ecological catastrophes, violence, feminism, and non-plays. I developed a concept for the new edition, selected plays, led a curatorial committee (Natalia Kemper-Bakshi and Alexey Platunov), and produced curatorial texts.
The biggest challenge was to find plays that were appropriate for the Russian context and that would appeal to a new, diverse audience of theatre professionals and audiences. I dreamed of finding theatre plays as brilliant as the books translated and published by the independent publishing houses "No Kidding Press" and "Boomkniga".
About a project in German and Russian and a digital version of the anthology: https://www.goethe.de/ins/ru/de/kul/ser/sch/sch6.html
Credits
Goethe-Institut in St. Petersburg
April 2021 — November 2020
Curators: Maria Sloeva, Natalia Kemper-Bakshi, Alexey Platunov
Goethe-Institut Team: Dr. Günther Hasenkamp, Jana Sobolewa, Olsejaa Besmeltsewa
Authors: Sibylle Berg, Clemens J. Setz, Daniel Kehlmann, Thomas Köck, Boris Nikitin, Bonn Park, Milo Rau, Falk Richter, Miroslava Svolikova, Wolfram Höll, Rimini Protokoll
Translators: Natalia Bakshi, Ekaterina Voronova, Alexandra Gorbowa, Tatiana Zborovskaya, Marina Koreneva, Anna Kukes, Michail Rudnitskiy, Elizaveta Sokolova, Anastasia Risch-Timasheva, Roman Eiwaldis
Editors: Alexander Belobratow, Vera Kotelewskaja
