Munich Prize for New Drama

Description

The Cultural Department of the City of Munich, Drei Masken Verlag and the Münchner Kammerspiele are organising the Munich Prize for New Drama. The prize money awarded by the Edith and Werner Rieder Foundation amounts to 20,000 euros.

Procedure
In the run-up to the awarding of the Munich New Playwriting Prize, a jury will nominate up to five authors from among the applicants who will be invited to Munich for an author residency. This residency serves to develop a new writing project in dialogue with the Kammerspiele and ends with the award ceremony as part of the Long Night of New Drama at the Kammerspiele in June 2025.
The Münchner Kammerspiele will present the plays nominated for the prize as part of workshop productions at the Long Night of New Drama. In the following season, they plan to premiere the play on which the prizewinner worked at the Residenz.

Prize money/options
The prize money for the Munich New Playwriting Award is 20,000 euros. In addition, the Residenz will provide an endowment of EUR 3,500 per author or nominated collective. The Münchner Kammerspiele will receive a time-limited première option on all plays nominated for the prize. In addition, accommodation in Munich will be provided for the candidates nominated for the prize.

Drei Masken Verlag will offer the prizewinners admission to the publishing house. The award ceremony is planned for June 2025 at a LANGE NACHT DER NEUEN DRAMATIK as part of the programme focus "Neue Zeit, Neue Dramatik" at the Münchner Kammerspiele.

Dates

• Announcement of the nominations: October 2024
• Spring 2025: Residency phase to develop the new writing project
• June 2025: Long Night of New Playwriting with awarding of the prize

Prerequisites

The prize is aimed at artists at the beginning of their career who have had no more than two works performed in the theatre and who are not yet represented by a theatre publisher in German-speaking countries.

Required documents

Applications must include the following documents:

• 10 pages of exemplary excerpts from a completed - not yet premièred - text
• an exposé on this play of 1 page
• an exposé (maximum 3 pages) for a second writing project to be developed as part of a residency in collaboration with the Münchner Kammerspiele
• a curriculum vitae in tabular form with contact details

The above documents must be submitted either in German or in an English translation. The source language is free.

Only one completed work and one further synopsis per author may be submitted, which must be summarised in a PDF file and sent to foerderpreis.dramatik@muenchen.de. In order to promote as many different perspectives as possible, we would like to encourage people with a migrant background and people with German as a second language to apply for the Munich New Playwriting Award.

Legal basis

The jury is made up of representatives of the Cultural Department of the City of Munich, Münchner Kammerspiele, Drei Masken Verlag and external experts. For detailed information on the jury, please visit the website www.muenchen.de/literatur(see literature funding and scholarships).