Munich Prize for New Drama

Course description

The Cultural Department of the City of Munich, Drei Masken Verlag and the Münchner Kammerspiele are awarding the International Edith and Werner Rieder Prize for New Drama. The prize money from the Edith-und-Werner-Rieder-Stiftung amounts to 20,000 euros.

Procedure

In the run-up to the awarding of the International Edith and Werner Rieder Prize for New Playwriting, a jury nominates up to five authors from among the applicants, who are 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.

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 première the play on which the prizewinner worked at the Residenz.

Prize money/options

The prize money for the International Edith and Werner Rieder Prize for New Drama is 20,000 euros. In addition, the residency will be endowed with 3,500 euros 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 nominated candidates. Drei Masken Verlag offers the prizewinners the opportunity to join the publishing house. The award ceremony takes place in June at a Long Night of New Drama at the Münchner Kammerspiele.

to the prize winners

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. In order to encourage 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, the Münchner Kammerspiele, Drei Masken Verlag and external experts.