Program
Reading: David Guterson
U.S. Embassy Literature Series
in cooperation with Hoffmann & Campe Verlag:
David Guterson acclaimed author of Snow Falling on Cedars to read from his novel The Other (DER ANDERE, Hoffmann & Campe Verlag. Translator: Georg Deggerich)
German voice: Mex Schlüpfer / Moderator: Susanne Weingarten (Der Spiegel)
Sunday April 21, 2013
pic: Tom Collicott
Reading: Edward Kelsey Moore
New Voices in American Literature
in cooperation with Limes Verlag
E. K. Moore reads from his new novel The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (Mrs. Roosevelt und das Wunder von Earl's Diner, Limes Verlag. Translator: Carolin Müller)
German voice: Regina Lemnitz / Moderator: Regula Venske
Monday April 15, 2013
The Berlin Sofa
Berlin-based celebrities from English-language countries read from their favourite authors´ works.
April 8 2013
NEW ZEALAND AMBASSADOR PETER RIDER and novelist PAULA MORRIS
New Zealand literature begins at the edge of the universe and roams the world, exploring our rich history, vibrant multicultural society, distinctive natural world, passion for sport, as well as our unique psyche and political landscape.
Readings will include fiction, poetry and non-fiction, ranging from famous names – Katherine Mansfield, Witi Ihimaera, Bill Manhire, Elizabeth Knox, Maurice Gee, Lloyd Jones, James Belich, Patricia Grace – to new Maori, Pacific and Asian voices exploring our unique place in the world, to our ‘flying Kiwi,’ writers of the diaspora.
MUSIC NIGHT
That Ol’ Devil Moon
Acoustic Music with an Exotic Twist
Deborah Weitzman (Voice and guitar) / Bernd Kircher (Saxaphone) / Lutz Wernicke (Violin)
April 6 2013
In an intimate, playful atmosphere, Deborah’s warm, earthy voice weaves stories of life. Bernd’s heart-felt improvisational lines and Lutz’s creative dreamscape give life and breath to Deborah’s original songs - Garnished with Jazz, Yiddish and Tango.
IMPROV FESTIVAL 2013
International Festival for Improvisational Theatre
including four performances at English Theatre Berlin
Tuesday March 19th / 8pm: SLOW IMPROV SHOW
Thursday, March 21 / 8pm: PROFESSOR SPONTANEOUS PRESENTS - THE IQ IMPROV CHALLENGE
Friday March 22 / 8pm + Saturday March 23 / 8pm: BOLLYWOOD
Info on all shows plus online booking directly at the festival´s homepage HERE
Ten-Minute Play Contest 2013
Berlin Was Yesterday: Expatriate Traffic from the Kaiser to Kotti
“Nackt besser aussehen.” — Jiminy McFIT
March 8 - 16 2013
"Fördergeld weg? Na und! Das English Theatre Berlin und sein brillanter Ten Minute Play Contest" - here´s the TAGESSPIEGEL review !!
You ever feel like the whole ExPat thing has gotten a bit overblown? The gig seems flabby…puffed up and bloated by tag lines, slackers, and The New York Times. Remember the days when you really had to work for your Berliner Pfannkuchen? When it wasn’t just a 2€ Döner down the hole after a cheap flight from Clyde, NY, 14433? Shakespeare im Park Berlin* is looking to pump up your ETB Expat Month with its kale-spiced week of 10-minute performances – bringing Strength and Health to the month of March! Five new pieces have been selected to form one closed-circuit loop of teeth grinding, bone bending, flat out hoofing-it through 15 cherry nooks and crannies of tender proscenium-sirloin and leaky backstage-gut. This is no Schabernack! Just as Frederick the Great dunked strapping young Dutchmen into his mud-swamped Prussian backwater to erect a delightful Baroque period French knockoff and characterized it “Frederician Rococo,” English Theatre Berlin is bringing in big, bulging guns for its fourth annual Ten-Minute Play Competition:
Symphony of Everyday Life by Claire Delaby & Alberto Di Gennaro, Culture by Emal Ghamsharick, Physical Exercises by Marie Hoffmann, Fluffers by Harvey Rabbit and Lass die Nutten tanzen by Antoine Hummel & Jacques Pradillon.
So put down the pot-stickers and hoist up your dumbbells for seven evenings of performance, all of which look even better in the buck.
* Shakespeare im Park Berlin is a multi-lingual, site-specific performance ensemble, founded in 2010. For more information please visit:
Comedy Night
Comedy in English Stand-Up Showcase @ English Theatre Berlin
Wednesday March 20th
For the last three years, Berlin has seen an explosion in English-language stand-up comedy. With regular open mics and showcases and springing up all over town in various bars, cafés, and art spaces, dozens of Berlin-based comedians from around the world (including Germany!) are finding their voices and sharing their lives in hilarious detail. Now see some of the best the Berlin scene has to offer. Hosted by Paul Salamone, musical accompaniment by Stephen Paul Taylor.
CHRIS DAVIS is from Scotland. That’s not hard to guess. His self-described Highlands accent gives him away. Cheeky, charismatic – and did I mention gorgeous? -, he has already wowed crowds at Edinburgh festival. Now it’s time for the audience at ETB to fall for his soft-spoken tales of animals, chili and cultural confusion.
STEFAN DANZIGER
Born in GDR, grew up in USSR and Russia, came back to united Germany. Now explaining tourists the history of Berlin. Speaks 10 languages.
JOE BARRON is from Michigan, USA. A laid-back frat boy with incredibly sharp observations on life in the USA, he's also lived all over Europe, including in Italy, Turkey, and Portugal. He began performing in college, but found that American audiences didn´t enjoy being made fun of. So he packed his things and came to Europe, where he can mock and ridicule Americans in peace.
DHARMANDER SINGH: bouncing, dynamic actor/comedian from Birmingham, UK -- a Berlin comedy veteran with hilarious tri-cultural perspectives on being an Britain-raised Indian in Deutschland.
...with a special appearance by the COMEDY SPORTZ improv troupe!
Music by STEPHEN PAUL TAYLOR
About the host:
US-born PAUL SALAMONE has been producing, hosting, and performing in live comedy shows in Berlin since 2008. The founder of the legendary "Comedy in SIN" in Kreuzberg, he currently hosts the weekly "We Are Not Gemüsed" open mic in Neukölln.
For more about the English-language comedy scene in Berlin, see www.comedyinenglish.de.
Reading: JOE R. LANSDALE
Presented by Klett-Cotta Verlag, Hammett Krimibuchhandlung and English Theatre Berlin
JOE R. LANSDALE reads from his novel Edge of Dark Water (Dunkle Gewässer, Klett-Cotta Verlag, translated by Hannes Riffel)
with live music by Kasey Lansdale
Moderator: Daniel Haas / Adam Nümm reads from the German translation.
Friday, March 15 2013
Reading: JENNIFER DuBOIS
The U.S. Embassy Literature Series presents, in cooperation with Aufbau Verlag and English Theatre Berlin:
New Voices in American Literature - JENNIFER DuBOIS reads from her novel A Partial History of Lost Causes (Das Leben ist groß / Aufbau Verlag - translated by Gesine Schröder)
Moderator: Bernhard Robben / Anna Thalbach reads from the German translation
Wednesday, March 13 2013
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