Martine Dennewald

Martine Dennewald

Director of Festival Theaterformen
Festival Theaterformen is an international performing arts festival founded in Germany in 1990 based on a concept of a festival for presenting the full variety of international performing arts that emerged in 1989, during the Cold War in the city of Braunschweig (English: Brunswick) near the border of the former East Germany. After an accident at the main venue in Braunschweig in 1995 caused a move to the so-called Hanomag submarine hall in Hannover, the festival came to be held in both cities, and since 2007 it has been held alternately in the two cities. Since its beginning, the festival has presented programs featuring a wide range of contemporary works for the stage, ranging from large-scale works to small-theater works for more intimate spaces, works of classical theater, documentary theater, solo plays as well as installations, audio walks and site-specific work. The programs have included numerous world premieres, European premieres, German premieres and numerous international collaborative productions have been undertaken. Since 2014, the festival director is Martine Dennewald (born in Luxembourg in 1980), who has worked at LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre), Budapest’s Kortárs Drama Festival, the Salzburg Arts Festival’s Young Directors Project, and Frankfurt’s Mousonturm theater with its leading position in Germany’s free theater scene.