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Award Jury

Elisabeth Clarke-Hasters

is a choreographer, dance & theatre educator and diversity coach. She danced with the Dance Theater of Harlem and Ballet du XXème Siècle in New York and Brussels before coming to NRW in 1974, where she worked with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pina Bausch. She subsequently worked as a choreographer in Cologne, Salzburg, Vienna, Rome and Milan and as an actress in Cologne and Wuppertal. Since 1983, she has given theatre education seminars at the Gustav Stresemann Institute. From 1996-2006, she was a lecturer at Arturo Drama School, Cologne, and in 2015 she served as head of Etage School of Performing and Visual Arts in Berlin. In 2020, she taught at UdK Berlin on the topic of diversity & inclusion in the arts.

 

Sergej Gößner

is an actor and author. His debut play “Mongos” was nominated for the Author’s Prize at the 2016 Heidelberg Stückemarkt, and in 2018 it was awarded the JugendStückePreis. His work “Wegklatschen. Applaus für Bonnie and Clyde” was distinguished with the 22nd Dutch-German Children’s and Youth Playwriting Award in 2020. His monologue “lauwarm” received the 2019 Berganus Award and was shortlisted for the Brothers Grimm Award. He is a dedicated advocate of theatre for young audiences.

Notably, he penned the message “Wir sind relevanter!” (“We are more than relevant!”) for the 2020 ASSITEJ World Day of Theatre for Young Audiences.

Ulrike Stöck

was born in Halle/Saale in 1975 and studied German and Jewish Studies in Potsdam. She worked as a dramaturge and director at Theater Senftenberg, at that time a purely children’s and youth theatre, until 2004. She then went on to work as a freelance director and dramaturge at theatres such as Stadttheater Constance, COMEDIA Cologne and Theater Heidelberg as well as in Rostock, Linz and Bremerhaven in addition to realising independent productions of her own. In 2011, she established and headed the youth department JUNGES STAATSTHEATER at the state theatre in Karlsruhe. She has served as artistic director of Junges Nationaltheater Mannheim since 2017.