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Theatre on the Ruhr (1980-1988) Founded as a private corporation in the summer of 1980 by Roberto Ciulli. Gralf-Edzard Habben and Helmut Schaefer, the Theatre on the Ruhr started rehearsals by the fall and came out with its first premiere, Frank Wedekind’s Lulu the same year. When establishing this theatre, the goal was to accomplish the continuity of an artistic and aesthetic obligation towards the theatre arts - a task that cannot be handled by the highly subsidized state- and city theatres with their notoriously broad pluralistic approach. Contrary' to most other theatre structures in Germany, Theatre on the Ruhr maintains a repertoire of plays on which work goes on continuously. Performances by this theatre are analogous to a work-in-progress. By the end of its seventh year. Theatre on the Ruhr had put on 21 productions, some of them, like Woody Allen’s God (1981) still running. Five of its productions have been transmitted by television. Shakespeare’s A Midsummernights Dream, first put on stage in the 82/ 83 season and acclaimed throughout Wesl-Germany, was invited to festivals in Nancy, Parma and Rotterdam. At the BITEF (Belgrade) it won together with this theatre’s performance of Great and Little by Botho Strauss the distinction for best overall artistic achievement. The 1987 production of Dead without Burial by Jean Paul Sartre was presented at the Berlin Theatre Festival as one of the outstanding performances of the season 87/88. In 1988 Theatre on the Ruhr was voted best theatre of the year by the theatrical critiques of the republic. In 1985 Theatre on the Ruhr was presented at the European Theatre Festival at Athens and toured four Yugoslav cities. These tours became the basis for an international exchange and cooperation in which Theatre on the Ruhr took the lead. Close cooperation with Yugoslavia and Turkey was established. Theatre on the Ruhr organises an international festival at Muelheim presenting a given country in three subsequent years. Under the motto of Theatre landscape theatres from

These activities are encouraged and sponsored officially by the government of the state of NordrhineWestfalia as well as by the foreign office in Bonn therewith stressing the importance of the performing arts as cultural ambassador. □

theater a. d. ruhr milhajm, savezna republika nemačka bahantkinje po euripidu adaptacija teksta: roberto chilli I helmut Schäfer (korišćeni tekstovi Charlesa baudelaira, cesara pavesea, friedricha mietzschea i friedricha holderlina) režija; roberto ciulli dramaturgija: helmut schafer scenografija: howard kanovitz kostimografija: klaus arzberger asistent režije: ulrich greh osvetljene; domenico magiotti učestvuju: dionis (hannes hellmann), volker roos (pantej), božidar alič (tiresija), reinhart firchow (kadmos), veronika bayer (agava), michael witte (prvi glasnik), manfred hilbig (drugi glasnik), Stefan matousch (treči glasnik), maria neumann (voda hora), carmen plate, Christine sohn, janusz wojciechwoski, reinhart Hrchow, maarten giippertz, Stefan matousch, daniel rohr, jan Stanislaw sterninski, leopold von verschuer (hor). živa muzika: reinhart firchow pauza posle sat i po predstave premijera: 22. septembra 1988.

Yugoslav cities performed in Muelheim from 1986 until 1988 for one week in early summer; theatres from other countries will follow, starting with Poland in 1989. And as before, the festival will be initiated by a tour of this theatre through Poland .