The English-language radio play BASHERT by Stefanie Lebolt was created in the context of the Emerging Writers Programme and translated into German by Bochert Translations.
The piece was produced by ORF and broadcast on Ö1 in their Blaue Stunde series on 15 June 2026 at 9 pm.
Rhea Leman had great success in Denmark with the production of her play ARENDT. She now wanted to see the text about the important thinker Hannah Arendt on German stages. She approached me with the request to bring the text to German stages. I was able to arrange for the play to be produced at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, one of Germany’s most renowned theaters, and for Gustav Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertriebs GmbH to represent the rights.
The German translation was also produced by Bochert Translations. The premiere of the German-language first performance is scheduled for the beginning of October 2025.
British author Eve Leigh has already had two premieres of her plays on German stages, namely Midnight Movie and Flächenbrand. Now, on March 15, 2025, her play Verbranntes Land (Salty Irina) will have its German-language premiere at the Schauspielhaus Wien, directed by Tobias Herzberg.
The translation is by Bochert Translations, Henning Bochert.
The author and her German-language translations are represented by Rowohlt Theater Verlag.
The Nationaltheater Mannheim is planning a production of Greg Liakopoulos’ GENERATION LOST. The author has written the play in English for the New Stages Southeast program with various institutes in the south-eastern European region.
Bochert Translations will handle the translation of the play into German.
The Linden Museum für Ethnology in Stuttgart composed a paper for its exhibition on Afghanistan.
The French and English translation of this paper were completed by Bochert Translations.
The Kulturamt of the City of Mannheim publishes a documentary of the Schwindelfrei Theater Festival 2022. Chang Nai Wen’s essay on a process oriented mindset in the performing arts was translated from English by Bochert Translations.
Bochert Translations translated a catalogue about lead-free alloys by EURAL for machining from English into German.
For the Berlinale Film Festival, the synopses written in English and Italian of films presented in two sections need to be translated into German and English respectively. Bochert Translations translated a total of 46 such synopses.
In July, the Kammerspiele Munich present the immersive, six-hour performance RESPUBLICA byŁukasz Twarkowski and the ensemble. The production is based on an exciting social experiment.
The translation of the German supertitles for this show was accomplished by Bochert Translations in collaboration with Arneta Aley (Lithuanian titles) and Sprachspiel.
The international theater festival Theaterformen is taking place in Braunschweig this year. On this occasion, Vivek Shraya’s performance HOW TO FAIL AS A POPSTAR will be presented.
The translation for the German supertitles of the show was completed by Bochert Translations.