In June 2020, an initiative of 300 theatermakers in the U. S. published a statement adressing the “White American Theater” and quoting August Wilson’s historical 1996 speech. For publication of the statement in the July 2020 edition of the Theater heute magazine, Bochert Translations translated this statement into German.
The International Theatre Institute (ITI) will celebrate World Theatre Day on 27th of March. As is costumary every year, a renowned playwright has been asked to write a message to the global community. In 2020, this is the renowned Pakistani playwright Shahid Nadeem.
The translation of his message into German has been accomplished by Bochert Translations.
Since last year’s edition, the international theater festival Theaterformen runs a blog with an editorial team of its own to accompany the festival with thematic and critical contributions. The articles are composed, among other languages, in German, Arabic, or French.
The translations into and from these languages are provided by Bochert Translations.
From 08-18 June, the annual theatre festival THEATERFORMEN took place in Hannover. Productions from Belgium, South Africa, Slovenia, Sweden, the U.S.A., Mexico, France, Italy, and other countries were invited. This year, the festival direction decided to not only offer magazines and material about the plays, but also to run a festival blog for bloggers to describe and announce festival contributions and events and publish interviews in various languages.
The translations for this blog were accomplished by Bochert Translations.
The Theaterformen festival at Theater Braunschweig published the 2015 essays around the event on their website. After 13 April, this year’s essays around Theaterformen 2016 will appear in Bochert Translations’ German translation.
A few years ago, I translated two plays of US playwright Carlos Murillo. Both DARK PLAY OR STORIES FOR BOYS and HUMAN INTEREST STORY (OR THE GORY DETAILS AND ALL) were produced by Katharina Kreuzhage and premiered at Theater Aalen – and never again since. Both of those wonderful texts would very much be worth to see new German language productions. They may be obtained from S. Fischer Verlag Theater & Medien.
Carlos Murillo now has a website of his own where he reports about his activities as a teacher, playwright, and director. He included, among others, links to our exploration of the relationship between playwright, text, and director in US theatre, which had been published on HowlRound.com as well as on HOTreview.org.