We thank you all really all participants, spectators and sponsors for a fulfilling time full of theater, performances, meetings, conversations, concerts, parties, drinks, life - in short, for a really big Explosive! Festival 2011!


From now on, we are looking forward to the next festival scheduled for September 2013. We expect your applications from January 2012. Tell us if we should see one of your shows! More infos will follow ...


How it was an what else we were talking about you can see in our "Explosive! Review" and the last episodes of "Worüber wir sprechen, wenn wir über Theater sprechen".


Explosive! Festival 2011 - A review



Wovon wir sprechen, wenn wir über Theater sprechen: Episode 9

In conversation: Joke Loreyns of "Kopergietery & Kabinet K."


Wovon wir sprechen, wenn wir über Theater sprechen: Episode 8

In conversation: Patricia Noworal and Kama Frankl of "Junges Pottporus"


Wovon wir sprechen, wenn wir über Theater sprechen: Episode 7

In conversation: Goran Fervec of "Zagreb Youth Theatre"

20.00 Uhr "Es geht um sie" von Junges Pottporus in der Kesselhalle
21.00 Uhr "Kazooya" feinster Bremer Hip Hop
22.00 Uhr "Wandeln" Zusatzvorstellung der Bremer Graffitikünstler
23.00 Uhr "Kellerrasseln-Party" das Abschlussfest des Explosive! 2011

In conversation: Anna Sina Fries and Yves Regenassr of "Machina eX"

In conversation: Karoline Kähler and Matthias Meyer of "Musiktheater bruit!"

In conversation: Tobias Pflug, art director of the Explosive! Festival 2011

In conversation: Nabeel Al Raee of "The Freedom Theatre"

In conversation: Katharina Sandner and Julia Dick of "katze und krieg"

A prereportage full of information about the Explosive! Festival 2011.

Here we go again: EXPLOSIVE! is going into the 13th round and we’re looking forward to interesting applications! Please read carefully because some things have changed.

The EXPLOSIVE!FESTIVAL gives young theatre groups from all over the world a chance to present their theatre concepts on Bremen’s stages. We’re looking for new forms of expression and movement. For us, the experimental character of expression and the process behind each production have priority – no matter whether the production evolved under professional guidance or was independently developed by the young actors.
We’re looking for issues and forms of expression that determine our time and reality and we want to introduce them to a broad audience. Particularly those productions which develop strategies against social and ethnic exclusion as well as those transporting the existential questions of adolescence are of special interest. We’re determined to show the concentrated charge of young experimental theatre, opening the door to a playful exchange of new means of expression and new trends on stage. We aim to promote theatre as a place for new encounters and discussions.