International Youth Theatre Festival 2025

2025 is the year of anniversaries in what is probably the smallest metropolis in the world. WILDE MISCHUNG is also celebrating. Our international youth theatre festival will be 20 years old next April. We are giving it an extra day for its birthday and extending our festival week. From Easter Monday, April 21st to Saturday, April 26th, 2025, we are expecting, as always, exciting guests and thrilling theater productions from the international, national and regional theatre world.

This year, China, Georgia and Poland are on our colorful guest list. The TAIDEKOULU ESTRADI ensemble from our twin city Lappeenranta, Finland is back. It is not yet fixed, but we hope to welcome our friends from Kokrobite, Ghana again. There are also special national guests. For the first time, the youth club of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg with their production “Solange nur mein Herz brennt” and a dance group from our German twin city Neustrelitz.

The WILDE MISCHUNG is an intercultural meeting place, a festival of young theatre art and an opportunity to make new friends with people from other parts of the world. The participants, aged 15 to 20 and a little older, attend workshops for a week, the results of which they present to a public audience at the end of the festival, as well as their productions during the week in a varied festival program, and exchange ideas about art and culture.

Regional groups (with no or small production) and individuals aged 15-20 can still register by March 14th. Interested parties should write an email to: entner@freilichtspiele-hall.de with the subject "MAD MIX Jubilee".

The international show program is free for our audience. The performances take place during the festival week from Monday to Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the New Globe and from Tuesday to Friday at 5:00 p.m. in the Haalhalle. Admission is subject to availability. Reservations are not possible. The detailed festival program will follow here in mid-March.

[Afterword]

Finally live again and a complete success!

The 10th International Youth Theater Festival Schwäbisch Hall took place from April 10th to April 14th, 2023.

After the WILDE MISCHUNG had to take place online in 2021 due to the pandemic, we were finally able to welcome young theater artists from all over the world to our small metropolis again in spring 2023. Ensembles from Finland, Ghana, Greece and Turkey were guests, as well as a group from Lebanon/Palestine for the first time. Young theater groups from Künzelsau and Hall from the surrounding area were there.

Here are a few impressions of the recent festival. It was a great week. We say thank you to all participants, helpers and contributors. You are the festival! - I see you.

© Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall, Jürgen Müller.