It has been a few years since our association was founded in Augsburg. That’s why we’ve always had a certain love-hate relationship. After all, we failed in our bid to create a permanent indoor training facility. So be it, enough scratching, barking and bruising. We are happy to come for a visit and entertain the children between the program items.

The website has not yet been updated, hence an excerpt at the end of the 2023 festival:

The struggle for different points of view, the endurance of contradictions, was a central motif in the Brecht Festival. “Living together in the city means clashes, different interests, means friction, means conflict! And only in the space of conflict can the marginalized protest against injustice. That’s why we say: Bring on the sharp edges! Let’s have the barking and howling! Bring on the rough surfaces, the anger, the contradiction, the dissent and the disagreement!”, the speaker (Hanna Binder) so aptly called out to the audience in the wrestling show “Kampf um Augsburg”. The Brecht Festival addressed social lines of conflict not only artistically, through discourse, dance, humor and participatory projects, but also through “collective remembrance”: The closing event on February 19, “Say Their Names” in the Brechtbühne of the Staatstheater, was dedicated to the memory of the victims of the racist murders in Hanau exactly 3 years ago on this day. “We wove, danced, listened, discussed, made music, fought, paraded, reflected, sweated, laughed and cried together. For ten days, we explored Brecht’s world. And we found the future of dialectical theater not on the peep-box stage, but in self-organized cultural spaces in Lechhausen. The start has been made. And my team and I are hungry for more. Let’s go to Augsburg-Oberhausen!” explains Julian Warner, Artistic Director of the Brecht Festival.