Kim de l’Horizon can be awarded the Mülheim Drama Prize 2026 for the play “The Little Mermaids”. The jury of the competitors for German-language up to date drama determined this on Saturday night in a – as at all times – public assembly in Mülheim/Ruhr.
The piece additionally gained the competitors’s viewers award. The jury members notably praised the imagery-rich language of the piece, which premiered in Bern, with many profitable phrase video games.
Historical past of queer self-unleashing
Based mostly on the fairy story by Hans Christian Andersen, “The Little Mermaids” tells a narrative about longing, love and the social strain to adapt. The piece turns into a plea towards normative pondering and for a path to queer self-unleashing, in keeping with an announcement from the Theatertage.
De l’Horizon – the title is a pseudonym – comes from Switzerland and writes poetry, prose and theater texts. De l’Horizon’s debut novel “Blood E book”, which has been translated into 17 languages, gained the Swiss E book Prize and the German E book Prize in 2022.
A complete of seven new items of German-language up to date drama for adults and 5 for kids have been nominated for the competitors. Each competitions are endowed with 15,000 euros every. The viewers prize is endowed with 5,000 euros.
The Düsseldorf creator Simone Saftig gained the competitors for kids’s performs together with her play “herzkopfüber”, which is a couple of mom with most cancers and the way she offers with this illness.
All nominated performs have been carried out throughout the theater days. The prizes can be introduced originally of the subsequent Theater Days in 2027.
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