Scholarships Awarded: “Freiräume Project Scholarship for the International May Festival in Wiesbaden”
The recipients of the 2027 “Freiräume Project Grant for the International Maifestspiele Wiesbaden” have been selected. A six-member jury of experts selected five promising projects from twenty-three applications in the fields of music, installation, performance, and theater; each project will receive up to 8,000 euros in funding.
Applications were accepted through the end of August 2026 for the “Freiräume – Project Grant for the International May Festival” funding program, a joint project of the Wiesbaden Cultural Office and the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden. The following projects were selected:
- Pia Epping and Jasha Deppe with the project “Arbeit aus Liebe* oder I don’t care (AT)”
- Anton Rudakov with the Totalitarian Body Collective for the project “Body of a City (working title)”
- Fee-Gloria Grönemeyer and Mariel Marshall with the project “Cherry’s Night Off”
- Raquel Nevado Ramos, together with Dance Nexus and Air Italics, for the project “Is this a residency?”
- Tami Jantzi, together with Tamar Halperin, Sharon Kempton, and Andreas Scholl, for the project “SOMEWHERE / ZUHAUSE: Three Women. Three Journeys. One City”
The jury consisted of Dr. Viola Bolduan, longtime arts editor of the Wiesbadener Kurier; Dorothea Hartmann, artistic director of the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden; Maximilian Nickel, composer, conductor, and lecturer at the Wiesbaden Music Academy; Dr. Philipp Schulte, executive director of the Hessian Theater Academy and freelance author and dramaturg; and Franziska Domes, representative of the Wiesbaden Cultural Affairs Office
Dates and venues for the presentation of the project results will be determined in consultation with the scholarship recipients as part of the 2027 International May Festival and announced thereafter.
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