Tabori Prize
The Tabori Prize is Germany’s highest distinction for the independent performing arts. It has been awarded annually since May 2010 to outstanding, professional, independently producing ensembles and artists.
With the Tabori Prize, the Fonds Darstellende Künste, on the recommendation of a jury of experts, honors a continuously visible work with a high national and international profile that is relevant in terms of content and has an aesthetically innovative signature.
With the awarding of the prize and the awards, the Fonds Darstellende Künste supports the visibility, public perception, and artistic work of significant positions in the independent performing arts.
The Tabori Prize commemorates the extraordinary director and author George Tabori, who was born in Budapest on May 24, 1914. In 1966, he founded the independent theater group The Strolling Players in New York, among others, and caused a major sensation with his "Bremer Theaterlabor" from 1975 to 1978, as well as 10 years later with the theater "Der Kreis” in Vienna. Throughout his life, he was one of the most creative pioneers who crossed borders between "independent theaters" and municipal and state theaters in the German-speaking world with his bold theatrical and nightmarish ideas. From 1999 until shortly before his death on July 23, 2007, he worked and directed at the Berliner Ensemble.
