What a rush, what a joy it was: 36 productions and projects, including seven in-house and co-productions, five world premieres, one European and five German premieres - these are the framework data for the Ruhrtriennale 2022.
"We have wished for nothing more than to be accepted as a place of encounter and pluralistic artistic debate equally by the audience and all those involved in the festival. We have experienced this in exactly the same way", is how Barbara Frey, artistic director of the Ruhrtriennale 2021-23, sums it up.
Here is a review in pictures of the six weeks of the festival, which took place in the cities of Bochum, Duisburg, Essen and Gladbeck.