For the first time in the history of the transeuropa festival, no one directly involved in the festival's organisation decides on the programme. The head team of transeuropa 2024 – making space initiated two juries. The so-called Youth Jury and Citizens' Jury.

These two juries chose which of the 170 submitted performances would be invited to performed in Hildesheim during the festival. 

Youth Jury

The Youth Jury consists of Year 9 pupils with the culture profile at St. Augustinus School. Throughout two sessions, the pupils selected one production from the various applications for young audiences. The Youth Jury selected the performance Terminus by human.lab.

Citizens' Jury

We first met at the beginning of March 2024 at the platzhalter. We, that is a motley group of 14 people from Hildesheim.

Our lives and our everyday lives are very different. But we are united by our interest in art and culture. And our desire to get involved in the city.

Our goal: we want to organise a great festival together!

Our work is critical of discrimination, respectful, grassroots democratic and positively contentious. We are a diverse group, but we can't speak for everyone. We attempted to consider perspectives that we do not experience. We have grown as a group and value our work very much!

We are…

Andrej Stickelmayer

Arwen Burgau

Carina Mueller

Gülüm Bleckmann

Julia Avadova

Lotta Heck

Magdalena Mayer

Maryna Petrova

Michael Dittmann

Nadine Müller

Olga Babenko

Sebastian Cottmann

Sven Große

Viktoria Pape

Our Manifest

1. We are the Citizens' Jury. We select the plays for the transeuropa festival programme.

2. We reflect a part of society. Our different experiences and realities of life make us what we are, make us strong!

3. The starting point for our work is our own experience of reception. We know that some perspectives are not represented in the jury. We are open to criticism and new experiences.

4. We want to create a space that is as non-discriminatory as possible. The sovereignty of interpretation lies with those affected.

5. We take responsibility for the festival and for each other. We have fun together and we learn from each other. We are a community, heterogeneous and diverse, interested in culture and open to the world, human, with strengths and weaknesses, not arrogant, tolerant and motivated.

6. We have the responsibility to consider the possibilities, the framework conditions and the structure of the festival when selecting the pieces. For us, Making Space means bringing marginalised perspectives into focus through people and themes in the festival.

7. The selected works should resonate with us.

8. In the selection process, we pay attention to temporal structures, collaborative communication and various voting options. We listen to each other, give our voices space and pay attention to the proportion of speech.

9. We could become the start of a new transeuropa festival tradition.

10. We are the risk.