KOM'MA I Duisburger Kinder- und Jugendtheater

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The Duisburg children's and youth theater KOM'MA-Theater was founded in 1976 as the ReibeKuchenTheater, making it one of the oldest independent children's and youth theaters in Germany. It is supported by the City of Duisburg and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, is a member of ASSITEJ and is a permanent fixture in its field of work with an impact far beyond the city limits.

Since 1994, the KOM'MA Theater ensemble has been ordering the repertoire in the city's KOM'MA event venue and, in addition to its touring activities with around 150 performances throughout the German-speaking world and around 140 in-house performances, offers a wide-ranging program for children and young people from all Duisburg daycare centers and schools.

The children's, youth and adult productions have received numerous awards; for example, we have been invited to the Theaterzwang and Spurensuche festivals, the Werkstatt-Tage Halle, the St. Vith International Theatre Festival (Belgium), have been Children's Theater of the Month on various occasions, a participant in the Spielarten festival and have been selected several times for the NRW Westwind children's and youth theater meeting. The house has hosted the Duisburg AKZENTE children's and youth theater festival nine times, twice hosted and once was the capital of the Traumspiele and in 2008 the NRW Children's and Youth Theater Meeting (now Westwind).

The Duisburg children's and youth theater KOM'MA is the initiator of the Dutch-German children's and youth theater festivalKAAS & KAPPES as well as the Dutch-German children's and youth drama prize in Duisburg, which was awarded for the 25th time in 2023.

For over 20 years, KOM'MA has offered an evening program for adults: from music and entertainment formats to literary drama and the artistic treatment of challenging and politically controversial issues in innovative theatrical forms. The theater is also particularly interested in topics relating to the location, the city of Duisburg: for example, they have brought the Rheinhausen labor dispute to the stage with "Die versunkene Stadt" and the city's handling of the Love Parade disaster with "L_VEPAR_DE - eine Verblendung".

The latest production, "Das Problemhaus - eine Theater-Recherche zum Thema Migration", deals with the events surrounding the Roma house in Rheinhausen 10 years ago.

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