At the gala for the 21st edition of the IKARUS Theatre Prize, the outstanding Berlin Theatre productions for children and young people were honored on Friday evening at the Atze MusikTheatre.
The award ceremony was hosted by Guylaine Hemmer and Mariella Pierza. Sinem Altan, musical director of the ATZE MusikTheatre, provided the musical backdrop for the evening. A powerful dance performance by the ACADEMY Bühnenkunstschule opened the program before all eight nominated productions presented themselves live with an excerpt from the play.

An expert jury and a youth jury decided independently of each other on the awarding of a total of four prizes and each awarded two winners.

From May, we will also start the search for the members of the IKARUS youth jury, as young people themselves decide which production they would like to award the IKARUS. In several workshops and during visits to the nominated productions, the young people will develop their own evaluation criteria and select their own award winners. In addition to the youth jury, an expert jury will once again visit the nominated plays from September to November.