About us

Once a year, the Starke Stücke Festival shows outstanding international theater productions for young audiences in the Rhine-Main region. It reaches about 10.000 children and young people. About 100 performances for all age groups take place at around 30 locations. A fringe programme of discussions and events offers opportunities for encounters and exchange between artists and audiences, colleagues and the general public. The workshop and mediation programme, "Children explore theater”, is essential to the festival. It offers more than 100 workshops for school classes and groups of children and partners with schools in the region. The workshops investigate different dimensions of the performances (movement, aesthetics, themes) and provide access to the performing arts actively and playfully.

The festival is hosted and financed by a network of municipal and private organizers who support and encourage quality children’s and youth theater and cultural education in the region under the umbrella of KulturRegion FrankfurtRheinMain.

The team of "Starke Stücke"

Programmers 2025
Dorothée Arden, Susanna Kauffels Kronberger Kulturkreis e. V. und Stadt Kronberg • Ute Bansemir theaterperipherie, Frankfurt a. M. • Gesine Becker Theater Alte Mühle, Bad Vilbel • Claudia Bernhard, Andrea Filsinger Jugendkulturbüro Offenbach a. M. • Heike Bonzelius Gallus Theater, Frankfurt a. M. • Alexa Busse, Christine Hahner Theater Altes Hallenbad und Kulturamt der Stadt Friedberg • Marcus Droß, Anna Wagner Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt a. M. • Katrin Fischer-Dyck, Taimi Schalle jugend-kultur-kirche sankt peter, Frankfurt a. M. • Liljan Halfen Junge Theaterwerkstatt am Zoo, Frankfurt a.M. • Ulrike Happel Theateratelier Offenbach a. M. • Nicole Harth, Yvonne Blüml Fachbereich Kultur, Stadtidentität und Internationale Beziehungen, Stadt Hanau • Meike Heinigk Centralstation, Darmstadt • Johanna Kiesel, Lucia Primavera Kulturreferat Eschborn • Anke Kracke Kulturkreis Schwalbach a. Ts. GmbH • Christian Kunesch Kulturamt der Stadt Flörsheim a. M. • Silke Kutscher Jugend- und Sozialamt Frankfurt a. M. • Goran Lakicevic Theaterhaus Frankfurt • Rose-Maria Leckel Kulturgemeinde Kelkheim e. V. • Jeanette Link Stadt Obertshausen • Nadja Menke, Luidmila Valdivia Díaz Kinder- und Jugendzirkus Zarakali, Frankfurt a.M. • Olivia Metzendorf Magistrat der Stadt Maintal • Maria Ochs Bürgerhäuser Dreieich • Jens Pettrup, Britta Schley Kreisstadt Hofheim • Vanessa Prinz Kulturamt Aschaffenburg • Melina Rademacher Jugend- und Kulturzentrum, Aschaffenburg • Sandra Rieke Kulturamt Friedrichsdorf • Sandra Sziegoleit-Waldeck Gemeinde Walluf • Anastassia Tanopoulou KulturForum Hattersheim e. V. • Roger Tietz Kulturamt Michelstadt • Anja Vollrath-Kühne Jugendkulturtreff e-werk, Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe • Yasmin Welkenbach, Alexandra Waldmann Kulturamt Wiesbaden • Kristina Werner Theater Moller Haus, Darmstadt • Milena Wolf Theater Rüsselsheim

Festival directors
Sara Gröning and Meike Fechner KulturRegion FrankfurtRheinMain – Susanne Freiling Starke Stücke GbR – Detlef Köhler Starke Stücke GbR

Festival office
Meike Fechner & Sara Gröning, Festival directors
Susanne Zaun, Coordination Workshop-Programme
Leon Post, Project referee

Workshop leaders / mediators
For information about our Workshop team please click here.