The German State Theater Timișoara (GSTT) invites the German-speaking public to a unique event this season - the staged reading of "the waves of the danube" by Thomas Perle, directed and with music by Tristan Linder. The reading will take place on Friday, November 22, 2024, starting at 7:30 p.m. in the TGST hall


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The cast includes guest actresses Nele Christoph and Sonia Glade, who will take the stage alongside Oana Vidoni and Daniela Török, actresses in the GSTT ensemble.

Water overflowed over the river banks. Why, she doesn't know exactly. It had to happen, it couldn't be otherwise. On one of the evenings following the catastrophe, she contemplates the Danube, reflects on the cruelty of mankind and sings along with the voices echoing in its waves.



The staged reading will be in German only, without translation, will have one performance only, and will be followed by a discussion with the audience, including the author, director and cast. The event will be hosted by Lucian Vărărșăndan.

𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗲 was born in 1987 in Vișeul de Sus in Romania and immigrated to Germany with his family in 1991. He studied theater, film and media at the University of Vienna and gained experience as an assistant director at Schauspielhaus Wien. In 2013 he received the exile prize for literature. In 2018, his prose debut 𝘄𝗶𝗿 𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲𝗶𝗹 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗻./we all left because everyone left. was published by edition exile publishing house.


In 2019 he was awarded the Retzhofer Prize for playwriting for his play 𝗸𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗻/carpathians like stains on my skin. It premiered at Deutsches Theater Berlin in 2021. The show opened GSTT's Eurothalia Festival in 2022. In the same year, his play 𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗷𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗻/mr. jedermann premiered at the Radu Stanca National Theater Sibiu. In 2022, 𝗸𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗻 was performed at the Burgtheater Wien in Austria, and in 2023 it received the prestigious Nestroy Theater Award for Best Play of the Year. Thomas Perle was Timisoara's Chronicler in Residence at the German Cultural Forum in Eastern Europe, during which time he wrote the play 𝗦𝗶𝗱𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗹 with Clemens Bechtel for TGST.


In 2024, he took part in the Heimat-Welt dramaturgy project organized by the current European Capital of Culture, Bad Ischl-Salzkammergut, where he was hosted and wrote the play

𝗧𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿 was born in 1997 in Τübingen, studied Theater and Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin, and since 2021 he is also a student of Theater Directing at the Faculty of Music and Theater in Hamburg. Before that he worked at the Schauspiel Theater in Cologne, where he collaborated with Ersan Mondtag, Stefan Bachmann and Robert Borgmann, among others. As a student he regularly worked as a director for guest performances at the Vagantenbühne in Berlin, the Prague German Language Theater Festival and the UWE Festival of the Bavarian Theater Academy.


Tristan Linder always approaches contemporary plays by young playwrights and young authors in a playful and humorous manner, as he most recently did at the Graz Drama Festival in 2023 and 2024.


He completed his studies der Regie in 2024 with the show SANDMAN at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg and has been working as a freelance director and theater musician ever since.


This event takes place in collaboration with Bad Ischl - Salzkammergut, European Capital of Culture 2024, and the Project Center of the Municipality of Timișoara