The Münchener Biennale – Festival for New Music Theatre – celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2026!
Numerous international composers are confronting the complexities of our present-day in a bold and experimental manner, alert to the contradictions of our time. Together with their artistic teams they create music-theater worlds that sharpen our gaze, fuel resistance, and give us hope; they connect us and solicit conversation about unforeseen ways of watching and listening.
The artistic directors of the only global festival dedicated to world premieres of new music theater, Katrin Beck and Manuela Kerer, have made it their mission to seek out these spaces of encounter, of the surprising and the unexpected. At their side are exciting international, national, and local collaborators who have joined them on their journey.
The entire festival team welcomes local as well as international audiences, experts and the simply curious to discover numerous music theater productions - including for the first time for children – as well as installations, interventions in urban spaces, workshops and other events.
In cooperation with MUCBOOK and POSITIONEN, the Münchener Biennale has started a podcast entitled “Noch nicht Premiere”. Across the entertaining episodes, host Bastian Zimmermann, editor of music magazine POSITIONEN, sheds light on the productions and talks to personalities from the festival’s fringes.
