BITEF

The Belgrade International Theatre Festival (abbr. BITEF) is a theatre festival that takes place every September annually in Belgrade, Serbia.

History

Founded in 1967, BITEF has continually followed and supported the latest theatre trends. It has become one of the most significant culture festivals of Serbia.

During the 1960s, the founders of this festival ( Mira Trailović, Jovan Ćirilov and their associates) courageously followed tumultuous events in global theatre teeming with avant-garde explorations. In the 1980s, BITEF showed Belgrade the highest reaches of the art of theatre, thus becoming one of the few festivals comprising both experimental forms and significant classic achievements. In spite of political-economic crisis and embargo, in the final decade of the 20th century, BITEF, thanks to the help of international culture centres, government and non-government organizations, managed to keep abreast with the rest of world, through promotion of new theatre trends and ultimate theatre values.

In 2000, BITEF was awarded a Special Prize by the Jury of the Europe Theatre Prize, in Taormina. BITEF was the first international theatre festival to receive an award from ''Premio Europa per il Teatro''.

Jury

Important part of every edition of the BITEF festival is the jury. Since the beginning, BITEF has a competitive character, which is why the role of the jury is very important. Members of the jury are important theater creators from former Yugoslavia and the rest of the world.

List of jury members for each edition of BITEF:

1st BITEF
Predrag BajčetićDejan Čavić
Jovan Ćirilov
Ljubomir Draškić
Boro Drašković, Borislav Mihajlović - Mihiz, Slobodan Selenić, Mira Trailović, Mlađa Veselinović

2nd BITEF:  Predrag Bajčetić, Dejan Čavić, Jovan Ćirilov, Borislav Mihajlović - Mihiz
Muharem Pervić
Mira Trailović
Milan Žmukić

3rd BITEF: Ljubomir Draškić
Hugo Klajn
Borislav Mihajlović - Mihiz, Borka Pavićević, Miodrag Pavlović, Branko Pleša, Slobodan Selenić, Pavle Stefanović, Mira Trailović
Stojan Čelić
Jovan Ćirilov, Jovan Hristić

4th BITEF
Stanislav Bajić
Predrag Bajčetić, Borislav Mihajlović - Mihiz, Slobodan Selenić, Muharem Pervić, Mira Trailović, Jovan Ćirilov, Jovan Hristić

5th BITEF: Milenko Maričić, Vasko Popa
Zoran Ratković
Pavle Stefanović, Ljuba Tadić, Milorad Vučelić

6th BITEF: Jovan Hristić, Dušan Makavejev, Miodrag Pavlović, Zoran Radmilović, Vladimir Stamenković, Ljuba Tadić, Milorad Vučelić

7th BITEF: Muharem Pervić
Milosav Buca MirkovićPetar Volk
Vladimir Stamenković, Feliks Pašić, Lojze Smasek, Božidar Božović
Žarko Komanin
Ognjen Lakićević
Dejan Penčić-Poljanski

8th BITEF: Predrag Bajčetić
Miroslav Belović
Ljubomir Draškić, Boro Drašković
Tatjana Lukjanova
Ljiljana Krstić, Jelisaveta Sablić
Petar Slovenski
Ružica Sokić, Stevo Žigon

9th BITEF
Mirjana Miočinović
Milosav Buca Mirković, Borka Pavićević, Branko Pleša, Slobodan Selenić, Vladimir Stamenković, Jovan Hristić

10th BITEF: Eli Finci, Muharem Pervić, Dejan Penčić-Poljanski, Slobodan Selenić, Vladimir Stamenković

11th BITEF: Jovan Hristić, Dalibor Foretić, Milosav Buca Mirković, Feliks Pašić, Veno Taufer

12th BITEF: France Jamnik, Jovan Hristić, Dalibor Foretić, Feliks Pašić, Mirjana Miočinović

13th BITEF: Petar Salem, Lojze Smasek, Milorad Vučelić, Slobodan Selenić, Dragan Klaić

14th BITEF: Branko Pleša, Boro Drašković, Olga Jevrić, Dragan Klaić
Dejan Mijač
Ksenija Šukuljević

15th BITEF: Aleksandar Saša Petrović, Filip David, Ljiljana Krstić, Vladan Radosavljević

16th BITEF
Milka Podrug-Kokotović
Miroslava Otašević, Arsenije Jovanović
Slobodan Stojanović
Goran Stefanovski

17th BITEF: Mira Banjac, Borka Pavićević, Nenad Prokić, Slobodan Selenić, László Végel

18th BITEF
Slobodan Glumac
Dubravka Knežević, Branka Krilović, Paolo Magelli, Vladimir Stamenković

19th BITEF
Velimir Lukić
Lada Martinec, Aleksandar Popović
Ivica Kunčević
Zlatko Sviben

20th BITEF
Vladimir Jevtović
Dejan Mijač, Miodrag Pavlović, Nenad Prokić, Jelisaveta Sablić

21st BITEF: Petar Banićević, Petar Brečić
Nenad Ilić
Ljubomir Simović

22nd BITEF: Predrag Ejdus, Anatolij Kudrajcev
Slobodan Mašić
Haris Pašović, Dragoslav Srejović

23rd BITEF: Slobodan Blagojević, Dubravka Knežević
Egon SavinIvana Vujić
Dalibor Foretić

24th BITEF: Dragan Klaić, Boro Drašković, Branislav Lečić
Jovan Ristić Rica
Dubravka Ugrešić

25th BITEF: Vida Ognjenović, Mario Maskareli, Predrag Perović
Lidija PilipenkoGorčin Stojanović

26th BITEF
Slobodan NovakovićDara DžokićJagoš Marković

27th BITEF
Cvijeta Mesić
Goran Marković, Irfan Mensur
Aleksandar MilosavljevićMileta Prodanović

28th BITEF: Tanja Bošković, Jerko Denegri, Mladen Popović, Ivana Stefanović
Alisa Stojanović

29th BITEF: Dejan Mijač, Nebojša Dugalić
Srđan HofmanVladimir Kopicl
Ognjenka Milićević

30th BITEF: Roman Grigorijevič-Viktjuk
Isidora Minić
Boro Drašković, Nenad Prokić, Hermann Theissenn

31st BITEF: Milorad Pavić, Nikolay Kolyada
Arthur D. Skelton
Biljana Srbljanović, Goran Stefanovski

32nd BITEF: Heinz Klunker, Mira Erceg
Branislava Liješević
Svetlana Vragova
Ivan Medenica

33rd BITEF: Mario Mattia Giorgetti, Natalija Vagapova
Jelena ŠantićDijana Milošević
Svetislav Jovanov

34th BITEF: Renate Klett
Marina Davydova
Nina Kiraly
Sonja VukićevićAnja Suša

35th BITEF: Ivica Buljan, Tomaž Toporišič, Roman Dolžanski
Milena Marković
Miško Šuvaković

36th BITEF: Milorad Mišković, Annie Dorsen, Rudy Engelander
Nikita Milivojević
Isidora Stanišić

37th BITEF
Pamela HowardMilena BogavacIgor Bojović
Audronis Liuga
Elie Malka
Alisa Stojanović, Johanna Tomek

38th BITEF: Michael Coveney, Predrag Miki Manojlović, Marija Janković, Milica Konstantinović, Suzanne Osten

39th BITEF: Ian Herbert
Đurđija Cvetić
Ksenija Viktorovna Dragunska, Dušan Makavejev, Uglješa Šajtinac

40th BITEF: Dino Mustafić, Miloš Sofrenović, Daša Kovačević
Igor Đorđević
Egon Savin

41st BITEF: Tomi Janežič, Miloš Lolić, Olga Stanislavovna Mukhina, Milica Tomić, Kristian Seltun, Laszlo Upor

42nd BITEF: Hans-Thies Lehmann, Mia David
Marija Karaklajić
Constanza Macras, Katarina Pejović

43rd BITEF: Patrice Pavis, Roland Schimmelpfennig
Vladimir Aleksić
Oliver Frljić
Maja Pelević

44th BITEF: Nataša Rajković, Bojan Đorđev, Elena Kovalskaya
Damjan Kecojević
Gianina Carbunariu

45th BITEF
Arthur Sonnen
Anna Lengyel, Alja Predan, Vladica Milosavljević, Nikola Zavišić

46th BITEF: Goran Injac, Jean Pierre Thibodeau, Elizabeth Schak, Đurđa Tešić, Maja Mirković

47th BITEF: Christian Holtzhauer, Yana Ross, Igor Ružić, András Urbán, Filip Vujošević

48th BITEF: Ana Tomović, Lilach Dekel-Avner, Periša Perišić, Ulla Kasius, Witold Mrozek

49th BITEF: Mirjana Karanović, Žarko Laušević, Agnieszka Jakimiak, Stefan Blaeske

50th BITEF: Yun-Cheol Kim, Femi Osofisan, Aleksandra Jovićević, Aleksandar Denić, Tomas Irmer

51st BITEF: Marija Ševcova, Margareta Sorensen, Ivana Sajko, Igor Koruga, Draško Adžić

52nd BITEF: Judit Csaki, Bryce Leace, Bojana Mladenović, Aleksandra Janković, Radmila Vojvodić

53rd BITEF: Christine Hamon-Sirejols, Dorothy Chansky, Sanja Mitrović, Olga Dimitrijević, Ersan Mondtag

54th & 55th BITEF: Şermin Langhoff, Lucia Van Heteren, Agata Juniku, Cecilia Djurberg, Jovana Tomić

56th BITEF: Stefanie Carp, Christine Doessel, Selma Spahić, Vanja Ejdus, Dino Pešut

List of award-winning performances

See also

* List of theatres in Serbia

References

External links

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{{List of culture institutions in Belgrade

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