Belgrade International Theatre Festival
The Belgrade International Theatre Festival 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 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:,, Jovan Ćirilov, Boro Drašković, Borislav Mihajlović - Mihiz, Slobodan Selenić, Mira Trailović, Mlađa Veselinović
2nd BITEF: Predrag Bajčetić, Dejan Čavić, Jovan Ćirilov, Borislav Mihajlović - Mihiz,, Mira Trailović,
3rd BITEF: Ljubomir Draškić,, Borislav Mihajlović - Mihiz, Borka Pavićević, Miodrag Pavlović, Branko Pleša, Slobodan Selenić, Pavle Stefanović, Mira Trailović,, Jovan Ćirilov, Jovan Hristić
4th BITEF:, Predrag Bajčetić, Borislav Mihajlović - Mihiz, Slobodan Selenić, Muharem Pervić, Mira Trailović, Jovan Ćirilov, Jovan Hristić
5th BITEF: Milenko Maričić, Vasko Popa,, 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,,, Vladimir Stamenković, Feliks Pašić, Lojze Smasek, Božidar Božović,, Ognjen Lakićević,
8th BITEF: Predrag Bajčetić,, Ljubomir Draškić, Boro Drašković,, Ljiljana Krstić, Jelisaveta Sablić,, Ružica Sokić, Stevo Žigon
9th BITEF:, 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,, Ksenija Šukuljević
15th BITEF: Aleksandar Saša Petrović, Filip David, Ljiljana Krstić, Vladan Radosavljević
16th BITEF:, Miroslava Otašević, Arsenije Jovanović,, Goran Stefanovski
17th BITEF: Mira Banjac, Borka Pavićević, Nenad Prokić, Slobodan Selenić, László Végel
18th BITEF:, Dubravka Knežević, Branka Krilović, Paolo Magelli, Vladimir Stamenković
19th BITEF:, Lada Martinec, Aleksandar Popović,, Zlatko Sviben
20th BITEF:, Dejan Mijač, Miodrag Pavlović, Nenad Prokić, Jelisaveta Sablić
21st BITEF: Petar Banićević, Petar Brečić,, Ljubomir Simović
22nd BITEF: Predrag Ejdus, Anatolij Kudrajcev,, Haris Pašović, Dragoslav Srejović
23rd BITEF: Slobodan Blagojević, Dubravka Knežević,,, Dalibor Foretić
24th BITEF: Dragan Klaić, Boro Drašković, Branislav Lečić,, Dubravka Ugrešić
25th BITEF: Vida Ognjenović, Mario Maskareli, Predrag Perović,,
26th BITEF:,,
27th BITEF:, Goran Marković, Irfan Mensur,,
28th BITEF: Tanja Bošković, Jerko Denegri, Mladen Popović, Ivana Stefanović,
29th BITEF: Dejan Mijač, Nebojša Dugalić,,, Ognjenka Milićević
30th BITEF: Roman Grigorijevič-Viktjuk,, Boro Drašković, Nenad Prokić, Hermann Theissenn
31st BITEF: Milorad Pavić, Nikolay Kolyada,, Biljana Srbljanović, Goran Stefanovski
32nd BITEF: Heinz Klunker, Mira Erceg,, Svetlana Vragova,
33rd BITEF: Mario Mattia Giorgetti, Natalija Vagapova,,, Svetislav Jovanov
34th BITEF: Renate Klett,, Nina Kiraly,,
35th BITEF: Ivica Buljan, Tomaž Toporišič, Roman Dolžanski,, Miško Šuvaković
36th BITEF: Milorad Mišković, Annie Dorsen, Rudy Engelander,, Isidora Stanišić
37th BITEF:,,, Audronis Liuga,, Alisa Stojanović, Johanna Tomek
38th BITEF: Michael Coveney, Predrag Miki Manojlović, Marija Janković, Milica Konstantinović, Suzanne Osten
39th BITEF: Ian Herbert,, Ksenija Viktorovna Dragunska, Dušan Makavejev, Uglješa Šajtinac
40th BITEF: Dino Mustafić, Miloš Sofrenović, Daša Kovačević,, Egon Savin
41st BITEF: Tomi Janežič, Miloš Lolić, Olga Stanislavovna Mukhina, Milica Tomić, Kristian Seltun, Laszlo Upor
42nd BITEF: Hans-Thies Lehmann, Mia David,, Constanza Macras, Katarina Pejović
43rd BITEF: Patrice Pavis, Roland Schimmelpfennig,, Oliver Frljić,
44th BITEF: Nataša Rajković, Bojan Đorđev, Elena Kovalskaya,, Gianina Carbunariu
45th BITEF:, 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