BRUCKLINN INTERNATIONAL 2027
Youth Theater Building Brigdes
2027 will be a international festival again.
We are going to invite Youth Theater Groups from all over the world to get on stage in Innsbruck!
Click here for
Info: Application INFO
Application: Form
More Details below!
Youth Theater Building Brigdes
Apply Now:
National and international youth theater groups including overnight stay from:
Monday, June 28th or Tuesday until 12:00 p.m. (arrival and initiation)
until Saturday, July 3rd 2027 (departure)
Requirements:
- ages 12 to 23
- group size max. 10 participants
- min. 1 chaperone
- duration of one piece max. 60 min
- responsibility for covering your own travel expenses
Important: The youth group can participate in the Festival only if all members are present for
its entire duration - thank you for your understanding!
We are already looking forward to 2027
… Hard Facts for Participants
-
Date: June 28rd until 2nd July 2027 for youth theater groups: participation every morning and afternoon
-
Location: Innsbruck/Tyrol: the venues consist a stage in the heart of Innsbruck
-
Who: International youth theater groups from schools, clubs, theaters, or other institutions. Age 12 to 23.
- What: plays, performances, etc. – maximum duration of 40 to 60 min
- We offer: stages; technology including a music system, lights, and an on-site stage technician; catering included for all participants
- What must not be missing: A declaration of consent from the legal guardians along with a GDPR; consent to the image and sound rights of all participants
… Application 2027
This year five youth theater groups can take part at the festival.
Registration Deadline:
- 20th Dec 2026
- The decision will be made by a specialist jury and will be made by the 15th of January.
- Please send the completed application form via email to
… Contact
Young Acting - Schauspiel für Kinder und Jugendliche
Dreiheiligenstraße 17
6020 Innsbruck
Austria
+43 676 584 88 95
office@youngacting.at
www.youngacting.at
www.brucklinn.com
ZVR: 011524950
BRUCKLINN INTERNATIONAL
Youth Theater Building Brigdes
...About BRUCKLINN:
Following the success of the festivals in 2023 and 2025, BRUCKLINN International is back for its third edition
in 2027!
From June 29 to July 3, 2027, Innsbruck will once again become an international meeting place for young theater enthusiasts, welcoming youth theater groups from around the world to share their stories, cultures, and creativity on the city’s stages.
Held every two years, BRUCKLINN International celebrates the diversity of youth theater and creates opportunities for intercultural exchange, artistic collaboration, and meaningful connections across borders.
The festival will open on Tuesday with a spectacular parade through the heart of Innsbruck, bringing together selected youth theater groups to celebrate the beginning of this special event. From Wednesday through Friday, participating groups will present their productions at various theaters throughout the city, offering audiences a rich and diverse program of international performances.
Participants are invited to spend five inspiring days in Innsbruck, immersing themselves in a vibrant festival
atmosphere. Alongside performances, the program will feature exciting workshops, opportunities for networking and cultural exchange, accommodation, and a wide range of activities designed to foster
creativity, friendship, and artistic development.
BRUCKLINN International is more than a theater festival — it is a place where young people meet, ideas cross
borders, and cultures connect through the universal language of theater.
The festival program will also be open to the general public, inviting audiences to discover new perspectives, experience different cultural approaches to theater, and celebrate the extraordinary talent and creativity of young performers from around the world.
Join us in Innsbruck from June 29 to July 3, 2027, for the third edition of BRUCKLINN International — where
youth theater builds bridges across cultures and brings the world together on stage!
Youth Theater Building Bridges Theater gives us the space to question and examine our reactions, to discover new ways of responding, and to explore the different effects our choices can have. It broadens our horizons and opens us to the perspectives of others. It creates the foundation for meaningful encounters and for the bridges we build
between us.
Looking Back To Former...
BRUCKLINN INTERNATIONAL
Youth Theater Building Brigdes
...About BRUCKLINN:
In 2023 we had a very successful “Brucklinn International” event, so now will run this very special event every two years.
In 2024 the festival took place in it´s regional version.
In 2025 it started again. BRUCKLINN International - Youth Theater Building Bridges conquered Innsbruck’s stages again from June 23th to June 27th 2025 and youngsters from all over the world performed their plays in a variety of theaters.
On Monday selected youth groups opened the festival together. From Tuesday until Friday the groups performed their productions at several different stages in Innsbruck.
The participants spent five days with us in Innsbruck and took part in the theater festival’s diverse program. Plays from all over the world, workshops, opportunities for networking and exchange, board and lodging and much more were offered.
In addition to the participants, the program was also accessible to the general public, giving anyone who is interested in the theatre world a glimpse into the vast variety of different cultural approaches to theater.
BRUCKLINN
JUNE 23rd to 27th 2025
The BRUCKLINN Youth Theatre Festival took place again.
2025 INTERNATIONAL Youth Theater Festival BRUCKLINN BUILDING BRIDGES was held under the motto #reACT
See more here: BRUCKLINN 2025
MOTTO: #reACT
At the international festival 2025 great international theater groups visited Innsbruck!
Our guests came from Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Romania and Tirol!
… about the motto “reACT”:
We wanted to reACT because first of all we want to PLAY again.
We wanted to meet, communicate, get in touch, perform and meet again.
We act because we react, IN a situation, IN an emotion, TO a stimulus - always triggered by a counterpart.
Theater gives us the scope to question and examine our reactions and the opportunity to react differently and have an alternative effect.
It expands our horizons - and opens us up to each other. It is the basis for encounters - for the bridges we build.
In cooperation with the Tiroler Landestheater, the Exl-Bühne-Gedächtnis-Privatstiftung and the Theaterverband Tirol.
"Brucklinn - Youth Theatre Building Bridges" is THE theater festival format by and with children and young people.
HISTORY
In the middle of Innsbruck, a colorful, varied and freely accessible program of performances and workshops for the whole family takes place, while at the same time artistic and cultural exchange opportunities bring together young people from all over the world.
In the period from October 2020 to June 2023, a progressively international youth theater scene formed, which annually develops plays on different focal points and these were first brought to the stage in June 2021.
Under the motto #bedifferent, 20 theater groups presented their plays in 2021 - locally in Innsbruck and online for the whole world.
In summer 2022 - national groups will be invited to show their participatory created theater pieces with children and young people in Innsbruck and to give space to the artistic diversity of young people.
In 2023, international theater groups were our guests in Innsbruck in the grand finale. The live premieres of the most diverse forms of children's and youth theater from all over the world had crowned the three stages of Brucklinn - the festival that forms a bridge for young theater.
In 2024 the festival was national/regional and we welcomed 14 Groups in only 3 Days that showed their Plays and Performances.
In 2025 we were happy to welcome international groups again with young people from all over the world! This year´s Motto was : #reACT
Now we all are looking forward to next year and the regional version of BRUCKLINN
3 Steps
