In the year 2000, Nuremberg celebrated its 950th anniversary. The Mummpitz Theatre took this event as a pleasant occasion to invite ten exceptional European theatre productions for children, thus giving the young people of Nuremberg something to celebrate at the beginning of the anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This European Children's Theatre Festival called \"panoptikum\" was a great success - with the audience as well as with the professional public. Almost all performances were sold out at the beginning of the festival and the audience was enthusiastic. The press also praised it: \"A festival like this would certainly suit the much-vaunted 'children's theatre stronghold' of Nuremberg - hopefully the city representatives have noticed\" (N\u00fcrnberger Nachrichten).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Due to this success, the funders decided to continue the financial support. Since then, the European children's theatre landscape has been put to the test every two years and Bavarian children's theatre has been offered a platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is how panoptikum has been reported in recent years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n