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The festival took place for the first time in 1966 under the name Slovene Drama Week and was named Borštnik Meeting in 1972. Prior to 1990 the festival was held also in other Slovene towns; in the 90s there were several unsuccessful attempts to move the festival from Maribor to Ljubljana. Until 1992 all professional Slovene theatres presented at least one production at the festival's competition programme, with independent productions appearing only in the off-programme. Subsequently, the selection became more rigorous, including only most representative theatre productions. The 90s saw the protest of numerous independent theatre producers and makers, arguing that with the existing conceptually closed orientation the festival does not present the actual theatre production nor acknowledge the variety of aesthetics, poetics, approaches, and procedures.
Since 1994, the selector of the festival is given a two-year mandate. The jury usually comprises four to five persons (critics, directors, writers, theoreticians, artists, etc.). The Borštnik Ring Award recipient is selected by a different jury.
The festival is named after Ignacij Borštnik (1858-1919), director, actor, playwright, translator, and the founder of the Slovene artistic theatre. He was the first Slovene theatre director in the modern sense of the word, and a master craftsman of most demanding roles, especially from turn-of-the-century modernist realism.
Each year, ten to twelve new performances are presented in the competition programme of the The Borštnik Meeting Festival. These stagings compete for the following awards: for best performance, best director, best actor, best young actor, other achievements (set design, costume design, light design, musical score, and other artistic categories), plus the award for innovation and aesthetic breakthrough, and the Dominik Smole Award, awarded for best original dramatic text or best translation, dramatisation, or adaptation. At the festival an award of the Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers for best performance is presented.
Although the programme includes only domestic performances, the festival aims for an internationalisation of its activities. By organising international symposia and discussions, inviting foreign performances and theatre experts, the festival has set to position itself on the international theatre map.
The 2009 Borštnik Meeting programme was selected by Barbara Orel. The jury included also two foreign experts, with which the festival aims to contribute to the objectivity of selected performances. The award for best performance went to Ivica Buljan's staging of Heiner Müller's Macbeth After Shakespeare, co-produced by Mini Theatre, Cankarjev dom, Novo kazalište Zagreb and ZeKaEm, Croatia, award for best direction was given to Jernej Lorenci for his staging of Oresteia, produced by Slovene National Theatre (SNG) Ljubljana - Drama. The new translation of Aeschylus' play by Marko Marinčič was awarded with the Dominik Smole Award for best translation. Five equal awards for best actors went to Polona Juh for her role in Oresteia ((SNG) Ljubljana - Drama), Marko Mandič for the role in Macbeth After Shakespeare, Nataša Matjašec for the role in Wind in the Pines (Slovene National Theatre (SNG) Maribor), Igor Samobor for Oresteia, and Branko Šturbej for the role in SNG Maribor's Peer Gynt. The recipient of the award for best young actor is Jure Henigman. Three awards for other artistic achievement were awarded to Marko Japelj for set design, Peter Penko for musical score, and to Matjaž Berger for the unique performing discourse in the performance Portrait of a Lady produced by by Anton Podbevšek Theatre and Teatri di Vita Bologna, Italy.
The festival also hosted the legendary German director Peter Stein who made an appearance with the pianist Arturo Annecchino in the recital Faust Fantasia (Melologue for voice and piano) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as well as the performance The Doll Ship, directed by the young and talented Ana Tomović and produced by the Serbian National Theatre Novi Sad, which won an award for best performance at the 2009 Sterijino Pozorje Festival, as well as hosted two international symposia, namely, Art, Culture, City which focused on the role of the city in the context of its artistic production, highlighting the on-coming project European Capital of Culture - Maribor 2012, and the symposium co-organised with the Slovene Centre of the International Theatre Institute (ITI) entitled The Intertwining of the Festivals of the Western Balkans, featuring 15 international panellists.
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