On 10 October 2009, during the opening ceremony of the 5^th edition of the International Theatre Festival DIALOG-WROCŁAW, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bogdan Zdrojewski awarded Krystyna Meissner, the Festival Director, managing also – since 1999 – Wrocławski Teatr Współczesny, the Silver Medal „For Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis”.

Presenting the Medal Gloria Artis, the Minister of Culture Bogdan Zdrojewski congratulated Krystyna Meissner on the festival jubilee and thanked her for the creative work at the previous editions of the International Theatre Festival DIALOG-WROCŁAW.

Krystyna Meissner emphasised that her main goal at the work on programming the Festival was to make the event recognise undiscovered areas: the ones that remain in our dreams. „I think that the most important thing in our life, regardless of age, is tracking what we want to discover, what is not here yet.

Krystian Lupa, excellent director, writer and teacher, winner of the European Theatre Prize, said: „I want to thank Krystyna and congratulate her on this Festival. DIALOG-WROCŁAW is, in my opinion, the most important theatre festival in Poland, with the most devilish and, at the same time, a very simple idea, called »dialogue«, and the dialogue is very mysterious and strange thing today. It does not only consist in the fact that 10 or 15 companies arrive, each one with its own concept and charge of what has been »made«, and those »made« things enter into a kind of polemics, controversies, or confirm each other. I think that the most important thing, in all that we strive for, if what we have not yet done; what is undone, untold, what is in our intuition – and it is only milimetre by milimetre that we manage to snatch something. […] During the meetings in which I took part, I felt that, on the verge of dreaming, searching, risky, erroneous plays, a strange excitement arises and stays with us for the following months. […] I believe the »untold« i »undone« distinguishes ambitious works”.

photo: Bartłomiej Sowa