Actress Birgit Minichmayr on theater scandals, her role in Thomas Bernhard’s “Heldenplatz” and the question of how to remain stable in difficult times.
Vienna, beginning of February. Birgit Minichmayr, 46, is sitting in a magnificent hall somewhere in the Burgtheater, she is concentrated and in a good mood. There are three premieres ahead of her: two films, a play. “Andrea Gets Divorced” by Josef Hader and “Sleeping with a Tiger,” a biopic about Maria Lassnig by Anja Salomonowitz, are screening at the Berlinale. And at the Burgtheater she is starring in Thomas Bernhard’s “Heldenplatz”, directed by Frank Castorf. A historic text for Vienna. Minichmayr says she really wanted to be there. The premiere is this Saturday.