Tag: Burgtheater Vienna
Stefan Bachmann becomes Burgtheater director – culture
The Swiss director Stefan Bachmann, currently artistic director at the Schauspiel Köln, will become director of the Burgtheater in Vienna in 2024. This most important persona of the theater year…
Martin Kušej renounces: no further tenure at the Burgtheater in Vienna – culture
As a director, Martin Kušej is always good for a bang effect. With one such he has now ended the ongoing debate about his contract extension as director of the…
Johan Simons is staging Dostoyevsky’s “Demons” – Kultur at the Burgtheater in Vienna
Of Egbert Tholl Finally, Nikolaj Stavrogin begins to make a confession. At that time, one had already spent quite some time in the Burgtheater in Vienna, heard many words and…
Martin Kušej brings “Next Door” to the stage in Vienna’s Burgtheater – culture
The scene is a corner pub in Berlin, in all its splendor and desolation. The heavily bleached and extensively tattooed landlady (Katharina Pichler) has a fag in the corner of…
Ruhrtriennale: Barbara Frey stages Schnitzler with Michael Maertens – culture
Even before the first word has fallen on the playing surface of the Bochum Centennial Hall, the life cycle of various insects is explained in the murmuring style of the…
Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” at the Vienna Burgtheater – Culture
The duke and magician Prospero, who was overthrown by his own brother, has been stuck on a desert island for twelve years. In exile, the single father of a 15-year-old…
“Closed society” at the Burgtheater Vienna – culture
Hell, that’s an empty buffet. Three of these stainless steel troughs, in which the food is normally kept warm, stand somewhat forlornly on a long table. Except that there’s obviously…
Loosely based on Schnitzler: Robert Icke’s “The Doctor” at the Vienna Burgtheater. – Culture
A young woman is dying after an unsuccessful abortion. The Catholic priest who wants to give her the final unction is at the door, but the attending doctor refuses him…
Death in the fire: actress Gertraud Jesserer died – culture
On Monday she would have celebrated her 78th birthday, but Gertraud Jesserer should no longer have it. The popular Austrian actress was killed in an apartment fire on Thursday evening.…
Artistic director Kay Voges starts at the Vienna Volkstheater – Culture
Although the piece is called “Lonely People”, the people in it are never alone. But that is exactly the theme in Gerhart Hauptmann’s early drama from 1890: Man is never…