Volkstheater Vienna – Schedule, Program & Tickets
Since the Viennese Volktheater (then to distinguish it from other national platforms of the Dual Monarchy under the name Deutsches Volkstheater) was founded in 1889, the Viennese theater scene is still divided sharply by stalls: the Burgtheater is about reserved as an imperial private theater of the aristocracy. There is increasing the over voices calling for a German folk theater as decidedly bourgeois, even folk pictorial counterpart to the Court Theatre. There should be played alongside popular plays mainly classical and modern dramas ...
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Th 19:30
Die Angestellten
von Olga Ravn
von Olga Ravn
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A spaceship glides through space. The crew: half human, half robots..
30
Sa 19:30
Die Inkommensurablen
von Raphaela Edelbauer in einer Bühnenfassung von sputnic
von Raphaela Edelbauer in einer Bühnenfassung von sputnic
The splendor is gone, the monarchy is gone, even the Prater, Hitler and Haider are gone, no more Felix Austria, no world empire, nothing. In the Natural History Museum, death looks macabrely through all the glass panes of the old display cases, the glass eyes of the dead animals glow. The Viennese are experts in preservation and specialists in appearance. They are hugging taxidermists. And death can look more lively and powerful here than life itself. Franz Joseph, Maria Theresia, Sisi - they all still live here, and the ghosts from Heldenplatz also cheer and scream. The dead walk among us, and they are very lively.