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 ...
Finally: Ödön von Horváth's wonderful, far too rarely performed, eerily beautiful crime comedy can be seen in a new production on a major Viennese stage after more than a quarter of a century. The film is directed by Anna Bergmann, known for her complex portraits of female roles.
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Su 19:30
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Volkstheater, Neustiftgasse 1, 1070 Vienna
Volkstheater, Neustiftgasse 1, 1070 Vienna
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„deutschen sprach sein ein kulturensprach / sein ein alt alt kulturensprach. deutschen literaturen sein ein kulturenliteraturen / ein ganz groß kulturenliteraturen.“
Director Luk Perceval is tackling a new, monumental Shakespearean undertaking 25 years after his spectacular BATTLES!, the legendary twelve-hour “Shakespeare Madness” (Die Zeit) at the Salzburg Festival, which brought together the eight royal dramas of the Wars of the Roses into one work: Shakespeare's Roman tragedies merged into a famous and complex work.
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.