Akademietheater Vienna – Schedule, Program & Tickets

Akademietheater

Designed by the architects Fellner & Hellmer and Ludwig Baumann and built between 1911 and 1913, the Akademietheater has been the Burgtheater’s second venue since 1922. After many years of requests from ensemble members of the Burgtheater who wanted a second stage of more intimate dimensions, Max Paulsen succeeded in affiliating the “Theatre of the Academy of Music and the Performing Arts”, for brevity 's sake called Akademietheater, to the Burgtheater as a smaller, second venue. It was inaugurated on September 8, 1922, with a performance of Goethe’s Iphigenia in Tauris. After the Second World War, which the building survived intact, the theatre was re-opened on May 19, 1945, under the direction of Raoul Aslan with Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. The Akademietheater was refurbished and technically upgraded in 1974 and in 1999.
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The author tells of a life that appears to be shaped and dominated by the omnipresent and mighty Tyrolean mountains, far from the world, and yet takes place right in the middle of the history of the 20th century: The political events of the time accompany the family cosmos and show the landmarks of the changing times the life story of the Austrian post-war generations.
The parable-like story of the Grand Inquisitor occupies a special place in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's monumental late work THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOW. This is set in 16th century Spain and is about the return of Jesus Christ, who threatens to become a victim of the Inquisition carried out in his name. The Grand Inquisitor's monological speech, which deals with ethical-moral and religious-philosophical problems, will be brought to the stage of the Academy Theater by Barbara Petritsch...
“The piece KASPAR [...] shows what IS POSSIBLE with someone. It shows how someone can be made to speak by speaking. The piece could also be called ‘Speech Torture.’” Says Peter Handke in the foreword to his piece KASPAR.
Martin McDonagh German by Martin Molitor and Christian Seltmann
Goethe wrote the first version of his humanistic drama as a secret legion councilor on a trip to recruit recruits for the Weimar army. Even today, his call for dialogue and justice is far removed from everyday political reality. But Goethe suggests how the world-determining pendulum movement between murder and retaliation could be ended and counters the cycle of violence with the possibility of a processual change in the world.
Director Lucia Bihler translates this iconic parable into a series of transformation phases that address questions about loneliness, loss of trust, powerlessness and the urge to survive in today's world. In this way, she approaches the story of the modern prodigy Franz Kafka, who was born in Prague in 1883 and died in Kierling, near Vienna, in 1924, a century ago, in a pictorial, very physical way.
The successful and wealthy fashion designer Petra von Kant finds herself in a life crisis after her second marriage broke up. The taciturn Marlene, who is humiliated and exploited by Petra, lives and works at her side. Petra met the young model Karin Thimm through a friend, started a relationship with her and protected her career...
Goethe wrote the first version of his humanistic drama as a secret legion councilor on a trip to recruit recruits for the Weimar army. Even today, his call for dialogue and justice is far removed from everyday political reality. But Goethe suggests how the world-determining pendulum movement between murder and retaliation could be ended and counters the cycle of violence with the possibility of a processual change in the world.
Martin McDonagh German by Martin Molitor and Christian Seltmann
Director Lucia Bihler translates this iconic parable into a series of transformation phases that address questions about loneliness, loss of trust, powerlessness and the urge to survive in today's world. In this way, she approaches the story of the modern prodigy Franz Kafka, who was born in Prague in 1883 and died in Kierling, near Vienna, in 1924, a century ago, in a pictorial, very physical way.
The heroines take the strings of fate into their own hands. Will women now save the world and defeat the omnipresent hatred?
Director Lucia Bihler translates this iconic parable into a series of transformation phases that address questions about loneliness, loss of trust, powerlessness and the urge to survive in today's world. In this way, she approaches the story of the modern prodigy Franz Kafka, who was born in Prague in 1883 and died in Kierling, near Vienna, in 1924, a century ago, in a pictorial, very physical way.