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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Katharsis

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We know that he was born around 1721, that he was taken from his homeland in West Africa and sold into slavery. He came by ship from Africa to Sicily, where an Italian Marchesa took him into her care. We know that against all odds he achieved an extremely influential position at the court in Vienna after saving the life of Prince Lobkowitz on a Hungarian battlefield.
At the beginning of Schnitzler's social panorama, the music falls silent: a pianist, who frequented the villa of the lightbulb manufacturer Friedrich Hofreiter and his wife Genia, shoots himself. The reason for this gives rise to speculation...
The siblings Serge, Jean and Nana Popper live in Paris. They are descendants of Jewish survivors of the Shoah whose stories stretch back to Hungary and Vienna. Grandfather, great-aunt and great-grandmother were murdered in Auschwitz; as members of the late second generation after the war, the three are slowly approaching retirement age.
In her new play, Nino Haratischwili rewrites the ancient Phaedra myth in a confrontational way...
Dorian Gray succumbs to the desire for eternal youth after Lord Henry, a harbinger of today's selfishness, instills his hedonistic maxims into his head. The wish comes true in a magical way: from that day on, Dorian never ages anymore and thus becomes a living picture at the height of his youthful beauty, while the portrait that his friend Basil painted of him is marked more and more deeply by the progress of life becomes.
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...
The heroines take the strings of fate into their own hands. Will women now save the world and defeat the omnipresent hatred?
In her new play, Nino Haratischwili rewrites the ancient Phaedra myth in a confrontational way...
The heroines take the strings of fate into their own hands. Will women now save the world and defeat the omnipresent hatred?
The idyllic village of Maria Blut with its pilgrimage chapel is in the countryside, a few hours by train from Vienna. The 1930s have dawned, Dollfuss is Chancellor and the natives of “Austrian Lourdes” are in turmoil.
“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.
In einem Jagdhaus, fernab der Stadt, inmitten eines Zuchtwalds von gigantischen Ausmaßen, warten die Generalin und der Schriftsteller auf die Ankunft des Generals: ein stolzer Stalingrad-Veteran, Großgrundbesitzer, Jäger und ranghoher Politiker auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Macht. Es schneit, und der Bedienstete Asamer heizt ein gegen die winterliche Kälte. Das Gespräch der Generalin mit dem Dichter kreist um den Finalzustand, in dem sich der alte General und dessen Welt entgegen dem Anschein tatsächlich befinden.
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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...
The heroines take the strings of fate into their own hands. Will women now save the world and defeat the omnipresent hatred?
The two dandies Algernon and Jack love the double life. In order to reconcile vice and pleasure with their social obligations, both of them have made up lies: Algernon invents a sick friend named Bunbury so that he can visit him in the country as often as possible, and Jack pretends to take care of his brother Ernst having to come to town regularly.
The two dandies Algernon and Jack love the double life. In order to reconcile vice and pleasure with their social obligations, both of them have made up lies: Algernon invents a sick friend named Bunbury so that he can visit him in the country as often as possible, and Jack pretends to take care of his brother Ernst having to come to town regularly.
“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.
The heroines take the strings of fate into their own hands. Will women now save the world and defeat the omnipresent hatred?
Ein Buch wie ein Traum, so wegweisend wie umstritten . Sigmund Freuds Großprojekt ist ebenso undurchdringlich wie die Seele, die es untersucht. Ein konfuser Wegweiser zu den Schauplätzen der Träume und damit zum Ich, wovon Träume laut Freud ausschliesslich handeln.
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At the beginning of Schnitzler's social panorama, the music falls silent: a pianist, who frequented the villa of the lightbulb manufacturer Friedrich Hofreiter and his wife Genia, shoots himself. The reason for this gives rise to speculation...
The idyllic village of Maria Blut with its pilgrimage chapel is in the countryside, a few hours by train from Vienna. The 1930s have dawned, Dollfuss is Chancellor and the natives of “Austrian Lourdes” are in turmoil.
“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.
The heroines take the strings of fate into their own hands. Will women now save the world and defeat the omnipresent hatred?
Professor Gollwitz, a small-town high school professor struggling with financial and domestic worries, has succumbed to his secret passion for theater. When the theater director Striese happened to be visiting the city with his traveling theater troupe, he found out that the professor was hiding the play THE ROBBER OF THE SABINE WOMEN in a drawer from his wife. The Schreientheater director Striese, who is quick-witted in all situations, elicits the stroke of genius from the author, who initially refuses, and prepares its performance. Before the play sees the light of day, the professor's wife returns unexpectedly from the spa, and the family catastrophe with impending embarrassment takes its course.