Anna Badora

Anna Badora (2013)

Anna Badora (* 1951 in Częstochowa , Poland ) is a Polish-Austrian director and general manager . She is married and has one grown son.

Training and initial engagements

After graduating from high school, Badora completed an acting training at the State University for the Performing Arts in Krakow in the 1970s . She then took up directing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna , which she graduated with honors in 1979 as the first woman to ever take this course there. Even during her studies, Badora sat in with Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and was then assistant to Peter Zadek and Klaus Michael Grüber in Berlin.

job

Between 1982 and 1984 Badora was initially employed as an assistant director (to Jürgen Gosch ) at the Schauspielhaus in Cologne , where she later also directed. She then worked as a freelance director from 1984 to 1986 and staged at the theaters in Basel , Essen and Ulm . From 1986 to 1988 she was permanently engaged as in-house director in Basel, before she was freelance again from 1988 to 1991 and directed in Munich , Vienna and Darmstadt .

From 1991 to 1996 Badora was under contract as a drama director at the Mainz State Theater . Then she took over the general management of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus from 1996 to 2006 .

In 2006 Anna Badora became the managing director of the Schauspielhaus Graz . Badora led the Schauspielhaus Graz as the first and so far only Austrian theater in the "Union des Théâtres de l'Europe" and was also able to tie important directors to the house, including a. Viktor Bodó , Götz Spielmann , Franz Wittenbrink , Peter Konwitschny , Patrick Schlösser , Theu Boermans , Yael Ronen and Nikolaus Habjan .

With the Austrian pilot project Acting Active! Anna Badora succeeded in bringing more than 25,000 young people (and adults) into contact with the theater within two seasons through workshops, sponsorship school projects, in-house teacher training courses and independent theater workshops.

Anna Badora has been the artistic director of the Volkstheater Wien since the 2015/16 season . She succeeded Michael Schottenberg . In the 2015/16 season she opened the house with her staging of Fasching based on Gerhard Fritsch . In the 2016/17 season she directed Medea by Franz Grillparzer . Badora opened the 2017/18 season with the production of Iphigenie in Aulis | Occident Express by Euripides / Soeren Voima and by Stefano Massini , the 2018/19 season with The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare . With the beginning of her directorship, the Vienna Volkstheater became a member of the “Union des Théâtres de l'Europe”. In addition, she succeeded in bringing internationally renowned directors such as Yael Ronen , Dušan David Pařízek , Viktor Bodó , Volker Lösch and Nikolaus Habjan to the house. She initiated the festival Neues Wiener Volkstheater or country focal points such as the Bosnian-Herzegovinian November and the “Junge Volkstheater”.

From 2012 to 2015 Anna Badora was Vice President of the “Union des Théâtres de l'Europe” and is currently again. Anna Badora has been a member of the University Council of the Karl-Franzens University Graz since 2013 .

On June 26, 2018, the Vienna Volkstheater broadcast the reasons for Badora's decision not to extend her contract, which ran until 2020. On June 7, 2019, Kay Voges was introduced by Vienna's City Councilor for Culture Veronica Kaup-Hasler as director of the Volkstheater from 2020/21.

Awards

• 2011 Austrian of the Year in the category of cultural management ..
• 2012 “Golden Owl” of the “Polonia Congress”.
• 2012 Nestroy Prize in the Best State Performance category for her staging of ghosts in Princeton .
• 2012 Josef Krainer-Heimatpreis for her special services to deepening the cultural identity of Styria.
• 2012 Grazer of the year in the culture category, chosen by the readers of G7, the city newspaper of the Kleine Zeitung .
• 2013 decree of the Federal President with the title of professor awarded to her.
• 2014 “Woman of the Year” from Styrian magazine in the Art & Culture category.
• 2014 Great Decoration of Honor of the State of Styria.
• 2016 “Outstanding Polish Woman in Austria” in the “Culture” category.
• 2016 Appointment as Ambassador of the Red Cross.

Selection of productions

• Lulu after Frank Wedekind (1996)
• The Storm by William Shakespeare (1997)
• The Seagull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (2001)
• Antigone by Sophocles (2008)
• Macbeth from Shakespeare (2009)
• Burns by Wajdi Mouawad (2010)
• Witch Hunt by Arthur Miller (2010)
• Ghosts in Princeton by Daniel Kehlmann (2011)
• Carnival by Gerhard Fritsch (2015)
• Medea by Franz Grillparzer (2016)
• Iphigenia in Aulis | Occident Express by Euripides / Soeren Voima and by Stefano Massini (2017)
• The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

literature

• Schauspielhaus Graz - artistic director Anna Badora . Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95749-006-3 .

Web links

Commons : Anna Badora  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Anna Badora on the side of the Volkstheater Wien

Individual evidence

1. ↑ volkstheater.at: Carnival - Volkstheater. Retrieved February 21, 2017 . 
2. ↑ volkstheater.at: Medea. Retrieved February 21, 2017 . 
3. ↑ New Vienna Volkstheater - Volkstheater . In: Volkstheater . ( volkstheater.at [accessed on February 21, 2017]).
4. ^ Bosnian-Herzegovinian November - People's Theater . In: Volkstheater . ( volkstheater.at [accessed on February 21, 2017]).
5. ↑ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: "Ten years ago people were different" . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on February 21, 2017]).
6. ↑ UTE - People's Theater . In: Volkstheater . ( volkstheater.at [accessed on February 21, 2017]).
7. ↑ Facts about the artistic director Anna Badora on the website of the Schauspielhaus Graz. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 22, 2017 ; accessed on February 21, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ UTE: About the UTE. Retrieved June 6, 2017 . 
9. ^ University Council of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz. Retrieved February 21, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Culture. Volkstheater: Badora does not extend contract . In: orf.at , accessed on June 26, 2018.
11. ↑ orf.at: Kay Voges new director of the Volkstheater . Article dated June 7, 2019, accessed June 7, 2019.
12. ↑ Facts about the artistic director Anna Badora on the website of the Schauspielhaus Graz. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 22, 2017 ; accessed on February 21, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ 2012. Accessed February 21, 2017 . 
14. ^ G7 Grazer des Jahres: A festival for Graz winners . In: www.kleinezeitung.at . ( kleinezeitung.at [accessed on February 21, 2017]).
15. ↑ Women's Award 2014 | www.diesteirerin.at. Retrieved February 21, 2017 . 
16. ^ Administration - Land Steiermark, Julia Schweighofer: Festival for outgoing directors - Administration - Land Steiermark. Retrieved February 21, 2017 . 
17. ↑ Halina Iwanowska: bankruptcy Wybitny Polak w Austrii. Retrieved February 27, 2017 (pl-pl). 
18. ^ Austrian Red Cross: Red Cross: Ambassadors Appointment 2016. Accessed on February 21, 2017 . 
19. ^ Austrian Red Cross: Red Cross: Anna Badora. Retrieved February 21, 2017 . 
20. ↑ Antigone | Schauspielhaus Graz . In: Schauspielhaus Graz . ( schauspielhaus-graz.com [accessed on February 21, 2017]).
21. ↑ Macbeth | Schauspielhaus Graz . In: Schauspielhaus Graz . ( schauspielhaus-graz.com [accessed on February 21, 2017]).
22. ↑ Burns | Schauspielhaus Graz . In: Schauspielhaus Graz . ( schauspielhaus-graz.com [accessed on February 21, 2017]).
23. ↑ Witch Hunt | Schauspielhaus Graz . In: Schauspielhaus Graz . ( schauspielhaus-graz.com [accessed on February 21, 2017]).
24. ↑ Ghosts in Princeton (UA) | Schauspielhaus Graz . In: Schauspielhaus Graz . ( schauspielhaus-graz.com [accessed on February 21, 2017]).
25. ^ Carnival - Volkstheater . In: Volkstheater . ( volkstheater.at [accessed on February 21, 2017]).
26. ^ Medea - popular theater . In: Volkstheater . ( volkstheater.at [accessed on February 20, 2017]).
27. ^ Iphigenia in Aulis | Occident Express - Volkstheater . In: Volkstheater . ( volkstheater.at [accessed October 30, 2018]).
28. ↑ The Merchant of Venice - Volkstheater . In: Volkstheater . ( volkstheater.at [accessed October 30, 2018]).