Barbara Klein (General Manager)

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Barbara Klein (born July 14, 1954 in Vienna ) is an Austrian theater founder and former director of the Vienna Kosmos Theater .

Life

Barbara Klein studied acting at the University of Music and Performing Arts ( Max Reinhardt Seminar ) after secondary school , where she graduated in 1975. Afterwards she was an ensemble member for four years at the Vienna Volkstheater , which she left with the birth of her daughter in 1979. Five years as a freelance actress followed, including a. at the Theater der Courage, Ensemble Theater, Theater Gruppe 80 . She took part in the TV films "Familienzauber" by Christine Nöstlinger, "Der Junge Freud", directed by Axel Corti , " Muttertag ", by Alfred Dorfer and Roland Düringer . In 1984 Barbara Klein founded the feminist cabaret group Chin & Chilla together with the actress Krista Schweiggl, which performed five cabaret programs and received the Austrian Cabaret Award in 1987. In addition to acting, Barbara Klein took on tasks as a writer and director for the Wiener Festwochen a . a. "Rikiki" after Cami, with Alfred Dorfer and Roland Düringer (1989). In 1993 she took over the management of the Wiener Kabarett Niedermair together with the cabaret artist I Stangl and founded the theater publishing house Bunte Bühne, which u. a. the play " India " by Alfred Dorfer and Josef Hader distributed. As a feminist and communicator, she was one of the initiators of the Austrian women's referendum in 1997, which received around 645,000 signatures, and participated in the founding of kosmos.frauenraum in 2000. In 2003, she began a supplementary course at the Institute for Cultural Management at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , which she completed as a Magistra artium with the diploma thesis ´kosmos.frauenraum in the context of the Viennese culture industry´, November 2004. She is a member of feminist networks such as the Österreichischer Frauenring and 20,000 women.

Barbara Klein and the Kosmos Theater

One of their core concerns is active gender democracy in all areas, especially in art and culture. In 1996 she developed the concept "Link. * Frauenraum" with the aim of sensitizing the public to gender symmetry in art and culture and implementing a theater and cultural center for women artists. The motto “Women need space” led to the establishment of the association “Link. * Association for female play space” in 1998 and subsequently to the 10-day artistic occupation of the former Rondell porn cinema. This was followed by months of flash mob-like actions, occupations and politically creative interventions in and in front of the responsible cultural offices and in public space. An alliance of feminist activists and artists, including Elfriede Jelinek , Robert Menasse , Christine Nöstlinger , Marlene Streeruwitz and Josef Hader, whose stubborn and original forms of protest repeatedly publicized the issue, ultimately led to success. The right premises were found and the necessary funding was approved by four funding agencies. After a conversion from a cinema to a theater, for which Barbara Klein was responsible as the client, the “Construction Site Festival” took place on March 8, International Women's Day, a 24-hour art event with the participation of hundreds of female artists. Finally, the KosmosTheater opened - initially as kosmos.frauenraum - on May 15, 2000 with a speech by Elfriede Jelinek. Until March 2018, Barbara Klein headed KosmosTheater as artistic and commercial manager and occasionally directed. On April 1, 2018, Veronika Steinböck followed her as artistic director and Gina Salis-Soglio as business director of Kosmos Theater.

Directing work at the KosmosTheater

  • 2003 “Macht Anstalten”, texts by authors from Olympe de Gouges to Elfriede Jelinek
  • 2007 "Business Class" by Martin Suter
  • 2011 “The little room at the end of the stairs” by Carole Fréchette
  • 2014 "X - Friends", by Felicia Zeller
  • 2017 "Good Morning, Boys and Girls" by Juli Zeh, ÖEA

Awards

literature

  • Susanne Riegler, Johanna Dohnal (ed. In): The theater with gender . Löcker-Verlag, 2010. ISBN 978-3-85409-544-6

Web links

Commons : Barbara Klein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne Riegler, Johanna Dohnal (ed. In): The theater with gender . Löcker-Verlag, 2010. ISBN 978-3-85409-544-6 , p. 139
  2. ↑ Susanne Riegler, Johanna Dohnal (ed. In): The theater with gender . Löcker-Verlag, 2010. ISBN 978-3-85409-544-6 , p. 140
  3. ↑ Susanne Riegler, Johanna Dohnal (ed. In): The theater with gender . Löcker-Verlag, 2010. ISBN 978-3-85409-544-6 , p. 52
  4. ^ DerStandard.at: Veronika Steinböck takes over Wiener Kosmos-Theater . Article dated October 30, 2017, accessed October 31, 2017.
  5. ↑ Description
  6. ↑ Description ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kosmostheater.at
  7. ↑ derStandard.at - Theater director Barbara Klein receives decorations from the Republic . Article dated November 26, 2014, accessed November 27, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Little, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater founder and director of the Wiener KosmosTheater
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria