Exl stage
The Exl-Bühne was a Tyrolean theater group that gained notoriety both in Austria and abroad with the performance of folk and peasant plays . It was founded in 1902 by Ferdinand Exl as the “First Tyrolean Farmers Game Society” in today's Innsbruck district of Wilten . The stage later moved to another location in Innsbruck. In Vienna, the Exl stage played in Praterstrasse 25 , which later became the Vienna Art Theater .
Before the Anschluss , the Exl stage was also the scene of political and propaganda rallies and, on the occasion of Hitler's referendum in 1938, participated in an advertising appeal “Artists profess to return to the Reich”.
The ensemble consisted mainly of family members Ferdinand Exls and the Auer family (Ludwig, Leonhard and Mimi Gstöttner-Auer ), but also of other Tyrolean actors such as Eduard Köck . Members of the Exl stage probably made their first film appearance in 1914 in the monumental production "Speckbacher" by French director Pierre Paul Gilmans , which dealt with the Tyrolean liberation struggle against Napoleon. Ensemble members made further appearances in 1944 in the Vienna film production “Uli and Marei” , one of the few films set in a peasant environment. The last director of the stage, Ilse Exl , also took on the main female role of "Marei". In 1947 he appeared in the tragic comedy "Earth" based on Karl Schönherr , produced by Tirol-Film Innsbruck , directed by Leopold Hainisch .
The group was headed by Ferdinand Exl himself until 1941, then by his wife Anna Exl and finally by their daughter Ilse. In 1956 the stage was closed.
literature
- Elisabeth Keppelmüller: The artistic activity of the Exl stage in Innsbruck and Vienna from 1902 to 1944. (2nd volumes) University of Vienna , dissertation, 1947
- Gustav Ongyerth (Ed.): 50 years of the Exl stage: 1902–1952. Innsbruck: Wagner, 1952
- Eckehart Schmidl: The dream of the popular theater. The history of the Exl stage (1902–1956). Innsbruck / Vienna: Haymon, 2013
Web links
- Brenner archive of the University of Innsbruck