Hinterwinkler cultural stage

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The Hinterwinkler Kulturbühne, sometimes also called the Salzburger Kulturbühne, is an Austrian-German touring theater .

The theater was the Austrian financial officer Peter Willy Willmann founded and led from the 1980s to 2012 annually to everyone by Hugo von Hofmannsthal on Austrian and German locales, primarily on open-air stages . Willmann edited the text, directed, always played the main role himself and became a long-serving Jedermann.

Performance history

Willmann's enthusiasm for Hugo von Hofmannsthal's theatrical text led to the fact that - probably in the 1980s - he initiated a production of Jedermann with amateur actors in Grödig . He used his own, streamlined version of the text and founded the Hinterbänkler Kulturbühne , sometimes referred to as the Salzburger Kulturbühne . The performances initially took place on the Mayr-Melnhof 's estate at Schloss Glanegg .

Willmann's productions could be seen on various locations - mainly on open-air stages - in Austria and southern Germany . Professional actors, film and television stars could be engaged for the project. For example, Gerda de Vries , Hanna Schygulla , Lis Verhoeven or Jutta Speidel took on the role of mother. The voice of God was spoken - on tape - by Karl Blühm and Otto Sander . The last performance was in the historical costumes of the Salzburg Festival production of 1959.

Known are nine guest performances in the Brunnenhof of the Munich Residence as well as other performances at the following locations:

After the founder's death in autumn 2012, the troop's activities were discontinued.

criticism

The website of the Thurn und Taxis Castle Festival praised the “much-vaunted Salzburg production by Peter Willy Willmann”, which “ achieved cult status not only in Austria ”. “In the dream setting of the Princely Palace, this production becomes an opulent, plump, sensual theatrical experience: with carriage rides, torches and falcons, with music groups and the acrobatic performances of morris dancers.” But Willmann also had to accept bitter criticism: The reading group described the Munich performance of 2010 was a failure , but justified this mainly with poor visibility and poor technology. The criticism from Wiblingen 2011 criticized: “The appearances of Faith, Works and Devil are missing - because Willmann feels that the Christian threat authority of the devil is not up-to-date and in multicultural times as inappropriate”, but praises the performance of the fanatics: “On horseback she appears, wreathed with flowers and throwing roses, in a splendid robe with a billowing cleavage. ”On the other hand, the staging on the lake stage on Titisee impressed both nearly 1,500 viewers and the critic of the Badische Zeitung :“ The Austrians understand something about dying. You have a literature that represents a unique Ars Moriendi. The epitome of this doctrine of the good death, Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Jedermann", could be admired on Saturday on the lake stage in Titisee. "

The Regensburg critic from 2011 was not exactly friendly: “[...] the sound quality left a lot to be desired. It creaked, cracked and rustled in the speakers. Leading actor Peter Willmann was sometimes hard to understand, which was perhaps also due to his poorly differentiated game. His Jedermann is primarily a screaming one. [...] Death resembled Darth Vader. Gudrun Landgrebe, everyone's mother, plays the rest of the small role with restraint and confidence. Christine Neubauer lives up to her reputation and plays the affection coarse and lush. "

Benefit

At least one charity performance for the Salzburg Children's Cancer Aid is guaranteed. It brought in a net donation of 65,000 schillings.

Trivia

Guests at the Glanegger Jedermann performances included a. the then German President Roman Herzog , Prince Franz of Bavaria , Princess Marianne von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn , Prince Heinrich Starhemberg and the actress Sunnyi Melles , who herself played the woo at the Salzburg Festival from 1990 to 1993 .

On the occasion of the 70th birthday of the host and owner of Glanegg Palace , Friedrich Mayr-Melnhof (* 1924), Peter Willy Willmann received the Mayr-Melnhof Order in gold . Mayr-Melnhof's wife, Maria Anna née, acted as honorary president of the Hinterwinkler Kulturbühne . Orsini-Rosenberg (1927-2010).

Publications

  • Program booklet Jedermann. The game of the rich man's death. Everyone in the Bad Reichenhall spa garden June 27 to August 23, 1997. Edited by Peter Willy Willmann and the Hinterwinkler Kulturbühne

Web links

Evidence and Notes

  1. ^ Actor Peter "Willy" Willmann dead , ORF , October 4, 2012
  2. ^ Kronenzeitung : Adieu Jedermann , October 5, 2012
  3. ↑ There is evidence for the years 2010 and 2012, the announcement from 2012 states that the performance was already shown in the ninth year.
  4. ↑ Odeon Concerte Regensburg ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 8, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.odeon-concerte.de
  5. ↑ Everyone: Failure on August 1st, 2010 in Munich's Brunnenhof , accessed on September 8th, 2014
  6. ↑ Packed, unpacked ( memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 8, 2014
  7. ↑ Impressive "Jedermann" on Lake Titisee , accessed on September 14, 2014
  8. ↑ An abbreviated Jedermann, folk and rustic ( Memento of the original of September 9, 2014 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. , accessed September 8, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kultur-ostbayern.de
  9. ↑ The presentation took place either in 1995 or 1996, cf. Program booklet of the Bad Reichenhaller performance series from 1997, page 21. A thank you letter from the Salzburg Children's Cancer Aid to the honorary president of the Hinterwinkler Kulturbühne, Maria Anna Mayr-Melnhof, is printed in facsimile
  10. ↑ That is the equivalent of 4,723.73 euros.
  11. ^ Program booklet for the Bad Reichenhaller performance series from 1997, pages 25 to 29
  12. ↑ There, page 4