Cabaret here and there
The Hin & Wider cabaret in the Theatercafé was established in Graz in 1986 .
history
On February 17, 1983 , the "Cabaret Gimpel" - Werner Haber, Hubert Paar, Fritz Schicho, Herbie Trummler and Winfried "Gloggi" Vollmann - played its third program "Head up - the water rises" for the first time in the theater café and thus established a cabaret there . Before that, there were readings and similar cultural events in this Graz artists' meeting place, but from this point on the theater café became a cabaret and cabaret meeting point and soon became a fixed point of the Austrian cabaret scene. At first only the “Cabaret Gimpel” was to play the new “Cabaret-Café ” as a house cabaret group , but in the wake of the emerging cabaret boom , other small artists and cabaret artists also wanted to present themselves here and so Herbie Trummler took over the artistic and organizational and Charly Moor (the technician of the "Cabaret Gimpel" ) the technical management. Dieter Slanz, the owner of the theater café, made the bar available for evening events - and the whole thing was programmatically called “cabaret in the theater café” . In 1984 there were already 89 different performances - readings, travesty, cabaret, theater and recitals.
In contrast to other cabaret venues, restaurants and events were and are organisationally and personally separated, but of course symbiotically connected. And a second special feature: the stage had to be set up for years before the performances and dismantled after the performances so that there could be space for coffee houses again. However, the room in the coffeehouse, which was opened in 1885, which has long since been a listed building, still has to be converted into an event room and dismantled according to the ideas. The artist's cloakroom is housed in the former small bar, the technician sits in the converted space between a double door into which the lighting window has been installed and the box office is in the stairwell.
In 1986 the “Association for the Promotion of Cabaret” was founded as the legal entity for the stage, which still operates the cabaret stage today. In the same year, a program booklet was published for the first time under the new name of Kleinkunstbühne Hin & Wider in the theater café . In 1987 the “Grazer Kleinkunstwettbewerb” , better known under the name Grazer Kleinkunstvogel , took place here for the first time , a competition for young talent that is still renowned today and has been supervised by Simon Pichler for years . But not only with this award, “Hin & Wider” made a name for itself over the years as a young stage, on which today's stars like Josef Hader , Andreas Vitásek , Leo Lukas , Simon Pichler, Thomas Maurer , Martin Puntigam , Mike Supancic , Thomas Stipsits , Klaus Eckel and Paul Pizzera dared to take their first artistic steps.
The "Association for the Promotion of Cabaret" also appears as an organizer outside of its ancestral home, for example at the summer events in the Graz exhibition grounds in 1988 and 1990 (under the title "Cabaret in the Messeschloß" ) or in 1991 on the casemate stage of the Graz Schlossberg . In 1990 a second venue was also operated on the Glacis , the “Cabaret in the Green Spider” ; and for years those responsible for “Hin & Wider” have been going to the Orpheum Graz with larger events .
The organization of the events was carried out voluntarily by association members until 1994. From the 1994/95 season onwards, Iris Fink was employed managing director of the stage, in 1999 Tanja Baumgartinger, who has been running the theater café since 2008, and Manfred Koch the cabaret, which can accommodate 100 people.
literature
- “... as if it were a piece of culture ...“ Ten years of the cabaret, Hin & Wider, in the Graz Theatercafé, by Iris Fink , Charly Mohr, Hannes Töbich, Graz 1993.