Michael Scheidl

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Michael Scheidl (* 1954 in Vienna ) is an Austrian theater director , actor and artistic director of Netzzeit .

In 1979 he obtained a diploma in acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar . From 1979 to 1983 he was an actor and director in Saarbrücken and Krefeld, Germany. Since 1983 he has worked as an actor, producer and director in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg and Brazil for theater, film and television. In 1984, together with Nora Scheidl, he founded netzzeit, a tool for realizing theater ideas. As an actor he played a. a. in films like Please Leave Your Husband and An Almost Perfect Divorce from Reinhard Schwabenitzky or in Austrian series like Kaisermühlen Blues or Workers' saga. In 2005 the two founded out of control - Vienna's Festival for New Music Theater.

Many of netzzeit's works are staged by Michael Scheidl. Overall, the repertoire of his works of Albert Lortzing's Zar und Zimmermann at the Opera Klosterneuburg or The White Horse Inn at the Castle Festival in Langenlois about Hans Werner Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers in Vienna's Odeon, to large multinational avant-garde music theater works, such as Amazon , composed by Klaus Schedl and Tato Taborda, which he staged on behalf of netzzeit, the Munich Biennale and the EU. Over the years Scheidl has staged at the Bregenz and Salzburg Festivals, the Wiener Festwochen, the Volksoper / Vienna, wien modern, Opera 20.21./Bozen, Munich Biennale , SESC-Sao Paulo / Brazil, Biennale Venezia, Budapest Autumn Festival, Klangspuren Schwaz, European Center Hellerau, Lucerne Theater and the Lübeck Theater.

Productions (selection)

  • 2017 LIEBE HOCH 16, Turkish-Austrian homeland music comedy by Clemens Wenger (composition) and Ibrahim Amir (libretto), lyrics by Wilfried Scheutz - a co-production by netzzeit, WIR SIND WIEN and BASIS KULTUR WIEN, world premiere
  • 2016 DAS KLEINE ICH-BIN-ICH, musical theater for children - a musical fairy tale told by Mira Lobe , painted by Susi Weigel, set to music by Georg Friedrich Haas , coproduction with Wien Modern and the Dschungel Wien, world premiere
  • 2016 IM WEISSEN RÖSSL, Langenlois Castle Festival
  • 2015 CAMILO FOR REFUGEES, an opera about being a stranger and belonging, children's opera by Max Nagl and Reinhard Palm / Katia Guedes, OUT OF CONTROL 2015
  • 2015 WHATEVER WORKS, satirical opera by Manuela Kerer and Arturo Fuentes, libretto by Dimitré Dinev - commissioned by netzzeit and WIEN MODERN, OUT OF CONTROL 2015, world premiere
  • 2013 JOIN !, satirical opera by Franz Koglmann (composition) and Alfred Zellinger (libretto) - commissioned by netzzeit coproduction with the Wiener Festwochen - world premiere, Museumsquartier Halle E, Vienna
  • 2011 CAMILO CHAMÄLEON, opera by Max Nagl (composition) and Reinhard Palm (libretto) based on an idea / book by Katia Guedes - world premiere, atelier of the Academy of Fine Arts
  • 2011 DER PRÄPARATOR, chamber play by Renzo Rosso , music by Giorgio Battistelli - Austrian premiere at Radiokulturhaus / Grosser Sendesaal, Out of Control 2011
  • 2010 TILT, music theater by Klaus Schedl (composition) and Roland Qitt (libretto based on W. Raleigh) - world premiere at Reithalle, Munich Biennale and SESC Pompeia Sao Paulo
  • 2005 THE SEVENTH HEAVEN IN VIERTELN, operetta for Einachteln by Max Nagl (composition) and Franzobel (libretto) - world premiere commissioned composition by netzzeit 2005 Out of Control, Museumsquartier Halle E, Vienna and Bregenz Festival Werkstattbühne
  • 2003 FEAR AND DEATH BY WATER, Beach Opera by Franz Koglmann , libretto by Christian Baier based on TS Eliot's “ The Waste Land ” - commissioned by netzzeit, Museumsquartier, Hall E, world premiere
  • 2000 THE RISING OF THE BUTTERFLIES, satirical opera by Georg Kreisler - Viennese Sofien-Saal, world premiere / commissioned by netzzeit

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.netzzeit.at/de/ueber-uns/wir/biografisches-michael/  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.netzzeit.at  
  2. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0770593/
  3. ↑ http://www.schlossfestspiele.at/1996-2015
  4. ↑ https://www.musicaustria.at/tag/michael-scheidl/
  5. ↑ http://www.operinwien.at/werkverz/koglmann/afear.htm
personal data
SURNAME Scheidl, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna