Renate Woltron

Renate Woltron (born May 30, 1972 in Leoben ) is an Austrian director , author , dramaturge , film and theater producer and actress .

Life

Renate Woltron was born in Leoben in Styria. She studied theater, film and media studies and history in Vienna (thesis: women's fates in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films , Doctorate 2002 - Dissertation: Effi Briest : The novel and its film versions ).

Since 1991 she has worked in Vienna as a director, author, actress, dramaturge and producer. In her private life she is married to the Austrian actor and speaker Manuel Girisch , with whom she has been staging several own theater and reading productions per year since 1999. As a trainer for German as a foreign language, Woltron has been involved in integration since 2007. From 2015 to 2018 she was also a lecturer at the Center for Distance Learning in Vienna (course “History and Culture”).

Woltron has been a long-time member of the First Vienna Reading Theater founded by Rolf Schwendter and a member of the Graz Authors' Assembly (GAV).

Acting in the film

Renate Woltron has appeared in various films - in addition to directing, scripting and acting - as a screenwriter, film editor, executive producer, producer and camerawoman. Her film Wand vor der Wand (2013) was shown at the Austrian Film Festival and was selected for the Austrian Film Prize . Just like her feature film "Strawberry Moments" (2019).

Filmography

Feature films

2011: Across the Mile
2012: marginalized (2012)
2012: Wall in front of the wall (2013)
2019: Strawberry Moments (2019)

Short films

2010: Glück , "In Search" -Filmfestival Vienna, 38th Festival of Nations, Ebensee
2011: Non-sleeper , "Two Moods" film festival Vienna, 39th Festival of Nations, Ebensee
2012: Quota for women , "Two Moods", Austrian Film Festival Vienna
2012: Like it , Austrian Film Festival Vienna

Theater - conception, staging, direction, stage, production (selection)

Praterg'schichtn

Summer theater with an annually changing program (2002–2012), among others with Manuel Girisch, Gerda Kamna, Andrea Nitsche, Walter Corti, Manfred Feller, Silvia Schantl , Heide Maria Hager and Georg Wacks

J. Nestroy: Das Mädl aus der Vorstadt (2004), with Rochus Millauer, Ottwald John, Manuel Girisch, Heide Maria Hager, Sissi Gotsbachner and Peter Fuchs, among others

GB Shaw: Mrs. Warren's profession (2005), with Heide Maria Hager, Hannes Lewinski, Christof Weber and Franz Becke, among others

R. Shart: My wife Maurice (2006), with Michael Gert, Eszter Hollósi , Andrea Schlor and others

W. Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing (2006), among others with Peter Janisch , Felix Kurmayer , Ralph Saml

Carlo Goldoni: Der Herzensgute Unwirsch (2007) (Burgenland, Lower Austria, Vienna) With Hannes Lewinski, Manuel Girisch, Peter Janisch , Heide Maria Hager, Saskia Fanta and Helga Leitner

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Götz von Berlichingen (2007) (Ensembletheater Wien; B, NÖ, OÖ, St), with Manuel Girisch, Andreas Peer, Hannes Lewinski, Dana Proetsch, Barbara Redl , among others

Heinrich von Kleist: Amphitryon (2008) (Ensembletheater Wien; Metropoldi Wien; B, Lower Austria), with Manuel Girisch, Hannes Lewinski, Barbara Redl and Klaus Schwarz , among others

Readings

I.a. Ernest Hemingway, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ludwig Holberg, Friedrich Schiller, Marguerite Duras, Karl May, August Strindberg, Klaus Kinski, Johann Nestroy, Jura Soyfer, Alberto Moravia, Lope de Vega etc., as well as own often scenic readings, also as commissioned works. u. a. Do you know Stuwer? - On the way on the streets and squares of the quarter (2002), A klane Drahrerei - Robert Stolz und seine Zeit (2003–05), I would rather be in Astoria - Jura-Soyfer-Programm (2002–04), Kinski - Der holy fool (2004), Nestroy & Co (2005), Mozart after Mozart (2006), gangsters, crooks and crooks (2013), hallodris, whores and scoundrels (2014), collectors and bums (2015), beasts, barbarians and Blutsauger (2016), Beter, Bettler, Bitsteller (2017), Reisen, Rum und Rituale (2017), Warm Wickel - Kaltes Horusen (2018) Laugh pearls with an annually changing program in many places (since 2011).

Author

Play The Last Curtain (2002/03)
Theater plays Praterg'schichtn (2002-2011)
Play Effi Briest (based on the novel by Theodor Fontane)
Theater play Alte Schachteln (first performance 2009), ISBN 9783950272147
Theater play Alte Knacker (world premiere 2010), ISBN 9783950314632
Theater-Cabaret Wiener Komödientheater (2012/13)
Play Full Bottles (2017)
Play Flotte Feger (2017)
Praterg'schichtn (2017)
Various skits
Scripts (happiness, non-sleepers, marginalists, quota for women, wall in front of the wall, strawberry moments)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Woltron, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian director, author, dramaturge, producer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH	May 30, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leoben