Castle Games Kobersdorf
The Kobersdorf Castle Games take place in the Kobersdorf Castle in Burgenland every year in July and early August.
The castle games were launched in 1972 on the initiative of the Kobersdorf community . According to records, theatrical performances were also held in the early 20th century. Tourism was to be stimulated with the games that took place between the Mörbisch Lake Games and the Forchtenstein Castle Games .
Until 1987 experiments were carried out in different directions. It was not until 1988 that the Schloss-Spiele came under the direction of Rudolf Buczolich . The aim was to perform entertaining, but also thought-provoking comedies.
Wolfgang Böck has been the artistic director of the Schloss-Spiele Kobersdorf since 2004 .
In November 2006, after eleven years of activity, the managing director Josef Wiedenhofer resigned from his position for private reasons. Wolfgang Kuzmits followed. In the 2007 season, The Flea in the Ear by Georges Feydeau was performed, and the company posted a new attendance record of 17,559 with 99 percent occupancy on a total of eighteen scheduled performance days and three additional performances. Every year special performances are held for vintage car drivers and bikers, and from 2004 to 2008 there was one performance per season for SV Mattersburg .
Thomas Mersich has been managing the Schloss-Spiele business since autumn 2013. The average total occupancy rate for the last eleven game seasons is 95.6 percent. In 2020 the event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
Performed pieces
- 1988 Johann Nestroy - The Torn One
- 1989 Carlo Goldoni - A row in Chiozza
- 1990 Johann Nestroy - Lumpazivagabundus
- 1991 William Shakespeare - What You Will
- 1992 Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers
- 1993 William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 1994 Bert Brecht - The Threepenny Opera
- 1995 Heinrich von Kleist - The Broken Jug
- 1996 Ferdinand Raimund - The spendthrift
- 1996 Wilhelm Reich - speech to the little man
- 1997 William Shakespeare - The Taming of the Shrew
- 1998 Lope de Vega - The Knight of the Miracle
- 1999 Johann Nestroy - The Talisman
- 2000 Ferdinand Raimund - The farmer as a millionaire
- 2001 Molière - The citizen as a nobleman
- 2002 Johann Nestroy - He wants to make a joke
- 2003 William Shakespeare - The Comedy of Errors
- 2004 Johann Nestroy - Lumpazivagabundus
- 2005 Ferenc Molnár - Liliom
- 2006 Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill - The Threepenny Opera
- 2007 Georges Feydeau - Flea in the Ear
- 2008 Johann Nestroy - On the ground floor and first floor
- 2009 Michael Korth - world premiere The Head of Joseph Haydn
- 2010 William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 2011 Molière - The conceited sick person
- 2012 William Shakespeare - What You Will
- 2013 Georges Feydeau - The Lady from Maxim
- 2014 Johann N. Nestroy - The Torn One
- 2015 Eugène Labiche - The Prize of Monsieur Martin ( Le Prix Martin )
- 2016 Ken Ludwig - Othello mustn't burst
- 2017 Heinrich von Kleist - The Broken Jug
- 2018 Joseph Kesselring - arsenic and lace cap
- 2019 Johann N. Nestroy - The girl from the suburbs
Web links
- Castle Games Kobersdorf (Association Castle Games Kobersdorf)
- Castle games at Kobersdorf Castle ( Kobersdorf Castle website)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Burgenland cultural summer canceled. In: ORF.at . March 24, 2020, accessed March 25, 2020 .