Schubert theater
The Schubert Theater is a small theater in the 9th Viennese district of Alsergrund with about 180 performances per season. The focus of the theater is on puppet theater . It is headed by Simon Meusburger and Lisa Zingerle.
history
In the 1920s, the Schubert Kino , one of the first Viennese cinemas, was founded on the site of today's Schubert Theater . Cissy Kraner , then less well known, often appeared before the main film.
In the 1960s, the Schubert cinema experienced an economic downturn, which resulted in the cinema being converted into an erotic cinema . This brought money into the coffers again, so that a separate film studio could be operated. In the 1980s the Schubert cinema got competition from the Währinger Gürtel cinema , which again led to economic difficulties. At the end of the 1990s, Schubert Kino finally went bankrupt.
In the years that followed, the house on Währinger Strasse changed its function and name several times. So it was temporarily a puppet stage, rehearsal stage of the Drachengasse theater and was called le petit until it was finally renamed the Schubert Theater . The current artistic director Simon Meusburger took over the management from summer 2007. With Nikolaus Habjan , a puppeteer came to the theater who made his debut on October 22nd, 2008 with Schlag she tot .
Scandal about becoming Peter Pan
2010 Simon Meusburger wrote Becoming Peter Pan - An Epilogue to Michael Jackson , a one-man puppet play that Nicholas Habjan with a moving mouth puppet who Michael Jackson is, should bring to the stage. Some members of Michael Jackson Internet forums reacted indignantly. Soon the project homepage and Habjan's personal email address were flooded with protests. After a death threat followed, the premiere of Becoming Peter Pan took place under police protection. After the performance, most of the angry fans withdrew their criticism, as did the writer of the death threat.
Piece about Friedrich Zawrel
The puppet play F. Zawrel - hereditary and socially inferior is based on interviews with Friedrich Zawrel , a survivor of the child euthanasia program in the Am Spiegelgrund institution , and his tormentor, the Nazi doctor Heinrich Gross , whom he met again in court as an expert witness. In November 2012 it received the Nestroy Award for the best off-production .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Katharina Menhofer: The Schubert Theater . Series "Theater im Abseits" in the Ö1 - Kulturjournal. April 1, 2011, accessed May 4, 2012 .
- ^ Website of the theater and cinema topography Vienna project run by the theater research office artminutes . Retrieved May 4, 2012 .
- ↑ Interview with Nikolaus Habjan. Retrieved March 21, 2012 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 18 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 16 ″ E