Theater group 80

The Theater Gruppe 80 was a cellar theater located in the former Mariahilf cinema in the Mariahilf district of Vienna in today's theater on Gumpendorfer Straße , to which the Viennese (off) theater scene owes significant impulses.

On October 25, 1983, Helga Illich and Helmut Wiesner opened a theater in the immediate vicinity of the former Apollo Theater at Gumpendorfer Strasse 67, from which numerous career as an actor and director began.

The old cinema, which was still open in the silent film era, was closed in the 1970s. After appropriate adaptation (expenditure around 3 million schillings), the room could be used as a theater and was opened with a de-romanticized performance of Ferdinand Raimund's Der Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind .

Subsequently, the theater, directed by Illich and Wiesner for 23 years, turned to contemporary drama as well as (Austrian) classics. At the end of the 2004/05 season, the team resigned from management, which was then transferred to the HIGHTHEA cooperative.

Productions (selection)

• Ferdinand Raimund: The Alpine King and the Misanthrope - Director: Helmut Wiesner
• Ödön von Horváth : The case E. - Director: Helmut Wiesner
• Wolfgang Bauer : Where do we come from ...? - Director: Helmut Wiesner
• Konrad Bayer : Konrad Bayer Gala (Collage) - Director: Hubert Kramar
• Wolfgang Bauer: Magic Afternoon - Director: Stephan Bruckmeier (with Julia Stemberger , Sandra Kreisler , Fritz Hammel and Oliver Heinz in the leading roles)
• Franz Grillparzer : The Ahnfrau - Director: Helmut Wiesner

literature

• Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien , Vienna 2004, vol. 2, p. 627.