Theater on Gumpendorfer Strasse
The theater on Gumpendorfer Straße ( TAG ) is one of the so-called “central stages” in Vienna and was opened on January 13, 2006.
The TAG develops theater evenings that are based on large models or dramatic subjects that are reinterpreted and “overwritten” into the present day. For this process - from the blank sheet of paper to the premiere - you work with theater makers from all over the German-speaking area.
The TAG, one of the so-called Viennese central stages, has a theater ensemble, a variable stage / auditorium for 47 to 212 people and shows three to five in-house productions per season (beginning of October to end of June) in its repertoire, supplemented by two to three guest productions and his own Improvisational theater track.
The theater has been artistically managed by one of its founders, Gernot Plass, since the 2013/14 season and has been able to position itself clearly in the Viennese theater landscape in recent years and celebrate successes with the audience and the press with his productions. Among other things, it was nominated four times for the Nestroy Theater Prize for the "Best Off-Production" (2012 "Hamlet sein" by Gernot Plass, 2013 "Moorland" by Gernot Plass, 2016 "Bluad, Roz and Wossa" by Christian Suchy), which it also won in 2014 (for "The discreet charm of smart people" by Ed. Hauswirth).
The TAG has been run as a non-profit GmbH owned by the Theaterverein Wien since 2014. The then responsible city council Mailath-Pokorny had last extended the current management until 2021.
history
In November 2004, as part of the Vienna theater reform, the concept of the group cooperative HIGHTHEA (urtheater, Theater KINETIS, LUSTheater) from 117 submissions was developed by a theater jury consisting of theorists, artistic directors, dramaturges and specialist journalists under the direction of Dietmar N. Schmidt for a 4-year grant is recommended.
The City of Vienna responded to the recommendation with the suggestion that the management of the theater from Theater Gruppe 80 , which Helga Illich and Helmut Wiesner took over after 23 years of work at the end of the 2004/05 season, should be transferred to the HIGHTHEA cooperative. Under the new name TAG, it took over the management of the theater and its sponsoring association on July 1, 2005, with the aim of uniting the heterogeneous aesthetic and content-related offers of the three founding groups under one roof. Since then, the TAG has been funded by the City of Vienna's Department of Culture. The State Secretariat for Art and Media in the Federal Chancellery ended its longstanding sponsorship of the location in mid-2005. The extensive renovation, which u. a. The facade, the upper foyer and the artists' cloakrooms and sanitary facilities were financed by the City of Vienna with a dedicated grant.
On January 13, 2006, the TAG reopened. The management of the TAG presents itself - after the gradual withdrawal of the KINETIS theater - as a group consisting of the founding members Margit Mezgolich, Gernot Plass, Georg Schubert, Isabelle Uhl and Ferdinand Urbach.
In the 2009/10 season, Margit Mezgolich was the first to be solely artistically responsible and invited the Viennese audience as well as theater makers from all over the German-speaking area (project “Working Days”) to play with perspectives: future perspectives, new perspectives on old material, stories told from different perspectives . The “working days” project was continued as a central element of the game plan in the following seasons (10/11: “Lie / Scheinwelten”, 11/12: “Be my hero!”).
ensemble
Jens Claßen, Raphael Nicholas, Lisa Schrammel, Georg Schubert
Guests 2017/18
Alexander Braunshör, Emese Fay, Sven Kaschte, Michaela Kaspar, Julian Loidl, Nancy Mensah-Offei, Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg, Julia Schranz, Paul Skrepek, Petra Strasser, Elisabeth Veit, u. a.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 44 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 5 ″ E