Theater mbH
The Theater mbH was a theater group in Vienna .
history
The group was founded in 1983 by the actress and director Johanna Tomek and the stage and costume designer Werner Schönolt, played in a theater in Vienna's new building and was one of the most renowned houses in the independent Viennese theater scene. She became known, among other things, with plays on South-Eastern Europe, which dealt with current events following the outbreak of wars in former Yugoslavia in the end of the 20th century. A total of nine pieces from Macedonia , Croatia , Serbia and Bosnia were performed at the time.
As part of a plays competition held in 2002, the theater group tried to make the conflicts between the various ethnic groups in the former Yugoslavia transparent. The people and theater professionals from these countries should be given the opportunity to express themselves through writing. Little media support meant that the project failed to achieve the expected success. Other acute crises in the following years led to the problems in South-Eastern Europe disappearing from the media and the interest in literature, theater and film from this region becoming less important for the public in Austria.
Subsidy cuts in the course of the Vienna theater reform led to the dissolution of the theater group. The last performance was on June 10, 2005 with a performance of "Christ's Dog" by the English poet and playwright Howard Barker .
literature
- Theater mbH (ed.): "Protection zone - and other new plays from Ex-Yugoslavia", 2 volumes, Folio Verlag, ISBN 3-85256-204-X and ISBN 3852562058
- Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner, Gerhard Ruiss: "Theater mbH and theater politics in Vienna in the 80s and 90s", Folio Verlag, ISBN 3852562546
Web links
- "Theater mbH" is on the online edition of "Der Standard" from June 5, 2005, accessed on May 25, 2014
- “Theater mbH” with a focus on plays from South-Eastern Europe. Culture page from “OE1 ORF.at” from June 28, 2005, accessed on May 25, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ culture page of "OE1 ORF.at"
- ↑ Experience report on the competition by Johanna Tomek in the Internet magazine for cultural studies No. 15 from June 2004, accessed on May 25, 2014
- ↑ Online edition "Der Standard"