Tina Leisch

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Augustine "Tina" Leisch (* 1964 in Munich ) is a director , journalist and political activist who lives in Austria . She describes herself as a “text, film and theater worker”.

Live and act

Tina Leisch has lived and worked mainly in Austria since the early 1990s. Little is known about her previous life. In the 1980s, she said she lived in El Salvador , where she worked for the liberation movement (Movimiento Popular) during the civil war .

She was one of the political left activists who founded the Volxtheater Favoriten in Vienna - Favoriten in 1994 . Together with the Volxtheater, she took part in the “culture caravan against right” through Carinthia in 2000 . In the meantime, she was the custodian of the Museum Peršmanhof (Museum of Fascist Resistance in Carinthia) , which was set up in the former Peršmanhof in Bad Eisenkappel ( Slov. Železna Kapla-Bela ) and deals with the history of the Carinthian Slovenes during National Socialism . From 2001 to 2004 she was the chairwoman of the Društvo / Verein Peršman , which she co-founded , the supporting association of the museum, and the Peršmanhof memorial .

In 2002 Leisch staged the play Mein Kampf by George Tabori together with Hubsi Kramar . The production, which was staged in the Meldemannstrasse men's dormitory in Vienna , was awarded the Nestroy Theater Prize. In 2003 she wrote and staged the play Elf Souls for an Ox - enajst dus za enega vola for the Upper Austrian Festival of Regions , which is a documentary about the massacre at the Peršmanhof carried out by the Nazis in the last days of the Second World War .

In 2004 she worked on the play Irrgelichter im Spiegelgrund together with patients from the Otto Wagner Hospital in Vienna . A disinfection . The theme of the play was the National Socialist past of the hospital, in which handicapped children were murdered under the name Spiegelgrund at the time .

As a journalist, Tina Leisch writes regularly for the Austrian magazines Augustin , Volksstimme , Kulturrisse and Malmoe as well as for Jungle World, which is published in Berlin .

Under the title The Silent Majority Says JA , Leisch initiated with the actor Bernhard Dechant and other activists and artists - including the singer Gustav , the actors Claudia Kottal , Pippa Galli and Nikolaus Habjan , the directors Nina C. Gabriel and Markus Kupferblum , as well as the authors Eva Schörkhuber and Alma Hadžibeganović  - in July 2015 a permanent vigil “for a more humane refugee policy ” in front of the Vienna State Opera .

Tina Leisch lived temporarily in Bad Eisenkappel in Carinthia in the early 2000s . She now lives and works in Vienna again.

Awards

Movies

  • 1999: Forget Europe! A white-black film
  • 2003: riefenstahl remix
  • 2008: Gangster Girls
  • 2010: I have to do something about it. Portrait of the resistance fighter Hilde Zimmermann
  • 2013: Roque Dalton. ¡Fusilemos la noche! Let's shoot the night! Let's shoot the night! - Documentary on El Salvador's most important poet, Roque Dalton
  • 2015: Only the dead return home. Insights into the Kurdish resistance in Turkey (together with Ali Can)
  • 2015: dance and give to him!

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c What comes after the Third Reich? →  Short biographies →  Augustine Leisch ( memento from September 13, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) at the Open Channels Austria working group from March 2003.
  2. ↑ Josep Pérez: Tina Leisch uses film to reconstruct the life of the poet and revolutionary Roque Dalton. In: culturalatina.at. March 11, 2016, accessed March 11, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Tina Leisch: The silent majority says YES! In: schweigendemehrheit.at (website of the initiative). July 25, 2015, accessed March 11, 2016 (press release).
  4. ↑ (red.): Asylum: demo and vigil “until something changes”. In: diepresse.com . July 25, 2015, accessed March 11, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Ljubomir Bratić (ed.): Landscapes of the act. Measurement, transformations and ambivalences of anti-racism in Europe . Sozaktiv, St. Pölten 2002, ISBN 3-901847-06-5 .
  6. ↑ I have to do something about that. In: sixpackfilm.com . April 16, 2010, accessed March 11, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Leisch, Tina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leisch, Augustine (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian director and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich