Tyrolean folk plays

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The Tyrolean folk plays are a theater festival that takes place annually in July and August in Telfs in Tyrol. There is no fixed venue, venues are sought for the respective pieces, which are then adapted for the staging. The cooperation between professionals and laypeople has been cultivated since the beginning.
On the one hand, the repertoire is committed to maintaining the folk theater heritage, and on the other hand is geared towards the development of a modern folk theater.
The Tiroler Volksschauspiele are organized as a non-profit company with limited liability. Ruth Haas is the managing director.

history

Kurt Weinzierl had the idea to bring the Tyrolean professional actors, stage designers, composers etc. who work in the German-speaking area to Tyrol in order to revitalize our local folk theater together with the local artists. He found companions in Dietmar Schönherr , Otto Grünmandl and Josef Kuderna.

In 1981 the FS-1 director Wolf in der Maur made the financing possible. The first Tyrolean folk plays took place in Hasegg Castle in Hall . "The Seven Deadly Sins and a Dance of Death" by Franz Kranewitter were played - eight one-act plays on two evenings, staged by seven directors.
On stage were: Julia Gschnitzer , Ruth Drexel , Krista Posch , Hanne Rohrer, Dietmar Schönherr , Hans Brenner , Walter Reyer , Otto Grünmandl , Richard Haller, Franz Mössmer, Klaus Rohrmoser , Markus Völlenklee , Barbara Weinzierl , Monika Schletterer-Falbesoner uva. The directors were Ruth Drexel, Kurt Weinzierl , Reinhard Schwabenitzky , Dietmar Schönherr, Josef Kuderna , Gernot Friedl and Alf Brustelin. Other contributors were Bert Breit (music), Peter Lefor (violin), Felix Mitterer (income) and Max Keller (light).

1982 - the second season - was to bring Kaiser Josef and Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando 's daughter of a railway attendant with new music by Werner Pirchner and a reinterpretation of Karl Schönherr's deliberately reinterpreted piece "Glaube und Heimat" (Faith and Homeland), as well as the world premiere of a contemporary piece , namely Felix Mitterer's passion “stigma”. The city of Hall rejected the play at the time as a "collection of filth and religious mockery" and was no longer willing to host the games if "stigma" remained on the schedule.

In this situation Telfs, under Mayor Helmut Kopp, offered the folk actors as a venue. The plays still take place in Telfs today. A pre-publication of "Stigma" led to nationwide indignation, it rained letters of protest, criminal charges against those responsible and even bomb threats against the mayor of Telfer. Over 70 newspapers from all over the German-speaking area sent critics. Despite the heated atmosphere, the scandal did not take place at the premiere, which was protected by the police .

In the years to come, the popular theater fought over and over again for its survival. The withdrawal of the ORF as the main donor seemed to mean the end, but Hans Brenner and Ruth Drexel kept the games upright with emergency programs until the municipality, state and federal government were ready to guarantee permanent funding.

In 1985, Hans Brenner replaced Dietmar Schönherr as chairman and remained so until his death in 1998. Under his aegis, he and Ruth Drexel became the most artistically influential people. After Brenner's death, Drexel directed the games until 2009. As her main artistic goal, she named popular theater as an instrument for critical examination of lived reality - clever, sharp and entertaining, but understandable regardless of educational background. After Drexel's death, Markus Völlenklee took over the management and was chairman of the Tyrolean Volksschauspiele until 2019.

In 2020, the games were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . After a public invitation to tender and a hearing, the selection jury decided on Christoph Nix as artistic director for the years 2021 to 2024.

program

A selection of the pieces played should make the range of the intended popular theater concept clear:

  • Franz Kranewitter: The Seven Deadly Sins , Andrä Hofer , Around house and yard , The Devil's Bride
  • Karl Schönherr: Der Weibsteufel , Frau Suitner , Erde , Maitanz , Der Judas von Tirol
  • Felix Mitterer: Siberia UA, mouth UA, dragon thirst UA, Peter Prosch UA, Abraham , My monster UA, Gaismair UA, The Confession UA, 1809 - My best year UA
  • Rudolf Brix : The robbers from the Glockenhof
  • Aristophanes / Dietmar Schönherr: Job and Peace , WP
  • JW Goethe: Urfaust
  • F. Schiller: The robbers
  • William Shakespeare: Hamlet , As You Like It
  • Georg Büchner: Woyzeck
  • JM Synge / F. Mitterer: The hero from the west
  • Bert Brecht: Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti
  • Hermann Essig: The lucky cow , ÖE
  • Thomas Hürlimann / Lorenz Gutmann: Franzos in Ötz , ÖE
  • Johann Nestroy: He wants to make a joke
  • Josef Rieser / Max Neil: Black Slime WP / Sinful Village
  • Karl Schönherr: The Judas of Tyrol
  • Joan Littlewood: Oh, what a lovely war
  • Herbert Achternbusch: Ella
  • Roland Schimmelpfennig: Ambrosia
  • Carlo Gozzi: King Hirsch
  • Ferdinand Raimund: The Alpine King and the Misanthrope
  • Felix Mitterer: Sold home

As part of the folk plays, there were world premieres of works by Fitzgerald Kusz , Luis Zagler , Hans Haid , Lothar Greger , Herbert Rosendorfer , Lorenz Gutmann , Klaus Händl and others. a.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Telfer Volksschauspiele 2020 canceled. In: ORF.at . April 4, 2020, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  2. ^ Volksschauspiele Telfs: New director. In: ORF.at . June 26, 2020, accessed June 26, 2020 .
  3. ↑ World premiere
  4. ↑ Austrian premiere

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