Newsletter 2/2019

I hope you have survived the winter well!

Again there are some nice things to announce, which I am working on right now and which would be a special occasion for a reunion.

First of all, I make a particularly touching children's opera with the Niederösterreichische Tonkünstlern under Azis Sadikovic, written by Ela Baumann and composed by Elisabeth Naske.
Friedrich Eidenberger acts as narrator.

Venue: Stadtsaal Hollabrunn and on tour

Afterwards there will be WILD BUT HEART with Prof. Monika Meister, one of the most renowned theatre scholars in the country. I am particularly happy about her view of theatre, which for me comes from an unusual perspective.

Venue: Porgy & Bess, Jazz Club, Riemergasse 11, 1010 Wien

Event Porgy & Bess

Anläßlich der Retrospektive der Arbeiten des abstrakten österreichischen Malers Gottfried Maierwöger werden der Choreograph und Tänzer Sebastian Prantl und ich eine Performance mit Bewegung und Text darbieten.

Venue: Galerie Amart, Halbgasse 17, 1070 Wien

The next issue of WILD BUT HEART is scheduled for May. This time with cameraman and producer Martin Gschlacht.

I'm looking forward to one of those rare moments when a cameraman steps out behind his camera and talks about pictures and storytelling.

Venue: Porgy & Bess, Jazz Club, Riemergasse 11, 1010 Wien

Events Porgy & Bess

The theatre legend Achim Benning will be a guest at WILD BUT HEART in June. He has written theatre history as an actor, director and Burgtheater director.

We share a passion for sensual and human theatre and I am very happy to be inspired by him in our dialogue!

Venue: Porgy & Bess, Jazz Club, Riemergasse 11, 1010 Wien

Events Porgy & Bess

I'm staging a funny and intelligent children's story in Luxembourg - together with the great Konrad Stania, who animates pictures, and Martin Folz, who conducts 200 choir children.

I am making my debut in Bad Ischl on the occasion of Jacques Offenbach's 200th birthday with “Life in Paris”, for which I have written my own version.

It is the first time that Offenbach is played in Bad Ischl. We will welcome him at the Lehár Festival with a lot of verve and French esprit!

I pay homage to the patron of the Lehár Festival by staging his much too rarely performed operetta, which incidentally takes place in Paris, semi-scenically.