new artistic director for theater and dietheater
Executive Councillor for Culture Andreas Mailath-Pokorny presented on Wednesday Andreas Beck as the new artistic director of the Vienna Schauspielhaus and Haiko Pfost & Thomas Frank dietheater Leitungsduo as coming from. You assume the houses, each with the 2007/2008 season, the contracts are designed for four years. For dietheater is, Mailath, the subsidy the city of Vienna to 1.5 million euros increased to ensure the further development, also including new venues, including the cable plant Meidling can. The new appointments that were made after a competitive tender and the recommendation of a specially set up panel of Mailath-Pokorny, in consultation with the culture spokespersons of the SPÖ, Ernst Woller, and Green, Marie Ringler, carry on the bow of the Vienna Theater reform, which started three years ago was, Mailath-Pokorny. For the theater were 66, against 22 for dietheater applications. The culture of the Green Party spokeswoman, Marie Ringler and the Social Democratic Party culture spokesman stressed Ernst Woller also the positive view of the new orders for the two theaters as an important step in the reform and theater as a positive future for the Viennese theater scene.
left to right: Thomas Frank (new line dietheater), StR. Dr. Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, Haiko Pfost (dietheater new leader), Andreas Beck (New Head Theatre), Marie Ringler (culture spokeswoman of the Greens) and Ernst Woller (SPÖ Culture Reader)
clear profiles for both Houses
Mailath-Pokorny pointed to the success of the joint of the SPÖ and the Greens supported theater reform to be implemented now with the new lines for two major theater in Vienna on. There is the basis of evidence of the new concepts lines clear ideas about the profiles of the theater. The theater will be required as a writer of contemporary drama theater, dietheater interdisciplinary forms of play and co-production models give space. For the Viennese theater scene a further increase was expected. Mailath also thanked the two former senior personalities of the two theaters, Airan Berg and Christian Pronay for the work they have very good job.
Andreas Beck: strip for Austrian contemporary drama a "corridor for Austrian contemporary drama", but also for international theater will beat Andreas Beck in the theater. Beck, born 1965 in Mülheim / Ruhr, after stops in Munich, Stuttgart and Hamburg, in charge since 2002/03 dramaturge at the castle theater with a focus on contemporary drama and author development and for the venue casino will, in the theater's focus on cooperation and share with authors and develop texts together with them at the theater on. The previous traditions and skills of the House are trained to be thoroughly considered, that of a small ensemble he wants the necessary conditions for its ideas of a Theatre of the contemporary, contemporary drama and the latest aesthetic and playing styles create.
dietheater as an international production center for inter-disciplinary performing arts As an international production center for interdisciplinary performing arts do the last position in Berlin dietheater operating theater Haiko Pfost and Thomas Frank. You want to see European link with dynamic production networks that can respond flexibly to the needs of contemporary performing arts in a wider framework. The work around the cable and probably also to the theater of the moment enlarged venues intended both as places of production are available to offer as well as in theater productions of the classic text discourse. The urban and social conditions of Vienna, the debate between the artists and the audience and the discourses in international theaters are some of the planned program coordinates for dietheater. Haiko Pfost and Frank Thomas were both born in 1972 and have completed many different jobs in the theater, with the development of new forms and scenes was in the foreground. Pfost curated the temporary use of the Palace of the Republic in Berlin, Frank is currently curator and editor of the Berlin Sophiensäle.
cable works as a cultural center in the south Vienna The cable plant should be developed into a low-Cultural Center, south of Vienna, the Executive Councillor for Culture Andreas Mailath-Pokorny in the press conference. The current operator, the district and the current acting director of dietheater, Christian Pronay and the new management should develop a concept for this place with its high potential, it is also planned to bring in substantial funds in an appropriate building and investment project. This project has been welcomed by the district head Meidlinger Gabriele Votava and supported the so sees its efforts to find a cultural center in this area before a successful conclusion. Already there had been in a cable factory successful public appeal and given temporary use.