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- The guest performance from Schauspielhaus, Graz, Thalerhof takes part in the Programme of Marking the WWI Centerary in 2014, which has support of the Ministry of culture and information in the Republic of Serbia.
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“I am a superstitious Slavic and I believe in ghosts. My Granny believed in ghosts, too. I listen attentively to what she has to say. For example, people were conveyed away from my part of the country without a trial and a sentence, and imprisoned in a deport camp in the beautiful city of Graz. But I also listen attentively to everyone who was sent by the monarch to die in the Great War in my part of the country in 1914 and 1915, and fell, killed. I listen attentively. They are under the earth. I am going towards them. Then I am trying to tell you what I have heard.”
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Deidre McAuliffe, MFA
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Thalerhof by Andrzej Stasiuk –
Edited by Deidre McAuliffe, MFA
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Photos of Thalerhof courtesy of Lupi Spuma
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Andrzej Stasiuk
Thalerhof
Directed by Anna Badora
Thalerhof
Directed by Anna Badora
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Set design: Raimund Orfeo Voigt, Costume Design: Julia Kornacka, Music and chorusconductor: Dominik Strycharski, Light Design: Tamas Banyai, Video: Philip Haupt, Stage Movement: Jasmin Avissar, Dramaturgy: Britta Kampert, : Christian Mayer, Speech: Stefanie Gratz.
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Actors: Jan Thumer, Stefan Suske, Verena Lercher, Margit Jautz, Franz Xaver Zach, Simon Zagermann, Seyneb Saleh, Laurenz Laufenberg, Kaspar Locher, Sebastian Klein, Jan Gerrit Bruggermann, Bernhard R. Schmidt, Michael Kubat, Tatiana Sandowicz, Sebastian Klein, Ruzanna Ananyan, Vildan Catic, Martin Gerdenitsch, Anneliese Kohlhauser, Lejla Kurtic, Gabriele Roller, Zorica-Iva Sirocic, Bernd Stroibnigg, Sven Tomac, Lara Vukovic, Barbara Wroblewski, Katarzyna Wroblewski.
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The guest performance from Schauspielhaus, Graz, Thalerhof takes
part in the Programme of Marking the WWI Centerary in 2014, which has
support of the Ministry of culture and information in the Republic of
Serbia.
Thalerhof is the second name of the airport in Graz. First plane took off from here in 1914, and in the same place, that year, a concentration camp came to be. Civilians, who were suspected to be Russian sympathizers, were deported in freights to this camp from the east borders of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Thousands of Graz citizens went to Thalerhof and gazed at those stations. There was neither sanitary ware nor even huts at the beginning. The epidemic took 1800 victims. Everyone was buried in a single common grave.
Schauspielhaus invited a Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk, known by his grotesque humor and who was once an expatriate, to write a play that would tell the story about the hardships of those people. So Stasiuk connects World War I with our age in one arch, and bends the bridge from the farthest points in Galicia to Graz.
Andrzej Stasiuk is an influential contemporary Polish writer. His articles are regularly published in Polish newspapers, but in German as well: Süddeutschen Zeitung and FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.). His short stories and novels (Dukla, The Walls of Hebron, White Raven, Two (television) dramas on death) are known by the images of violence described in grotesque humor. He wrote his first theatre play in 2005 for Schauspielhaus in Dusseldorf. The same year, he was won the “Adalbert-Stifter” Award and “Nike” Award (a significant award granted by a Polish magazine Viborca). Stasiuk lives in a small Polish place in the East Carpathians, near the border with Ukraine.
“I am a superstitious Slavic and I believe in ghosts. My Granny believed in ghosts, too. I listen attentively to what she has to say. For example, people were conveyed away from my part of the country without a trial and a sentence, and imprisoned in a deport camp in the beautiful city of Graz. But I also listen attentively to everyone who was sent by the monarch to die in the Great War in my part of the country in 1914 and 1915, and fell, killed. I listen attentively. They are under the earth. I am going towards them. Then I am trying to tell you what I have heard.”
Ana Badora, born in Censtohova (Poland), collaborated as a director with Andrzej Stasiuk, staging the premieres of his plays in Dusseldorfer Schauspielhaus (Night, 2005) and Schauspielhaus in Graz (Ostmark, 2006). Since 2006, Ana Badora leads Schauspielhaus in Graz. In 2011, she was proclaimed for the Austrian of the Year as the most successful director in culture, and in 2012, she was awarded the prestigious Austrian state award, “Nestroy” for the best play. Ana Badora will become the artistic director of the Wien Folkstheater in the season 2015/16.
The Schauspielhaus Graz is one of the best-known Austrian theatres. It is a modern repertory theatre, creating 15 to 20 productions in 3 venues per season. Under the leadership of artistic and managing director Anna Badora since 2006, the theatre has put a strong focus on international co-operations, involving artists’ exchange. The theatre has repeatedly been invited to major festivals and has been nominated for and won nationally and internationally acclaimed awards.
The Schauspielhaus Graz has become a home for many actors and directors coming from various other countries or cities and gained itself a reputation of artistic home “at the centre of Europe”. In 2008, it became member of the Union of the Theatres of Europe. In recent years, the Schauspielhaus Graz was nominated for the Nestroy Theatre Prize and was also invited to the Salzburger Festspiele and Berliner Theatertreffen. The theatre also toured outside of Austria and made guest performances in Parma, Budapest, Moscow.
Thalerhof is the second name of the airport in Graz. First plane took off from here in 1914, and in the same place, that year, a concentration camp came to be. Civilians, who were suspected to be Russian sympathizers, were deported in freights to this camp from the east borders of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Thousands of Graz citizens went to Thalerhof and gazed at those stations. There was neither sanitary ware nor even huts at the beginning. The epidemic took 1800 victims. Everyone was buried in a single common grave.
Schauspielhaus invited a Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk, known by his grotesque humor and who was once an expatriate, to write a play that would tell the story about the hardships of those people. So Stasiuk connects World War I with our age in one arch, and bends the bridge from the farthest points in Galicia to Graz.
Andrzej Stasiuk is an influential contemporary Polish writer. His articles are regularly published in Polish newspapers, but in German as well: Süddeutschen Zeitung and FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.). His short stories and novels (Dukla, The Walls of Hebron, White Raven, Two (television) dramas on death) are known by the images of violence described in grotesque humor. He wrote his first theatre play in 2005 for Schauspielhaus in Dusseldorf. The same year, he was won the “Adalbert-Stifter” Award and “Nike” Award (a significant award granted by a Polish magazine Viborca). Stasiuk lives in a small Polish place in the East Carpathians, near the border with Ukraine.
“I am a superstitious Slavic and I believe in ghosts. My Granny believed in ghosts, too. I listen attentively to what she has to say. For example, people were conveyed away from my part of the country without a trial and a sentence, and imprisoned in a deport camp in the beautiful city of Graz. But I also listen attentively to everyone who was sent by the monarch to die in the Great War in my part of the country in 1914 and 1915, and fell, killed. I listen attentively. They are under the earth. I am going towards them. Then I am trying to tell you what I have heard.”
Ana Badora, born in Censtohova (Poland), collaborated as a director with Andrzej Stasiuk, staging the premieres of his plays in Dusseldorfer Schauspielhaus (Night, 2005) and Schauspielhaus in Graz (Ostmark, 2006). Since 2006, Ana Badora leads Schauspielhaus in Graz. In 2011, she was proclaimed for the Austrian of the Year as the most successful director in culture, and in 2012, she was awarded the prestigious Austrian state award, “Nestroy” for the best play. Ana Badora will become the artistic director of the Wien Folkstheater in the season 2015/16.
The Schauspielhaus Graz is one of the best-known Austrian theatres. It is a modern repertory theatre, creating 15 to 20 productions in 3 venues per season. Under the leadership of artistic and managing director Anna Badora since 2006, the theatre has put a strong focus on international co-operations, involving artists’ exchange. The theatre has repeatedly been invited to major festivals and has been nominated for and won nationally and internationally acclaimed awards.
The Schauspielhaus Graz has become a home for many actors and directors coming from various other countries or cities and gained itself a reputation of artistic home “at the centre of Europe”. In 2008, it became member of the Union of the Theatres of Europe. In recent years, the Schauspielhaus Graz was nominated for the Nestroy Theatre Prize and was also invited to the Salzburger Festspiele and Berliner Theatertreffen. The theatre also toured outside of Austria and made guest performances in Parma, Budapest, Moscow.
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Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslav Drama Theatre – Thalerhof by Andrzej Stasiuk, Schauspielhaus, Graz. The guest performance from Schauspielhaus, Graz, Thalerhof takes part in the Programme of Marking the WWI Centerary in 2014, which has support of the Ministry of culture and information in the Republic of Serbia.
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Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslav Drama Theatre – 1914, Directed by Robert Wilson, National Theatre Prague. The guest performance from National Theatre Prague, 1914 takes part in the Programme of Marking the WWI Centenary in 2014, which has support of the Ministry of culture and information in the Republic of Serbia.
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Belgrade, Serbia – Dragonslayers by Milena Markovic, Directed by Iva Milosevic, Yugoslav Drama Theatre. The piece is written as a “heroic cabaret”. The play Dragonslayers takes part in the Programme of Marking the WWI Centenary, which has support of the Ministry of culture and information in the Republic of Serbia.
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· Thalerhof by Andrzej Stasiuk, Schauspielhaus, Graz / Edited by Deidre McAuliffe, MFA ·
· Photos of Thalerhof courtesy of Lupi Spuma
All rights reserved 2014. Copyright © Lupi Spuma ·
All rights reserved 2014. Copyright © Lupi Spuma ·
· Design & Artwork by Djuradj Vujcic and Prvoslav Vujcic · Illustrated by Sarah Riordan and Deidre McAuliffe ·
· Edited by Djuradj Vujcic, Prvoslav Vujcic, Deidre McAuliffe, Sarah Riordan and Danijela Kovacevic Mikic ·
· Edited by Djuradj Vujcic, Prvoslav Vujcic, Deidre McAuliffe, Sarah Riordan and Danijela Kovacevic Mikic ·
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