TheaterLabor X 2024

‘The Beautiful Show of Failure’ takes a look behind the scenes of public figures and tells stories of failure, friction and reorientation. Four artists open the doors to their inner lives and reveal what lies hidden behind the beautiful show.

A theatre performance about the history of African migrants in Salzburg, with drums, balatones and two actors.

The Boy Gobert Prize for young actors in the Hamburg theatre scene, worth €10,000, has been awarded to Payam Yazdani, a 2025 graduate of the Mozarteum University’s Thomas Bernhard Institute. We congratulate him on his success!

Mariia Tkachenko lived in Kyiv until March 2022, where she received singing and violin lessons as a child and has already appeared in several TV productions. Her acting studies at the I. K. Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television were interrupted by the war in Ukraine.