Director's rooms: Ancient/Contemporary

20.01.2026

Drama production

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This semester, students of Directing and Acting at the Thomas Bernhard Institute will work closely with students of Scenography on workshop productions based on explorations of theatre texts from Antiquity.

Directors' Spaces: 
Ancient/Modern

16^th & 17^th January 2026
Theater im KunstQuartier & Theatrum

No More Peace - Trilogy on Participation

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Direction: Victor Osterloh

First Part: The Symposium
With Frida Stroomer, Lola Giwerzew, Lenz Farkas and Amadeus König
Staging and Costumes: Caroline Ulmar

Second Part: Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripdes)
With Danylo Dmytrenko, Finn Sengelhoff, Twana Hussein, Aaron Herold
Choreography: Marie Luise Arnold
Staging and Costumes: Charlotte Streicher

Third Part: The Chorus of Aeschylus' "Oresteia"
With: Mariia Soroka, Maite Dárdano, Luise Arnold, Linda Bokshi, Tanja Radovanović
Staging and Costumes: Sophia Esterer

Medea Machine

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Regie: Jakob Schulte
Staging and Costumes: Caroline Ulmar
Music: Johannes Brömmel, Matthias Brandt
With: Medea 1 – Anhelina Marinich / Medea 2 – Maite Dárdano / Medea 3 – Mariia Soroka / A judge – Albert Weilguny / Legal workers - Johannes Brömmel, Matthias Brandt

Philoctetes

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after Heiner Müller

Staging: Kevin Hummel
Staging and Costumes: Amelia Riedel
With: Neoptolemos  – Theo Thun / Philoctetes – Ghaith Alsaid / Odysseus – Julian Plattner

Cassandra

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after Lesja Ukrajinka
translated by Irena Katchaniuk-Spiech

Direction: Sophia Nimak
Staging and Costumes: Maxie Franz
Assistance: Lotta Fleig
Sound design: Marko Sonkin
With: Cassandra – Ruti Habart / Polyxena – Nia Sokolović / Andromache – Maya Udovčić / Dolon , Onomaos, Helenos – Sven Thor

The Death of Heracles

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after “The Women of Trachis” by Sophocles
with texts by Enis Maci

Direction: Rahel Hofbauer 
Stage: Johanna Sojer 
Musical direction: Veit Vergara
With: Tara Ewers, Fatima Shehata, Lisbet Hampe

Rodogune

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by Pierre Corneille
in a translation by Albert Lang and Christian Ruzicska

Direction: Nina Vedova
Staging and Costumes: Ruth Grau
Sound design: Bo Gordon Leitner, Anatol Wetzer
With: Rodogune – Nora Carla Pichler / Cleopatra – Tanja Radovanović / Antiochus – Emma Rebmann / Seleucus – Amadeus König 

 Phaedra's Love

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after Sarah Kane

Direction: Rahel Johanna Ambrozic
Staging and Costumes: Lisa Behensky
Technical assistance: Oscar Gmelin 
With: Phaidra, Priesterin – Linda Bokshi / Hippolytos – Lennart Lube / Strophe, Doctor – Nika Fabich

Further Productions

• Directing projects on the theme of Classic

  

  20.1.2023

  Directing projects on the theme of Classic 

  On January 20 and 21, the Thomas Bernhard Institute, in cooperation with the Department of Scenography of the Mozarteum University, presented Philoktet by Heiner Müller, Gaia in a version by Till Ernecke and The Bacchae by Euripides, three directorial works on the theme of classical music at the Theater im KunstQuartier.

  Drama production
• This side of the dramatic

  

  13.5.2022

  This side of the dramatic 

  Drama production
• ¡Los Bernarrrdá's!

  

  14.4.2022

  ¡Los Bernarrrdá's! 

  Based on "Bernarda Alba's House," Federico García Lorca's drama that has been performed most frequently around the world to this day, the 4th year Drama and Directing class, under the direction of Anja Herden, will deal in "¡Los Bernarrrdá's!" with being trapped, hysteria, fear of life, and the longing for freedom as a primal human drive, and will tell of people who are both victims and accomplices of their own oppression.

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• Perpetuum - Fits just once again

  

  25.3.2022

  Perpetuum - Fits just once again 

  Drama production