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THE NEW HEADQUARTERS Headquarters on the Stage The Play “Die Pappenheimer” by Franzobel [1] Franzobel To present the new headquarters and the history of the location in a literary manner, VBAG opted for “documentation with a difference”. From the outset, the idea was for a stage to be used in the atrium. This led to a theatre project with Franzobel, initiated by his publisher at Thomas Sessler Verlag, Maria Teuchmann. Franzobel, one of the most important contemporary Austrian dramatists, was predestined for this task. As well as an unmistake- >> Franzobel’s play summons the spirits of the past back to Kolingasse/ Liechtensteinstrasse. This keeps them alive. SEE “Snapshots of a long history", PAGE 10], and brought her back to life on stage 2010. The historic surroundings of the new headquarters in Vienna’s 9th district are also portrayed in literary form on the stage of the Vienna Schauspielhaus theatre at Porzellangasse 19. After three performances at the new premises, the play “Die Pappenheimer” will be transferring to the Schauspielhaus, a coproduction partner, from 4 November 2010. Franzobel – “Die Pappenheimer“ At the new headquarters of VBAG in Vienna’s 9 th district, the BOSS (“director, Supervisory Board member, president of the golf club, pillar of the community etc.“) and his SECRETARY (“a bit timid, a bit straitlaced, afraid of breast cancer, afraid of intimacy”) go into the strong room at 3.00am to look at a secret paper of the COM- MITTEE about monitoring the committee that monitors the committee that deals with the correct treatment of BERTHA PAPPENHEIM. The boss and the secretary are accidentally locked in and are caught by the night watchman, who is on the verge of retirement. He has helped the boss out of a tight spot several times, e.g. when he went home in the wrong trousers after they visited a brothel together... Of course, it would be no problem to keep quiet about a little break-in too! So: head straight out of the strong room? Yes, if it wasn’t for Bertha Pappenheim being there: The famous “Anna O.”, whose hysterical illness was treated by Freud, thus marking the birth of psychoanalysis. She lived in the house that – with no input from her, of course – has become the NEW HEADQUARTERS of VBAG, and is hanging around in the strong room, like the boss and secretary, only as an aged ghost. An encounter that holds surprises for all those involved – and there are plenty of opportunities to identify the PAPPENHEIMERS with the VOLKSBANK TEAM! Director: Jan-Christoph Gockel Stage: Julia Kurzweg Costumes: Andrea Fischer Jan-Christoph Gockel, director 48 THE NEW HEADQUARTERS [2]
Guest commentary [3] [4] How do you support artists, especially dramatists? The best way is by putting on their plays. At the same time, it is always helpful for playwrights to know who, i.e. what troupe, they are writing for: what actors will be delivering their lines, what director will be handling their script. Writing commissions are so sought-after not because of the fee, but because a theatre offers a collaboration. In our case, this offer is particularly original because a bank has come to the theatre and shouted: the stage is all yours! You can’t ask for more than that! We would like to congratulate VBAG for its courage and smart foresight in commissioning a play for the opening of this historic building complex. Courage because every commissioning of a play and its first performance always shows a willingness to take risks in terms of theatrical art – foresight because this step has also enabled international sustainability beyond the opening. With this in mind, we are pleased to have found a theatre-loving partner in Österreichische Volksbanken-AG for this local cooperation with the Vienna Schauspielhaus theatre, and say to the Franzobel’s Pappenheimers: good luck! Andreas Beck, artistic management/business management and Richard Schweitzer, business management, Schauspielhaus Franzobel A PROFILE 1967 Born in Vöcklabruck, Upper Austria as Franz Stefan Griebl; he lives and works in Vienna and Pichlwang 1986 Franzobel comes to Vienna as a visual artist 1986–1994 Studies German studies and history at the University of Vienna; also works as an extra at the Burgtheater From 1989 Freelance writer; his work consists of plays, novels, short prose, poetry (sometimes in dialect) and children’s books 1995 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for the novel “Die Krautflut” From 1998 Author in the Thomas Sessler Verlag stable SELECTED NOVELS AND STORIES 1995 Die Krautflut, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2000 Scala Santa oder Josefine Wurznbachers Höhepunkt, Vienna: Zsolnay 2002 Lusthaus oder Die Schule der Gemeinheit, Vienna: Zsolnay 2005 Das Fest der Steine oder die Wunderkammer der Exzentrik, Vienna: Zsolnay 2006 Der Schwalbenkönig oder Die kleine Kunst der Fußball-Exerzitien, Klagenfurt: Ritter 2009 Österreich ist schön – Ein Märchen, Vienna: Zsolnay Das Schauspielhaus THE NEW HEADQUARTERS SELECTED PLAYS 1998 Bibapoh, Burgtheater Vienna, Kasino 1998 Paradies, Landestheater Linz 1999 Kafka. Eine Komödie, Steirischer Herbst, Theater im Bahnhof Graz 1999 Phettberg. Eine Hermes-Tragödie, Vienna Volkstheater 2001 Mayerling. Die österreichische Tragödie, Vienna Volkstheater 2005 Hunt oder der totale Februar, Theater im Hausruck, Wolfsegg 2005 Der siebte Himmel in Vierteln (music: Max Nagl), Verein Netzzeit, Vienna 2007 Zipf oder die dunkle Seite des Mondes, Theater im Hausruck, Wolfsegg 2009 Prinzessin Eisenherz, Schauspielhaus Graz 2009 Big Bang Löbinger. Ein agrarisch schwankendes Bauerntraktatorat durchs weite Land Verzüchtigung, Theater Phönix Linz 2010 Moser oder die Passion des Wochenend-Wohnzimmergottes, Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna 2010 Bordellballade. Ein Drei-Goscherl- Singspiel mit Spelunkenliedern, Theater Koblenz 2010 Zweite Luft oder Das Drama des Hans Orsolics, Vienna Burgtheater AWARDS 1992 Linz writer-in-residence 1994 Wiener Werkstattpreis for literature 1995 Ingeborg-Bachmann Prize 1997 Wolfgang-Weyrauch Prize of the City of Darmstadt 1998 Kassel Literature Prize for Grotesque Humour 2000 Bert Brecht Medal 2002 Arthur Schnitzler Prize 2005 Nestroy Theatre Prize for Best Play 2006 Buch.Preis for Das Fest der Steine oder die Wunderkammer der Exzentrik 2007 Vöckla Award Special Prize for Culture 1978: Opening, Hans Gratzer, artistic director; 1986-1991: George Tabori, artistic director; 2001-2005: Barrie Kosky, artistic director; 2001-2007: Airan Berg, artistic director. Andreas Beck has been artistic director since 1 July 2007. The institution regards itself as a contemporary theatre, a showcase for current literary ventures and a writer’s theatre in the “classic” sense. It focuses on young and cutting-edge drama. Its ensemble makes the theatre widely recognised well beyond Vienna. Andreas Beck was awarded the Nestroy Special Prize in 2008 for his relaunch of the Vienna Schauspielhaus >> www.schauspielhaus.at
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Page 3 and 4: FOREWORD Our Commitment to Sustaina
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