Wiener Wortstaetten: The directors of wiener wortstaetten

The directors of wiener wortstaetten

Hans Escher

Born in Vienna in 1956, he trained as an actor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.

Has worked as a director since 1987.
1990-1998 director at the Theater der Jugend.

1999-2002 director at the Theater Freiburg.
Guest director at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, Stadttheater Bern, Staatstheater Kassel, Volkstheater Wien, Theater Ulm, et al.
Has been teaching at the University for Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz since 1993.

Latest projects: Raimund „Alpenkönig und Menschenfeind“, Landestheater Linz (2005), Molière „Tartuffe“, Landestheater Niederösterreich (2006), Dimitré Dinev „Haut und Himmel“, Theater Rabenhof Vienna (2006), Alma Hadzibeganovic „Das Stück“, Nestroyhof Vienna (2007)

Bernhard Studlar

Born in Vienna in 1972. Studied „stage writing“ from 1998 to 2002 at the UdK Berlin.

Bernhard Studlar won first prize at the Heidelberger Stückmarkt with his play „Transdanubia-Dreaming“ which was premiered in 2003 at the Vienna Burgtheater.

Numerous plays and commissioned works, among others: “A. ist eine Andere”, “Rote Kometen” and “Fiege – Ein Stück ohne Geilheit” (in cooperation with Andreas Sauter), “Mariedl Kantine”, “Spieltrieb” and “Me and You and the EU”.

2003-2005 Mentor and judge at the „Werkstatttagen“ (“work shop days”) at the Vienna Burgtheater.
Austrian representative for the festival “Neue Stücke aus Europa” since 2004.

Bernhard Studlar also works as a translator and also as a teacher for dramatists in Austria and abroad.

Latest projects: „Durch die Schluchten des Balkan“ (2007) and „Alles in Ordnung“ (2008 in cooperation with Andreas Sauter)

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MEIN WIEN / MY VIENNA
Book series / anthology wortstaetten
DramatikerInnenpreis
Previous Productions
The authors of wiener wortstaetten
The directors of wiener wortstaetten

wiener wortstaetten is a unique, intercultural author-theatre-project, launched in 2005 by Hans Escher and Bernhard Studlar, which encourages discussion and networking between Austrian and international authors. Centred around authors originating mostly from Eastern Europe who live in Vienna, whose native language is not German but who write in German, an international network should be created over the years to establish an intercultural exchange and a centre for contemporary European drama in Vienna.