Wiener Wortstaetten (Vienna)
Wiener Wortstaetten is a unique, intercultural playwrights-theatre-project, launched in 2005 by Hans Escher and Bernhard Studlar, which encourages discussion and networking between Austrian and international authors. Centered around authors who (mostly) live in Vienna and whose native language is not German but who write in German, an international network has been created over the years to establish an intercultural exchange and a centre for contemporary European drama in Vienna. Wiener Wortstaetten is a research laboratory, mediating between playwrights and the theatre business.
The goal of the project is the long term promotion and support of theatre authors. A specific methodology is followed for the selection and promotion of playwrights and plays, that foresees a first phase of stage presentation and reflection about the proposed plays; a second phase of review of the selected plays and verification of how effective and playable the drafts are, together with a professional team consisting of a director, a dramaturg and actors; in the third phase, the authors’ plays are presented to the public as a rehearsed staged stage presentation or production, either in cooperation with other theatres or as in-house productions.
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march 2020
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On 16-17 March, Wiener Wortstaetten together with Kosmostheater Wien will run an international symposium on the topic of Female perspective on contemporary playwriting. Fabulamundi playwrights invited are Lenka [...]
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On 16-17 March, Wiener Wortstaetten together with Kosmostheater Wien will run an international symposium on the topic of Female perspective on contemporary playwriting. Fabulamundi playwrights invited are Lenka Lagronová (CZ), Katharina Schlender (D), Anna Wakulik (POL), Elise Wilk (ROM) Michaela Zakutanská (SK) and Alexandra Pâzgu (ROM) as curator/dramaturg. The title of the symposium is: “Is writing an activity, career or therapy?”
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16 (Monday) 1:00 am - 17 (Tuesday) 1:00 am
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Wiener Wortstaetten
Oswaldgasse 35A, 1120 Wien
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On 12 March Wiener Wortstaetten, in cooperation with Burgtheater Wien will host the Kollektivsalon with the title Anschlussfähig. In this framework, three Fabulamundi playwrights, Malgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk, Maxi [...]
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On 12 March Wiener Wortstaetten, in cooperation with Burgtheater Wien will host the Kollektivsalon with the title Anschlussfähig. In this framework, three Fabulamundi playwrights, Malgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk, Maxi Obexer and Jaroslav Rudis, will be invited. They have been commissioned to write a short play dealing with the historical date of March 12th 1938, which was the day of the annexation of Austria to Hitler Germany, in a contemporary way. The three plays will be presented as staged readings at the Kasino and after them, the three authors will be invited to take part in table-discussions with the audience and moderated by Bernhard Studlar.
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(Thursday) 1:00 am - 1:00 am
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Wiener Wortstaetten
Oswaldgasse 35A, 1120 Wien
december 2019
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Wiener Wortstaetten in collaboration with Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen and Teatro stabile di Bolzano from the 12th to the 15th December will presented “Wordbox Fabulamundi”: a collage of four plays staged [...]
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Wiener Wortstaetten in collaboration with Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen and Teatro stabile di Bolzano from the 12th to the 15th December will presented “Wordbox Fabulamundi”: a collage of four plays staged by young director Nicola Bremer presenting Industria Indipendente Lullaby and Fabrizio Sinisi Heiliger Krieg in German and Azar Mortazavi Il tempo sospeso and Miroslava Svolikova Europa flieht nach Europa in Italian.
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12 (Thursday) 1:00 am - 15 (Sunday) 1:00 am
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Vienna based Romanian Fabulamundi-author Alexandra Pâzgu has a her world premiere of „Fluss, stromaufwärts“ at Schauspiel Leipzig on November 24th. With her play she was awarded the „exil-dramatikerInnenpreis 2018“ [...]
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November 24 (Sunday) 1:00 am - December 24 (Tuesday) 1:00 am
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Wiener Wortstaetten
Oswaldgasse 35A, 1120 Wien
november 2019
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November will start in Rome with the fifth Fabulamundi Partners’ Meeting which will gather all the members of the network for a three-day of discussion about the activities and the [...]
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6 (Wednesday) 1:00 am - 8 (Friday) 1:00 am
Location
Teatro India
Lungotevere Vittorio Gassman, 1, 00146 Roma
october 2019
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On the 18th and 19th October at the Werk X Theatre in Vienna will be presented 4 staged readings of contemporary plays, featuring Böhmisches Paradies by Jaroslav Rudiš and [...]
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On the 18th and 19th October at the Werk X Theatre in Vienna will be presented 4 staged readings of contemporary plays, featuring Böhmisches Paradies by Jaroslav Rudiš and Heiliger Krieg by Fabrizio Sinisi.
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18 (Friday) 1:00 am - 19 (Saturday) 1:00 am
september 2019
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From 23-25 September, Interkulturelles Theaterzentrum Berlin will host the Mob-Pro Germany, the three-day training programme focused on the role and the work of the playwrights in contemporary society. The theme of [...]
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From 23-25 September, Interkulturelles Theaterzentrum Berlin will host the Mob-Pro Germany, the three-day training programme focused on the role and the work of the playwrights in contemporary society.
The theme of this session will be Translation and it will see the involvement of international experts with the participation of eleven Fabulamundi playwrights: Katja Brunner (Germany), David Drabek (Czech Rep.), Azar Mortazavi (Austria), Artur Pałyga (Poland), Pier Lorenzo Pisano (Italy), Guillaume Poix (France), Gabriel Sandu (Romania), Fabrizio Sinisi (Italy), Robert Woelfl (Austria), Joan Yago (Spain), Petr Zelenka (Czech Rep.).
During the MobPro, on September 23rd, there will also be presented a short version of Natura morta con attori by Fabrizio Sinisi and Nationalstrasse by Czech author Jaroslav Rudis at Haus der Statistik.
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23 (Monday) 1:00 am - 25 (Wednesday) 1:00 am
may 2019
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From 21 to 23 May Wiener Worstaetten will host the Mob-Pro Vienna, the three-day training programme focused on the role and the work of the playwrights in the contemporary society. [...]
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From 21 to 23 May Wiener Worstaetten will host the Mob-Pro Vienna, the three-day training programme focused on the role and the work of the playwrights in the contemporary society. The theme of this session will be the tolerance and it will see the involvement of international experts with the participation of eight Fabulamundi playwrights: Gerhild Steinbuch, Katerina Rudčenková, Nathalie Fillion, Kai Grehn, Liv Ferracchiati, Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk, Radu Popescu, Josep Maria Miró.
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21 (Tuesday) 1:00 am - 23 (Thursday) 1:00 am
Location
Wiener Wortstaetten
Oswaldgasse 35A, 1120 Wien
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Fabulamundi - Call for Associate Researcher Are you an early-career academic working in the field of European theatre? Do you want to be part of an exciting research project [...]
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Fabulamundi – Call for Associate Researcher
Are you an early-career academic working in the field of European theatre? Do you want to be part of an exciting research project focusing on contemporary playwriting and theatre translation in Europe?
Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe is seeking a highly motivated individual to join our team as Associate Researcher for our academic research project ‘Fabulamundi Workbook: Mapping Contemporary Playwriting and Theatre Translation Practices in Europe’, led by Dr Margherita Laera, Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
This is a highly flexible part-time role which would suit a recently appointed Lecturer, post-doc, or PhD student based at any higher education institution in the EU, who could freely choose to spend their paid research time on this project. The position starts in June 2019 and ends in July 2020. The Associate Researcher will receive a small honorarium.
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April 12 (Friday) 1:00 am - May 9 (Thursday) 1:00 am
march 2019
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From 14-18 March at Wiener Wortstaetten, Italian author Fabrizio Sinisi will work on the German version of his text Guerrasanta during a translation residency led by the translator Doris [...]
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From 14-18 March at Wiener Wortstaetten, Italian author Fabrizio Sinisi will work on the German version of his text Guerrasanta during a translation residency led by the translator Doris Geml, in the frame of the Italian project Fabulamundi Drama Lab.
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14 (Thursday) 1:00 am - 18 (Monday) 1:00 am
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Wiener Wortstaetten
Oswaldgasse 35A, 1120 Wien
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From 5-7 March Teatr Dramatyczny will host the Mob Pro-Warsaw, the three-day training programme focused on the role and the work of the playwrights in the contemporary society. The theme [...]
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From 5-7 March Teatr Dramatyczny will host the Mob Pro-Warsaw, the three-day training programme focused on the role and the work of the playwrights in the contemporary society. The theme of this session will be We and they – on different aspects of cultural narcissisms and will see the involvement of international experts and a selection of ten Fabulamundi playwrights: Alexandra Badea, Clàudia Cedó, Nathalie Fillion, Bogdan Georgescu, Industria Indipendente, Petr Kolečko, Bonn Park, Volker Schmidt and Csaba Szekely.
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5 (Tuesday) 1:00 am - 7 (Thursday) 1:00 am
january 2019
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January starts with a special networking activity for Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe with the invitation to Brexit Stage Left in London, a festival of staged readings of provocative cutting-edge plays from [...]
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11 (Friday) 1:00 am - 12 (Saturday) 1:00 am
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Contra la llibertat by Esteve Soler Gegen die Freiheit (German title) translated from Catalan by Birgit Weilguny A co-production of Wiener Wortstaetten and Werk X Theater. Dates: Premiere on November 27th 2018. Shows on [...]
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Contra la llibertat by Esteve Soler
Gegen die Freiheit (German title)
translated from Catalan by Birgit Weilguny
A co-production of Wiener Wortstaetten and Werk X Theater.
Dates: Premiere on November 27th 2018.
Shows on 29th, 30th November and 1st December 2018 and 23rd to 25th January 2018.
Director: Hans Escher
Stage Design: Renato UZ
Dramaturg: Bernhard Studlar
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November 27 (Tuesday) 1:00 am - January 25 (Friday) 1:00 am
Location
Wiener Wortstaetten
Oswaldgasse 35A, 1120 Wien
october 2018
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From the 5th to the 7th there will be the first part of the translation residency of the Spanish author Esteve Soler. The text Contra la llibertat play will be [...]
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From the 5th to the 7th there will be the first part of the translation residency of the Spanish author Esteve Soler.
The text Contra la llibertat play will be presented on November and directed by Hans Escher, with the dramaturgical support of Bernhard Studlar and the translation from Catalan by Birgit Weilguny.
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4 (Thursday) 1:00 am - 9 (Tuesday) 1:00 am
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Wiener Wortstaetten
Oswaldgasse 35A, 1120 Wien
may 2018
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On 19 May Wiener Wortstaetten will host German playwright Felicia Zeller for the stage presentation of her play Me, your big analogue brother, his fucking tom-cat and you. The [...]
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On 19 May Wiener Wortstaetten will host German playwright Felicia Zeller for the stage presentation of her play Me, your big analogue brother, his fucking tom-cat and you. The stage presentation will be followed by an open discussion between the author and the audience.
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(Saturday) 1:00 am - 1:00 am
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Wiener Wortstaetten
Oswaldgasse 35A, 1120 Wien
april 2018
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From 25th to 27th April there will the first Mob Pro in London
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25 (Wednesday) 1:00 am - 27 (Friday) 1:00 am
Location
GlassHill Studios
Kings Bench Street, London, SE1 0QX
january 2018
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On 30th and 31th January will be the seventh National Playwrights Meeting with all the Austrian authors selected and all the Fabulamundi’s partners.
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30 (Tuesday) 1:00 am - 31 (Wednesday) 1:00 am
Location
Wiener Wortstaetten
Oswaldgasse 35A, 1120 Wien
