On 30th and 31th January will be the seventh National Playwrights Meeting with all the Austrian authors selected and all the Fabulamundi’s partners.

From 25th to 27th April there will the first Mob Pro in London

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Fabulamundi – Call for Associate Researcher

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

More information are available here

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.

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?”

Wiener Worstaetten will present „Entgegnungen“ on Dec 11th 2020.
The Fabulamundi playwrights Alexandra Pâzgu, Elise Wilk, Muhammet Ali Bas, Thomas Perle, Azar Mortazavi, Bernhard Studlar wrote 15 mini plays. They will be published and presented online on YouTube channel.

At this link it’s possible to download the final report about Audience Development within Fabulamundi, written by Cristina Da Milano, for CAE-Culture Action Europe.

REPORT: Audience Development within Fabulamundi

Fron 21 to 31 December will be available the video of “The end of tollerance” a collective play by Wiener Worstaetten.

You can see the video at this link.

Texts by the Fabulamundi authors: Liv Ferracchiati (Italy), Nathalie Fillion (France), Tomasz Man (Poland) Josep Maria Miró (Spain) Jacinto Lucas Pires (Portugal) Radu Popescu (Romanian) Gerhild Steinbuch (Austria), Bernhard Studlar (Austria).