In the coming week, the decision on the Burgtheater management from autumn 2024 will be made. “Der Standard” reports that the Ministry of Culture has a three-person proposal, which should consist of the incumbent Martin Kušej, castle actress and Reinhardt seminar boss Maria Happel and another candidate. Salzburg’s acting boss Bettina Hering should no longer be in the running.
When asked what she would do after the 2023 festival summer, Hering said on Friday at the Salzburg Festival press conference on the APA that she had no plans yet. The best thing for her at the moment would be to treat yourself to a sabbatical so that you can do things with more leisure and time.
out of the race
A number of favorites such as Andreas Beck, director of the Munich Residenztheater, Karin Beier, director of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, and Barbara Frey, director of the Ruhrtriennale, had publicly withdrawn from the race in recent weeks. The “Kurier” recently brought the name of director Anna Bergmann into play. The 44-year-old German has been drama director in Karlsruhe since 2018 and caused a stir with the announcement that she only wanted to stage women (a dictum that no longer applies, note). At the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna she successfully staged “Miss Julie”, “Madame Bovary” and Jelinek’s “Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel)”.
Meanwhile, Martin Kušej has taken over from Rikki Henry to direct the play “Extremely Expensive Poison” about the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. The production will premiere tomorrow, Saturday, at the Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz.
In the Ö1 “Morgenjournal” Kušej reported on a works meeting with hundreds of people who “were all indignant” about the allegations of bad management style made against him. In addition, it would be expensive and “a devastating situation” to replace the management of the theater “without sense and without necessity”. (apa/lc/whl/wh)
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