Christoph Marthaler
Odön von Horvath / Christoph Marthaler
Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald/ Légendes de la forêt viennoise
Photo © Dorothee Wimmer ©
Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald
Tales from the Vienna Woods
by Odön von Horváth
Directed by Christoph Marthaler
Set design: Anna Viebrock
Costume design: Dorothee Curio
Lighting design: Henning Streck
Dramaturgy: Stefanie Carp
With Josef Ostendorf, Bettina Stucky, Ueli Jäggi, Stefan Kurt, Katja Kolm, Matthias Matschke, Marc Hosemann, Ulrich Voss,
Nicolas Rosat, Rosemarie Bärhold, Hildegard Alex, Clemens Sienknecht
Produced by the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxembourg-Platz
Co-presented by the Théâtre National de Chaillot and the Festival d’Automne à Paris
Between the Vienna of the 1920s and today’s working-class Berlin, Horváth’s tragi-comic characters, outcasts of economic development, are the ancestors of today’s roaming “Ossis”, who take refuge in an imaginary idyllic past when their world wasn’t in tatters. Horváth and his satirical wit are well served here by a director who enjoys showing great turmoil on stage, well beyond mere social criticism.
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