Theater creates space

Improving a democratic society through culture

Nikolaus Habjan will also be back next season at the Landestheater NÖ in St. Pölten.(Bild: Barbara Palffy)

The Landestheater NÖ wants to get to the bottom of democracy in the coming season. In addition to five world premieres, classics from Schiller to Shakespeare await.

What do we think about democracy? In view of an upcoming "super election year", the Landestheater Niederösterreich is getting to the bottom of this question in the coming season. And is therefore focusing on a political and, above all, female repertoire - two thirds are female directors. "Culture is the only way to improve society," says Artistic Director Marie Rötzer. The program therefore starts with a political thriller. In his first Austrian production, Amir Reza Koohestani stages Schiller's "Maria Stuart" as a multilingual play in German and English.

Guest performance by the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin with "Slippery Slope"(Bild: Ute Langkafel, Galerie MAIFOTO, Dresdener Str. 18, 10999 Berlin Tel [phone], [e-mail] © Ute Langkafel MAIFOTO)

Stefanie Sargnagel's world premiere is a theatrical travelogue to faraway "Iowa". Filmmaker Eva Spreitzhofer delivers the next world premiere with her directorial debut at the theater: "Wie kommen wir da wieder raus?". Also on the program are Max Frisch's "Biedermann and the Arsonists", Jules Vernes' "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and Shakespeare's "The Tempest".

Following on from a successful season
After "Am Königsweg", Elfriede Jelinek returns to the Landestheater with "Angabe der Person". In addition to the established children's and youth theater, guest performances and readings by Everyman Philipp Hochmair, ex-Buhlschaft Verena Altenberger and Nikolaus Habjan await.