Top Austrian golfer Bernd Wiesberger was pipped to the post at the Austrian Open play-offs on Sunday by Swede Mikael Lundberg. Lundberg managed to hold off the 2012 European Tour champion with a 40-foot birdie putt on the par-three 18th hole. The win was the 49-year-old Swede’s first European Tour victory in nearly six years. […]
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Supancic sets sails
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Mike Supancic is touring Austria. The versatile stage comedian will perform his new programme “Traumschiff Supancic” in venues across the country in the coming weeks and months. Supancic – who tells from the experiences of the guests on a cruise ship called MS Titanitsch in “Traumschiff Supancic” – will hit the stage in Graz, Krems […]
Sensational space odyssey now on stage
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Alexander Wiegold’s attempt to create a gripping stage version of Stanislaw Lem’s famous novel “Solaris” can be considered as a full success. All members of the cast of the theatre production – now on at the Burgtheater’s Vestibül stage – perform on a high level but it is Oliver Masucci’s engagement which sticks out. Masucci […]
Gunkl tour starts
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Gunkl – one of Austria’s most gifted stage entertainers – is performing a new programme. The artist also known as Günther Paal will perform “Die großen Kränkungen der Menschheit – auch schon nicht leicht” on several stages across Austria in the coming weeks. However, the “Salzburger Stier” laureate is also looking forward to entertaining his […]
Manker fined 3,200
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An appeal court has confirmed a fine issued to director, actor and author Paulus Manker. A theatregoer took the controversial artist to court for taking her mobile phone during a performance of “Alma – A Show Biz ans Ende” at the former Viennese telegraph office. The Russian woman said she had been unaware of the […]
An acclaimed version of the Greek tragedy “Antigone” is now on at the Volkstheater.Especially Andrea Wenzl and Günter Franzmeier received almost unanimous praise by critics and audiences for their performances in the play at the Viennese theatre which has been headed by Michael Schottenberg since 2005.Stephan Müller directed the German adaption of the famous play […]
Volkstheater reintroduces Nestroy classic
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A comical play by celebrated dramatist Johann Nepomuk Nestroy has made a comeback on the playbill of the Volkstheater.”Umsonst” was drawing the crowds at the theatre in Vienna-Neubau in the past season. Now director Michael Schottenberg decided to put the play back on.Popular stage comedian and TV actor Andreas Vitasek is playing a leading role […]
A new theatre production focuses on the many ups and downs of the life of legendary boxing champ Hans Orsolics.Orsolics became European light welterweight Champion aged just 20 in 1967. The Vienna-born won 42 of his overall 53 fights before falling into financial debt and becoming addicted to alcohol.Orsolics got his life back on track […]
Theatre project convict relapses
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A prisoner participating in a special theatre project has been withdrawn from the scheme because he committed another crime.The unidentified man will not take part in the performances of “Leonce und Lena” by late German dramatist Georg Büchner, the federal justice ministry announced today (Tues). The ministry confirmed reports that the man relapsed while rehearsing […]
Burgtheater stages Shakespeare comedy
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An acclaimed German version of William Shakespeares celebrated comedy “Twelfth Night” or “What You Will” is now on at a Viennese theatre.Press voiced concerns whether the ensemble of the Burgtheater widely regarded as one of the most important theatres in German-speaking Europe can meet high expectations put into the eagerly awaited production called […]