Renate Aichinger (born 28 November 1976 in Salzburg) is an Austrian playwright and theatre director. She studied theatre, film and media studies at the University of Vienna whilst working for various small theatres in Vienna and subsequently also for larger theatres in Switzerland, Germany and Austria including Junges Schauspielhaus Zürich, Stadttheater Gießen and Vorarlberger Landestheater. Since 2009, she has been working at the Junge Burg Wien. Since the season of 2012/13, she has also directed the Bürgertheater of the Landestheater Niederösterreich (State Theatre of Lower Austria). Two of her plays have been nominated for the Retzhofer Dramapreis: "WWW.COM" (2003) and "Rosa Rossi sucht das Morgen" (2011). [1]
Linz is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. Located on the river Danube, the city is in the far north of Austria, 30 km (19 mi) south of the border with the Czech Republic. As of 1 January 2024, the city has a population of 212,538. It is the 7th largest of all cities on the Danube river.
Johann "Hans" Hölzel, better known by his stage name Falco, was an Austrian singer and musician. He had several international hits, including "Der Kommissar" (1981), "Rock Me Amadeus", "Vienna Calling", "Jeanny", "The Sound of Musik", "Coming Home ", and posthumously "Out of the Dark".
Marguerita Maria Christians, known as Mady Christians, was an Austrian-born German-American actress who had a successful acting career in theatre and film in the United States until she was blacklisted during the McCarthy period.
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power". She is considered to be among the most important living playwrights of the German language.
Brigitte Fassbaender, is a German mezzo-soprano opera singer and a stage director. From 1999 to 2012 she was intendant of the Tyrolean State Theatre in Innsbruck, Austria. She holds the title Kammersängerin from the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Vienna Staatsoper.
Ilse Aichinger was an Austrian writer known for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry. She wrote poems, short stories and radio plays, and won multiple European literary prizes.
Oskar Aichinger is an Austrian avant-garde jazz pianist from Vöcklabruck, who has lived in Vienna since 1984.
Dagmar C. G. Lorenz is Professor of German studies and from 2006 to 2010 served as Director of Jewish Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She teaches and publishes on Austrian, German and German-Jewish literature and culture, and Holocaust studies. She was born in Goslar, West Germany and began her studies at the University of Göttingen (Germany). She completed her Ph.D. in German (1973) and her MA in English (1974) at the University of Cincinnati. She taught at Rutgers University/Douglass College (1974/5), Ohio State University, Columbus, University of Illinois at Chicago, and held a Visiting Professorship at the University of Chicago (2000). She served as the editor of The German Quarterly (1997-2003) and held offices with MLA, GSA, MALCA, and AATG.
Landestheater Detmold is a theatre for operas, operettas, musicals, ballets, and stage plays in Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It began as the Hochfürstliches Lippisches Hoftheater, founded in 1825 by the court of Lippe. The company has five venues in Detmold. With its guest appearances in more than a hundred locations in Germany and neighboring countries, the theatre company states that it is the largest touring company in Europe.
Vorarlberger Landestheater is a theatre in Bregenz, Vorarlberg, western Austria. The theatre was established in 1945. Stephanie Gräve has been the manager since 2018. The theatre is due to close in the 2025/26 season for refurbishment.
Anna Unterberger is an Italian actress from Bozen.
Georgia Doll is an Austrian-born German theatre director, playwright and poet.
Renate Holm was a German-Austrian film actress and operatic soprano. She worked as a dentists' assistant and took private singing lessons, resulting in performances in musical films and schlager. She made her debut at the Vienna Volksoper in 1957, and moved on to the Vienna State Opera where she worked for decades. She appeared internationally and made many recordings, especially for the WDR in a series of operettas with conductor Franz Marszalek. She later worked as a voice teacher, juror at competitions, and festival manager. Her memoir was published in 2017.
Renate Behle is an Austrian operatic mezzo-soprano and soprano who made an international career, based in Germany. She was professor of voice at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg from 2000 to 2010.
Helene Wiet was an Austrian opera singer who sang leading soprano roles in the theatres of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late 19th century. From 1895 to 1899, she was the prima donna of the Deutsches Landestheater in Prague.
Hellmuth Matiasek was an Austrian theatre and film director, theatre manager and teacher. He founded a small avant-garde theatre in Vienna at age 22. After working at the Salzburger Landestheater as stage director, he became the company's intendant in 1962, then the youngest intendant in German-speaking theatre. From 1983 to 1996, he was intendant of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, where he co-founded and later managed the drama school Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding. He was close to the composer Carl Orff, and managed the Carl Orff-Festspiele Andechs.
Irmgard Vilsmaier is a German operatic soprano.
The Landestheater Niederösterreich is a Schauspielhaus in the Lower Austrian provincial capital St. Pölten.
Kathrin Mädler is a German dramaturge, theatre director and artistic director..
Karsten Januschke is a German conductor in opera and concert who made an international career. He worked at the Oper Frankfurt from 2008 to 2015 and then turned to freelance work. He focused on Mozart operas, but has also conducted contemporary works such as the German premiere of Olga Neuwirth's Lost Highway.