Die Eingeborenen von Maria Blut - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Die Eingeborenen von Maria Blut
The idyllic village of Maria Blut with its pilgrimage chapel is in the countryside, a few hours by train from Vienna. The 1930s have dawned, Dollfuss is Chancellor and the natives of “Austrian Lourdes” are in turmoil. The canning factory in front of the village had to close. The entrepreneur Schellbach is now trying to persuade the concerned population to invest in his new product, Raumkraft. Many give their last savings for it. However, when Schellbach shoots himself in the middle of the folk festival and his venture fails, a tremendous dynamic immediately develops in Maria Blut: The alleged culprits are quickly identified - and for them it is now extremely dangerous.
The Viennese writer Maria Lazar (1895–1948) is one of the most clairvoyant literary voices of her era. In short, gripping and linguistically brilliant scenes, she creates two dozen wonderfully offbeat characters who, on the eve of National Socialism, are torn apart between the cult of Mary, belief in miracles, conspiracy theories and emerging ultra-nationalism.
Due to her Jewish origins, Maria Lazar had to live in exile for years and publish under pseudonyms - her extensive work is only now being rediscovered. DIE NEBORNEN VON MARIA BLUT, partially printed in Bertolt Brecht’s exile magazine DAS WORT in 1937, is the second production of a Lazar text in the Academy Theater after DER HENKER in the 2019/20 season. The director is Lucia Bihler, who most recently staged Thomas Bernhard's DIE JAGDGESELLSCHAFT in the Akademietheater.
Subject to change.
The Viennese writer Maria Lazar (1895–1948) is one of the most clairvoyant literary voices of her era. In short, gripping and linguistically brilliant scenes, she creates two dozen wonderfully offbeat characters who, on the eve of National Socialism, are torn apart between the cult of Mary, belief in miracles, conspiracy theories and emerging ultra-nationalism.
Due to her Jewish origins, Maria Lazar had to live in exile for years and publish under pseudonyms - her extensive work is only now being rediscovered. DIE NEBORNEN VON MARIA BLUT, partially printed in Bertolt Brecht’s exile magazine DAS WORT in 1937, is the second production of a Lazar text in the Academy Theater after DER HENKER in the 2019/20 season. The director is Lucia Bihler, who most recently staged Thomas Bernhard's DIE JAGDGESELLSCHAFT in the Akademietheater.
Subject to change.