The Austrian exposition at the PQ 71 is dedicated to the younger generation of stage and costume designers, painters and theatre architects. Instead of a retrospect we have endeavoured to show tendencies and prospects of the Austrian scenography and of the theatre as a whole. Such a limitation may produce the impression that the avant-garde and pocket-theatres have the advantage over the „official" theatres; yet, the participation of young artists being engaged by these institutions will check this impression. Most of the young artists will no longer or only reluctantly put up with traditional picture-frame-stages. They are on the look-out for new conceptions of the scenic space where all details are functional and of adequate stage material. The total creation of all decorative arts (designs, the décor, costumes, posters, play-bills] Is aimed at, the divisor, in independent disciplines rejected as out of date, and the teamwork (dramaturgic collaboration and thus co-operation in staging with the stage director] is considered as a necessary basis of the theatre - a theatre that wants to be more than mere amusement for the playgoer. The experiments on new forms of stage ask for an ingenious use of all technical means (Multi-Media-Theatre). An Austrian characteristic feature of scenography is also carried on by the younger generation: art-painters make use of the stage as a further facility of their creation. The new tendencies are realized first of all on small stages and in pocket – theatres - in spite of their short-comings as to the acting area being many times insufficient and the technical equipment being more often than not reduced to the minimum - whereby impulses from half-commercial theatres gain of importance. Reactions from the more traditionalistic State, City and Regional Theatres as well as the Vienna private theatres are noticeable, though hesitatingly. The young artists, often compelled to design for all the three genres, the opera, the drama and the ballet, likewise, resume the more conventional way of working. Tendencies: Search for forms of a variable theatre (Arena 70/1 and 2), a creative theatre (Savoy, Ateliertheater) and a group theatre being characteristic for its ensemble dramaturgy (Theater am Borsenplatz, Die Komodianten). Orientation from the individual to the typical creation (predilection for masks). Dialectic tension between mystification and de-mystification. Search for new mysteries, orgiastic play - ratiocination of artistic creation. the stage as scene of discussion for human behaviour in the scientific age.
- Hubert Aratym
Additional information: Born in 1936 in Gutenstein (Lower AustriaJ. Art-painter, stage and costume designer. Graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna and Paris. He was awarded the First Prize at the Theatre of Nations in Paris (1961) and the State Prize in 1964. He exhibited his works in Brussels, Paris, Rome, Sao Paulo, Zürich, Bayreuth and other German cities. His work is characteristic for its pictorial elements. He designs the costumes for his productions as well. Among his more out- standing designs are the sets to The Balcony by J. Genêt, The Dragon by J. Shvartz and primarily to Shakespeare's dramas.
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- Birgit Hutter
Additional information: Born in 1941 in Vienna. Stage and costume designer. Married to the art-painter Wolfgang Hutter. Between 1958 and 1960 she studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, between 1960 and 1962 at the Arts Students Ligue in New York and subsequently in a special class for stage design at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts where she graduated in 1965. In the same year she was awarded a prize for general arrangement at the Biennial of Young Creative Artists in Paris. Her vivid phantasy and her strong sense for pictorial elements in sets and costumes find their best expression in ballets and musicals.
- Haitger Max Böken
Additional information: Born in 1945 in Wittenberg (GDR); hs has been living now for five years In Austria. Stage designer and stage director. For a period of two years he studied composing under H. G. Weber in Coblenz. After having passed a carpenter's examination he volonteered for one year at the German Opera on the Rhine in Cologne. He has designed stage sets for the Andermacher Burgspiele (FRG), the Ateliertheater, the Youth Theatre and the Aréna 70/1 and 2 in Vienna as well as for numerous touring companies and experimental stages in Austria and the F. R. G. In his décors he accentuates functionalism and adequacy of stage material.
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- Brigitte Brunmayr
Additional information: Born in 1941 in Klagenfurt (Carinthia). Stagg and costume designer. Graduate of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Assistant of Caspar Neher for works in the Vienna Burgtheater and the Scala in Milan. Most of her designs (more than 50) for the theatre are influenced by late cubistic style. Of late, she is more interested in musical theatre and ballet.
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- Evelyn Deiretsbacher
Additional information: Born in 1945 at Fohnsdorf (Styria). Stage, costume and mask designer. In 1969/70 she attended the Sadler's Wells Designers Course (school certificate from july 1970). Studied theatre sciences at the University in Vienna and at the Sorbonne in Paris (thesis on Diaghilev's stage designers). As a self-educated painter she exihibited in London and Paris. As a specialist in masks she has been working in this line for theatres in London and Dublin. Her artistic conceptions are influenced by expressionism and surrealism. She prefers productions of experímental theatres to those of the traditional picture-framed scene à l´italienne.
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- Hanja Dirnbacher
Additional information: Born in 1940 in Vienna. Art-painter, graphic artist, stage and costume designer. Graduated from the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts where she diplomaed as painter and graphic artist. She acted as assistant in theatre and film productions. Co-operates with the theatre group of the Vienna Cafétheatre. She experiments on new materials; she regards the costume as dramatic means.
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- Heinz Hauser
Additional information: Born in 1943 in Innsbruck. Stage designer and graphic artist. Graduate of the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts. At present he ist at work at the Tyrolian Landestheater in Innsbruck where he has been designing stage sets for all the three scenic genres.
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- Manfred Holler
Additional information: Born in 1939 in Innsbruck. Stage and costume designer. Graduate of the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts. He has been working mainly for numerous pocket-theatres as well as the Youth Theatre. He was chief stage designer of tlhe Theater für Vorarlberg in Bregenz and holds this function now at the Stadttheater Baden near Vienna. His artistic conception of scenic space is mainly functional and coresponds with the style of the play.
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- Gerhard Jax
Additional information: Born in 1944 in Vienna. Art-painter, graphic artist, architect, stage and costume designer. Since 1962 he studied architecture at the Technical College in Vienna. He exhibited his architectural designs - having been drawn up during his educational trips to Scandinavía, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Egypt - at the Technical College in Stuttgart, at the Students' House Mozartgasse in Vienna and also at the exhibiton Young Art (Junge Kunst) in the Vienna Künstlerhaus in 1969. He creates Ihis scenic sets vvhile staging is in development. During the rehearsals he puts down his drafts and adapts them for stage afterwards.
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- Peter H. Jurkowitsch
Additional information: Born in 1938 in Vienna. Graphic artist, photographer, stage designer and theatre decorator. Studied architecture at the Vienna Technical College and graphic arts at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna. Apart from his activities in the field of graphic arts(posters, programmes) he has participated in a number of architectural competitions. Since 1962 he has been co-operating as graphic artist and stage designer for experimental productions with Vienesse theatres. He has realized a scenic disposition being comprehensible at a glance. In contradiction with any mystification he renders back to each detail its function and an adequate material. He makes it possible for any spectator to conceive and experience the space all by himself.
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- Frieder Klein
Additional information: Born in 1943 in Vienna. Stage and costume designer. Graduate of the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna. For four years he acted as assistant of Günther Schneider- Siemssen. Between 1960 and 1965 he was designing stage sets for various experimental theatres in Vienna; thereafter he got engagements as designer in Cologne, Stuttgart and Hannover. At present he is at work for the Landestheater in Linz.
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- Karl Korab
Additional information: Born in 1937 in Falkenstein (Lower Austria). Art-painter. Studied painting under prof. Pauser at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna where he graduated in 1964. In 1968 he was at work as stage designer of the Theater am Börseplatz. Since 1969 he experiments on new materials (polyester) especially for sculpture, and employs new techniques (serigraphy). As painter he sympathizes with surrealistic tendencies. For the year 1971 his exhibitions are planned in New York and Tokyo.
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- Herwig Libowitsky
Additional information: Born in 1940 in Vienna. Stage and costume designer, painter. A graduate of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. He won the Füger Silver Medal of this Academy. Chief stage designer of the Youth Theatre in Vienna and assistant stage designer at the Bayreuth Festival. In addition to his activities as stage and costume designer for several Viennese theatres he has been working for the film and television. He is also at work for various theatres in New York.
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- Bernd Dieter Müller
Additional information: Born in 1943 at Torgau (GDR). He is an Austrian Citizen since 1957. Painter, stage designer and photographer. Studied at the Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg from where he graduated in a special class for scenic design. He collaborates mainly with Jörg R. Neumann.
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- Jörg R. Neumann
Additional information: Born in 1943 in Vienna. Stage and film designer, exhibition architect; at present he is at work as chief stage designer of the Theater an der Wien. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Together with Bernd Dieter Müller he is - apart from earning his living in commercial theatres - exerting himself for a change in the present-day theatre by way of experiments; they have resolved, above all, upon changing the architectural structure of the theatre. [:Müller Bernd Dieter)
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- Erwin Piplits
Additional information: Born in 1939 in Vienna. Stage and costume designer, puppeteer; self-educated. As play-actor and stage designer he became between 1962 and 1966 a member of the Vienna theatre group Die Komödianten, thereafter Ihe acted as puppeteer and stage designer for experimental productions in theatres and the television in Danmark. His artistic realizations aim mainly at an epic theatre and he is searching for new means of expression referring to a renovation of the contemporary puppet-show.
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- Adolf Smalix
Additional information: Born in 1938 in Porto Recanati, Marche, in Italy. Theatre architect, costume designer, art- painter. Studied at several schools in Graz, subsequently at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Since 1964 he has been collaborating with the Austrian Television. He ist at work for some theatres in Vienna - the Theater der Courage, tbe Ateliertheater and the Youth Theatre (Theater der Jugend).
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- Susanne Sommer
Additional information: Born in 1944 in Vienna. Stage and costume designer. Studied under prof. O. Niedermoser interior architecture at the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts from where she graduated in 1967. Between 1967 and 1970 she studied under prof. Lois Egg at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Educational trips to Italy, France, England and Scandinavia. She has been designing settings for short films as well. At present she is at work as chief stage designer of the Theater an der Wien. In her artistic realizations she accentuates the socio-cultural infrastructure and denies all postulates of l'art pour l'art.
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- Hansjörg Stock
Additional information: Born in 1944 at Lanersbach (Tyrol). Stage designer. Graduate of the Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg. He has taken part in the studio performances of the Orff Institute as well as in the Easter- and Summer Festivals in Salzburg. He is an opponent of pseudo-experimental tendencies within tlhe theatre; he places confidence on wellfounded handicrafts.
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- Eduard Günther Tairych
Additional information: Born in 1942 in Vienna. Art-painter, stage designer. Graduate of the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts. Since 1968 assistant of the professor for scenic design Gottfried Neumann-Spallart. He acts as permanent stage designer of the Theater am Belvedere in Vienna. He contributed technically and organizationally to the arrangement of the festival Steirischer Herbst 1969. He has taken part in a number of exhibitons in Austria and in the Federal Republic of Germany.
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