“Mood” is the topic of this year’s Wien Modern festival, set to take place from 29 October to 29 November. And as in past years, several Wien Modern events are to be held in cooperation with the mdw.

Anna Marboe, born in Vienna in 1996, is a stage director and musician. She studied directing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, from which she graduated in 2019. mdw Magazine got in touch with this versatile artist recently to talk about her artistic development and creative work.

Six months from the screenplay’s initial words to completion of a four-part TV series: four Film Academy Vienna students took up this challenge and produced the series Prost Mortem – Die letzte Runde.

“The body already does a lot of things right on its own; the training that we do here acts as a ‘helping hand’,” says Aleksandar Acev, who’s been a professor of basic physical training and physical theatre at the Max Reinhardt Seminar since this October.

On 1 October 2019, mdw Rector Ulrike Sych began her second four-year term of office.

Rita Waszilovics and casting director Deborah Congia spoke with mdw Magazine about their work.

Using Music Therapy to Treat Anxiety Disorders

Three Young Filmmakers Tell Us About Filmmaking with Children.

It was in 1989 that he began studying production as well as camera technology and cinematography at Film Academy Vienna.

The idea that teachers and students don’t need to be in the same room for lessons is not new.