Those who become professional actors necessarily end up developing a certain relationship with death.Romeo drinks poison and Juliet stabs herself with a dagger; Stella drinks poison and Fernando shoots himself; Woyzeck murders Marie in a fit of bloodlust with countless stabs of a knife; Ferdinand kills Luise and himself with poison...

“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.

For the Greco-German stage director Sarantos Georgios Zervoulakos, settling on theatre was a big step.

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

Nicole Heesters visits the Max Reinhardt Seminar

The 24-year-old German actor spoke with mdw Magazine about her fear of the acting profession, her plans for the future, and why she wants to play Jedermann in Salzburg.

Since this autumn, the exceptional director David Bösch has been teaching stage directing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar.

Burgtheater actors Regina Fritsch, Maria Happel, and Roland Koch speak about how they teach character development at the Max Reinhardt Seminar.