“For me, it all comes down to the notion of the ensemble.”
Maria Happel and Annett Matzke, the Max Reinhardt Seminar’s new leading team, on their visions for this legendary theatre school.
“Art is one of those things that brings the state to life”
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.
On the Art of Playing Dead
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 as a Stage”: Learning from Aleksandar Acev at the Max Reinhardt Seminar
“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.
Alumni in Focus: Sarantos Georgios Zervoulakos
For the Greco-German stage director Sarantos Georgios Zervoulakos, settling on theatre was a big step.
Love Is the Best Glue
In April of 2018, the mdw sent Beverly Blankenship and Anna Maria Krassnigg to the Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema, an ASEA-UNINET partner institution, to join students there in developing a condensed stage version of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
Taking the Plunge into Theatrical Reality
Max Reinhardt Seminar Students in a Production by Nicolas Charaux at the Vestibül.
Training to Master the Challenge of Acting Auditions
Rita Waszilovics and casting director Deborah Congia spoke with mdw Magazine about their work.
“I wouldn’t be caught dead acting.” – Humphrey Bogart (attr.)
Nicole Heesters visits the Max Reinhardt Seminar
“In the End, It’s ‘Just’ Theatre.”
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.
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