Matthias Hartmann: Warum eine Pistole auf der Bühne nicht schießt!
Wed 12.02.2025
19:30–21:30
Matthias Hartmann: Warum eine Pistole auf der Bühne nicht schießt!
Theatre
Theater der Komödie Graz
Information
Book presentation and reading
Moderation: Frido Hütter
This sensational and controversial book by Matthias Hartmann is a declaration of love to the theater: “If there is no audience, it will be difficult to explain that theater is needed to save the world.” Why the theater is a fitness center for the imagination. How to revive the magic of the theater stage. How an industry of meaning emerged that – fueled by cultural policy and the arts pages – has led many theaters into crisis.
Matthias Hartmann has managed theaters in Germany and Switzerland.
His great success with audiences led him to the legendary Burgtheater in Vienna, where he uncovered a financial scandal that had been concealed for years. A cabinet of curiosities that reaches into the depths of Austrian political intrigue, which cost him his office in 2014. He was fully rehabilitated in 2018. …
Today, as Creative Director of Red Bull Media House, Matthias Hartmann develops concepts for TV series, among other things. As a director, he stages operas at La Scala in Milan, the Teatro della Pergola in Florence and in Genoa. Hartmann will return to the Theater an der Josefstadt in Vienna in 2025.
