Six international young playwrights, including two Nestroy Prize winners: Thomas Perle (RU and D) and Lisa Wentz(A), a Gratzer scholarship winner: Guido Wertheimer (ARG), an internationally yet regionally working author from Ukraine: Natalka Vorozhbyt, a Senegalese Viennese: Ada Diagne (Austria) and an Upper Austrian: Thomas Köck, who has won numerous awards – spent 24 residencies at various, selected locations in the Salzkammergut between January and June.
They have developed drafts of the piece, the results of which will be presented in scenic facilities in the Trinkhalle in Bad Ischl on September 27th and 28th.
The special history, the “geopsyche” of the region was traced; the stories, legends, wounds experienced and seen through the eyes, minds, hearts of the young poets and are described.
World premieres of the completed pieces are planned in Timisoara (Cultural Capital 2023), Linz and Vienna.
