Burgtheater Premiere Reinsperger as Elisabeth – Diepresse.com

The most gripping scene in the premiere of « Elisabeth! » At the Burgtheater there was only at the very end: Standing ovation for the soloist and the musicians accompanying her on Friday after 100 minutes of intensive show. The author of the play, the director, her army of employees and the stage workers filled the stage, celebrated and let themselves be celebrated. Women’s power dominated. After all, woman was moved in her arms, while her fans jaw with joy.

Was the evening really that great? One should differentiate. As an empress, Stefanie Reinsperger has once again proven that she has been one of the stars of the house since her return to Vienna. She fascinated with mostly powerful, sometimes sensitive game. This time she was accompanied by Elena Ulrich and Lilian Kaufmann; In the outfit of stylized maid, the guitarist and drummer set suitable accents with hard and gentle skirt, with punk and marchythms. Director Fritzi Wartenberg seemed to be the most important thing about the most important thing about her castle debut: one is only allowed to shine.

A festival of self -reflection. Jessica Rockstroh also took this into account. The majority of the stage covered it with reflective, red -gold metal plates. Later they become tall revolving doors. The floor also shines. A festival vain self -reflection. The audience can see themselves distorted on these walls. Behind it forms light gold the iron curtain. It is only lifted slightly once so that Reinsperger can carry out a huge and fabric-animal horse

But what does this art figure Elisabeth have to say today? Mareike Fallwickl wrote the text, which has become known by « the anger that remains » of a wider « reader ». The dramatization of this novel was premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 2023, as a feminist manifesto, which bills with the pitfalls of the patriarchy. His motto: Now it is repelled with full force! That was a bit striking and simple. « Elisabeth! ». The myth of this protagonist of the Habsburg house after the ruler Maria Theresia is brokered using well -known stories.

From perin to pelicot. Fallwickl has enriched some of the sugar -sweet to bitterly filmed, many times filmed, and literary stories of an empress with episodes that range from 1848 to the 21st century. It is about women who are suppressed or even destroyed who defend themselves.

Karoline from Perin, for example, was an early pioneer for equality. In the year when Emperor Franz Joseph came onto the throne after the revolution was suppressed, she was locked up, raped, expropriated, declared crazy. In 1955, Rosa Parks became a guiding figure in the civil rights movement due to its civilian resistance to racism in the United States. IMANE KHELIF is the Algerian Olympic champion in boxing, which was accused of being a man in 2024. The Gisèle Pelicot case, which serves as an example of the most perverse abuse, is even more current. The French woman made headlines through the criminal trial, which she struggled against her ex-husband and dozens of other men. For years she had been stunned by him, then raped by these perpetrators.

The author, which has long since been given in the media and in marketing, has not been exhausted by the icon of the icon Sisi, who was married to the 24 -year -old Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1854. Here, too, one could say that Fallwickl simply remained anger when using anger. But that’s secondary. Because what did Reinsperger turn this role out of this role? A glossy idea, a multifaceted solo in which she manages to amaze both die -hard monarchists and absolute opponents of the Habsburg rule with a delicate to hard game.

Completely in black. Reinsperger immediately begins with the end. As Elisabeth, she rushes through the parquet onto the stage. She is in black, in the strict dress, with a long train. Your full hair is tied back. Already she makes great gestures with an exaggerated pathos and then tells how she was murdered by a heartstick in Geneva in Geneva by the Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni: « What happened to me? What happened to me? What happened to me? These were my last words, that should have been my last words. » But maybe everything was very different.

A myth is deconstructed. How about the bridal show in Bad Ischl? Was Empress Mother Sophie really so angry with a daughter -in -law? Was Elisabeth a bad mother, obsessed with sports and crazy diets, soon alienated from the courtyard and then constantly traveling? Does she even contribute to the death of the crown prince Rudolf? And the emperor? If Reinsperger also plays him, she wears a jaw beard. Clichés are served and questioned. Reinsperger occasionally falls into an artificial Viennese dialect, especially when the language turns into vulgar. It also sacrifies at least the good old Burgtheater German. And it turns Sisi’s infinite story a kind of striptease.

Down with the scraps. In fact, she gradually puts it down, towel, ligaments and other accessories. Down with the scraps to decorate the dead Gaul. After all, she can help her hair cut her hair. She puts this in the butt in the butt from which she had previously brought out masses. Finally, the soft toy is pulled up towards the lace -up floor. The empress dances. Then you can cheer.