Made in Austria

In her master's project HERGESTELLT IN ÖSTERREICH, Romanian-born director Cristina Giurgea - a student of the Applied Theatre master's programme at the Thomas Bernhard Institute / Mozarteum University - plays with images, stereotypes and perspectives of Salzburg, questioning and deconstructing ideas of home and identity. A network of local voices and interactive elements invites the audience to question assumptions about national and cultural identity, belonging and the true meaning of home in our interconnected world. After all, are there really real inhabitants behind the stereotypes of Salzburg or do they just endlessly reproduce the same images that nobody fits into anymore?

Mentors:
Trace Polly Müller, Ulrike Hatzer

^{With HERGESTELLT IN ÖSTERREICH, ARGEkultur - following the master projects OUBLIEZ - WEN(N) WIR VERGESSEN by Dominik Jellen (2022, mentors: Betty Chen, Ulrike Hatzer) and DIONYSOS. MADNESS POURS UPON MY LOVELY FACE by Cat Jugravu (2023, mentors: Trace Polly Müller, Ulrike Hatzer) - already the third Master's thesis by a student of the Master's programme ‘Applied Theatre’. At the same time, HERGESTELLT IN ÖSTERREICH is the prelude to another edition of OPEN MIND FREQUENTLY, which, under the title DIE STADT, DIE WIR SIND, approaches the question of belonging to Salzburg from different perspectives.}