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Dates of the Open University workshop series in connection with the Applied Theatre course "Leading, Planning, Facilitating - theatrical work in uncertain settings".

How does one actually become an actor? How does an acting class work? This is what those interested in acting can try out for themselves for a week during the summer holidays, when the Thomas Bernhard Institute opens the doors of the university wide and sets the stage for the summer camp.

The Applied Theatre students are showing try-outs of their work in the module "On Representation - Who cares, who speaks?". Together with co-researchers, accomplices and so-called experts of everyday life, they try to find out which untold stories should be given a stage.

Theater-interested, -enthusiastic and -newcomers are welcome! Everyone together, citizens, people who live in Salzburg, students and life artists try out together.

This winter semester, the directing students at the Thomas Bernhard Institute are developing workshop productions based on the examination of contemporary theatre texts. The content of the preparatory courses focussed on the experimental writing of authors.

Federal Minister for Education, Science and Research Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Polaschek was a guest at the Mozarteum University on Tuesday, August 8, 2023 and congratulated students on their various engagements at the Salzburg Festival. In a conversation lasting just under an hour, the students told how their engagements came about and why the Salzburg Festival can be an important stage for the future.

How does one actually become an actor? How does an acting class work? The participants were able to try this out for themselves for a week at the #summercamp23 of the Thomas Bernhard Institute, when the university opened its doors wide and it was time for very different youngsters to get on stage, get into character, #act!

Installative, performative and interactive work at various locations in Salzburg, as part of the Salzburg Summer Scene: If the practices of today are the basis for the life of tomorrow, we should definitely scrutinise our everyday actions. To do this, we should create room for manoeuvre where we live - in Salzburg. We are a group of five individuals who come from different places, with different ages, experiences and languages.

Since June 14, 2023, a right-wing populist party has been a legitimate part of the Salzburg state government. The Senate of the Mozarteum University Salzburg is following with concern the extremist expressions and exclusionary attitudes that are thus finding their way into key political positions in our federal state, not least with a view to the signal effect of this coalition in terms of federal policy and its international external impact.

The 34th Potsdam National Competition of German-speaking Acting Students ended on June 25 with the selection of the prize winners. The "Ensemble Prize Austria" in the amount of 10,000 euros went to the 4th year acting class of the Thomas Bernhard Institute and their production of "Tartuffe".

The author and musician PeterLicht has taken on Molière's scandalous play from 1664, "atomised and pulverised" it to make it readable in its satirical quality for our present. Director Nele Rosetz works out a common reading of the material with drama students. How does a group shape the behaviour of individuals? And what actually happens when an established context is shaken up by the emergence of a new character?