The last days

Production: Maria Happel

Text & Stage Adaptation: Martin Prinz

Dramatic Reading with Ensemble Members of the Reichenau Festival

With a dramatic reading, the Reichenau Festival will also commemorate a very dark chapter in Austrian history in the upcoming season. Horrific events are presented and narrated in a sober manner, as perhaps by looking back at the past, we can find a better path into the future. In April 1945, shortly before the end of the Nazi regime, innocents are arbitrarily judged and killed, including the granddaughters of Schnitzler muse Olga Waissnix. Two years later, the three main perpetrators stand trial. However, instead of expressing insight or remorse, they insist on their rights at the time, refer to a state that had long since disappeared around them, and to orders that only they themselves issued. This is recorded in the court documents, and it is also stated in the novel "The Last Days" by Martin Prinz.

The text, adapted for the stage by the author himself, will be brought to the stage of the Great Hall under the direction of Maria Happel by this year's festival ensemble. We invite you to join us in being courageous and looking closely.