“Sometimes a nation becomes modern. Now it is the Ukrainians.” In the mid-1920s, Joseph Roth visited his old homeland: Lviv—then known as Lemberg—and the surrounding Galician countryside, located in present-day Ukraine. A good hundred years later, the Vienna Volkstheater follows in Joseph Roth’s footsteps to Lviv and presents there, as well as in Vienna, an international co-production—a revue against war, gloom, and despair.
But who was Roth, born in 1894, really? Ukrainomania is populated by masters of survival, “hotel patriots,” and other characters from Joseph Roth’s work. A dialogue—balancing between gallows humor and grief—between East and West, between ensembles from Lviv and Vienna.
Jan-Christoph Gockel, known for his visually stunning spectacles, is a defining voice in contemporary theater and was most recently celebrated for his monumental production of *Wallenstein* at the Berlin Theatertreffen.
Eine Produktion des Volkstheater Wien in Kooperation mit den Nationaltheater Maria Zankovetska Lviv
Regie Jan-Christoph Gockel
Bühne & Kostüm Julia Kurzweg
Musik Jakob Suske
Lichtdesign Tobias Krauss
Schitt & Videoart Lisa Rodlauer
Kamera Oleh Androshchuk
Dramaturgie Claus Philipp, Tobias Schuster
Künstlerische Produktionsleitung Lisa Anetsmann, Alina Rashko
Research Oksana Lemishka
Mit Bernardo Arias Porras, Alicia Aumüller, Solomiia Kyrylova, Nancy Mensah-Offei, Samouil Stoyanov, Stefan Suske sowie Sofiia Melnyk (Live Zeichnung) und Jakob Suske/Florian Herzog (Live Musik)
Dates
Further dates are being planned.