Productions

Alice in Wonderland
Musictheater for children based on the classic by Lewis Caroll
Premiere 4. Februar 2018 at Philharmonie Luxemburg

With: Lauretta van de Merwe, Benedikt Steiner, Félicien Brut und Èduaord Macarez
Direction and Concept: Lina Hölscher
Dramaturgy: Deborah Maier
Costume and Stagedesign: Johanna Ralser
Lightdesign, Videotechnic: Thomas Trummer
Illustration, Animation: Unter freiem Himmel

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last woman standing
devised theatre about the role of women
Premiere 05.01. 2018 at Schauspielhaus Graz

With: Ninja Reichert, Gina Mattiello and Lucia Neuhold
Director and concept: Lina Hölscher
Assistance and dramaturgical support: Kathrin Liess

Three women as they could not be more different. They lead a merciless competition, they all want to be the ultimate superwoman: the "last woman standing". They do not shy away from confrontation, have little decency and enough humor to tackle the role of women with their surprising and well-known attributes.

funded by the City Graz, State Steiermark

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Spiel mir das Lied vom Leben
devised theatre with youth from the theater center Deutschlandsberg
Premiere 15.09.17

With: Martina Brand, Dotty Diwiak, Arlind Hagjija, Laura Kainz, Arnold Kogler, Anna Kohler, Julia Müller, Marco Pessl and Moritz Truppe
Director: Lina Hölscher
Dramaturgy: Christian Mayer
Costumes: Yvonne Beck

At the theater you can be anything!
And do everything. Above all, theater is there to tell stories! Because people have always exchanged and shared with each other. People lie, they invent, they want to make something comprehensible. They communicate with everything that's possible: with words and with gestures and the imagination helps to co-operate. Thus theater becomes a place of great assertion ... with all the truth that is in it.
The actors who are on the stage in this production love their theater center Deutschlandsberg and have been playing here for years. This theater evening develops the text material from the players themselves. From the stories they bring, change, invent. They are stories that have to do with them - and therefore somehow also with the area here and their people ...

mutterseele. dieses leben wollt ich nicht
by Thomas Perle
Premiere 06.03.17 at Eldorado, Werk-X Vienna

With Lilly Prohaska, Lisa Weidenmüller, Claudia Carus, Nikolaij Janocha and Florian Stohr
Directed by: Lina Hölscher
Stage and Costumes: Julia Grevenkamp und Santo Krappmann

Rita lives a dissipated life. A life that she never wanted. She met Gerhard, became pregnant and married the father of her daughter Marie. The marriage life quickly became hell. The alcohol the excuse. The adult Marie, traumatized by her childhood with the alcohol-impaired mother, tries to lives her life differently, would not want to be like her mother at any price. But she falls in love and the story takes its course.

The Play was developed within the Wiener Wortstaetten by Hans Escher and Bernhard Studlar, funded by the City of Vienna.

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The Word Was God

Premiere 18.01.17 at Schauspielhaus Graz
In english language
funded by the City Graz, State Steiermark and Queer-Department of Uni Graz

With Kit Redstone und Ninja Reichert
Text: Kit Redstone
Directed by Lina Hölscher
Stage and Costumes: Alisa Mozigemba

A phone call between a transgender man and a religious call centre operator, Victor and Frieda are thrown together with no choice but to try to communicate. Through stories, dreams and fantasies they struggle to find common ground.

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The Beauty and the Biest
Musicaltheatre for Children
Premiere 18.12.16 at Philharmonie Luxemburg

With: Sophie Moser, Lennart Lemster, Nikolaus Barton, Robert Kulek und Choul-Won Pyun.
Direction and Concept: Lina Hölscher
Costume and Stagedesign: Johanna Ralser
Videoillustration und Animation: Unter freiem Himmel
Lightdesign und Videotechnic: Thomas Trummer

The encounter with the beast turns the life of the beautiful Belle upside down. Who is this beast? An animal, mean and evil?
The musicaltheatre performance by Lina Hölscher characterizes the central motifs of the famous fairytale in a vivid and contemporary way, and reveals through the character of the violin playing Belle, what love can achieve.

With compositions by Brahms, Schubert, Bruch, Rachmaninov, Bartok, Frank, Piazolla, Fryba, Zbinden and Gossec.

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Begegnungen.Schnittstellen
a Theatre-Collage
Presentation of a Theatreworkshop with the topic: living together in Graz.

Premiere 15.04.2016 at Theater am Lend, Graz

By&With: Khalil Amairi, Christina Koppelhuber, Margit Reif, Kinan Rmeh, Marianne Skopal, Sven Tomac und Martin Zeiler
Directed by Lina Hölscher

Participants from Austria and Syria met weekly for four month to exchange, get to know each other and research about prejudices, Cultural differences and tolerance. They improvised scenes, developed interviews and showed the result during two shows to an interessed audience.

We collected clothing donations for Refugees which were used in the show and contributed afterwards.

Körpergewicht 17%
A short Play by Ewald Palmetshofer

Premiere 08.11.2014 at Schauspielhaus Graz

with Verena Lercher
Directed by Lina Hölscher
Musik and Recording: Gerriet K. Sharma

P'tit Albert
by Jean-Marie Frin after a Shortstory by Jack London

Premiere 14.03.2014 at Schauspielhaus Graz

with Franz Solar
Directed by Lina Hölscher

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Orphans
by Dennis Kelly

Premiere 02.11.2013 at Schauspielhaus Graz

with Laurenz Laufenberg, Seyneb Saleh und Kaspar Locher
Directed by Lina Hölscher
Costume and Stagedesign: Hanna Penatzer

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Bitte nicht Benjamin
Collaborative Performance by and with Kat Redstone, Emanuele Nargi, Alice Colley, Hannah Moore and Lina Hölscher

Premiere 27.06.2012 - Going Public Festival at Goldsmiths College, London

There is nothing uglier than an elbow on the table. It shows a vagrant display of disrespect to the others on the table. Aside from this, it can cause severe wearing to elbow bone. In other countries, far less civilised than ours, children with monstrous deformities roam the streets, their elbows worn to a flat plate, no longer able to bend them, these children must rely on other people to feed them as they are unable to lift their hands to their mouths.

http://goingpublicfestival.wordpress.com/2012/06/10/theatre-directing-1/

Herz aus Gift (UA)
by Andrea Funk

Premiere 06.01.2012 at Rationaltheater, Munich

with Sinikka Schubert, Maike Sprecht, Timocin Ziegler, Christopher Goetzie, Sina Wilke and Marie Golüke
Director and Stagedesigner: Lina Hölscher, Music: Will Parker

http://www.herz-aus-gift.de/

Der gewissenlose Mörder Hasse Karlsson enhüllt die entstetzliche Wahrheit,
wie die Frau über der Eisenbahnbrücke zu Tode gekommen ist
by Henning Mankell

Premiere 08.08.2011 at Rationaltheater, Munich

with Benjamin Jorns, Christopher Goetzie, Maike Sprecht and Sandra Obermeier
Director and Stagedesigner: Lina Hölscher, Music: Xiaohan Wu

http://theatertogo.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/der-gewissenlose-morder-hasse-karlsson-enthullt-die-entsetzliche-wahrheit-wie-die-frau-uber-der-eisenbahnbrucke-zu-tode-gekommen-ist-rationaltheater/

Adam und Esra
by Maxim Biller

Premiere 10.05.2011 at Rationaltheater, Munich

with Sandra Obermeier and Michael Fischer-Stocker
Directed by Lina Hölscher

Total Glücklich - Die Liebe in Zeiten ihrer unbegrenzten Besprechbarkeit
by Silke Hassler

Premiere 12.03.2011 Studio of the Department for Performance Studies, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität Munich

with Darja Doberstein and Benjamin Jorns
Directed by Lina Hölscher

Qualifikationsspiel
by Silke Hassler

Premiere 19.01.2011 at Biedersteiner Keller, Munich.

with Marlene Erschbamer, Darja Doberstein, Ina Salomon und Michael Matiu
Directed by Lina Hölscher, Costume: Miriam Althammer, Music: We are deeply sorry