Tina Leisch


Director / Writer

“The step from theater work to film work is not only a change of media, but also an entirely different machinery for the production of meaning and desire. I am extremely interested in what significance the film will have for the protagonists.”

Film, text, and theater worker; designs theater experiments in social conflict zones. Worked at Steinhof with alcoholics and mentally ill criminals on the history of the Nazi murder of patients; carried out research in the Corinthian partisan regions for a play about the massacre of a peasant family by a Nazi police battalion;
developed with the inmates at the juvenile detention center Gerasdorf, the hip-hop drama “Date your Destiny.” She was awarded a Nestroy prize in 2003 for her staging of George Taboris “Mein Kampf” with residents at the Meldemannstrasse residential home for men.
Co-founder of kinoki (www.kinoki.at), Volxtheater Favoriten, and Verein Persman (www.persman.at)



Filmography

1999 Vergiß Europa! A black and white Film. sw 33 min
2003 riefenstahlremix, Documentary Video. 33 min

Theater Work

1994 Brechts Dreigroschenoper, Volxtheater Favoriten
1996 Penthesilea, a Dog Opera after Kleist. Volxtheater Favoriten
2002 Mein Kampf by George Tabori in the hostel for the homeless Meldemannstraße (NESTROYPREIS FOR BEST OFF-THEATERPRODUCTION)
2003 Elf Seelen für einen Ochsen- enajst dus za enega vola Festival der Regionen
2004 Irrgelichter am Spiegelgrund (Text together with Lennart Lakatos)
2005 Elfriede Jelineks Stecken, Stab und Stangl with pensionary Migrants
2006 Date your Destiny (Theaterproject in the penitentiary for male minors Gerasdorf, Text together with Alma Hadzibeganovic)
2006 Liebesforschung/istrazivanje ljubavi/Rodimos e kamlipesko (Koncept and Text together with Ljubomir Bratic und Boban Stojkov, Directed by Tina Leisch)
2007 Medea bloß zum Trotz (Theaterprojekt with prisoners of the penitentiaries Gerasdorf and Schwarzau)