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Linz09 invited audiences to go on a journey traversing all the continents and immerse themselves in the wonderful world of theater, dance, performance and puppetry.

This international festival of theater and dance was staged at three venues: the Landestheater, Posthof and our own stage at Linz harbor, Hafenhalle09. The lineup included plays previously performed elsewhere as well as works that local and international playwrights were commissioned to create especially for Linz.

A total of 31 performances of 16 productions featured artists from Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, Spain, Slovenia, Argentina, the USA, Africa, India and Israel. THEATERMANIA1: SNOWSTORM presented 11 Austrian premieres, a German-language premiere and two world premieres. GOOD NIGHT STUFF, Linz09’s party lineup, staged exciting live acts in Hafenhalle09 for a week.
The festival’s themes were extraordinarily diverse—politics and war, communication, memory and the consequences of collective amnesia, the realities of life on the street, the clash of cultures, musical hits, coming to terms with history, critical optimism, as well as examinations of perfection, integration and foreignness, remembrance, truth and fiction, dreams of longing and self-determination.
In cooperation with the integrative festival SICHT:WECHSEL, LINZ09 presented ensembles of people with and without handicaps in productions in which that fact played no role. Two performances (ECDYSIS – THE SNAKE SHEDS ITS SKIN and HELL ON EARTH) offered simultaneous sign language translation, which received a very positive reception.
Attendance at THEATERMANIA1 productions exceeded 9,200. The audience chats following the performances were also well attended and raised some fascinating points.


WHAT // Theater festival
WHEN // January 13-February 20, 2009
WHERE // Hafenhalle09, Landestheater Linz, Eisenhand

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Programme Brochure Theatre Mania1: Snowstorm
Schedule Theaterlust1: Snowstorm