Automatenbufett

Author: Gmeyner, Anna

Set Designer: Zehetgruber, Martin

Maertens, Michael

Happel, Maria

Hojsa, Thomas

Lorenz, Katharina

Luser, Christoph

Lang, Annamaria

Reinagl, Robert

Knebel, Hans Dieter

Jesch, Daniel

Lighting Designer: Rom, Friedrich

Stage Director: Frey, Barbara

Television Director: Kleber, Catharina

Costume Designer: Geremus, Esther

Composer: Hojsa, Thomas

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Catalogue Number: THE08079

UPC: 4260415080790

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Anna Gmeyner was born in Vienna in 1902 and, like the female heroes in her plays, remained a self-determined outsider, a figure of transit. The technical advancements and the reactionary bourgeoisie of her time were the inspiration for her first play, Automatenbufett, written in 1932. The play is set in a restaurant where food, beverages and even music can be ordered at the touch of a button. This restaurant attracts a horde of citizens from a small town. They are greedy and eccentric, selfish and depraved, and are dreaming of better economic times. Swiss director Barbara Frey brings Anna Gmeyner's almost - forgotten tragicomical folk back onto the stage.