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Dietrich HĂĽbsch: Uncompromising theater against emotional lethargy and lethargy of affluence. Interview with Leon Epp. In: Dietrich HĂĽbsch (Red.): The
Viennese "Volkstheater" 1889-1966 (= mask and Kothurn, Vol 13, No. 4, ISSN 0025-4606 ). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 1967, pp. 299-317, doi : 10.7767 /
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The theater "Die Insel in der Komödie" is to be opened as a stage adapted to the needs of a cosmopolitan city, placing itself at the service of poetry and performing all the dramas of world literature, which for budgetary reasons are not seen on other
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and on many German stages, Epp founded The Island theater in 1937. It was located at
Parking 6 in Vienna, in a hall of the Palais Eugen. It opened on 20 September 1937 with
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Angela Eder: Between avant-garde theater and paper rose. The island in the comedy, 1945-1951. Vienna 2005 (Vienna
University,Vienna, Dissertation, 2005).
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Karin
Breitenecker: It has to be dared. the direction Leon Epp at the Volkstheater 1952-1968. Vienna 1991 (Vienna, University, Diploma thesis, 1991).
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Karin
Breitenecker: It has to be dared. the direction Leon Epp at the Volkstheater 1952-1968. Vienna 1991 (Vienna, University, Diploma thesis, 1991).
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Angela Eder: Between avant-garde theater and paper rose. The island in the comedy, 1945-1951. Vienna 2005 (Vienna, University, Dissertation, 2005).
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particularly close to the care of the modern psychological and problematic drama, as an experimental stage for works of modern dramatic literature.
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Anyone attending this performance may ask themselves if he was somehow complicit in the things described here.
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458:Filmography
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353:Karl Skraup
326:Shakespeare
316:The Balcony
276:Hans Weigel
204:Burgtheater
175:Uncle Vanya
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650:Categories
492:References
432:Dream Play
376:The Robber
373:Schiller's
311:Jean Genet
33:Eisenstadt
357:Hans Putz
322:The Walls
147:Rudolf II
143:The Rider
106:Pergolesi
62:Max Landa
334:Schiller
151:Weltbild
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