Staged reading by Anne Bennent with musical accompaniment by Otto Lechner and commentary on the content by curator Daniela Gregori.
In post-war Zagreb, Tilla Durieux wrote her memoirs, which were successfully published in 1952 with the title Eine Türe steht offen. With these she went on a reading tour – the manuscript deeply internalized, she seemed to chat about her life in interviews ready for print.
Shortly before her 90th birthday, the actress was finally persuaded by Joachim Werner Preuss to add to the years following the publication of the first autobiography. The first sound recordings were made for this purpose, but the book only appeared posthumously under the title My First Ninety Years.
Durieux undoubtedly enjoyed summarizing and writing down what she had experienced; in the memoirs in particular, she managed to embed what she herself had experienced in the history and issues of the time, and the descriptions were always lively and cheerful. What could be more obvious than to let Durieux herself narrate her life for one evening? On the basis of individual passages, “key moments” of this impressive life are retold and linked in dialogue with supplementary comments.
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Leopold Museum
The Leopold Museum houses the art collection established by Rudolf Leopold. Its highlight is the “Vienna 1900” presentation, featuring the world’s most important collection of works by Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Viennese Modernism, international Classical Modernism and the Wiener Werkstätte. The museum also shows special exhibitions in the context of the collection.
Staged reading with music about "TILLA DURIEUX: A witness to a century and her roles"
23 Nov 2022/19:00-20:30H
Leopold Museum
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien, Österreich
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Otto Lechner und Anne Bennent © Manfred Horwarth
