NÖN: This Thursday you are coming – for the fourth time – to the Bad Vöslau thermal baths. This time with Max Simonischek and with “War and Love”. What is there to hear? And is there anything to see?
Stefanie Reinsperger: You can see Max and me! Angelika Hager has once once more created an enchanting version and lets Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Marlene Dietrich, Oskar Kokoschka and Alma Mahler and many more confess their love.
The title of the evening, “War and Love”, sounds like Tolstoy at first. How does that relate to Alma Mahler? And does love always bring peace?
Reinsperger: I’ve become a bit more pessimistic in recent years. But I always want to believe in love. It’s regarding many different love relationships, all of which have war as a background scenario. There is something very topical regarding it in terms of its intensity.
But in the “swimming salon” you don’t swim, right? How does theater fit into a bathroom? And how does it read on a lawn?
Reinsperger: I’m a big fan of the Vöslau thermal baths. Every year I’m really happy regarding both ears to be there once more!
But you have also played at the Salzburg Domplatz, in the Burgtheater in Vienna, and with the Berliner Ensemble. And in front of the TV camera. How important is location to play?
Reinsperger: The place where I play does influence me, it can be very positive and challenging or it can have a completely different effect on an entire evening.
You also wrote. Your first book was only published this April. Why is anger your “favorite emotion”? And when was the last time you were “quite angry”?
Reinsperger: Unfortunately, anger is still an emotion that we women in particular like to deny. The book is a feminist appeal not to put up with everything. The last time I got really angry was when I heard the news once more in the morning. And on the Deutsche Bahn…
And what’s next?
Reinsperger: From August 4th you can see me in the movie “Guglhupfgeschwader”. On October 20th I have my premiere at the Berliner Ensemble as a “theater maker”. And two new “crime scenes” have been shot…
