Fritzpunkt (A)

Since 2002 the Vienna-based Fritzpunkt theatre collective has been working on the literary fortress project of Styrian author Marianne Fritz, who died 2007: one of the most radical, complex and extensive writing projects in contemporary German-language literature.
Public appropriation, a series of readings, lectures, actions in the public space, and theatre performances are some of the formats practised by Stadt Theater Wien with the Fritzpunkt project. Since 2004, Fritzpunkt has been publishing the discursive experimental series “Fritz anwenden” at the Centre for Art and Knowledge Transfer at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna; the continuity of this publication is a pre-condition for theatre projects that embrace space at various locations: landscapes of association for Marianne Fritz’s fortress project. Fritzpunkt regards text material whose language you do not understand as naturally suitable for conducting a fundamental analysis of the canon of forms of the phenomenon commonly referred to as theatre. In 2008, steirischer herbst hosted Fritzpunkt's eleven day non-stop-reading of Marianne Fritz’s 3305-page novel “Dessen Sprache du nicht verstehst”

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