Theater im Bahnhof
RUNNING OUT
A Climate Competition
Time is running out: Every day, almost twelve hectares of arable and natural land are sealed. That’s 4380 hectares a year and more than 15 times downtown Vienna. Or 6257 football fields. It’s too much. At the heart of Floridsdorf, on football club 1210’s own field, a performer fights the imminent climate catastrophe on her own. The audience gets to watch this ‘climate competition’ from the stands, listening to a symphony of words, music, and sounds over headphones.
A woman around fifty is done watching the exploitation of nature, excessive land consumption, and soil sealing gone wild. One day, she leaves her old life behind and decides to do something. She hastily sells her flat and buys a football field to save it from sealing. The paradise she plans to build here is supposed to server as an existential playground for her and all living beings that settle here. Ridiculed by her own family, the woman tilts at windmills fighting for wind turbines. One can still dream, right? Only sometimes, the dream will turn into a nightmare.
Alone against climate change: The climate competition RUNNING OUT (ZU ENDE GEHEN) by theatre-makers Johanna Hierzegger, Pia Hierzegger, and Gabriela Hiti is a journey meandering between an altruistic act and egomaniacal frenzy. Will the protagonist be exhausted enough to give up or will she emerge victorious?
Graz-based Theater im Bahnhof (TiB) identifies as contemporary popular theatre investigating the Austrian identity. ‘As identity requires permanent negotiation, our way of doing theatre needs to evolve constantly, too.’ TiB is also the biggest professional, independent theatre group permanently in existing in Austria.
Johanna Hierzegger, Pia Hierzegger, and Gabriela Hiti have created theatrical audio tours and bus rides for TiB. Their co-creations Cleaning Up (Aufräumen) and Ladies’ Gymnastics (Frauenturnen) have been presented at brut Wien.
Credits
Directing, text, set and costume design Johanna Hierzegger, Pia Hierzegger, Gabriela Hiti On the field Gabriela Hiti Music Benno Hiti Tech Fritz Hierzegger, Moke Rudolf-Klengel Technical execution Moke Rudolf-Klengel Groundskeeper tbd Production management Monika Klengel, Lena Theresa Rucker
Thanks to Heidi Hierzegger, Norbert Wally, Bianca Blasl and Wilhelm M. Geiger (Podcast Bauer to the People)
City of Graz, Province of Styria, Cultural Department, Kultur, Europa, Sport and the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.
Links & Social
Dates & Tickets
brut at Sportplatz 1210
Jedlersdorfer Platz 25, 1210 Vienna
Event recommendations
Nesterval
The Pink Triangle
A History of the Nameless
brut all over Vienna
brut nordwest
accessible
Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna
Subway: U1, U2 (Praterstern), U4 (Friedensbrücke), U6 (Dresdnerstraße) Tram: 5 (Nordwestbahnstraße) Bus: 5A (Wasnergasse)
Meeting point: Gasthaus Hansy at Praterstern
accessible
Heinestraße 42 , 1020 Vienna
Subway: U1, U2 (Praterstern) / S-Bahn: S1, S2, S3, S4, S7 (Praterstern) / Tram: 5 (Praterstern)
brut at Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien
accessible
Freyung 8, 1010 Vienna
Subway: U1 (Stephansplatz), U2 (Schottentor), U3 (Herrengasse) / Tram: 1, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 (Schottentor) / Bus: 1A, 2A (Herrengasse U), 3A (Renngasse)
Rote Bar at Volkstheater
accessible
Arthur-Schnitzler-Platz 1, 1070 Vienna
Subway: U3 (Volkstheater) / Tram: 49 (Volkstheater) / Bus: 48A (Volkstheater)
brut at Sportplatz 1210
accessible
Jedlersdorfer Platz 25, 1210 Vienna
Subway U6 (Florisdorf) / S-Bahn: S1, S2, S3, S4, S7 (Floridsdorf) / Tram: 30, 31 (Brünner Straße / Hanreitergasse) / Bus: 30A, 32A (Toni Fritsch Weg)
studio brut
not accessible
Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Wien
Subway: U3 (Zieglergasse), Tram: 49 (Westbahnstraße / Zieglergasse)
brut nordwest – rehearsal space
not accessible
Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna