Ernst Molden - Döbling Burning - Rabenhof

Rabenhof Theater, Wien

Poet and songwriter Ernst Molden, who escaped from Döbling to Erdberg decades ago, has dedicated a fantastic dance of death to the district of his birth.

Döbling, Vienna's 19th district, the last bastion of the old Austrian bourgeoisie. There is a hangover mood after the (Neustifter) Kirtag: Otto Meyer-Sudelfeld, a failed performance artist and the last scion of a rubber manufacturer dynasty, could inherit his grandmother's villa and her fortune if only he would finally behave like a decent Döbling man and bury his boozy ideas. But the church in the form of Monsignor Schoiswohl is also eyeing the villa and the money. The demonic winegrower Leopold Probus Musil also plays a role, as does a real Döbling ghost: St. Agnes.

After the Amadeus award-winning and multiple Nestroy-nominated productions HÄUSERL AM OASCH, HAFEN WIEN and MAYERLING, Rabenhof's own Erst Molden - for decades a "partner in crime" at the Gemeindebautheater when it comes to the successful revival of the old Viennese singspiel - is finally back with a new production.

Book and music: Ernst Molden
Director: Thomas Gratzer
With: Alina Schaller, Ursula Strauss, Skye MacDonald, Christoph Krutzler
and Gerald Votava
Band: Ernst Molden, Maria Petrova, Aliosha Biz,
Andrij Prosorow and Karl Stirner
Stage: Dominique Wiesbauer
Costumes: Miriam Draxl