Theatre in Review: Upper Austria

Theatre in Review: Upper Austria was published on the occasion of Christopher Williams’ exhibition Radio/Rauhfaser/Television at Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago. It focuses on Williams’ research into a broadcast of Franz Xaver Kroetz’s 1972 stage play Upper Austria and an accompanying panel discussion – consisting of Franz Xaver Kroetz, Dieter Braun, Ludwig Hannover, Dieter Schnabel, and Hans-Georg Frieser – that was cancelled by West German public television broadcaster ZDF in 1973 due to Kroetz’s communist party affiliations. This book publishes, for the first time, a complete transcript of the panel discussion along with contemporaneous newspaper articles, opinion pieces, and open letters written in the wake of the cancellation, and an introduction by Neubauer Collegium curator Dieter Roelstraete. Translated into English by Maximilian Klemens Sänger in conjunction with Williams Studio, this book was edited by Williams and designed by Petra Hollenbach.