Max Mayer
Geboren 1974 in Wien, studierte Max Mayer am Konservatorium der Stadt Wien Schauspiel. Nach zahlreichen Arbeiten als freier Schauspieler war er u. a. von 2006 bis 2008 Ensemblemitglied am Schauspielhaus Graz, von 2008 bis 2013 im Ensemble des Schauspielhaus Wien sowie von 2014 bis 2016 am Schauspiel Frankfurt auf der Bühne zu erleben. 2011 erhielt er den Nestroy-Preis als «Bester Schauspieler». Weitere Engagements führten an das Thalia Theater Hamburg, Deutsche Schauspielhaus Hamburg, an das Schauspielhaus Bochum sowie an das Burgtheater Wien und das Schauspiel Köln. Eine intensive Zusammenarbeit verbindet ihn mit dem Regisseur Robert Borgmann. Seit der Spielzeit 2019/2020 ist er im Ensemble des Residenztheaters.
Performing in
Elisabeth Gärtner, a retired architect, has only one more wish: she wants to die. Her beloved husband died of cancer three years ago and without him life has no meaning for her any more. A drug that would allow her to die of her own volition has been refused her. Now the Ethics Council must make a decision on her case. Expert witnesses from the fields of law, medicine and theology argue over the question: Does a human being have a right to determine their own death? Are doctors allowed to help someone commit suicide? And who do our lives actually belong to? To us? To the state? Or to God?
Gott (God)«Mitläufer» (Followers) is a historical exploration of the contradictory biographies of those whose close contacts with the Nazi party helped them to reach the top echelons of the theatre. In this research project, the Residenztheater, one of the oldest German theatres, examines a dark chapter in its own history.
Mitläufer (Followers)Following Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, in the second half of the season another we hear from another master storyteller. A narrator who tells us to call him Ismael walks onto the Residenztheater stage in seaman’s garb. What follows is a genuine monster of a story: Ismael is hired on the «Pequod», an old whaling ship, and goes to sea on board this floating blubber factory.
Moby DickJovana Reisinger’s novel follows nine women from early spring to the summer of an unspecified year not far from the present. All of them live in or around Munich and they are all named after women’s magazines. They live and fail representatively, each of them alone and yet collectively, by the images and ideals of what it means to be a woman.
SpitzenreiterinnenAfter many years, Gregers returns to his home country. His father, a successful entrepreneur, offers him the opportunity to join the company management, from which he has to retire for health reasons. Gregers refuses and at the same time learns that his father is secretly financially supporting the family of his old friend Hjalmar Ekdal, who lives in the most modest of circumstances, and becomes suspicious. Why is the capitalist suddenly showing himself to be a philanthropist? In his tragedy, Henrik Ibsen shows how the capitalist system has a direct impact on the private sphere and undermines social cohesion. The Norwegian Johannes Holmen Dahl, one of the most sought-after directors in Scandinavia, is now staging his German debut with a major work by his famous compatriot.
Die Wildente (The wild duck)