Oscar spectacle and Burgtheater premiere: an evening full of emotions!

Oscar spectacle and Burgtheater premiere: an evening full of emotions!

On March 3, 2025 at 10:30 p.m. in ORF 2 and on ORF ON, Clarissa Stadler's "Monday" will provide a look back at this year's Oscar night. The focus is on the winners and losers. You look particularly excited about Brady Corbet's cinema project "The Brutalist", which is considered a favorite and with a Jewish architect as a protagonist in the Oscar races. Another highlight is the musical thriller "Emilia Pérez", which is in the crossfire for the main actress Karla Sofía Gascón due to the striking nominations, especially because of her controversial tweets. The political dimension is underlined by the return of Donald Trump and his departure from the gender ideology. The "cultural monday" will illuminate these developments with a live circuit to Los Angeles, as it is orf.at reported.

Premiere of "The McNeal case"

At the same time, on March 1st, the German-language premiere of the play "The McNeal case" by Pulitzer award winner Ayad Akhtar will take place in the Vienna Burgtheater. Production illuminates the toxic masculinity by presenting the privileged Jacob McNeal, embodied by Joachim Meyerhoff and Felix Kammerer in a complex father-son relationship. The piece questions the power structures between the sexes and treats current technologies such as artificial intelligence. Meyerhoff and Kammerer, two crowd favorites, return to the stage, whereby Kammerer is currently coming from the Oscar success of "In the West nothing new", which further increases expectations of the staging, how ots.at determined.

Ulli lusts graphic novel "The woman as a human"

Another exciting topic in "Culture Monday" is the graphic novel "The woman as human" by Ulli Lust, which addresses the role of women in history with a feminist perspective. This work illuminates 10,000 years of human development and presents women as central figures who often remain invisible in historically distorted narratives. The publication is in a strong contrast to current social debates on gender roles and emancipation and calls for an examination of patriarchal myths. It is particularly noteworthy how lust the equality in the Stone Age addresses and thus throws a new light on female perspectives. With this graphic novel, she calls for a re -evaluation of historiography and sensitizes the often overlooked achievements of women who are loud ots.at are long overdue.