Serapions Theater#
Serapions Theater (located in the Odeon theatre), founded in 1973 by E. Piplits and Ulrike Kaufmann under the name of "PupoDrom". Since 1980 avant-garde theatre company called "Serapions Theater". Since 1988 located in the stateroom of the former commodity exchange (Odeon, dating from 1889) in the 2nd district of Vienna. Name and programme were adopted as indicative of the company´s interest in E. T. A. Hoffmann´s literary society of "Serapion Brothers": a mixture of poetry, scenic forms and music; developed from pure puppet theatre via masques to new scenic forms aimed at visual confrontation; numerous tours in Austria and abroad.
Literature#
L. Zamponi, Serapions Theater. "Mehr Licht!", in: Buehne 12, 1987; S. Loeffler, Wiens Traumtheater, in: Theater heute 7, 1987.