Steward Norbert Gollinger After a successful season in the previous year, looking forward to the coming summer: “For 2025, the Gutenstein Raimund games remain loyal to their audience. With the farmer as a millionaire, another extremely popular piece by Ferdinand Raimund is on the program. It is also one of the three most important works in the poet.”
The original magic fairy tale begins in November 1826 in the Theater in the Leopoldstadt The Bauer as a millionaire In the fairy world, where the Fee Lacrimosa draws the feather queen’s wrath of its high mut. Her plan to marry her daughter Lottchen to the Son of the Feen Queen, causes Lottchen’s exile on the ground where she is supposed to live in poverty. This curse can only be broken if the girl marries a poor man before her 18th birthday. Lacrimosa therefore puts her daughter in the hands of the forest farmer Fortunatus Wurzel, who lives in modest conditions, which is supposed to ensure lottery and to marry her at the time. Due to a personal disgrace with liquorice with liquorice, envy threatens to cross the plan – he leaves root a treasure that helps him with immense wealth and makes him forget his ideals. Root forbids Lottchen to marry the poor fisherman Karl reilp and violate it as she opposes him. With the help of satisfaction, everything succeeds in turning to the better. Although this is a long way, ultimately recognizing both roots and Karl – who was also able to accumulate great fortune due to the mix of hatred – that wealth is not everything and a simple life in love, happiness and satisfaction is more worth more than all possessions of the world.
The third piece of Raimund’s feather not only captivates with the characteristic joke of the Viennese folk theater and original songs like the famous Ash song or Fine brothersbut also with a variety of topics that are still up to date almost two hundred years after the publication of the text. In addition to rival power conditions in the fairy kingdom and the imbalance between poor and rich, motifs such as the struggle for true love and self -knowledge also play a major role. The allegorical figures of youth, envy, satisfaction or old age are also decisive in the conveying of these values.
“But a lot in the world, I don’t mean it, is worth the effort (…).”
Ensemble
As in the previous year, the Raimundpiele ensemble also mixes actors with many years of experience and young, aspiring talents.
The role of the forest farmer Fortunatus Wurzel, which has been wealthy, takes on the well -known from theater and TV Gerhard weddingwho was already in Felix Mitterers in 2019 Fine brothers could be seen in the Raimund games.
The audience can also look forward to a number of actors who have already participated in the previous year – above all Rudi Roubinekknown from the ORF satirical program We are emperors or the pulse 4 format Are you dipper!. In 2025 he took on the role of the valet Lorenz And that of the magician Ajaxle. Also part of the production is the Austrian actress and spokeswoman Chris PichlerThe one as a fairy Lacrimosa will be seen.
In the role of the lovers Karl reil and Lottery slip Chiara Schmölz – trained at the renowned EAST 15 Acting School in London and most recently at the Kobersdorf Castle Games in The servant of two gentlemen To see – and Felix Rankwho appears regularly in the theater as well as on film and television and recently in Eva Spreitzhofer’s feature film How do we get out again? (2023) participated.
Roles Julia Frisch when satisfaction or Carmen Kirschner when youth on. William Mang, Richard Stanzl and Leonie Latonia Complete the ensemble.
The actors are supported by a movement choir consisting of the dancers Kamilla adamik, Valeria Chavez Chong and Martina Andrew. For the musical accompaniment draws Wolfgang Schlögl responsible. Even successful musician, for example with his band Sofa Surfershe composed and realized the music for a variety of plays, most recently for, for example for It must be divorced (Raimund games Gutenstein and Theater in the Josefstadt) or Biedermann and the arsonists (Theater in the Josefstadt).
Directed by, stage and costume
It’s Dlfen Currently studied theater, film and media sciences at the University of Vienna and completed the Friedl Kubelka school for independent film in 2020/2021. In the film, she was already able to gain initial experience in the field of equipment. The same applies to the theater, where she worked as a director’s assistant both in the theater in the Josefstadt and at the Kammerspiele. In this function, she also participated in the Raimund games in 2023 and 2024. After initial directing work for various short film projects The farmer as a millionaire represent your directorial debut at the theater. Dalfen in particular would like to give Raimund’s fantasy world and the realm of the fairies an important meaning. Another focus should be on the retention of the characteristic language of Raimund.
Already in the previous year Simina Nicolaescu For the costume picture in the raimund game production of The lighter responsible. This year she takes on a new task with the design of the stage design. She was able to gain experience in many important houses, in 2024, for example as a stage design assistance The seagull in the theater in the Josefstadt or in the Passion Oratorio The Gospel According to the Other Mary in the Vienna Volksoper.
The costume design will Anna Hoss take over. After training at the Herbststraße fashion school, she decided to study fashion design in the English derby. So far mainly in the area of the set costume at various films, she is happy as a costume designer for The farmer as a millionaire On new challenges in the field of theater costume.
Ticket sales
Buying tickets for the 15 performances between July 9 and August 3, 2025 is both through the EventJet online ticket shop (https://shop.eventjet.at/raimundspiele) as well as via the map office under +43 676 840023200 possible. More details are on www.raimundspiele.at to find.
The farmer as a millionaire premiere
Datum: 09.07.2025, 7:30 p.m.
Art: Performances/stage
Ort: Theater tent in the bleeding garden
2770 Gutenstein
Austria