ANGELIKA
MESSNER

CURRENTLY...

After my time as dramaturge at the Reichenau Festival (2022–2025), where I had the opportunity to conceive and design formats such as the Entrée podcast, play introductions, and theater education, I am now very much looking forward to my new role as dramaturge at the Carinthian Summer and to working with artistic director Nadja Kayali.

My reading version of Schenja Berkowitsch’s novel “Zöglinge” with Birgit Minichmayr, which was so successful at last year’s Carinthian Summer, can be seen at the Burgtheater in Vienna on November 22 and January 16.

And already now, we are announcing LOISIARTE 2026, our 20th edition of the festival, which will take place from March 19 to 22.

VITA

Angelika Messner is a playwrite, dramaturg and director living in Vienna. Her work is marked by variety and quality.  Her artistic roots lie in music with her studies of the violin at the universities of music in Graz and Vienna having shaped her effectively. Rhythm, sound, and the musicality of language remain important aspects of her directorial and literary work.

CURRENT PROJECTS

Pupils

2025

By Schenja Berkowitsch

With: Birgit Minichmayr

Reading version: Angelika Messner

Premiered at Carinthischer Sommer 2025

LOISIARTE 2025

27 – 30 March 2025

Theme: Unterwegs

Music & Literature at the Loisium

In the center: Manuela Kerer, Helmut Schmidinger

Literature by Christoph Ransmayr, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Philip Blom u.a.

Recitation: Julia Stemberger, Petra Morzé, Erwin Steinhauer, Philipp Blom

Artistic direction: Christian Altenburger

Dramaturgy: Angelika Messner

LOISIARTE