Hotel Horror
Welcome to Hotel Horror! We hope you’ll have an uncomfortable stay. Horror and humour – a combination that works well in the creations of actor and theatre-maker Annina Machaz. In a workshop with participants from the street newspaper Augustin and social welfare organisations Obdach Forum and integration wien, Machaz explores ways to make the audience shudder and laugh at the same time. In line with her characteristic do-it-yourself aesthetic, the participants will create costumes, masks and the set for Hotel Horror and its protagonists. After a week together, those involved invite spectators to a showing at TQW Studios.
born and raised in Zurich, earned a master’s degree in acting from the Bern Academy of the Arts. In 2014, she received the Swiss Premio Award for Young Talent in the Performing Arts for her piece about Amy Winehouse and Marilyn Monroe. Machaz designs her own sets, papier-mâché figures and absurd texts for her productions. She co-directed the fairy tale Gretel and Hänsel at Theater Neumarkt in Zurich and recently co-created the piece SACRE with HORA Theater and Teresa Vittucci. As a performer, she has worked with Ivo Dimchev and Ann Liv Young, among others. She also has a long-standing collaboration with Florentina Holzinger, having played e.g. Dante in A Divine Comedy and Captain Hook in Ophelia’s Got Talent. Most recently, she starred as Jesus in the opera SANCTA. Her solo Zämerisse celebrated its premiere at Steirischer Herbst 2024.
offers former homeless people a space to meet and connect. Regular meetings form the basis of a diverse set of special interest groups and projects. Participants with diverse backgrounds share similar experiences of living on the streets or being homeless at one point in their lives. With Hotel Horror, Obdach Forum and the TQW are realising their sixth joint project.
has been working for the indivisible integration and self-evident participation of people with disabilities in all areas of life since 1986. It runs several programmes funded by public sponsors. The leisure assistance programme (funded by FSW) supports teenagers and young adults with disabilities in planning and carrying out a wide range of leisure activities.
is Vienna’s street newspaper. Selling the Augustin is an occupation and generates income for people who have been excluded from the job market and live in poverty. The project Hotel Horror gives some of the newspaper vendors the opportunity to leave behind their daily lives and take on a different role.
Credits
Concept, choreography Annina Machaz Performance Participants from Obdach Forum, Augustin and integration wien Light, technical support Tobias Fortunits Camera Anselm Tröster TQW Audiencing, production management, idea Theresa Rauter Supported by Obdach Forum as part of the Sponsoring Programme of Erste Bank
