THE GREAT TELEVISION SWINDLE
A journey through 50 years of Austrian television
 "Nobody
is going to look into that box anyway",
said Austrian federal chancellor Julius Raab, when television was
presented to him in 1956. Being sceptical about the future of TV as a
mass media, he assured continuous political influence on radio for his
conservative 'People's Party' and left television to the Social democrats.
When Wolfgang Schuessel became federal chancellor
in 2000, he could finally reverse his fellow party member Raab's false
estimation. However, in the archives of the first 45 years of Austrian
television, the OeVP (Austrian People's Party) still does not look very
well. That is where "The Great Television Swindle" begins: Schuessel
assigns media experts maschek to go through selected programmes from Austrian
TV history and to brush up and correct everything that the OeVP is unhappy
with. maschek gladly accepts the bid.
"The Great Television Swindle"
is maschek's new show (stage director: Ed. Hauswirth, Theater im Bahnhof,
Graz), following the series "maschek.redet.drueber", a monthly
90-minute show on the heights and lows of television. maschek call their
main technique "caraoque": by editing television samples they
create new stories, muting the original character's voices and doing live
dubbing.
maschek was founded in 1998 by
Peter Hoermanseder, Ulrich Salamun and Robert Stachel. They did a weekly
radio show for two years, more than 150 live shows, some 20 hours of "TV
caraoque" programmes and a number
of short films and TV productions, participating in numerous festivals
including "Transmediale", "Cinematexas" and "Antimatter".Find
out more about maschek on their website: www.maschek.org
maschek's "The Great Television Swindle"
January 11th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd
Rabenhof Theater, Vienna 3, Rabengasse 3.
starting time: 20:00
tickets: 01/7128282 or www.rabenhof.at
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