pritzi-blog

In July 2022, I started to investigate the phenomenon of the playwright and theatre director Anna Pritzi and her "Amazonentheater", an all-women theatre group in the Tyrol of the 19th century. I search for Pritzi's lost work in the city of Innsbruck and Tyrolean archives, and then study and discuss it with performance and theatre makers in Berlin.

This blog will be my travelogue in which I will report on my search for Anna Pritzi, her theatre plays and the "Mädchengesellschaft".

My research is supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR.

A short note for a better understanding of the blog: Anna Pritzi's official name is Anna Reithmayr née Brixin. Pritzi or Pritzin is a variation of her maiden name Brix or Brixin. In the theatre context, she probably went by her maiden name and its variations.

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19. Nov. 2022
1 Min.

17 the visit - part 2

Two days ago I was in Innsbruck again and visited Gitti an der Lan. She is the granddaughter of the inn and brewery owner Nissl of...

16. Nov. 2022
2 Min.

16 the visit

picture: Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv Wien, HHStA, HA OMeA HRD X 72-11 I have received mail from the Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv in...

26. Aug. 2022
2 Min.

15 preliminary résumé

My research period in Innsbruck is now over and I arrived back in Berlin yesterday. It was an intense time with many exciting encounters...

19. Aug. 2022
3 Min.

14 the playbill

After breakfast, I went straight to the folk song archive to see the curator, Mrs Ortner. I was able to study the copy of the play "Die...

18. Aug. 2022
2 Min.

13 the estate of the historian

I walked across Innsbruck early and was at the Tyrolean Provincial Archives at 8.30 am. I was greeted on the stairs by the gentleman from...

17. Aug. 2022
2 Min.

12 detours

I went to all the parish archives: St Nikolaus, Hötting, Mühlau. Unfortunately, no one could help me in my search for Anna Pritzi's...

16. Aug. 2022
2 Min.

11 the house

Anna Pritzi grew up in St Nikolaus/ Innsbruck and also died there. Her father Johann Brix had a clothier's shop in what is now Innstraße...

2. Aug. 2022
2 Min.

10 the box

Today I left at 5:30 in the morning from Vinschgau/ South Tyrol to Innsbruck. There I first walked to St Nikolaus to the parish office...

28. Juli 2022
1 Min.

9 the venue

In the library of the Ferdinandeum I came across an article by the historian Anton Dörrer in the newspaper Dolomiten from 1952. Here he...

21. Juli 2022
1 Min.

8 the list

This is a list of the plays Anna Pritzi is said to have written, which I was able to compile from various sources. Will I ever find any...

15. Juli 2022
1 Min.

7 the descendant

I called the St Nikolaus cemetery administration, a funeral home, and spoke to a woman. She said I could come by and she could write a...

14. Juli 2022
1 Min.

6 women only

This morning I had a long talk about men and women with my landlady over breakfast. I really have to summarise it again. It's interesting...

14. Juli 2022
2 Min.

5 the dates

I got a great tip from Christian Fornwagner from the Tyrolean Provincial Archives. All baptism, marriage and death registers of Tyrol...

13. Juli 2022
1 Min.

4 the archives

After wandering through the Innsbruck districts of Hötting and St. Nikolaus in the heat yesterday, following in the footsteps of Anna...

12. Juli 2022
1 Min.

3 the grave

I arrived in Innsbruck today and am staying in a guesthouse in Hötting. I put my bag down and went straight to the St. Nikolaus cemetery....

8. Juli 2022
1 Min.

2 the obituary

In a few academic and newspaper articles it is reported that Anna Pritzi lived to be 80 or 85 years old. Her married name was Anna...

1. Juli 2022
2 Min.

1 the travelogues

I discovered the first references to Anna Pritzi in Toni Bernhart´s book "Volksschauspiele" (2019). He quotes from a travelogue from 1838...