Application for the Greatest Possible Distance from Violence

Name: Application for the Greatest Possible Distance from Violence
Start: 2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-11-08T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Theater praesent

Sunday 8 November · 18:00Theater praesent · tirol

What's it about?

By Felicia Zeller REPRISE HOME is where the heart is. Home is not a place, it is a feeling. […] HOME is also the most dangerous place in the world for women, trans people, non-binary people, (gender-)queer people, and children. Is the danger of experiencing violence as great at HOME (Laura Leupi) Every third woman* between 18 and 74 years in Austria has experienced physical and/or sexual violence from the age of 15. Almost one in six women* has been threatened with physical violence as an adult. Physical and/or sexual violence perpetrated by partners, so-called domestic violence, affects over 16% of women between 18 and 74 years. This is shown by a survey on violence against women conducted by Statistik Austria between 2020 and 2021 on behalf of Eurostat and the Federal Chancellery. The topic of violence against women, which should actually be called male violence, is repeatedly trivialized or dismissed as a marginal phenomenon. It is denied that it is a deeply rooted, structural societal problem. In her piece "Application for the Greatest Possible Distance from Violence," Felicia Zeller weaves, based on real interviews, the biographies of women who have found their way to women’s shelters with highly artificial voices of women’s shelter staff or doctors, voices of offending perpetrators, and the inattentive voices of those who overlook the problem. This has resulted in a powerful score that interweaves fragments of lives and poetically clashes between the search for happiness and real economic constraints. Despair quickly turns into absurd comedy, as in some partnerships, family peace turns into pointless violence. The evening does not want to dwell in a gesture of victimhood or portray women as victims, but rather give space to strong voices that are set to reshape their lives. REGION: Michaela Senn ACTORS: Elke Hartmann, Christina Polzer, Wiltrud Stieger SET DESIGN: n.n. DRAMATURGY: Julia Jenewein TECHNICAL: n.n. PHOTOS: Alena Klinger PUBLISHER: Felix Bloch Erben Info: Please do not print your ticket. Admission is 30 minutes before the performance begins.