Piksi Buch

A roaring, drunken crowd, Barbi Marković and her father in the midst of it all. A sports report about a childhood in the stadium in Belgrade. A daughter who never became a football son. The football-loving men roar and cry. Neither changes the outcome of the story: the Yugoslav flags fly for the last time in the stadium. While her family and country fall apart, Barbi Marković rises through the dust of Piksi to become a master of words.

Bérénice Hebenstreit stages Marković’s plea for the weak heroes and at the same time asks what connects sports reports and violence-loving environments with each other. The soundscape is provided by Monobrother & B.Visible. From stadium gloom to the myth of Maksimir.

The new TEATA in Gumpendorfer is a guest at the Theater am Werk in Vienna with this production.

Bérénice Hebenstreit, born in Vienna in 1987, is an Austrian theatre director. After working as an assistant director at the Burgtheater, Schauspielhaus Graz and Volkstheater Wien, she directed productions at the Volkstheater Wien, in Linz, Bregenz, Innsbruck and Nuremberg, among others. In 2020, she won the Nestroy Prize in the category ‘Best Newcomer’. From autumn 2026, she will work as deputy artistic director at Theater der Jugend.

Barbi Marković , born in Belgrade in 1980, studied German language and literature in Belgrade and Vienna. She made her debut in 2009 with the Thomas Bernhard remix novel Ausgehen, which caused quite a stir. Her multilingual literature includes novels such as Superheldinnen (2016) as well as short stories, plays and radio plays. In 2024 she won the Leipzig Book Prize for Minihorror. In recent years, her texts Minihorror and Das Kitzelmonster have been performed at the Theater am Werk.