Open, courageous, like a pioneer – and versatile: There are some terms, you are bound to, if you want to describe the artist Birgit Thiel. After playing some parts in Vienna she studied with the first nudity dancer Anna Halprin in San Francisco, and acting with Lecoq and Gaullier in Paris and was then engaged there. In Paris she was one of the protagonists of the vanguard cabaret- and theatrescene and sang at the opening of the first erotic museum in Paris. Back in Vienna she sang a cappella and in Sign Language for the Austrian Deaf community in the Odeon-Theatre, wrote a book and interviewed contemporary witnesses.
Since 2010 Birgit Thiel also works as a Simulation Patient for medical communication at the Medical University of Vienna and for Gesundheit Österreich.
Nowadays she paints and prints in her Atelier Teil von Thiel.
Exhibitions
2023 STEPS (reproduction from 40 years of diarypaintings)
2024 SEE
2025 AUS DEM NICHTS; FROM NOWHERE
In 2010 she also wrote the book, "Memoirs of ROLF KUTSCHERA", which appeared in the edition Styria Premium, about the theatre director and pioneer, who established the musical in the German-language territory and build up the "Theater an der Wien", which was called out a mausoleum before he made it to one of the most impressive theaters.
Film and TV
Bix in the Viennese webserial STILBLÜTEN.TV
Various shortfilms with upcoming directors, France and Austria (Ö)
(P)REISE
-> Director: Ioan Gavrilovitch, Ö
MIKADO
-> Director: Sylvia ZEITLINGER, Ö
BASSLINE
-> Director: Graeme MILLER, Ö
NINTH GATE
-> Director: Roman POLANSKI, FR
MESMER
-> Director: Roger SPOTTISWOODE; Ö
ICH GELOBE
-> Director: Wolfgang MURNBERGER, Ö
ANTON
-> Director: Georg LHOTSKY, Ö
Theatre
Odeon, Theater Brett, Dramatisches Zentrum; Ö
Pigalls, Th. des Songes, div. Café-Théatre; FR und Ö
Various prod. for „Wiener Festwochen“, Vienna
Voice
Recitals - Songs of the 20ies and 30ies in 4 languages; FR
Singer in the band: Wiener Viehharmoniker; Vienna
Speaker for NAD Austria, to implement SIGN LANGUAGE in the constitution for
bilingual education for the Deaf
Projects with George APERGHIS; Paris
Training in Paris, San Francisco and Vienna