Tina Leisch is a Viennese film & theatre director, well known for her experimental theatre projects. She developed the play: «Irrgelichter im Spiegelgrund» with patients of the notorious psychiatric hospital “Steinhof” in Vienna. She wrote and staged the play “Elf Seelen für einen Ochsen- enajs dus za enega vola”, treating of the fight of carinthian partisans in World war II. She won the NESTROY-Price, Austrias most important theatre award, for her staging of Georges Taboris «Mein Kampf». Since 2004 she is developing plays with inmates of prisons. Her first feature length documentary for cinema “Gangster Girls” won a Special Mention in the Vienna Viennale Film Festival 2008.
Austria