How can we act more easily and with joy? How can we get rid of stress and fear before and
after acting? How can we feel safe in our team? How can we transform our safe space into a
brave space? How can we define our boundaries and respect the boundaries of others
better? Self-care for actors* actresses that might help in stressful situations. Mixing and
matching exercises from Michael Tschechow, skills-training, resource-training, intimacy-
coordination, flow, improvisation and bodywork.
Margareta Pesendorfer studied philosophy and German at the University of Vienna and
worked as an acting student at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Then she studied directing at the
“Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch” Berlin. She works as a director in Germany,
Austria and ltaly. She is interested in improvisation, creation and all methods that support
the free flow of play. 2023 she started to work also with people who are disabled by social
structures. Among others, she initiated the inclusive film project “Love is in the Air”. Margareta Pesendorfer taught acting and improvisation at the “Accademia D’Arte Drammatica della Calabria” in Palmi/1 (1998 – 2002) and at the Drama Department at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz/A (1999 – 2000).Since 2003 she has been teaching at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz. From 2003 to 2022 she also was the director of the Drama Institute. She supervised numerous artistic productions and initiated several long-term collaborations such as the acting studios at the Landestheater Linz and the Chemnitz Theater as weil as the festival “Schau! Spiel! Lablinz”, which she has been curating since 2016.