Matthias Lilienthal

[1] In the mid-1980s, Lilienthal worked as a freelance journalist for the taz, the zitty [de] and the Süddeutsche Zeitung; he was then an assistant director to Achim Freyer at the Burgtheater in Vienna.

[5] Already before the start of the season, Lilienthal called for a worldwide tender for the art action Shabbyshabby Apartments:[6][7] For four weeks in autumn 2015, 24 temporary huts and cottages stood in central locations in the city, preferably in places that stand for high rents such as Maximilianstraße.

[10] In summer 2019, however, critics named the Kammerspiele Theatre of the Year, Christopher Rüping [de]'s Dionysos Stadt was best production, and other prizes were awarded for acting, stage design and young actors.

The premiere on 11 July 2020 was "a spun-poetic piece" that alluded to this summer's Olympic Games in Japan, which were cancelled due to Corona, which most theatre critics from FAZ to Süddeutsche Zeitung to taz reviewed predominantly favourably.

[11] Lilienthal described as his most impressive theatre experience the production Winterreise im Olympiastadion by Klaus Michael Grüber, which he saw in Berlin in 1977, "300 spectators shivering in the Olympic Stadium at minus 20 degrees".