Tamara Metelka

From 1994 to 2005 she was a member of the ensemble of the Vienna Burgtheater, followed by collaborations with Claus Peymann, Achim Benning, Matthias Hartmann and Sven Erik Bechtolf, among others, as well as film and television roles in Austria and Germany. Since 2005 she has worked as a freelance actress at venues such as the Burgtheater Vienna, the Theater in der Josefstadt and the Reichenau Festival. Born in Vienna, she is a graduate of the Max Reinhardt Seminar. Her focus on body and language led early on to a teaching post at the seminar, which she has held since 2001. From October 2014 to February 2020 she was head of the institute.

Interview in the mdw Magazine
The voice as a seismograph of the soul

Significant for my teaching is …
… the awareness of the need to be able to convey the emotional design of a role vocally in any given space. This requires learning a craft just as much as recognising the complex interrelationships between breath, body, voice and speech.
Through ear training and the constant pushing of one's own boundaries, the subject of speech formation ideally leads students to the development of an artistic personality that places the acquired skills freely and without restriction at the service of the role to be developed.