- Karl Welunschek also dealt with the modern Greek theater.
- Under the motto "Vienna is unbelievably cool", Karl Welunschek opened the Rabenhof.THEATER in Vienna-Erdberg on December 31, 2000 as artistic director. Newspaper Der Standard wrote on the 19th of May: The goal is not only the "demoralization of the people, but also to give the trash theater shaped by Welunschek cult status.".
- Karl Welunschek took over the function of President of the Wolfgang Bauer Foundation. The association to promote the international dissemination of artistic work and the memory of Wolfgang Bauer was founded in 2007.
- Welunschek received his first Kainz Medal for the fifth production of "The Last Volume" by Samuel Beckett at the Museum für Moderne Kunst with Robert Hunger-Bühler.
- Since the whole world is a staging, Karl Welunschek actually shifted his concentration from conception and revitalization of museum operations to museums and worked as a curator in the Stadtmuseum Graz until July 2007 with the main focus of responsibility on the Living Museum department.
- At the age of seventeen he began training at the Krauss drama school.
- For almost 40 years, Welunschek was a disruptive factor in the best sense of the word in the established cultural scene. A few years ago, he announced his retirement and went on a journey.
- In 2005, Karl Welunschek founded the first Austro-African drama ensemble Collective Les Nègres in Graz as artistic director. The pilot project Les Nègres. Clownerie by Jean Genet had its premiere as a trilingual production on March 23, 2006 in the studio stage of the Graz Opera with a revival in the Vienna Schauspielhaus.
- His paths also led him to the Ankara State Opera or to Israel, where he worked as a curator for the Vienna Festival. Welunschek only returned to Austria in 1999 at the invitation of a production of the Gottfried von Einem opera based on Nestroy's farce Der Zerrissene.
- He was Nominated for the Nestroy Prize in 2002 and this for the artistic concept of the Rabenhof Stadttheater as a current critical theater in the German-speaking area.
- He received the promotion award for the' Kainz Medalset design' for the play "Mercedes" (Thomas Brasch) in the Vienna Schauspielhaus, 1984.
- In the 1990s, Karl Welunschek worked primarily as a freelance director abroad, where he directed productions at the National Theater Mannheim, Schauspiel Frankfurt, in Hamburg and Düsseldorf, among others.
- In 1987, Welunschek, together with Beatrice Frey, Andrea Braunsteiner and Michael Zerz, based on Bertolt Brecht, founded the Vienna (=Wiener) Ensemble without a permanent home. The members of the Vienna Ensemble include Robert Hunger-Bühler, Karl Markovics, Fritz Karl, Julia Stemberger, Toni Böhm and Wolf Bachofner.
- Welunschek grew up as a working-class child of Josefa (née Stelzl) and Karl Welunschek senior in the middle-class 8th district of Vienna, at times in church and state homes.
- Welunschek completed his apprenticeship as an art, book and music dealer with distinction.
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