In a breathless tour de force, the consummate performers Dagmar Manzel and Max Hopp act and sing their way through 20 characters using power and slapstick. The glamour queen and operetta diva Manon Cavallini can turn the head of any man.
(Original title: Eine Frau, die weiß, was sie will!)
Gmundner Keramik and OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH have created a new format with the Academy of Ceramics. The center of the focus is placed on the shared firing and the exchange between one of the oldest locations for the production of ceramics in Europe and internationally renowned contemporary artists.
What separates and what connects our culture and history with those of the earliest Chinese dynasties?
With the tragic life story of the Jewish artist Alma Rosé, who was closely connected to the Salzkammergut, a series of events started that already refers to the Capital of Culture Year 2024 and to the program line POWER AND TRADITION.
(Original title: Alma Rosé – Das Leben einer großen Künstlerin zwischen Kultur und Barberei)
School students, folklore preservationists and retired people will work with the General Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations in a variety of ways.
The creative foundation of the Salzkammergut holds great potential for the Capital of Culture and is to to be made visible in 2024.
The Salzkammergut was a melting pot of the avant-garde in the 19th and 20th centuries. The performance and exhibition of the “Ballet Mécanique” tie in with this tradition and at the same time offer a Salzkammergut version of the visionary masterpiece of classical modernism.
The Bartlhaus Writing Museum celebrates the Capital of Culture Year with a series of exciting presentations and, as a project partner, opens the house to new perspectives and current positions from May to October 2024.
(Original title: Schriftmuseum Bartlhaus)
In the Villa Toscana of Margarete Stonborough-Wittgenstein, the sister of philosopher Ludwig Wittgensteinsich, people met every summer for creative meetings, exchange or musical and dance performances. In 2024, Villa Toscana will once again become a place of exhibition and salons.
The bioregion around the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl 2024 acts as a case study on regional material resources.
A saltworks is a place for extracting salt, isn’t it? It is also a very special place to get a taste for the crystalline basic structures of Bruckner’s music.
The project invites the population of Unterach to actively participate in the development process of the new community chronicle.
(Original title: Chronisch ungeschrieben)
The focus of the women’s circle is the exchange of experiences among the artists on topics such as the “female working body” and “the task of being a woman”.
(Original title: ZirkelSalon)
With its wide range of offerings, Gmunden will become a center for already established and future ceramics experts as well as for ceramics enthusiasts and observers from Austria and abroad.
The former weaving and spinning mill Ebensee is the hub of the project, which addresses the history of the working world of women, role attributions, social achievements and controversies.
(Original title: Einen Faden Ziehen)
In 2024, the European Miners’ and Smelters’ Day will take place in Bad Ischl from May 24 to 26, with 2000 to 3000 participants expected from all over Europe. Miners’ associations mainly from mining regions in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and France will be on site to celebrate their miners’ traditions together.
(Original title: Europäischer Knappen- und Hüttentag)
A retrospective of horse-drawn railways, steamships and their innovative creators.
A composition with an audience is created along the paths and across the meadows around the lake railway station and landing stage.
The Glöcker*innenlauf developed from traditional customs on Traunsee and has spread from there over the course of the last century.
The project invites young people to try their hand at arts and crafts. In this way, they develop their own interest and an understanding of traditional crafts.
Hausmusik Roas takes a new look at traditional folk music and encourages people to make music with relish.
(Original title: Hausmusik Roas)
Stories in pictures pictures have offered a unique and touching access to our history since the beginning of time. The German comic artist Simon Schwartz is a master of the form and shows how up close and personal the experience of contemporary history can be.
(Original title: Verborgen im Fels. Der Berg, das Salz & die Kunst)
If only the Emperor had known about everything that would happen in the area around Bad Ischl and the Salzkammergut region and how it is seen today!
Like many of his artistic contemporaries, Arnold Schönberg sought out summer retreats far from urban distractions in order to give free rein to his creativity during extended stays in the country.
An evening with Ethel Merhaut and Stefano Bernardin, in which Vinzenz Praxmarer and his orchestra Divertimento Viennese revive the sound of light music of the 1920s and 1930s.
(Original title: Im Frauenparadies)
The project invites people to reread letters from their own environment and make them available to us: Because these personal documents reflect the life of the region, contemporary events and their impact on the lives of the authors.
(Original title: Briefgeheimnisse interaktiv)
A book project about the Jewish population living in the Salzkammergut before and in some cases still during National Socialism.
(Original title: Jüdische Familien im Salzkammergut)
In cooperation with the Stefan Zweig Center in Salzburg and the Austrian Society for Literature, the European Capital of Culture Region is offering high-quality readings of his critical writings and speeches on the topic.
(Original title: Reise aus der Welt von Gestern in die Welt von Morgen)
Sometimes the imperial legacy weighs heavily on Bad Ischl, and alternative perspectives are largely ignored – kitsch and clichés dominate, with history being clotted in the shadow of the Habsburg myth. An exhibition in the public space as well as talks and statements by European experts dare to take a differentiated look at the imperial and royal period.
(Original title: k.u.k. kritisch und kontrovers)
World premiere at Musical Frühling Gmunden 2023. Since 2015, theater makers Elisabeth Sikora and Markus Olzinger have been establishing Gmunden as a venue for Austrian and German-language premiere performances in what is probably the most modern genre in theater history, the musical.
(Original title: Briefe an Ruth)
Three artist friends are at the center of the exhibition: the painter Lisel Salzer, the illustrator and performance artist Lisl Weil and the writer Hilde Spiel.
Voices From and About Europe – Reading Festival with Music
(Original title: Literaturpreis „nah und fern“)
A house becomes a place of exchange of living history of its surroundings. The history of the Lederermayerhaus dates back to the beginning of the 18th century. Among other things, it was the location of a fishmonger and the house of a Lederer trade. It was farm and a loving cat house, cared for by its last owner.
(Original title: Museum der Erinnerung)
This project combines traditional instruments such as the zither, dulcimer and fife with contemporary electronic music. The sound characteristics of traditional and nearly vanished instruments from the region will be paired with new and unusual styles of playing.
(Original title: Musikmaschine)
New in word, image and sound: the opening of the newly designed Altaussee Literature Museum is dedicated to Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
The rugged mountain areas, dense forests and extensive alpine pastures of the Salzkammergut served not only as hiding places for resistance fighters and deserters during National Socialism, but also for some high-ranking National Socialists. Within the framework of the project, hikes will take place that are not so much aimed at spectacular mountain peaks, but rather lead to original locations that played an essential role in this context, but have largely disappeared from the collective memory or have never taken root there.
(Original title: Wege des Widerstands)
Let yourself be stimulated, touched and seduced: The poetry vending machines in Ausseerland attract and inspire poetry lovers and those who want to become poetry lovers with a variety of poems of different character.
(Original title: Poesieautomaten Ausseerland)
Regional_Express is a project by Petra Ardai, Ella Raidel, and Marlene Rutzendorfer.
The train in motion as a narrator, time travelers, and the landscape as cinema.
With the European Capitals of Culture, impulses are set, models of the future are worked on and cultural developments are conceived with art and sent out into the world: it is a matter of the unifying visionary power that Europe, just like the Salzkammergut region, has and needs through cultural diversity. We are living in times in which Europe has to find its position in the world anew and, in doing so, it is not only a matter of shared rules, guidelines and bureaucracy, but instead much more about the question of the role of culture as a source of power that provides identity.
A four-part Sound-Land-Art project with choirs, music bands, “Prangerschütz*innen” and bells from the Salzkammergut region.
(Original title: Salzkammer(sc)hall)
Peter Kammerstätter collected the experiences of people who would otherwise not have had a chance to speak. Without his tireless work, only a few fragments about the resistance movement in the Salzkammergut would be known today. This publication is a reminder of these people.
Students of the HLW Bad Ischl start a search for traces on the almost forgotten topic “Siebenbürgen in the region”.
In an experimental way, four performers and musicians make use of traditional alpine live music, various group dances and ritualistic practices.
With the concert series Bleiben oder Gehen, or Stay or Go, the tradition of salon culture in Bad Ischl is being resurrected.
(Original title: Bleiben oder gehen – Musik aus schweren Zeiten)
This symposium on one of the most important prehistoric cultures is intended to shed new light on its development, as well as the findings and progress that have been made since the first finds up to the present day.
Tavern Culture Reloaded: The lab offers renowned chefs, ambitious apprentices and artists a playing field to reimagine traditional regional gastronomy with new culinary skills and innovative concepts.
(Original title: Wirtshauslabor Salzkammergut 2024)
David Wagner and ten grandees of the Austrian improvisation theatre scene will ask the population of 16 Capital of Culture communities about their ideas and concerns on the topic of culture and process the results between May and September 2023 in 16 improvised theatre live shows.
(Original title: Sog’s uns, Soizkammerguat!)
The theatre play tells the hidden stories of the oldest market in the Salzkammergut.
(Original title: Das weiße Rössl von Lauffen)
Illustrious people have responded to the casting call for “The Big World Theatre”. They find themselves in a closed room and are asked by the creator to improvise from “birth to death”. Who is this mysterious entertainer with his two angels?
(Original title: Das Große Welttheater)
Three different art exhibitions of a special kind at three locations: During the Second World War, Hitler and the most important Austrian museums and art dealers used the Salzkammergut to bring masterpieces of European art history to safety or to protect museum collections from destruction.
(Original title: Die Reise der Bilder)
Storytellers from different countries in Europe will visit schools in the 2024 European Capital of Culture Salzkammergut region and tell stories in the oral tradition in different languages in a variety of different school levels.
(Original title: Die neue Welt des Erzählens)
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Konrad Mautner, the Folk Life Museum at the Paulustor in Graz is dedicating a personal exhibition to this researcher and collector of traditional garbs and folks songs.
The focus of the theater work is on looted art and everyday objects from former Jewish property from the region. In public space, the personal stories associated with them become tangible.
(Original title: Die unerhörten Dinge – eine andere Art der Provenienzforschung)
The bicycle as an indispensable means of transport in the resistance against National Socialism: This project describes bicycle routes used by the partisan group Willy-Fred.
(Original title: Touren von Willy-Fred)
A creation by Yaron Lifschitz with Franui Musicbanda, the Circa Ensemble and GmC lighthouse.
World premiere based on the book by Mira Lobe, adapted by Michaela Obertscheider. Start 3 pm, admission 2 pm
(Original title: Valerie und die Gute-Nacht-Schaukel)
VOLXFEST / Festivals, pop ups, exhibitions, dialogues, regulars’ tables, performance, workshops: A three-part festival that creates a mosaic of multiple affiliations through music, dance, costume, custom. Through the art and power of “celebration”, the Volxfest wants to open up an open culture of togetherness.
In the project “We in the Salzkammergut”, staff from the theatre mediation department of the Landestheater Linz work for a week on location with people on topics that move the participants. They research, rehearse and develop together, and at the end there is an exciting presentation of the results – with people on the spot for people on the spot.
(Oiginal title: Wir im Salzkammergut – Eine szenische Erprobung)
The Welt-Salon takes up the idea of the historical salon concept as a social meeting place between the public and private spheres, as a place of exchange on topics such as politics, culture and economics. Representatives of communities and experts discuss historical immigration and emigration.
(Original title: Welt-Salon)
© Kulturhauptstadt Bad Ischl – Salzkammergut 2024 GmbH
© Kulturhauptstadt Bad Ischl – Salzkammergut 2024 GmbH
