Salt has connected people in the Salzkammergut for 7000 years. An app allows you to immerse yourself in the different eras and connects the region in the process.
(Original title: 7000 Jahre Salz – das virtuelle Museum Salzkammergut)
Power and Tradition
An open and active memorial culture without blind spots is a necessity for using the past to learn lessons for a careful and proactive approach to our present and future. The maintaining of tradition is a vibrant and strong practice in the Salzkammergut region. It covers a wide range of activities, extending from music, crafts, customs, theater and literature to restaurant culture. In order to understand traditions, however, a differentiated view of how they developed is also necessary. What power relationships have shaped this region and new modes of behavior and new customs? Remembering means shaping the future responsibly.
Power and Tradition
An open and active memorial culture without blind spots is a necessity for using the past to learn lessons for a careful and proactive approach to our present and future. The maintaining of tradition is a vibrant and strong practice in the Salzkammergut region. It covers a wide range of activities, extending from music, crafts, customs, theater and literature to restaurant culture. In order to understand traditions, however, a differentiated view of how they developed is also necessary. What power relationships have shaped this region and new modes of behavior and new customs? Remembering means shaping the future responsibly.
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Power and Tradition
Musical Comedy in Two Acts (1932) by Oscar Straus, Directed by Barrie Kosky
The masterpiece of the Jewish-Austrian composer Oscar Straus with hits like “Why shouldn’t a woman have an affair” and “Every woman has some longing”.
(Original title: Eine Frau, die weiß, was sie will!)
The life of a great artist between culture and barbery
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)
Performances, actions, exhibition
In our digitally electrified world, we go in search of profound artistic strategies to decelerate our everyday life and present grounded counter-models – a tangible cosmos versus that of the virtual.
The Bartlhaus Museum of Writing and Local History invites you to reflect on what writing means to everyone. In 2024, a mail art exhibition shows the works of calligraphers from all over the world.
(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 place participatively develops its new chronicle
The project invites the population of Unterach to actively participate in the development process of the new community chronicle.
(Original title: Chronisch ungeschrieben)
The union of salon culture and the women's circle.
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)
Ceramics Between Time and Space
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 Narcissus Post, a magazine on advertising columns, deals with nature and traditions and examines the changes to which they are subject.
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: Drawing a Thread – Einen Faden ziehen)
Europe celebrates its miners' traditions with thousands of participants in Bad Ischl
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)
Young people at work
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.
An idea by Franz Welser-Möst, in cooperation with the Salzkammergut Festwochen Gmunden
Hausmusik Roas takes a new look at traditional folk music and encourages people to make music with relish.
(Original title: Hausmusik Roas)
Comic Exhibition by Simon Schwartz
The Altaussee salt mine has a long and eventful history. Salt has been mined here since 1147 – for centuries an important source of livelihood for the people in the region. From 1943 to 1945, the mine was a Nazi hideout for looted art and valuable art objects.
(Original title: Verborgen im Fels. Der Berg, das Salz und die Kunst)
The redesign of the exhibition of the Bad Ischl City Museum, both in terms of content and scenography, refers to the hotel’s almost hundred-year history as well as to the specific history of Bad Ischl and the region.
(Original title: Hotel Austria. Willkommen im Salzkammergut Museum der Stadt Bad Ischl)
An evening with Ethel Merhaut, Stefano Bernardin, the orchestra Divertimento Viennese and Vinzenz Praxmarer
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 – Die großen Diven der Roaring Twenties)
All the Way Across Europe and Beyond
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)
With Birgit Minichmayr and Mavie Hörbiger
In order to get into the mood for 2024, six readings will take place that deal with the works of Stefan Zweig, and especially with his correspondence.
(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)
Musical by Aksel-Otto Bull and Gisele Kverndokk
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)
Voices From and About Europe – Reading Festival with Music
(Original title: Literaturpreis „nah und fern“)
Regional Traditional Instruments Meet Contemporary Electronic Music
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)
This project brings together political history and hiking. Seven hikings between May and October 2024
This project brings together political history and hiking. Seven hikes between May and October 2024. 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)
Poems to take home
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: Poesie-Automaten Ausseerland)
A networking project with four European Capitals of Culture (Novi Sad, Vezprém, Timisoara, Bad Ischl-Salzkammergut) A Dialogue Between Crafts & Art as well as Between Nature & Technology
Prosperity (Afterparty) is a project with many controversies. By illuminating the themes from a wide range of disciplines, a continuous discourse results. Among other things, opposites such as the standstill of tradition and the further development of technology are negotiated. Gaps are filled between history and the future. Urban-elitist understanding of art meets rural romanticisation of art.
(Original title: Wohlstand Afterparty)
Tavern Culture Reloaded. Strategies for bring a culture rich in tradition back to life with new culinary styles, innovative concepts and high-quality cooking as well as young people
Strategies for reviving a culture rich in tradition with new culinary art, innovative concepts and top-class chefs and young people. Together with representatives from art, culture, top chefs from Europe and the world, regional producers and, above all, young people still in training, the Capital of Culture Bad Ischl – Salzkammergut 2024 GmbH wants to revitalise tavern culture with targeted interventions and, above all, question established processes and patterns of action.
(Original title: Wirtshauslabor)
Performative Cultural Heritage on the Rail Route Attnang-Puchheim – Tauplitz, on Curated Apps and in Virtual Reality.
A new children’s opera by Ruben Zahra and Susanne Felicitas Wolf.
(Original title: SALTICE – Salz & Eis)
A Homeland Novel at the Speed of Sound
A four-part Sound-Land-Art project with choirs, music bands, “Prangerschütz*innen” and bells from the Salzkammergut region.
(Original title: Salzkammer(sc)hall)
A search for traces and an exchange
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.
Music from hard times
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)
Improvisational theatre has the ability to take on any conceivable topic spontaneously
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 play tells the true story about the world-famous operetta.
(Original title: DAS WEISSE RÖSSL VON LAUFFEN)
An exemplary presentation of paintings that were collected, stored, stolen, “Aryanized”, sold, sold by force, displaced and rescued during the Second World War in the Salzkammergut region.
(Original title: Die Reise der Bilder)
European Storytellers Are The Guests of Schools During Interactive Storytelling Projects
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 traditionellen mündlichen Erzählens)
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)
Bicycle partisans in the Salzkammergut - Cycling in the resistance
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)
Circus from Australia meets music by Gustav Mahler in the incomparable interpretations of FRANUi
The Austrian Musicbanda FRANUI from East Tyrol and the worldwide touring company CIRCA Contemporary Circus from Brisbane, Australia, inspire with their contemporary circus project.
A musical picture book with lots of poetry and hearty wit
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)
The Art & Power of Celebration. Participation project on music, dance, costume and custom
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.
(Original title: Volxfest)
A participatory project of the theatre education department of the Landestheater Linz
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)
A new salon for the concerns of the world.
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 – Ein Projekt zu Migration und Geschichte im Salzkammergut)
