These are the questions that the Bad Ischl Salzkammergut region focussed on in 2024. For the first time, it was not a city but an Alpine region that was the European Capital of Culture. The countryside, which is so often the poor relation of politics and business, was seen here as an artistic space of opportunity that opens up new ways of thinking about the past, the future and current social issues – exemplary for many other rural regions in Europe. “Impetus” is the title of the picture and text book on this diverse series of Capital of Culture projects.

Mandelbaum Verlag Wien
436 pages, format: 17×24, English brochure, numerous colour illustrations
ISBN: 978399136-083-4436

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Born in 1911, the historian – himself a concentration camp prisoner during the Nazi era – conducted extensive interviews with resistance fighters from Ausseerland and other places in the Salzkammergut region about their experiences during the dark years of National Socialism. Resi Pesendorfer and Marianne Feldhammer were among Kammerstätter’s interviewees, as were Maria Plieseis, Alois Straubinger and Karl Gitzoller. More or less all publications on the subject of “Resistance in the Salzkammergut” that have appeared in recent years and decades refer to Kammerstätter’s “collection of materials”.

Now, finally, for the European Capital of Culture year Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024, Kammerstätter’s pioneering publication is available in a beautiful, representative book edition.

Publisher Bibliothek der Provinz
777 pages with approx. 192 b/w illustrations, German, format 24.5 x 17 cm, hardcover with ribbon marker; facsimile edition
ISBN: 978-3-99126-252-7

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60 short essays, cartoons and literary and artistic opinion pieces offer a range of perspectives on the region and its nature, culture, history and people. Written by renowned figures from literature, the sciences and art, the essays are informative, educational, effusive, critical and witty, and give deep insights into the Salzkammergut.

Contributors include Bettina Balàka, Markus Binder, Isolde Charim, Conchita Wurst, Mareike Fallwickl, René Freund, Barbara Frischmuth, Hubert von Goisern, Andrea Grill, Rudolf Habringer, Gerhard Haderer, Angelika Hager, Bodo Hell, Johannes Jetschgo, Franz Kain, Günter Kaindlstorfer, Edith Kneifl, Julia Kospach, Sarah Kuratle, Nicolas Mahler, Stephen M. Mautner, Eva Menasse, Nick Oberthaler, Walter Pilar, Helga Rabl-Stadler, Hans Reschreiter, Andrea Roedig, Franz Schuh, Elfie Semotan, Magdalena Stammler, Liv Strömquist, Anton Thuswaldner, Bernadette Wegenstein and more.

Prestel Verlag
Hardcover, Pappband, 304 Seiten, 17 x 24 cm
ISBN: 978-3-7913-8016-2

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23 light people by the artist Isa Stein accompany the audience to the many places in the city where there will be celebrations: in churches, in the Alte Post, in Sudhaus, in the Lehár theater, in the Bad Ischl train station. Esther Balfe’s performance group heralds the start of the interventa Hallstatt 2024 building culture symposium. The art project SOLANGE #29 by Katharina Cibulka asks questions about equality. The spectacular animation Flood by Ruth Schnell and Martin Kusch (kondition pluriel) negotiates the Declaration of Human Rights.

Associations and musicians from the Salzkammergut region and abroad will make the opening night sound out loud and proud! Celebrate with us! With the Salzkammergut region, with Europe, with the world. We look forward to welcoming you.

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On 26 January, Tartu2024 and Southern Estonia began their year as the European Capital of Culture. Following Bad Ischl Salzkammergut in Austria and preceding Bodø in Norway, the second largest city in Estonia ushered in the year full of 1000 events with a grand opening show “All Is One!”. An audience of thousands gathered in the heart of the university town on the banks of the river Emajõgi. The show, with a cast of over 100 actors, dancers and musicians centered on the importance of being with loved ones and building connections.

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The opening ceremony of Bodø2024 in Norway on 3 February culminated in fireworks followed by applause from up to 20,000 people in Molobukta. In an almost windless Bodø Harbor, the audience was embraced by a magnificent mix of performing arts, sound and light. From the stage out at sea, a half-hour journey into the new year in the north began. The opening of the first European Capital of Culture in a city north of the Arctic Circle was a success.

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With its four program lines, the European Capital of Culture provides inspiration for the specific encounter between citizens in Europe, strengthens the creative exchange between artists and supports international academic dialogue through shared projects. The 2024 European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut deals with questions of the local and global present and future. What roles does the region play in Europe? How does rural Alpine space develop? Globalization has challenged Europe’s understanding of itself.

Inner upheavals and the geopolitical shifts are calling upon us to rethink Europe’s place in the world. The 2024 European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut would like to make a contribution to positively shaping and living European culture in the future.

23 communities within the Salzkammergut region will network with each other and thus prove that working with each other while maintaining one’s own singularity is both a strength and signal that a Europe with selfaware regions is space for the future, just like rural space. With countless partner cities through Europe and beyond, with more than 200 art and culture projects and an additional 100 associated projects, we are giving culture the importance that it deserves with which a future can be built and a civil society can be made possible. The baton will be passed, so-to-speak, every 14 days during the year 2024, placing the respective focus on a specific community. Each community is the European Capital of Culture, together we are all the European Capital of Culture.

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GRETE, the sky is falling

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Mon-Sat from 10-12:00 and 14:30-18:00

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Arnold Schönberg was closely connected with the Salzkammergut throughout his life and spent many summers at the Traunsee. In addition to personal tragedies in his relationship with Richard Gerstl, the burgeoning anti-Semitism at the beginning of the 1920s will also be a topic. Music by Arnold Schönberg and his time will be heard in a chamber concert and experiences from this period will be presented in a reading.

Salon Wittgenstein and music

The Wittgensteins were talented in many ways and brother Paul started his career as a pianist. The outbreak of war in 1914 brought this to an abrupt halt, but even more frustrating was the amputation of his right arm due to an injury. Back in Vienna, he resumed his career despite the limitation and focused on works for the left hand. His own playing technique brought him back to the top. He commissioned the most renowned composers of his time to write new pieces for him, two of which will be heard on 16.6.2024 and Herman Beil will present the life of Paul Wittgenstein and his family.

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Transience – The eternal struggle for recognition

22/10/22, 19.00, post office building Bad Ischl
The theme is the revival of forgotten music and the communication of forgotten fates, especially from the National Socialist era. Marietta Kratz, deputy concertmaster of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, together with her orchestra colleagues Laura Escanilla and Valentin Priebus and Henning Lucius, lecturer at the Lübek University of Music and MNT Rostock, will give a voice to the expelled and forgotten composers. The author and project manager Benno Ure will host the evening.
Ensemble: Marietta Kratz, violin – Laura Escanilla, viola – Valentin Priebus, violoncello – Henning Lucius, piano
Henning Lucius, piano – Benno Ure, moderator

Music in exile – Bösendorfer Artist Pavel Kachnov

28/10/22, 19.00, post office building Bad Ischl
Bösendorfer ar`st Pavel Kachnov, born in Kiev, Ukraine, deals intensively with the events of today. He endeavours to bring works by many creative, contemporary and unknown composers to the stage with the background of the forced abandonment of their homeland, be it for existential or political reasons. On the one hand, the programme deals with Ukrainian and displaced or emigrated composers.

When music becomes home…

27/10/23, 19.00, post office building Bad Ischl
Survival and downfall, love and betrayal, winners and losers: in times of oppression and
oppression and persecution, many musicians leave their homeland and never return.
never return. Their fight for life and recognition is also a fight for their music. It is
the only thing they have left. It becomes their home, each in their own way.
Johannes Fleischmann, Justus Zeyen and Benno Ure use music and lyrics to transport us back to the
the first half of the twentieth century, in times of exile.

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The exhibition traces Schönberg’s creative years at Lake Traunsee, sketches a panorama of significant modernist artistic encounters and, away from the idyll, addresses the summer resort anti-Semitism of the early 1920s in the Salzkammergut.

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“Circa and FRANUI aim to create in URLICHT PRIMAL LIGHT a symphony of bodies and music that is thrilling as it is moving.”

A unique encounter between the internationally renowned Austrian music band FRANUI from Innervillgraten in East Tyrol and the world-renowned Australian acrobats of CIRCA from Brisbane as a scenic and musical rediscovery of the universe of Gustav Mahler’s songs. Together the Australian star acrobats create body worlds and sculptures to the incomparable Mahler song interpretations of FRANUI as an extraordinary music theatre event and scenic rediscovery of the great Austrian composer.

Dates 2025

• 7. und 8. Mai 2025 – Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Grand Théâtre
• 4. und 5. Juli 2025 – Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, Teatro Romano (outdoor).

Contributors

Circa

Rhiannon Cave-Walker, Asha Colless, Maya Davies, Martin Evans, Scott Grove, Chelsea Hall, Samuel Letch, Daniel O’Brien, Adam Strom, Christina Zauner (Performer)
Mark Middleton (Head of Production Circa), Anna Handford ( Head of Wardrobe Circa), Danielle Kellie (Executive Producer Circa)

FRANUI Musicbanda

Johannes Eder (clarinet, bass clarinet), Andreas Fuetsch (tuba), Romed Hopfgartner (soprano and alto saxophone, clarinet), Markus Kraler (contrabass, accordion), Angelika Rainer (harp, zither, vocals), Bettina Rainer (dulcimer, vocals), Patrik Hofer (trumpet, vocals), Andreas Schett (trumpet, vocals), Martin Senfter (trombone, vocals), Nikolai Tunkowitsch (violin)
Stefan Schett (Sounddirector Franui)

GmC lighthouse

Anna Albeseder, Lea-Lou Blaas, Jonas Brunnauer, Felix Gschwendtner, Amalia Herzog, Ksana Körner, Simon Miller, Valentin Pilz, Ronja Schilcher, Lina Schmarantzer, Elisabeth Shammout, Salma Shammout, Michelle Warner, Alma Wellenger, Ylvie Zopf (Performer)
Margit Elser-Steglegger, Christina Angerer-Schilcher, Veronika Zand, Michael Körner (Organisation GmC lighthouse)
Linda Maria Wagner (Lead), Katharina Angerer, Karlheinz Reiter (Training GmC lighthouse)

Co-production European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024, Circa, FRANUI Musicbanda and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg,Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, GmC lighthouse. Circa acknowledges the assistance of the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

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“This symphony is the creation of a giant …”, wrote Hugo Wolf after the premiere of Bruckner’s symphony in 1892. Today, the Scherzo, Adagio and Finale become the starting point for a symphonic landscape with islands of motets. Bruckner the church musician meets Bruckner the world symphonist, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz meets local choirs, the Capital of Culture and the KulturEXPO join forces. Today, Bruckner’s “And” is experiencing a unique realisation in an extraordinary location. We are creating a resounding “we” that has never existed before in this form. For Bruckner, the pub and the church are synonymous places that find expression in polka and chorale. The Ansfeldner master does not differentiate, he brings us together, brings us together. Art cannot save the world, but without it we are lost. Music happens in resonance, needs the you and the I who sings, plays and listens. Thank you for being here!

Arrival

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This project describes bicycle routes in the resistance against National Socialism in the Salzkammergut, most of which were ridden in connection with the partisan group Willy-Fred. The stories, individual fates and bicycle routes leading across the Salzkammergut researched for this purpose are merged into a total of five packages in the form of text, images and geodata on the digital platform Salzkammergut Culture Guide and thus made available to a broad public. These packages/data collections extend geographically over almost the entire Salzkammergut 2024 region. Using the associated Salzkammergut Culture Guide-APP, routes can be recreated or cycled in order to understand the hardships that individual cyclists – and very often women – had to endure when they had to cover more than 100 kilometres a day on their bikes, sometimes with great hardship.

The newly created cultural tourism offer is aimed at school classes, historians, cyclists and the population in general and will be presented to an interested public in the context of a discussion event. Accompanied tours make it possible to get to know the region from a new perspective and at the same time teach how to use new digital tools and access history by bicycle.

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