19:00 Admission & Welcome
19:30 Discussion about the film
21:00 Open air cinema “Stand Your Ground” (duration approx. 75 min)
The women’s football club Union Kleinmünchen from the district Kleinmünchen of the Upper Austrian provincial capital Linz was founded in 1980 and entered into a partnership with FC Blau-Weiß Linz in 2021. In 2022, the team once again achieved promotion to the Bundesliga. Union Kleinmünchen is a founding member of the women’s Bundesliga “Stand Your Ground” provides a look behind the scenes of the most successful football club in Upper Austria and shows the stark differences in the structural conditions of women’s and men’s football and the struggle for a fair distribution of resources.
Two of the three protagonists and the director himself, along with other guests, will talk about their experiences in an exciting discussion before the film screening. Author Birgit Ritzinger will be presenting her book “Verbote, Widerstände, große Erfolge: 100 Jahre Frauenfußball in Österreich” (Bans, Resistance, Great Successes: 100 Years of Women’s Football in Austria)
Women’s and girls’ football in the Salzkammergut
How can football change culture sustainably? A women’s and girl’s project explores this question thoroughly.
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at
