In the dreamlike ambience of the parish church of St. Nikolaus Bad Ischl, these subtle musicians will succeed in doing just that.

This concert will once again be recorded live in front of an audience and broadcast as an ORF III Christmas Day concert in the “Erlebnis Bühne” series on 25 December 2024.

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Arrival Information:

In the course of Liebstatt Sunday, the Traunseetram will also run free of charge all day!

• Free ride on the Traunseetram in zone 1 (Gmunden Engelhof – Gmunden Bahnhof).
• Take public transport to Liebstattsonntag (Traunsteintaxi, regional buses…), or park your car conveniently at the P&R facility in Gmunden Engelhof or at Gmunden train station. From there you can take the Traunseetram free of charge directly to Rathausplatz and the town centre.

Please note: Nostalgia rides are excluded from the free ride.

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The Glöcklerlauf always takes place on January 5th in the center of Vorchdorf. The Glöckler have been running in Vorchdorf since 1950. The Glöcklerlauf is one of the most impressive winter customs. On the last Rauhnacht of the Christmas festival on January 5th, the white-clad Glöckler with their magnificent caps and bells run in after the prayer bell at 6 p.m. from all access roads on the Schlossplatz in Vorchdorf. With their noise they want to drive away the bad spirits, wake up the good ones and remind the grain of its duty. The light in the caps indicates that winter has been overcome. It is said to conquer darkness and cold and to ask for happiness and fertility. According to an old custom, the figures are run counter-clockwise.

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Musical accompaniment by the Brass Bagage!

On January 5th, 2024 the Glöckler will be out and about in town from around 3:00 p.m.
From 4 p.m. there are hot drinks, sausages and Glöckler doughnuts.
Arrival of the Glöckler at the church square in Scharnstein is at around 6:00 p.m.

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10:00 – 18:00
Exhibition sudhaus – art with salt and water
→ Altes Sudhaus (Tickets)

10:00 – 18:00
Installation Ballet Mécanique and musik maschine
→ Lehár Theater / Hettegger (extension)

11:00
1st World Salon: “Europe in transition”
Talk with Aleida Assmann (D), Nava Ebrahimi (IRN/D), Fiston Mwanza
Mujila (COD). Keynote speech and moderation by: Herfried Münkler (D
→ Stables of the imperial villa

13:00
Concert-performance “Inner City”
What is the ideal city? In a long musical poem dealing with this question, the trio attempts to describe the city of their dreams or their ideal city. A utopian reflection. With Fiston Mwanza Mujila/text (COD), Patrick Dunst/saxophone (AT) and Christian Pollheimer/drums (AT).
Dramaturgy: Eva-Maria Voigtländer (D)
→ Stables of the imperial villa

14:00
Great Space Walk
Presentation of the audio artwork by Christoph Viscorsum (AT), a multi-day audio and hiking journey from civilisation to the Dead Mountains. A personal experience in five days. From the bathroom via church, mountain pasture and desert (Totes Gebirge) to everyday life. Visitors wander through different spaces. Audio tracks act as waymarks.
With Christoph Viscorsum, Aleida Assmann, Andreas Hagelüken, Christoph Hüthmair, Christian Öhler, Ariadne von Schirach, Elisabeth Schweeger.
Afterwards: Walk along the Bad Ischl parish church section of the trail.
→ Welcome: Stables of the imperial villa (14:00)
→ Listening: Path to the Bad Ischl parish church (14:30)
→ Trinkhalle (15:00)

from 16:00
Tavern Lab Bad Ischl
indulgence lab of the 4 HLa of the Bad Ischl Tourism School and Christoph “Krauli” Held (Siriuskogl)
→ Former railway station restaurant Bad Ischl

18 Uhr
A woman who knows what she wants
Why shouldn’t a woman have an affair”, the Jewish-Austrian composer Oscar Straus has his “Frau, die weiß, was sie will!” sing, thus not only composing a masterpiece that epitomises the operetta style of the Weimar Republic, but also reflects the new image of women at the time – lascivious, fresh and cheeky. A furious guest performance by the Komische Oper Berlin.
operetta by Oscar Straus, directed by Barrie Kosky
→  Congress and Theatre House (online advance booking)

More about the opening → salzkammergut-2024.at/opening

Arrival

Leave your car at home! On the main day of the opening weekend, there will therefore be a comprehensive range of special services and more frequent services on the Salzkammergut Railway as well as late services until well after midnight.

→ TIMETABLES, SHUTTLE SERVICE & CAR PARKS

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12 – 21
Tavern Lab Bad Ischl
indulgence lab of the 4 HLa of the Bad Ischl Tourism School and Christoph “Krauli” Held (Siriuskogl)
→ Former railway station restaurant Bad Ischl

12:30
Revealing of the installation „SOLANGE #29“ by Katharina Cibulka
A work of art based on dialogue that addresses feminist themes. In the presence of the artist.
→ Post office building

13:30
Maruša Sagadin „Luv Birds in toten Winkeln“
At the interface of private and public space, Maruša Sagadin combines elements of architecture, sculpture and painting and explores the underlying social aspects of a building or place. (Commissioned by Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Courtesy Christine König Galerie, Vienna and the artist)
→ Post office building

14:00
Words are salt and sun: Yasmo & city writer Mieze Medusa (AT)
Mieze Medusa and Yasmo invite the audience to a slam poetry special in the afternoon at Café Zweitwohnsitz. The motto: “Words are salt and sun”
→ Zweitwohnsitz

14 – 15:15
Mai Cocopelli (AT)
The popular children’s songwriter sets the mood for the Capital of Culture and conjures up wonderful sounds and melodies for her young and old listeners. The energetic musician from Lake Attersee has been whirling through the German-language children’s song scene with her catchy hits for over 20 years.
→ Square of the Johann Nestroy School (Bertha von Suttner Square)

14:30 – 20
Opening: sudhaus – art with salt and water – The central theme exhibition.
Salt and water are still determining factors in the region today. International and nationally renowned artists dedicate themselves to these elements metaphorically as the “salt of life” in the form of objects, sculptures, installations, film, photo and sound works. They also address the burning issues of dwindling glaciers and the increasing scarcity of water worldwide.
With artists like: Motoi Yamamoto (JPN), Sigalit Landau (ISR), Simon Starling (UK), Eva Schlegel (AT), Christine Biehler (D), Michael Sailstorfer (D), Lucy (UK) + Jorge Orta (ARG), Kati Roover (FIN), Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir (ISL)
→ Altes Sudhaus (limited capacity)

14:30 – 20
sound installation Ballet Mécanique by Georges Antheil and Fernand Léger
100 years after the “Ballet Mécanique” was created, it will be performed in the version originally conceived by Antheil and synchronised with the version of the 1924 film of the same name by Fernand Léger. A historical reconstruction by the Graz artist Winfried Ritsch.
→ Lehár Theater

14:30 – 20
musik maschine by students of the FH Joanneum
Visitors can use an interface to control a kind of musical robot that fuses traditional zither and dulcimer sounds and their materiality with modern electronic beats – miniature compositions that bridge the gap between tradition and innovation.
→ Lehár Theater / Hettegger (extension)

15 Uhr
Afternoon pop-up
Virtuoso folk music from Piedmont: Daniele Scurati (IT) (accordion), Stefano Valla (IT) (piffero)
→ Kreuzplatz, Kuchltheater

15:30 – 16:30
Organ contemporary
Raminta Skurulsjkaite (organ), Emma Frauenholz (percussion)
Organist and expert in contemporary organ literature Raminta Skurulsjkaite (LT) meets modern percussion talent Emma Frauenholz (AT) – an adventurous journey from Estonia via Russia to contemporary Poland.
→ St Nicholas parish church

16:00
Regional_Express by Ella Raidel (AT/SGP), Petra Ardai (NL), Marlene Rutzendorfer (AT), opening performance by Sander Saarmets (EST), Gemischter Chor Altmünster (AT)
An acoustic-visual immersive narrative on the railway line Gmunden – Bad Aussee, which deals with the cultural and natural heritage of the region, accessible via the Salzkammergut 2024 app. A performative insight into the project awaits you in Bad Ischl.
→ Bad Ischl railway station / Welcome Centre

16:15
Opening salute of the Ischler Prangerschützen
→ Richard Tauber footbridge

16:30
Performative harbinger of the interventa Hallstatt 2024 building culture symposium: Dancers from the dance programme at the MUK perform under the choreography of Esther Balfe with a sculpture by Isabella Kohlhuber.
Initiators: Sabine Kienzer and Marie-Therese Harnoncourt.
→ Square in front of the Trinkhalle (Sparkassenplatz)

16:30
FLOOD Light installation by Ruth Schnell / Martin Kusch (kondition pluriel)
The façade of the school building is the projection surface for a spectacular animation by the media artists. The visual basis is the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (International Bill of Rights) adopted in 1948.
→ Square of the Johann Nestroy School (Bertha von Suttner Square)

17 – 18:30
Opening Ceremony
→ Main Stage Kurpark Bad Ischl

from 19:00
The Salzkammergut celebrates into the night

19:30
A woman who knows what she wants
Why shouldn’t a woman have an affair”, the Jewish-Austrian composer Oscar Straus has his “Frau, die weiß, was sie will!” sing, thus not only composing a masterpiece that epitomises the operetta style of the Weimar Republic, but also reflects the new image of women at the time – lascivious, fresh and cheeky. A furious guest performance by the Komische Oper Berlin.
operetta by Oscar Straus, directed by Barrie Kosky
→  Congress and Theatre House (online advance booking)

More about the opening → salzkammergut-2024.at/opening

Arrival

Leave your car at home! On the main day of the opening weekend, there will therefore be a comprehensive range of special services and more frequent services on the Salzkammergut Railway as well as late services until well after midnight.

→ TIMETABLES, SHUTTLE SERVICE & CAR PARKS

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The Glöckler-run begins at 4:45 p.m. at the community square in Obertraun. There the Glöckler run their circles and are accompanied by the Obertrauner “Weisenbläsern” (brass band).

Afterwards the Glöckler, divided into three groups, run through the whole village wishing the population a happy new year. The Glöckler are invited to rest in various guesthouses and private houses and provided with warming tea and a good snacks.

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By ringing bells, the “Gloeckler” drive out evil spirits from the valleys, woodlands and their homes, and it is said that the more men who take part in this procession, the more good fortune the neighbourhood can look forward to in the forthcoming year.

The processions take place in the evening of January 5; white figures with ringing bellbelts and splendid colourful light caps on their heads pass numerous onlookers.

Lauffner Passen (group): 
05:30 p.m. Marktplatz Lauffen – 06:15 p.m. Weißenbach

Goiserer Pass (group):
05:00 p.m. Metzgerwirt ViehHeli 
05:30 p.m. Wiesen – 05:45 p.m. St. Agatha
06:20 p.m. Lasern 
07:00 p.m. Moserwirt / 07:00 p.m. Ramsau Schießstätte
07:30 p.m. Lasererwirt

08:00 p.m. arrival of all groups at the marketplace of Bad Goisern at Lake Hallstatt.

The Gloeckler cap

The Gloeckler cap consists of a frame made from narrow strips of wood. These are covered with black paper.

In the past, “Gloeckler” used cardboard instead of paper as examples of decorative head wear, used in 1906, have shown. Patterns and interesting shapes are cut or punched out from this and bright coloured paper is stuck on from the inside. The edges are also decorated, mostly with fringes made from white tissue paper.

Candles inside the frames light up the head decorations, adding to their charm. In order that the “Gloeckler” do not have to go around in the dark, each group has its own “candle lighter”. At the head of each procession is a man without head decoration. Instead, he carries a stick which he waves to clear the way for the procession of bell ringers.

In former times, each man carried his own stick. Nowadays the head decorations are much larger, and both hands are often needed to support them. The leader also carries a bell around his waist which is much bigger than those carried by the other “Gloeckler”. This is used to stop the procession, to call upon the men to bow or to bend their knees.

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They are dressed in white, have a belt with a loud sounding bell and carry ornate headresses (called Caps) lit with candles .

The caps are intricately designed .The first cap always depicts the comet, then follow caps with ornaments, buildings and references to customs and events. The Glöcker form a line and move in the figure of 8 and a circle, symbolising infinite repetition and the eternal cycle of nature. The candles and bells are to drive away evil spirits and bring blessings on humans and animals.

In Bad Ischl there are normally around 20 Glöcker groups and around 10 groups come into the town centre.

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