List of speakers at the Salzburg Festival

The list of keynote speakers at the Salzburg Festival lists the opening speakers at the Salzburg Festival .

history

The opening of the Salzburg Festival is organized by the Salzburg state government , which also made the decision as to who is allowed to give the opening speech. This tradition, which began in 1964, was interrupted in 2005 when the new Governor of Salzburg, Gabi Burgstaller , spoke out against an opening speech. This decision, according to which only Austrian federal and state politicians were allowed to speak, was controversial. The President of the Festival Helga Rabl-Stadler criticized Burgstaller for it. The director of the Salzburg Museum Rupertinum Agnes Husslein commissioned the Viennese writer Robert Menasse to give an alternative festival speech. In 2007 the celebratory speech became an integral part of the opening program again. In 2011, the Swiss sociologist Jean Ziegler was invited as a keynote speaker and then - again by Gabi Burgstaller - unloaded (see also The uprising of conscience ). His proximity to the Libyan despot Muammar al-Gaddafi was cited as the reason for the extension . Ziegler's planned counter-speech did not take place due to scheduling reasons. In the course of this conflict, since 2011 and with the keynote speaker Joachim Gauck for 2011, the keynote speaker has been selected and invited by the festival management.

Keynote speaker

• 1964 Salvador de Madariaga : "Praise Salzburg"
• 1965 Gabriel Marcel : "Music as the home of the soul"
• 1966 Clemens Holzmeister : "The building of the Salzburg Festival"
• 1967 Bernhard Paumgartner : "The task of Salzburg"
• 1968 WH Auden : "Words and Notes"
• 1969 Pietro Quaroni : "Festival and Mass Media"
• 1970 Carl Zuckmayer : "On the musical determination of man"
• 1971 Helmuth Plessner : "The Actor's Secret"
• 1972 Eugène Ionesco : "The culture under threat"
• 1973 Giorgio Strehler : " Max Reinhardt and today"
• 1974 Oscar Fritz Schuh
• 1975 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker : "The mysterious reality of the beautiful"
• 1976 Heinz Politzer : "Musicians redeemed demons"
• 1977 Léopold Sédar Senghor : "Austria as an expression of world culture"
• 1978 Josef Klaus : "Salzburg's cosmopolitanism"
• 1979 Sir Karl Popper : "Creative self-criticism in science and art"
• 1980 Wolfgang Hildesheimer : "What does music say?"
• 1981 Hans-Georg Gadamer : "The old and the new"
• 1982 Hermann Josef Abs : "Patronage as an obligation and happiness"
• 1983 Leo Gabriel : "Language and conversation - creative world design"
• 1984 Gerd Bacher : "The Beifallsgesellschaft and its media"
• 1985 Jeanne Hersch : "The contradiction in music"
• 1986 Clemens August Andreae : "Works of art between aesthetics and economics"
• 1987 Kurt Hübner : "Festival as a mythical event"
• 1988 Péter Hanák : "Creative power and plurality in Central European art"
• 1989 Maurice Schumann : "1789-1791. From the rising light of a revolution to the extinction of a genius"
• 1990 Václav Havel : "The posie is over"
• 1991 Wolfgang Rihm : "What does 'say' music?"
• 1992 The 14th Dalai Lama : "Human Compassion and Universal Responsibility: A Foundation of Happiness and Peace"
• 1993 Árpád Göncz
• 1994 George Steiner : "The European Myth "
• 1995 Nikolaus Harnoncourt : "What is truth? Or zeitgeist and fashion"
• 1996 Claudio Magris : " Utopia and Disenchantment"
• 1997 Christoph Ransmayr : "The third air or a stage by the sea"
• 1998 Cardinal Franz König : "Europe needs a new spiritual face"
• 1999 Barbara Frischmuth : "The secret and the uncanny"
• 2000 Jakob Kellenberger : "Peace is the result of hard work"
• 2001 Peter Sloterdijk : "Dew from the Bermudas "
• 2002 Peter Ruzicka
• 2003 Andrei Pleșu
• 2004 István Szabó
• 2005 no official speech
• No speech in 2006
• 2007 Jürgen Flimm
• 2008 Elke Heidenreich
• 2009 Daniel Kehlmann : "The light test"
• 2010 Daniel Barenboim : "Don't wait, but approach the other"
• 2011 Joachim Gauck : "Prison waited for the brave"
• 2012 Peter von Matt : "Art, Waste and Justice"
• 2013 José Antonio Abreu : "Introducing children and young people into a life of solidarity"
• 2014 Christopher Clark
• 2015 Rüdiger Safranski
• 2016 Konrad Paul Liessmann
• 2017 Ferdinand von Schirach
• 2018 Philipp Blom
• 2019 Peter Sellars

literature

• Harald Waitzbauer : Festive summer. The social atmosphere of the festival from 1920 until today. Ceremonial speeches since 1964 (= series of publications by the Salzburg State Press Office, No. 136). State of Salzburg , Salzburg 1997, ISBN 3-85015-153-4 .

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1. ↑ orf.at - Interview with Jean Ziegler . Article dated July 25, 2011, accessed July 18, 2015.
2. ^ Jean Ziegler: Speech not given at the opening of the Salzburg Festival
3. ↑ Festival opens - Reminder to Peace ORF Salzburg, July 27, 2014.
4. ↑ Ceremonial speech  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , In: Salzburger Nachrichten . July 26, 2010.  
5. ↑ Ceremonial speech ( memento of the original from April 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 39 kB) on the website of the Salzburg state government, viewed on July 27, 2011. 
6. ↑ kleinezeitung.at ( Memento from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Ceremonial speech (PDF file; 25 kB) on the website of the Salzburg Festival, viewed on July 27, 2012.
8. ↑ derStandard.at - Salzburg Festival: Rüdiger Safranski gives the opening speech . APA notification dated March 4, 2015, accessed July 18, 2015.
9. ↑ orf.at - philosopher Liessmann festival speaker . Article dated June 8, 2016, accessed June 8, 2016.
10. ↑ orf.at: Ferdinand von Schirach this year's festival speaker . Article dated March 13, 2017, accessed March 13, 2017.
11. ↑ orf.at: Historian Blom opens 2018 Festival . Article dated April 10, 2018, accessed April 10, 2018.
12. ↑ orf.at: Peter Sellars opens the Salzburg Festival . Article dated May 17, 2019, accessed May 17, 2019.