Styrian autumn

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steirischer autumn
Logo and claim steirischer herbst 2018
Logo and claim steirischer herbst 2018
General information
place Graz and Styria , Austria
genre Theater, dance, performance, visual arts, music, parties, discourse
Period September October
Website www.steirischerherbst.at

The Steirischer Herbst ( proper spelling : steirischer herbst ) is an international festival for contemporary art that takes place annually in September / October in Styria . It was founded in 1968 by Hanns Koren and is said to be the oldest festival for “new” art in Europe.

Central features of steirischer herbst are on the one hand the networking of the various art disciplines (theater, visual arts, film, literature, dance, music, architecture, performance, new media and theory), hence the designation as a multi-discipline or all-discipline festival, and on the other hand Self-image as a “producing festival” (“original” works, world premieres and commissioned works).

Steirischer herbst has been part of the NXTSTP cultural network funded by the European Union since 2007 .

Artistic director / artistic director

In the first few years steirischer herbst was headed by committees (program board of trustees, board of directors) made up of the most important protagonists of Styrian cultural life. From 1983 directors were appointed who were responsible for the program:

Highlights

In 1969 Gerald Szyszkowitz first staged the text “To the beautiful view” by the writer Ödön von Horváth . For steirischer herbst 1983, Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett wrote “Was Wo”, the only commissioned work of his life.

2003 was - in terms of awards and audience numbers - the most successful year of the festival: Beat Furrer's music theater “Begehren” was the world premiere of the year, Klaus Händl for his play “wilde. the man with the sad eyes ”was elected young dramatist of the year, a total of over 130,000 visitors visited the festival productions.

With “Truth is Concrete”, a “24/7 marathon camp on artistic strategies in politics and political strategies in art” was opened in 2012, which was attended by around 250 artists, activists and scientists in the Thalia bar in Graz for a week gathered. With a total time of 170 hours, this is the longest program in the history of the festival.

In 2016, the first stage work by the Thai film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul , “Fever Room”, celebrated its premiere in German-speaking countries as part of steirischer herbst. The news magazine Der Spiegel subsequently rated the piece as “one of the most incredible stage works of our time”.

In 2017 steirischer herbst took place for the 50th time. The highlights of the anniversary year included the first film adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek's novel “ Die Kinder der Toten ” at original locations in and around Neuberg an der Mürz as well as “Bacchae - Prelude to a Purge” by, described as one of the “most brilliant works of contemporary choreography” Choreographer Marlene Monteiro Freitas. In addition, the festival archive was digitized and thus made accessible to the public, as was an anniversary exhibition at the GrazMuseum . In the first 50 years of the festival, more than three million people attended steirischer herbst performances.

Institutions involved

The Forum Stadtpark , the Jugendmusikfest Deutschlandsberg and the Styrian Academy were involved in founding the festival . The ORF brought its musikprotokoll (a series of contemporary music) into the festival. The Graz Opera , the Schauspielhaus Graz and the Neue Galerie Graz were also involved from the start. In the course of the festival's history there have been collaborations with the Kunsthaus Graz , Medienturm , Camera Austria , pool, Theater im Bahnhof , Literaturhaus Graz , manuscripts , typists , Kulturzentrum Wolkenstein , kunsthaus muerz ( Mürzzuschlag ), KULM ( Pischelsdorf ), Pavelhaus .

Styrian Autumn 2004, Third Places , ASKÖ Stadium Graz-Eggenberg
Styrian autumn 2006, sadly sure, in training , Palais Thinnfeld
Styrian Autumn 2011, Festival District: Shop , Mariahilferstrasse 13

Venues

Except in the years 2003 to 2005 with the Helmut-List-Halle - in which steirischer herbst was opened a total of 13 times - steirischer herbst did not and does not have its own venue and was therefore forced to find and adapt rooms in Styria . The consequence is productions in abandoned industrial halls, swimming pools, tunnel systems, bridges, shop window areas and often in public spaces (all works of art in Graz public space can be found on the OFFSITE_GRAZ website).

In addition, since the mid-1990s, the festival has regularly opened "Herbst Bars" at various locations in Graz; under the direction of Veronica Kaup-Hasler , festival centers were also promoted as central venues. The “House of Open Gates” project, initiated in 2016 as such a center, was subsequently awarded the Outstanding Artist Award from the Austrian Federal Chancellery . For the 50th anniversary of steirischer herbst 2017, the Palais Attems in Graz - which has housed the festival's offices and archive since 1985 - was converted into the festival center.

Scandals

Steirischer herbst is often associated with the term “ scandal ”: in 1968, on the second day of the festival's history, the discussion “Biennale, Documenta and the situation of art of our time” in Graz Castle Eggenberg was prematurely interrupted due to protests. In 1975 the play "Ghosts" by Wolfgang Bauer, broadcast in the main evening program of the ORF , provoked as fierce discussions as Werner Schwab's plays 20 years later .

The world premiere of the jazz oratorio “The Holy Grail of Jazz and Joy” by George Gruntz, based on texts by Alfred Lord Tennyson, took place in 1985 without an audience: conservationists protested against the performance and expressed concern about the ecology of the performance location - the Lurgrotte .

On the 50th anniversary of the "Anschluss" to Hitler Germany, Werner Fenz had places in Graz that were exposed during National Socialism, artistically designed under the title "Reference points 38/88". Work by IRWIN and Bill Fontana caused aggression and discussion, and Hans Haackes “Victory Column” even fell victim to an arson attack. 1998 saw Christoph Schlingensief with his Sandler - Pole-Sitting contest "Chance 2000 Graz," which a few years later at the Venice Biennale was repeated for arousal.

literature

  • Paul Kaufmann (Ed.): 10 Years of Styrian Autumn, a balance sheet (1968–1977) . Mundus-Verlag, Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-85190-101-0 .
  • Werner Jauk : New Art and Public. Analysis of the anonymous public's interest in the Styrian Autumn and its assessment of prestige . Sn, Graz 1986, OBV .
  • Paul Kaufmann (Ed.): 20 Years of Styrian Autumn, a documentation (1968–1987) . Zsolnay-Verlag, Vienna (among others) 1988, ISBN 3-552-81988-6 .
  • Max Reisinger: Styrian cultural policy 1965 to 1975. The Styrian autumn . Thesis. University of Graz, Graz 1994, OBV .
  • Christine Resch: Art as a scandal - the Styrian autumn and the public excitement . Contributions to cultural studies and cultural policy, Volume 4, ZDB -ID 2327054-8 . Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85115-196-8 .
  • Heidrun Melbinger-Wess: "Styrian Autumn". Driving force for education . Thesis. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna 1995, OBV .
  • Gernot Höfler: 30 years of Musikprotokoll - a festival as a mirror of musical cultural change . Thesis. University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Graz 1997, OBV .
  • Horst Gerhard Haberl (ed.): Pferscha - peach. Off to the Styrian autumn! (Date of publication: 09.1972–10.1974; Pool, Graz, ZDB -ID 2643977-3 ). (Microfilm edition). Styrian State Library, Graz 2005, OBV .
  • 40x Styrian autumn . (Supplement 2007, 177 to :) manuscripts. Zeitschrift für Literatur , Graz 2007, ZDB -ID 505358-4 , OBV .
  • Lisa Obermayer: A park throws itself into formwork. Temporary structures for the Styrian autumn . Thesis. Graz University of Technology, Graz 2014, OBV .
  • Martin Behr, Martin Gasser, Johanna Hierzegger, steirischer herbst (eds.): Herbstbuch 1968–2017 . Styria Verlag, Graz 2017, ISBN 978-3-222-13577-4 . ( Online )

Web links

Commons : Steirischer Herbst  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ about | NXTSTP. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Martin Behr, Martin Gasser, Johanna Hierzegger, steirischer herbst (eds.): Herbstbuch 1968-2017 . Styria Verlag, Graz 2017, ISBN 978-3-222-13577-4 , pp. 52 .
  3. ↑ "steirischer herbst": Kaup-Hasler is artistic director for another five years . Kleine Zeitung , June 30, 2008, archived from the original on September 14, 2014 . ;.
    Herbst's general manager pays the money back. A tricky one: steirischer herbst director Kaup-Hasler has to repay valorizations before the contract is extended ( memento from November 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: kleinezeitung.at , December 11, 2009, accessed on June 19, 2015;
    Kaup-Hasler “Herbst” manager until 2014  (     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: steiermark.orf.at , January 23, 2010, accessed on July 16, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / steiermark.orf.at  
  4. ↑ Kaup-Hasler extends the “steirischer herbst” . In: kleinezeitung.at , June 13, 2014, accessed on June 19, 2015.
  5. ↑ Ekaterina Degot is the new "Herbst" director . In: news.orf.at , April 7, 2017, accessed April 7, 2017
  6. ↑ Eternally modern: the Styrian autumn . In: The press . ( diepresse.com [accessed November 28, 2017]).
  7. ↑ steirischer herbst: Truth is concrete 2012 / steirischer herbst 2012 / years / archive / home - steirischer herbst. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Martin Behr, Martin Gasser, Johanna Hierzegger, steirischer herbst (eds.): Herbstbuch 1968-2017 . Styria Verlag, Graz 2017, ISBN 978-3-222-13577-4 , pp. 123 .
  9. ^ Matthias Dell: exceptional performance "Fever Room": A festival of the living and the dead . In: Spiegel Online . September 30, 2016 ( spiegel.de [accessed November 28, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Petra Paterno: Kirtag in Kapellen: Nature Theater of Oklahoma filmed "The Children of the Dead" by Jelinek. In: Stage - Wiener Zeitung Online . ( wienerzeitung.at [accessed on November 28, 2017]).
  11. ↑ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: "Bacchae": A test of marionettes and monsters . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on November 28, 2017]).
  12. ↑ steirischer herbst: autumn archive - analog and digital . In: steirischerherbst . ( steirischerherbst.at [accessed on November 28, 2017]). Herbst-Archiv - analogue and digital ( Memento of the original dated December 1, 2017 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.steirischerherbst.at
  13. ↑ steirischer herbst: This wilderness has culture | 50 x steirischer herbst . In: steirischerherbst . ( steirischerherbst.at [accessed on November 28, 2017]). 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.steirischerherbst.at
  14. ↑ Martin Behr, Martin Gasser, Johanna Hierzegger, steirischer herbst (eds.): Herbstbuch 1968-2017 . Styria Verlag, Graz 2017, ISBN 978-3-222-13577-4 , pp. 42 .
  15. ↑ http://www.kulm.net/
  16. ↑ Martin Behr, Martin Gasser, Johanna Hierzegger, steirischer herbst (eds.): Herbstbuch 1968-2017 . Styria Verlag, Graz 2017, ISBN 978-3-222-13577-4 , pp. 29 .
  17. ↑ OFFSITE_GRAZ: http://offsite.kulturserver-graz.at/
  18. ↑ Martin Behr, Martin Gasser, Johanna Hierzegger, steirischer herbst (eds.): Herbstbuch 1968-2017 . Styria Verlag, Graz 2017, ISBN 978-3-222-13577-4 , pp. 290 .
  19. ↑ Outstanding Artist Award 2017 to <rotor> | www.gat.st. August 14, 2012, accessed November 28, 2017 .
  20. ↑ steirischer herbst: Festival center in the Palais Attems . In: steirischerherbst . ( steirischerherbst.at [accessed on November 28, 2017]). Festival center in the Palais Attems ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.steirischerherbst.at
  21. ↑ Martin Behr, Martin Gasser, Johanna Hierzegger, steirischer herbst (eds.): Herbstbuch 1968-2017 . Styria Verlag, Graz 2017, ISBN 978-3-222-13577-4 , pp. 377 .
  22. ↑ Martin Behr, Martin Gasser, Johanna Hierzegger, steirischer herbst (eds.): Herbstbuch 1968-2017 . Styria Verlag, Graz 2017, ISBN 978-3-222-13577-4 , pp. 376 .
  23. ↑ Christian Nusser: attack on memorial cleared. Two NDP activists in custody. Police officers recognized the assassin during a silent march in downtown Graz . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 11, 1988, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Founding Committee 1968:
    Chair: Hanns Koren ( Deputy Governor , Styrian Provincial Government)
    Members: Emil Breisach (Director of the ORF Regional Studio Styria),     Erich Marckhl (President of the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Graz), Reinhold Portisch (General Secretary of the Music Association for Styria ), Wilfried Skreiner (Head of the Neue Galerie at the Steiermärkisches Landesmuseum Joanneum), Günter Waldorf (President of the Forum Stadtpark)
    Guest: Christian Kleinwächter (Federal Ministry of Education, Vienna)
    General Secretary: Paul Kaufmann
    In: Paul Kaufmann: 20 years of Steirischer Herbst , p. 407