Danube Festival
The Donaufestival is a series of events for contemporary art and culture in Lower Austria .
history
The festival was founded in 1988 and is supported and financed by the state of Lower Austria. From 2005 the Danube Festival was under the artistic direction of Tomas Zierhofer-Kin . On two weekends in spring, Krems an der Donau becomes an international platform for new performance art and music. New forms of theater, media theater, film, video, rap , spoken word , hip-hop , experimental music, sound art , post-rock , electronics and discourse pop are offered. Artists from the most varied of genres deal with the strategies, dystopias and utopias of media and mass society.
Well-known artists and groups that performed at the Donaufestival included: the Wiener Symphoniker , David Tibet , Nurse With Wound , Will Oldham , Throbbing Gristle , Gang of Four , JG Thirlwell , Věra Bílá & Kale , the Chris Jarrett Trio and Squarepusher .
The company is based in Krems an der Donau, the main venues are the Krems exhibition halls and the Krems Minorite Church .
In 2017 Thomas Edlinger took over the management of the Danube Festival as the successor to Tomas Zierhofer-Kin.
In 2020 the festival was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
Web links
- Official website
- Entry on Donaufestival in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Donaufestival in the sound space Krems Minoritenkirche ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2009 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.
- ↑ Edlinger becomes the new director of the Danube Festival . orf.at of June 10, 2015, accessed on June 10, 2015.
- ↑ Other major cultural events canceled. In: ORF.at . March 19, 2020, accessed March 19, 2020 .
