Festival Hall Bregenz
The Festspielhaus Bregenz is an event center in Bregenz and was opened in July 1980. It is the venue for the Bregenz Festival and the venue for conferences, congresses and events. The operator is Kongresskultur Bregenz GmbH , a wholly-owned subsidiary of the state capital Bregenz.
history
In 1990, an architectural competition for an extension of the building was announced, which was won by the architects Helmut Dietrich and Much Untertrifaller, who are based in Bregenz and Vienna, with their architectural office of the same name, Dietrich / Untertrifaller . The concept envisaged a two-stage expansion of the existing building.
In 1996/1997 the first part of the extension was built, including the workshop stage with side stage, lake studio, lake foyer, central kitchen and the new administrative part of the house.
In 2005/2006 the existing building from 1980 was completely refurbished and expanded by 10,000 cubic meters. The "Platz der Wiener Symphoniker" in front of the Festival and Congress House was redesigned through an "Art and Construction" project.
The approximately 7 meter high sculpture "Ready Maid" was created by Gottfried Bechtold . The inverted tree made of polished bronze is a striding tree woman, an antipode, a diametrically opposed art object to the performances, according to the renowned Vorarlberg artist. The sculpture stands in a slight depression, which, depending on the amount of rain, turns into a water-based paint and mirror surface up to 15 centimeters deep.
Cerith Wyn Evans created an installation of white neon light with the words "299,792,458 m / s" - the speed of light. The installation was attached to the festival hall and can be perceived as a light object itself, as a reflection in window panes and in the water, as a shadow, etc.
The multifunctional orientation of the festival hall now enables the implementation of a wide variety of event types. Meetings and congresses, cultural events, entertainment as well as company events and social events form the portfolio of the house. In 2009 the Festival Hall in Bregenz was named one of the best event centers of its size in Europe by the European Association of Event Centers (EVVC) and received the corresponding award "Best Center 2009". In 2013 the Bregenz Festival Hall again received an award from the EVVC, which this time was given in cooperation with the German Convention Bureau, namely the “Meeting Experts Green Award” in the “Sustainable Event Center” category.
Services
The operating company's range of services is designed as a modular system. The services range from the provision of the premises to the conception, organization and implementation of events. The room capacities range from 100 people in row seating (propter homines) to 1656 seats in the large hall. A total of 14 rooms are available for rent. The grandstand with up to 6980 seats including a stage can also be rented for concerts.
Events
In addition to the annual Bregenz Festival , performances by the Bregenz Spring Dance Festival , the Bregenz Master Concert series , concerts by the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra and shows and concerts of all genres take place in the Festspielhaus.
Stars such as Falco , Peter Gabriel , Supertramp , Herbert Grönemeyer , Elton John , Udo Jürgens , Xavier Naidoo and Cro gave concerts on the lake stage . In 2008, film recordings for the film James Bond 007: Quantum of Solace also took place there.
Individual events in the Festspielhaus with greater media attention were:
- the German-speaking Nuclear Medicine Congress (2011)
- the German-language education congress (2011 and 2014)
- VLOW! Festival im Zwischenraum Communication, Design and Architecture (2008 to 2016)
- Congress of Austrian Library Association (2016)
- Spring Conference Oncology and Hematology (2010 and 2017)
- World Future Forum (2017)
- First Lego League Final Central Europe (2019)
Further information
The company operated another event center in Bregenz on behalf of the state capital Bregenz until June 30, 2017 : built as a black box, shed8 serves as the home of the theater Kosmos in addition to various ostensibly cultural events .
The Congress Culture Bregenz GmbH is wholly owned by the state capital of Bregenz and 41 employees.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Grass / pzwei-presseaussendung / city-bregenz / art-and-construction-project-at-festival-house-bregenz
- ↑ orf.at/news/07/07/2006
- ↑ Festspielhaus Bregenz received a European award . Article on derStandard.at of April 20, 2009, accessed on November 27, 2015.
- ^ “Green Award” for the Bregenz Festival Hall . Article on vorarlberg.ORF.at from March 1, 2013, accessed on November 27, 2015.
Coordinates: 47 ° 30 ′ 16.6 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 15.6" E