Salzkammergut Festival Weeks Gmunden
The Salzkammergut Festival Weeks Gmunden are an annual summer festival in the town of Gmunden in the Upper Austrian Salzkammergut .
In 2012 the festival program comprised 60 events at 27 different venues between July 19 and August 31 and was attended by around 15,000 people.
history
The festival tradition is based on the theater performances founded by Joseph M. Kotzky , which took place from 1872 in the period from July to September in the newly built City Theater Gmunden and served to entertain the international spa audience at the time. For this purpose, actors were hired for guest performances mainly from Viennese theaters. In 1987, after a decade-long break with the Gmundner Festwochen, the festival activities were resumed.
In 1997 Jutta Skokan took over the management and from 1999 also the artistic director. From the predominantly classically oriented festival weeks, she developed a multi-discipline festival with an annual budget of € 428,000 (2012), consisting of: a. from drama, music, literature, visual arts, film and performances as well as discussion events that are carried out in numerous venues in the Salzkammergut holiday region, among others. a. in Altmünster , Traunkirchen , Ebensee , Bad Ischl , Ohlsdorf , Steyrermühl and Lindach .
organization
The Gmundner Festspielverein has been organizing the Gmundner Festival Weeks and the Salzkammergut Festival Weeks since 1993.
President, Management, Artistic Director
- Bernhard Wolfram, Founding President (1993)
- Harald Diemer, President (until 1997)
- Gerda Eder, President (1998–2007, since then Honorary President)
- Martin Aistleitner (2007 to date)
- Elke Schuster, chairwoman, managing director (1993–1997)
- Christine Zemann, chairwoman, managing director (1997–2012)
- Johanna Mitterbauer, chairwoman, managing director (from 2012)
- Wilfried Tachezi, Artistic Director (1993–1999)
- Jutta Skokan , artistic director (1999–2018)
- Christian Hieke, Artistic Director since 2019
Venues
The venues in 2012 included u. a. Landschloss Ort , Parish Church Gmunden , Toscana Congress , Thomas-Bernhard-Haus , Monastery Traunkirchen , Seeschloss Ort , Villa Lanna and tram depot .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] ( 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.
- ^ Gmünder: On the necessity of the festival in the Salzkammergut, in Der Standard from July 18, 2012
