Scene Salzburg
The "Szene Salzburg" is an association and has organized an annual international dance and theater festival in the city of Salzburg since 1971 .
In addition to the presentation of this festival, usually in June and July, she works as an international producer and offers residencies for domestic and foreign artists. In 1999 the scene founded the European network apap (advancing performing arts project), which is supported by the European Union , to support young artists in the field of performing arts.
Under the name " republic " she runs a theater in the center of Salzburg for up to 700 spectators, which in addition to the scene also serves as a venue for local and national organizers.
history
The predecessor organization Club 2000 was founded in 1969 by the cultural activist and publisher Alfred Winter in order to conquer a place for alternative culture in the Mozart city, which is characterized by classical high culture , and to present new, urban forms of culture. The success of this initiative led to the establishment of an annual summer festival in 1971, which, as the "fringe festival", offered a stage to the Salzburg Festival, above all for music, theater and exhibition projects outside the traditional cultural scene. In addition to local protagonists, Friedrich Gulda , Gidon Kremer and Rolf Hochhuth also used the festival to present other content and new contexts of their work.
In the first half of the 1980s there was a turn towards a clearly curated festival that focused on dance and dance theater. The Salzburg scene was one of the first cultural institutions that was committed to the breakthrough in this genre and was perceived throughout Europe as an advanced producer and presenter of this art form. Together with the Kaaitheater Brussels, The Felix Meritis Foundation in Amsterdam and the Hebbeltheater Berlin, international networks have been established. In 1989 - shortly before the political change in communist Europe - the IETM (international european theater meeting) took place for the first time with representatives of Eastern European cultural organizations in Salzburg.
Venues
The first permanent venue was the Petersbrunnhof in the 1970s , a former stable building adapted as a theater, which has meanwhile become the stage of the Salzburg theater . The Salzburg scene has been based in the former city cinema since 1987 , which opened in 1950 as the first Cinemascope cinema theater in Salzburg and closed in 1984. In addition, the scene also used other venues and public space for its productions, including the former saltworks in Hallein , which today, as the Pernerinsel, is the permanent location of the Salzburg Festival.
Artist
The roughly 400 artists and groups that have performed since 1986 include:
- Merce Cunningham
- Jan Fabre
- Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
- LaLaLa Human Steps
- Robert Lepage
- Hubert Lepka
- Peter Sellars
- Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
- The Wooster Group
- Wim Vandekeybus
- Robert Wilson
Despite the concentration on the performing arts, rock music and others emerged. a. Bob Dylan , Patti Smith and Neil Young as well as Gottfried Bechtold , Erwin Bohatsch and Hubert Schmalix from the field of fine arts .
Partnerships
The Salzburg scene is a member of the umbrella organization Salzburg cultural sites .
swell
- Markus Greussing: in progress - 40 years of the Salzburg scene . Film, first broadcast on ORF June 27, 2009.
- Scene Salzburg (ed.): Scene salzburg - opening future spaces . Self-publication of the Salzburg scene in 2009.
- Kate Mattingly and Michael Stolhofer (eds.): Advancing performing arts project - a european network . Self-publication of the Salzburg scene in 2007.
- Scene Salzburg and Treasury State Salzburg (ed.): Salzburg - city of dance . Self-publication of the Salzburg scene in 2007.
- Luis Firmo (Ed.): From Place Specific, The Connecting Sites and Communities Documentation Project - APAP IV . ArtinSite, Torres Vedra 2006, ISBN 978-989-95397-0-9 .
- Scene Salzburg (Ed.): Seeds of Utopia - A reading book of the Salzburg scene . Self-publication of the Salzburg scene in 1998.
- Roland Floimair (Ed.): Out of passion - 22 years of the Salzburg scene . Publication series of the state press office - series special publication No. 98, Salzburg 1992, ISBN 3-85015-112-3 .