Vienna City Festival

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City Festival 2009, stage in the Burggarten

The Wiener Stadtfest (founding name), today NEWS stadt.fest.wien  (2017), is a city ​​festival in Vienna that has existed since 1978 and is organized by the Vienna ÖVP .

history

In 1976, as a protest against the demolition of the former foreign slaughterhouse in Vienna's third district, which had been used for cultural purposes since the beginning of the 1970s, the so-called arena was occupied . After 101 days of occupation - the protagonists included the later celebrities Dietmar Steiner , Lukas Resetarits , Erwin Steinhauer , Barbara Rett - the arena area was evacuated by the police on October 11, 1976 and the building complex was demolished. One of the protagonists of the cast was the musician and geologist Alf Kraulitz, today Alf Krauliz , then band leader of the group Misthaufen . As a result, he developed the concept of a large Viennese city festival in public places.

However, Kraulitz met with great distrust from the Vienna City Council. ÖVP city councilor Erhard Busek , who tried to use the alternative tendencies of youth culture politically in accordance with the zeitgeist of the time, however, made possible a big city festival in the inner city of Vienna against considerable internal party resistance . On April 29, 1978, in direct competition with the May celebrations of the Viennese SPÖ , Kraulitz was allowed to organize this first Viennese city festival. The settings were the Platz am Hof , Judenplatz and the streets between Schulhof, Ledererhof and Kurrentgasse.

Nena (2008)
Ernst Molden and Walther Soyka (2009)
DelaDap (2014)
Umberto Tozzi (2014)

development

Since then, the Vienna City Festival has taken place at different locations. In previous years, the deadline was the last Saturday in April or the first Saturday in May. In 2017 the city festival will take place on September 2nd. For the 25th anniversary, which was celebrated in 2008, the festival was exceptionally extended to two and a half days. Due to this extension of the festival and the commitment of the well-known pop singer Nena , around 1.2 million visitors were counted. Over 20 stages or event points were used.

The city festivals of the Vienna ÖVP were increasingly financed through sponsorship , and participation is free for festival visitors. The event is subsidized by the City of Vienna, in 2006 around 806,000 euros were available (the Vienna SPÖ received 1.71 million euros for their May Festival and the Danube Island Festival , the KPÖ for their Volksstimmefest in 2005 10,000 euros). Due to a redistribution of the funds for the celebrations of the individual parties, the subsidies for the city festival were reduced to 406,000 euros in 2012. The 29th city festival on May 5, 2012 therefore took place on a smaller scale in the area around Heldenplatz. It was continued to this extent until 2015 and then canceled.

In 2016, the ÖVP Vienna did not receive the subsidy commitment required for the city festival from the City of Vienna in time and therefore suspended the Vienna city festival for this year.

This break in 2016 was used to subject the Wiener Stadtfest to a complete relaunch. The focus was on what the city festival was originally, namely a revitalization of less busy parts of the city. According to the motto "Out into the districts, into the Grätzl", the entire city became a stage with over 70 stations in the city area. In addition, they took the initiative and brought the virtual and real world together by inviting visitors to discover the station of the NEW stadt.fest.wien station themselves using the app. The 2017 city festival took place on September 2nd. In 2020 the city festival was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

literature

  • Gerhard Hofer: The festivalization of the city. Using the example of the Vienna City Hall Square. Special section 7 .: Modern festivals in Vienna - From Heldenplatz to the Danube Island , S 136ff, diploma thesis, University of Vienna, 2008. ( online version )
  • Martin Vogg: The Vienna City Festival . In: Olaf Bockhorn (ed.): Wiener Feste. Messages from the Institute for Folklore (Volume 4), Vienna 1991.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Hofer, p. 136.
  2. ↑ "A date around May 1st was consciously chosen [...] for the city festival [...] in order to show that you can do something together with people of this country without having to go in step in blocks must "(city festival brochure 1981)
  3. ^ KPÖ Vienna - Party festivals at the expense of taxpayers? (May 9, 2006)
  4. ↑ Culture Committee of 8.5.2012. In: Klaus Werner-Lobo. Retrieved August 29, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Die Presse - Stadtfest: The rest of the big festival (May 5, 2012)
  6. ↑ ORF Vienna - ÖVP cancels city festival this year (July 17, 2016)
  7. ↑ No subsidy commitment: Vienna ÖVP cancels city festival . In: The press . ( diepresse.com [accessed June 22, 2017]).
  8. ↑ 33rd Vienna City Festival on completely new paths: “NEW city.fest.wien 2017” . In: OTS.at . ( ots.at [accessed on June 22, 2017]).
  9. ↑ ORF Vienna - ÖVP city festival canceled this year (May 14, 2020)

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