2024

In his last article in the series "Through the year with Bruckner", Norbert Trawöger, Artistic Director of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO, writes about the sounding epicenter of this year's Bruckner year: the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and sums up a day in the Boliversum.

On November 30, the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024 and the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 joined forces again at the ALFA Laakirchen to celebrate this diverse super cultural year together with the region, Upper Austria and the whole of Europe.

Anyone who thought that the 24-hour birthday festival on September 4 marked the peak of the Bruckner year was very much mistaken. Norbert Trawöger, Artistic Director of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO, proves in his new contribution to the series "Through the year with Bruckner" that there has also been an incredible amount to hear, see and experience in the past few weeks.

"First comes the space, then the music ..." Seven young composers aim high. Because the Composition Workshop: Composing at HEAVENLY HEIGHTS offers the unique opportunity to do just that: at a height of 68 meters - in the Türmerstube of Linz's Mariendom - the composers will draw inspiration for the creation of their polyphonic vocal works based on biblical texts, which will be premiered in a concert by Cantando Admont on 17 October 2024.

Norbert Trawöger, Artistic Director of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO, reflects in his new contribution to the series "Through the year with Bruckner" on the shared experiences that have accumulated throughout the year up to Anton Bruckner's birthday on September 4.

Christine Hinterkörner alias Crystn Hunt Akron resurrects Anton Bruckner in her performance Hallucination - Anton Bruckner's Phantasmagoria using AI. Nowhere could this work better than in a church. In this interview, the multidisciplinary musician talks about the genesis of her project.

In his new contribution to the series "With Bruckner through the year", Norbert Trawöger, artistic director of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO, traces an arc from Anton Bruckner's summer vacations in St. Florian, his passion for his homeland, to the joy Upper Austrians take in celebrating festivals - above all Bruckner's 200th birthday on 4 September.

On August 27, the film "Anton Bruckner - The Enigmatic Genius" celebrated its preview at the Moviemento cinema in Linz.

Anton Bruckner's first job as a school assistant took him to Windhaag near Freistadt. Irmgard Quass has set up a place of learning and remembrance at Bruckner's workplace in Windhaag. The exhibition space has now been redesigned to commemorate the Bruckner Year.

What does Bruckner's music have to do with quantum physics? A lot, you ask Philipp Haslinger. The experimental physicist conducts research at the Vienna University of Technology and has developed BruQner - The Sound of Entanglement.

In the fall of 2023, WhatsAB was initially a live event in public space based on an idea by Rainer Zendron and Bernd Preinfalk. One year later, in the fall of 2024, the sound event has become an installation for an art space. From 5 September 2024 in the Ursulinenhof.

A sound installation between Notre-Dame Cathedral and the ice caves on the Dachstein. Bill Fontana makes an artistic statement on climate change and the fragility of culture and nature.

At the halfway point of the Bruckner Year, the artistic director of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO, Norbert Trawöger, addresses the jubilarian himself in a letter.

Bruckner exhibition "How it all began. Bruckner's visions"
May 5 to October 27, 2024

The SCHORGEL offers a playful approach to Bruckner at various locations in 2024. On June 8, it was performed at Heldenplatz in Vienna as part of the Upper Austrian Summer Retreat

The fact that culture is never a still image is the subject of Norbert Trawöger's new article in the series "Through the year with Bruckner". Culture is a movement, a process in which we address and negotiate our togetherness, among other things.

Anton Bruckner's compositions and music have set standards and are not only the highest standard for many amateur musicians, but often also a great challenge. The play and sing book P.S.Bruckner - Play.Sing.Bruckner removes this obstacle.

It is certainly one of the most dynamic projects of the OÖ KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024. The musician and composer David Wagner gets on his bike and visits the inhabitants of Bruckner streets, alleys, paths and squares throughout Upper Austria to make music with them.

There is not one Bruckner, but several. In the next article in the series "Through the year with Bruckner", Norbert Trawöger shows that this can sometimes be a heroic, a doubting, an enigmatic or even a pensive one.

The BRUCKNER G'SCHICHTEN, a cinematic tour of Anton Bruckner's places of reference, celebrated its premiere at Moviemento in Linz on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. The 35 films were conceived and shot by filmmaker Markus Kaiser-Mühlecker as part of the first Upper Austrian KulturEXPO to mark the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner's birth.

The Bruckner year started with a veritable concert series that stretched from Linz, Haid and Kirchdorf to Vienna and duly launched the first Upper Austrian KulturEXPO with musical fireworks.

In this article, exile music researcher Karin Wagner examines the staging and instrumentalization of Anton Bruckner.

"Bruckner is coming home" was proclaimed for the planning of the first Upper Austrian KulturEXPO, which means nothing other than talking about him in the present. This is exactly what Norbert Trawöger, Artistic Director Anton Bruckner 2024, is doing in his series "Through the year with Bruckner".

The start of the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 was heralded with 53 "Locus iste" video contributions. At the beginning of the New Year's concert, Anton Bruckner's "world hit" was sung by singers from Tehran in Iran to the Western Cape in South Africa.

The Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 was opened on January 1, 2024 as part of the New Year's Concert at the Brucknerhaus Linz. With a world-spanning "Locus iste" and a program by Markus Poschner and the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, which included music by Anton Bruckner as well as other anniversary composers, the anniversary year got off to a brilliant start.

In the article in the series "Through the year with Bruckner" in the December edition of the Upper Austrian Cultural Report, Norbert Trawöger looks at the linguistic and tonal landscapes of Upper Austria, which are inextricably linked to the genius loci of Anton Bruckner and will be carried beyond all borders in the Upper Austrian KulturExpo 2024 to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth.

Where, if not in Upper Austria, where "sporting" through the diverse landscapes has developed into a real mass movement in recent decades, and in the middle of the marathon "stronghold" Linz, where the Linz Danube Marathon attracts up to 20,000 (amateur) runners from 80 nations to the starting line every year, a new symphony will be created in 2024. One of running, dedicated to Anton Bruckner and his work.

The OÖ KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 kicks off the first trimester of the anniversary year with a "Tremolo" in December and the New Year's Concert at the Brucknerhaus Linz.

Networking is key - Around 50 representatives of the 35 Anton Bruckner municipalities and project participants took part in the networking meeting for the first OÖ KulturEXPO in the Linz Landhaus.

Under the motto UNENDLESS VASTNESS. BRUCKNER'S WORK AS A GRIP TO THE STARS, the Brucknerhaus Linz celebrates its genius loci.

In addition to the visual logo, KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 now also has a sonic identifier in the form of the sound logo that will accompany all activities in 2024.

The Upper Austrian KulturEXPO was initiated to bring cultural topics of supra-regional relevance and central cultural-political significance before the curtain. The 200th birthday of Anton Bruckner is the occasion for launching the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO.

In the young podcast "Des Pudels Kern", Heidi Kastner, forensic psychiatrist, and Norbert Trawöger, artistic director of Anton Bruckner 2024, take a look into the inner life of Anton Bruckner.

Berlin is once again the center of tourism. The ITB made a guest appearance in the German capital at the beginning of March. Upper Austria Tourism presented cultural and culinary highlights with its partners "Anton Bruckner 2024" and the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl-Salzkammergut.

In a joint press conference on March 2, 2023, Provincial Governor Mag. Thomas Stelzer, Mayor MMag. Klaus Luger, City Councillor for Culture Doris Lang-Mayerhofer and Cultural Director Mag. Margot Nazzal presented the first program highlights for the anniversary year 2024.

Anton Bruckner is a multifaceted solitaire. He is a controversial maverick, conservative and revolutionary at the same time, a Janus-faced composer who looks in different times and directions: back into the history of music that lies behind him and forward into modernity, to which he points the way.

The province of Upper Austria and the city of Linz have created a joint brand for the Bruckner Year 2024, which was presented by LH Mag. Thomas Stelzer and BGM Klaus Luger at a press conference in the Steinerner Saal in the Landhaus on Friday, October 21, 2022.