The grand finale

Celebrating together - Capital of Culture and Anton Bruckner 2024

 

On 30 November, the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024 and the Upper- Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 will join forces again at the ALFA Laakirchen to celebrate this eclectic, superlative year of culture together with the region, Upper-Austria and the whole of Europe and to recall sources of inspiration, moments of surprise and identify factors which drove us on this year whilst also risking a glance at the future. Concerts, theatre performances, workshops for children and adults, readings, vernissages, a cinema room, culinary delights and lots more await you. There will definitely be something for everyone!

Saturday, 30 November 2024, 11:00 - 20:00
Paper and Printing Museum Laakirchen/Steyrermühl
Admission free!

Bruckner programme

Everything about Anton! 

Theater INNklusive

Theatre
11:15 - 12:30

Room 1, ground floor

Theater INNklusiv is presenting  Alles Anton! - a lively and theatrical musical journey through 200 years of Bruckner. A whirlwind that tells the story of "Anton, Anton and Anton", by singing, dancing and laughing to the beat of the Innviertel. The performance proves to be a multicoloured celebration for everyone, inviting you to join in the party and immerse yourself in the lively and sonorous world of the Antons. Thus Theater INNklusiv creates a unifying experience!

außen.Vor!

UNIverse

Music
13:15 - 13:30

Room 1, ground floor

The UNIverse University welcomes people in all their diversity! The IMP Institute's UNIverse ensemble was founded in autumn 2022 on the basis of this idea and the first "Music and Inclusion" course at the Anton Bruckner Private University. UNIverse is a place where professional musicians, amateur musicians and music enthusiasts make music together under the direction of Petra Linecker and Andreas Huber. They will perform the pieceaußen.Vor
on 30.11.2024, together with the Spring String Quartet!An overture by Severin Trogbacher, based on themes from Bruckner's 4th Symphony.

Bruckner Orchestra Linz

with Katharina Wincor

Concert
18:30 - 19:00
19:30 - 20:00

Hall 1, ground floor

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) Symphony No. 6 in A major WAB 106 (I. movement and II. movement)

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 6 in A major WAB 106 (III. movement and IV. movement)

The Bruckner Orchestra Linz under the direction of Katharina Wincor will conclude this programme so rich in variety. This ambitious conductor has been delighting audiences since her celebrated debut with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz in 2021. 

Sound and colour

Upper-Austrian State Music Organisation (Landesmusikschulwerk)

Exhibition
11:00 - 20:00
Café on the ground floor

11:00 - 14:30 & 18:30 - 20:00
Room 2, ground floor

This is a contribution from the five "Sound and Colour" classes of the Upper-Austrian State Music Organisation to the Bruckner Year 2024: an exhibition showcasing artistic encounters with the composer Anton Bruckner and his works. Pupils of all ages, including people with disabilities from the "Schön für Besondere Menschen" Institute (Kirchdorf/Micheldorf), explored Bruckner's music and works with great dedication.

Coordination: Birgit Kastenhuber

Trawöger whistles at Bruckner

with Norbert Trawöger

Reading and music
13:00
Open Stage, Hall 3, first floor

Norbert Trawöger plays 13 Bruckner whistles by Rudolf Jungwirth and reads from the text "Anton Bruckner" (1984) by Bodo Hell.

Norbert Trawöger is artistic director of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and artistic director of the Upper- Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024. From 2013 to 2023, he was artistic director of the Kepler Salon. Trawöger comes from a family in Gmunden where Franz Schubert was a regular guest in 1825. His parents wrote "most unabashedly, as if at home" (quote from Schubert's letter to his parents). He studied flute at the conservatories in Vienna, Gothenburg and Graz and completed the renowned Executive Master in Arts Administration course at the University of Zurich. In 2010 he published a biography of the composer, Balduin Sulzer, and in 2022 his essay "Spiel" in the "übermorgen" series published by Kremayr & Scheriau in Vienna. In spring 2024, his journal of a passion "Bruckner!" was published by Residenz Verlag.

Bruckner embroidery

with Cécile Belmont

installation
11:00 - 19:00
Room 4, first floor

12:00
Musical intervention by the cellist, Annekatrin Flick (Bruckner Orchestra Linz)

Bruckner sticken (Bruckner embroidery) is an art project by Cécile Belmont in which people in different places and situations in Upper-Austria and beyond were invited to embroider a fragment of Anton Bruckner's score of the unfinished 9th Symphony. During the Bruckner Year, Brucknersticken helped to establish connections between different people and made Bruckner's work accessible through collective action. The participatory project promotes a sense of community and individuality by combining art and conversation in open, diverse gatherings.

Bruckner films

11 a.m. - 8 p.m. - you will also find a detailed program directly at the entrance to the video room.

Heast Bruckner

Video room

In the Bruckner year 2024, Austrofred dreams that he is Bruckner and actually meeting God in heaven. In order to see the Glockner, Bruckner returns to earth for a day with God's permission. In exchange he provides God with present-day music. Upon his arrival in St. Florian, he meets Norbert Trawöger, mistakes him for Mahler and plans a trip to the Glockner. Accompanied by a mountain guide, whom he mistakes for Liszt, they set off to reach the highest mountain in Austria.

Director: Gerald Heidegger
Idea/Book: Gerald Heidegger, Austrofred

Actors:inside:
Anton Bruckner: Austrofred

God: Peter Hörmannseder
Gustav Mahler: Norbert Trawöger
Franz Liszt: Maximilian Steiner
Sales girl: Dominika Meindl
Conductor: Ankathie Koi

Anton Bruckner - The enigmatic genius

Video room

Director Thomas Macho has created a multifaceted portrait of Anton Bruckner for ORF and ARTE that highlights his contradictions. The preview was held on 27 August 2024 at Moviemento Linz. The film features authentic eyewitness accounts and talented actors such as Martina Ebm and Brigitte Kren, who bring Bruckner's world of thought and artistic personality to life. Michael Dangl and Marie König explore the places where Bruckner resided in Upper- Austria and Vienna, while high-calibre interviewees such as Franz Welser-Möst and Christian Thielemann shed light on the genius' music and collect answers about his character.

Director: Thomas Macho

Actors:inside: Michael Dangl, Martina Ebm, Wolfgang Hübsch, Fritz Karl, Brigitte Kren, Marie König, Erwin Steinhauer
Conductors: Christian Thielemann, Franz Welser-Möst, Markus Poschner
Organ virtuoso: Hansjörg Albrecht
Historian and former director of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: Clemens Hellsberg

Bruckner stories

Video room

BRUCKNER G'SCHICHTEN, a cinematic tour of Anton Bruckner's places of reference, celebrated its premiere at Moviemento Linz on March 20, 2024. Filmmaker Markus Kaiser-Mühlecker traveled 2500 kilometers through Upper Austria and talked to personalities who are closely connected to Bruckner's life and work. These encounters resulted in 35 episodes, of which a summary (Panoptikum) and 7 selected episodes offer fascinating insights and personal references to Bruckner's influence and legacy and paint a vivid picture of his work, including in the Salzkammergut.

Director: Markus Kaiser-Mühlecker

Wagner cycles for Bruckner

Video room
18:30 - 20:00 Premiere

18.30 Presentation documentary
19.30 Presentation music film

9 symphonies in 9 minutes: Upper Austria's population plays Anton Bruckner
David Wagner collected as many audio donations of short motifs from the 9 Bruckner symphonies on video from residents of Bruckner streets, alleyways and squares throughout Upper Austria at 72 locations, laid a Brucknerian tapestry of sound underneath them in the studio and created a 9-minute film from them, which is now being presented at a ceremony. The participants range from the Neuhofen kindergarten to the Bruckner High School in Wels to professional musicians and - above all! - people from next door, if they live in a Brucknerstraße. Just like Bruckner in his day, Wagner also moved around the country completely unmotorized (by bicycle).

David Wagner

Melodic currents (Aschach, Linz, Neufelden im Mühlkreis, Ottensheim)

Video room

Bruckner's sound by the river
Anton Bruckner often visited Neufelden, where he walked along the Mühl and played the church organ. On July 7, 2024, his 4th Symphony, "The Romantic", was performed in a special version by artist Michael Pisaro-Liu. 90 brass players under Wolfgang Panholzer's direction interpreted the coda, turning the river and dams between Neufelden and Linz into a sound space for around 40 minutes. This extraordinary performance gave the Danube a musical voice and was reminiscent of Bruckner's visits.

HEIM.ART® cultural association

Bruckner's Beats

Video room

Electronic organ concert, Bruckner's Sound Remixes & Sound Installation & Performance
Anton Bruckner in the club scene? This was demonstrated at the STREAM CLUB in April, when regional music students presented digital music productions to his works. Ilona Roth (Transitheart Productions) also pursued the idea of bringing Bruckner to life for new target groups together with the Linz collective Hydra. In their project "Bruckner's Beats", Bruckner's works were rearranged electronically and presented in a club atmosphere. Visitors were able to listen to DJs and musicians, accompanied by dancers and a three-channel headphone audio system. The result was a mixture of sound installation, performance and art happening in which Bruckner could be experienced in a modern, danceable and versatile way.

Transitheart Productions and Hydra cultural association

Forget-me-not or how to become an object of art!

Video room

Among other things, the film poses the question of collective memory. Who decides what is passed on and what is deleted and forgotten? Anton Bruckner's music plays a central role in this animated film, as does his hair.

Director: Ingrid Gaier

Cultural Education

Up and down - Papierlapapp

First floor
14:00 - 18:00

Up and down - Papierlapapp invites children aged 4 and over and adult guests to an exciting and free hands-on experience! Explore interactive stations and discover how artists in Bruckner's day, at the time of the industrial revolution, drew on nature and the element of water for their creative work. The programme is inspired by central themes from the Upper-Austrian KulturEXPO and the Capital of Culture. Find out how paper is made and why it was so important back then. Experience machines in action and take something home with you!

Tonart

Printing Museum, upper floor
14:00 - 18:00

Printing workshop on the letterpress with Christian Habring and Herbert Eder. In the printing workshop, you have the opportunity to make a personalized card using a historical letterpress printing machine. Just like in the old days, you can get down to work and color, print or stamp by hand.

Paper scooping

Handmade pottery, first floor
14:00 - 18:00

Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of traditional handmade paper! Here you will experience at first hand how fine, handmade paper with watermarks is created. Under the guidance of Hans Huemer, you will have the opportunity to discover the entire process of handmade paper and create your own work of art: from scooping to pressing and drying. Accompany us on a guided tour through the premises of the "Schöpferei" and gain an insight into the exciting day-to-day work.

Printed tones

Litho workshop, first floor
14:00 - 18:00

In Renate Moran and Monika Breitenfellner's printing workshop, you paint a picture on foil using oil-based letterpress inks, which is then printed on paper in the etching press. The theme of the design is noises or sounds in nature, such as birdsong. Think of the whistle of a blackbird: are the sounds long or short? Which brushstrokes and colors correspond to your feelings? Immerse yourself in this creative adventure with paint, paper and print, design your work of art and take it home with you!

Also discovered in the litho workshop are works from the Bruckner printed symposium, which was led by Renate Moran. Together with Monika Breitenfellner, Mariam Chikava, Olga Djomina, Inga Hehn, Helene Huemer and Georgina Lovelady Krausz, Renate Moran has created a link between the sophisticated technique of lithography and Anton Bruckner.

Plopp! Art machine

Painting school, first floor
14:00 - 18:00

Helene Huemer's art vending machine offers sculptures, medals, comics and scrolls influenced by Bruckner. This year it has been touring Upper-Austria and has even crossed national borders. You can get creative at the hands-on table in the painting school: Model, stamp, draw or write poetry and teleport the organ rock star, Anton Bruckner, into the present! Insert a 2 euro coin, spin and bang! A surprise from regional and international artists or participants awaits you!

Open End

Afterwards, there will be open-ended celebrations throughout the night in Gmunden's town centre. Concerts, DJ sets, performances and late-night readings await you. A free shuttle service will be available from Laakirchen to Gmunden.

Let's go, Salzkammergut!

Further information on the final programme of the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024 can be found here:

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