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CERCLE DIPLOMATIQUE - issue 01/2017

CD is a bi-lingual, independent and impartial magazine and is the medium of communication between foreign representatives of international and UN-organisations based in Vienna and the Austrian political classes, business, culture and tourism. CD features up-to-date information about and for the diplomatic corps, international organisations, society, politics, business, tourism, fashion and culture. Furthermore CD introduces the new ambassadors in Austria and informs about designations, awards and top-events. Interviews with leading personalities, country reports from all over the world and the presentation of Austria as a host country complement the wide range oft he magazine.

CD is a bi-lingual, independent and impartial magazine and is the medium of communication between foreign representatives of international and UN-organisations based in Vienna and the Austrian political classes, business, culture and tourism. CD features up-to-date information about and for the diplomatic corps, international organisations, society, politics, business, tourism, fashion and culture. Furthermore CD introduces the new ambassadors in Austria and informs about designations, awards and top-events. Interviews with leading personalities, country reports from all over the world and the presentation of Austria as a host country complement the wide range oft he magazine.

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SAVOIR VIVRE VIENNA FESTIVAL<br />

LES ROBOTS NE CONNAISSENT PAS LE<br />

BLUES ODER DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS<br />

DEM SERAIL.<br />

Mozarts Oper trifft auf Performance.<br />

When Mozart´s opera meets performance.<br />

HAMAMNESS.<br />

Performativ-intellektuelle<br />

Massagen bei 45 °C.<br />

Performative and intellectual<br />

massages at 45°C.<br />

Wiener Festwochen<br />

12.5.-18.6.2<strong>01</strong>7<br />

Simone Young dirigiert<br />

Bernhard Langs neue Oper.<br />

Simone Young conducts<br />

Bernhard Lang´s new opera.<br />

ISHVARA.<br />

Opern-Happening<br />

von Tianzhuo Chen.<br />

Opera-happening<br />

by Tianzhuo Chen.<br />

neuen Intendanten lässt dann in „Les Robots ne connaissent<br />

pas le Blues oder die Entführung aus dem<br />

Serail“ die Camerata Salzburg mit dem deutsch/ivorischen<br />

Performance-Ensemble von Gintersdorfer/<br />

Klaßen zusammenprallen oder im Opern-Happening<br />

„Ishvara“ von Tianzhuo Chen, dem Enfant Terrible<br />

der chinesischen Kunstszene, avantgardistische<br />

Popkulturen und Religion aufeinander treffen. Weitere<br />

Höhepunkte aus dem – durchaus streitbaren –<br />

Festwochenprogramm sind etwa Peter Brooks neueste<br />

Theaterarbeit „Battlefield“, die sich 30 Jahre nach<br />

seiner legendären, neunstündigen Version des Sanskrit<br />

Epos erneut mit dem Mahabharata auseinandersetzt<br />

oder die breit gefächerte, von Bonaventure Soh<br />

Bejeng Ndikung kuratierte Festwochenausstellung<br />

„The Conundrum of Imagination“, die sich vom Leopold<br />

Museum bis auf ein weitläufiges, ehemaliges<br />

Fabriksgelände beim Wiener Hauptbahnhof erstreckt,<br />

und das angestammte Festwochenterritorium<br />

gehörig ausweitet. Die neue Spielstätte im 10.<br />

Bezirk wird als „Performeum“ temporäre Bühne für<br />

spannende Performances und interaktive Arbeiten<br />

wie „Hamamness“, die das Publikum bei 45 °C und<br />

hoher Luftfeuchtigkeit sowohl physischen als auch<br />

intellektuellen Massagen aussetzt.<br />

„Wir begreifen die Wiener Festwochen als ein groß<br />

angelegtes geistiges wie sinnliches Experiment, das<br />

herrschende Denk- und Handlungsmuster in Frage<br />

stellt, aber auch Raum schafft für ekstatische Erfahrung<br />

und Utopien produziert“, bringt Zierhofer-Kin<br />

seine Vision auf den Punkt. Eines ist jedenfalls jetzt<br />

schon klar: Die Wiener Festwochen 2<strong>01</strong>7 bringen intensive<br />

und kontroversielle fünf Wochen packendes<br />

Theater-, Performance- und Opernerlebnis.<br />

When Parsifal meets Richard Wagner, Marlon<br />

Brando and Barbarella on the moon,<br />

you can be sure that the Vienna Festival<br />

has started. Vienna‘s genre-transcending festival once<br />

again provides unusual encounters that greatly enrich<br />

the capitals’ cultural calendar. The eccentric German<br />

artist Jonathan Meese, who is responsible for the stage<br />

design, equipment and direction in Bernhard<br />

Lang‘s opera sets the mythical figures of Wagner on a<br />

moonbase of the future. In this highly anticipated festival<br />

production called ”Mondsparsifal Alpha 1-8<br />

(Erzmutterz der Abwehrz)“, Meese’s personal Heroic<br />

cosmos encounters Wagner’s iconic characters. The<br />

Klangforum Vienna led by the famous conductor Simone<br />

Young will ensure utmost excellency in the musical<br />

department. Director Zierhofer-Kin is convinced<br />

that this production will spike quite a<br />

controversy. ”When Jonathan Meese and his congenial<br />

partner and composer Bernhard Lang take on<br />

Richard Wagner’s Parsifal, they create a contemporary<br />

artistic field of force that redefines the idea of opera<br />

in terms of content and form.“<br />

A new era for the traditional festival<br />

With Tomas Zierhofer-Kin, who has already<br />

made a name for himself with an unconventional<br />

programme as the director of the Donaufestival, the<br />

Vienna Festival will enter an exciting new era in<br />

2<strong>01</strong>7. He will transcendent beyond traditional forms<br />

of theatre, performances and new formats – while<br />

the classical approach will take a back seat in the future.<br />

Established in the early 1950s, the Vienna Festival<br />

was one of Austria‘s most important cultural<br />

event with international appeal for more than sixty<br />

years. Critical to survival, it opened up a window to<br />

Europe and the world, which re-connected Vienna<br />

with international cultural life after the dark years of<br />

National Socialism. According to director Zierhofer-<br />

Kin, the Vienna Festival should connect genres,<br />

thoughts and ideas to create testing grounds for a<br />

society of the future.<br />

From opera to performance to hammam<br />

The new director’s decidedly political approach to<br />

theatre provides for the Camerata Salzburg to clash<br />

with the German/Ivorian performance ensemble of<br />

Gintersdorfer/Klaßen in ”Les Robots ne connaissent<br />

pas le Blues oder die Entführung aus dem Serail“ or<br />

for the collision between avant-garde pop culture<br />

and religion by means of the opera event ”Ishvara“ by<br />

Tianzhuo Chen, the enfant terrible of the Chinese art<br />

scene. Additional highlights from the – certainly<br />

provocative – festival programme are, for example,<br />

Peter Brook’s newest theatre work ”Battlefield“,<br />

PHOTOS: KNUT KLASSEN; ZHANG YAN; ANJA BEUTLER; MARKUS MORIANZ; MONIKA RITTERSHAUS<br />

which once again deals with the Mahabharata 30 years<br />

after his legendary, nine-hour-long version of the<br />

Sanskrit epic or the exhibition ”The Conundrum of<br />

Imagination“, curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng<br />

Ndikung which stretches from the Leopold Museum<br />

to a large, former factory premise near Vienna‘s main<br />

railway station thus massively expanding the usual<br />

territory of the festival. The new venue in the 10th<br />

district is called the ”Performeum“, a temporary stage<br />

for exciting performances and interactive works<br />

such as ”Hamamness“, which expose the audience to<br />

physical as well as intellectual massages at 45° C and<br />

high humidity.<br />

”We see the Vienna Festival as a large-scale intellectual<br />

and sensory experiment that questions the<br />

dominant pattern of thought and action, but also<br />

creates space for ecstatic experience and utopias,“<br />

Zierhofer-Kin summed up his vision. One thing is<br />

already clear: the Vienna Festival 2<strong>01</strong>7 brings intensive<br />

and controversial five weeks of exciting theatre,<br />

performance and opera experience.<br />

»… a place where<br />

excellence meets passion . «<br />

Tomas Zierhofer-<br />

Kin ist neuer<br />

Festwochen<br />

Intendant.<br />

Tomas Zierhofer-<br />

Kin is the new<br />

director of the<br />

Vienna Festival.<br />

Festwocheneröffnung<br />

12.5.2<strong>01</strong>7, Wiener Rathausplatz<br />

Mondparsifal Alpha 1-8 (Erzmutterz der<br />

Abwehrz)<br />

Oper von Bernhard Lang nach Richard Wagner |<br />

Opera by Bernhard Lang, based on R. Wagner<br />

Regie: Jonathan Meese, Musikalische Leitung:<br />

Simone Young, Klangforum Wien, Arnold<br />

Schoenberg Chor<br />

4., 6. & 8.6.2<strong>01</strong>7, Theater an der Wien<br />

Les Robots ne connaissent pas le Blues<br />

oder die Entführung aus dem Serail<br />

Musiktheater nach der Oper von W. A. Mozart |<br />

Musical theatre based on the opera by W. A.<br />

Mozart<br />

26., 27. & 28.5.2<strong>01</strong>7, MuseumsQuartier Halle E<br />

Democracy in America<br />

Theater, Italienisch mit deutschen Übertiteln |<br />

Theater, Italian with surtitles<br />

Regie: Romeo Castellucci<br />

23., 24., 25. & 26.5.2<strong>01</strong>7, Volkstheater<br />

Battlefield<br />

Theater, Englisch mit deutschen Übertiteln<br />

Theater, English with German surtitles<br />

Regie: Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne<br />

16., 17., 18. & 19.6.2<strong>01</strong>7, MuseumsQuartier<br />

Performeum<br />

18.-28.5.2<strong>01</strong>7, 10., Laxenburgerstraße 2a<br />

Vollständiges Programm | Programme:<br />

festwochen.at<br />

112 Cercle Diplomatique 1/2<strong>01</strong>7<br />

IB World School – Music and Arts Academy – Superior Boarding<br />

Bastiengasse 36 – 38 | 1180 Wien | Austria | www.amadeus-vienna.com

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