Project chronological
Here, you’ll find all Capital of Culture year projects listed in chronological order. Click on the "more" link for a detailed description and further informations.
Projects that ran for several months are listed only under the month in which they premiered.
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01.01.2006 - 31.12.2008
Linz09 flirts with its environs. In this case a bit on the side is not just tolerated, society in and around Linz even expects it.
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01.01.2006 - 31.12.2008
Headstands are supposed to benefit one's circulation and creativity. Whoever stands concepts on their head, will discover new perspectives. And unherad of answers.
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30.10.2006 - 26.11.2009
Creative writing workshops held in select Cultural Capitals and cities twinned with Linz will be producing literary impressions to be exported to Linz.
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05.05.2007
A voice transmitted over headphones is the only guide that directs visitors through a pleasant landscape that serves all the purposes of habitation and relaxation. At first sight its uses in the not too distant past remain invisible.
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10.05.2007 - 02.06.2007
In May 2007 the city center of Linz is transformed into a living art mile. Over 30 national and international artists transform 50 shop windows into artistic objects.
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01.07.2007 - 30.09.2007
Nothing new in the East? On the contrary. In summer 2007 Hubert von Goisern floated down the Danube on a cargo boat as far as the Black Sea.
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01.09.2007
Hong Kong, Chicago, Tierra del Fuego – been there, done that, got the T-shirt. And the hotels? In their clueless uniformity they’re all the same, all over the world. Linz is different, yet again.
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10.01.2008 - 03.04.2008
Normally, bureaucrats in charge of a city’s cultural policies talk about concepts, subsidies, budgets, quotas, venues, buildings.
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09.02.2008 - 13.06.2008
Three international writers on architecture turn their gaze on Linz: The result is a well-informed discussion of the possibilities of urban planning today and tomorrow.
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05.05.2008 - 06.05.2008
During the time leading up to the Capital of Culture year, Linz09 will be intensively dealing with the recent history of this place that used to be known as “The City of the Führer.”
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30.05.2008 - 31.07.2008
After its experiences with SCHAURAUSCH in the summer of 2007 OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich sets out to explore other demarcation lines in the public space – and goes underground.
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30.06.2008
Linz remains in a state of flux. Located on the banks of the Danube, it offers a wide range of sparetime and recreational acitivies in the very centre of the city.
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01.07.2008 - 01.09.2008
In 2008 the musical experiment reached out in a westerly direction as far as Rotterdam.
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14.07.2008 - 17.08.2008
Welcome to this highly unconventional academy designed to further the development of artistic and individual skills and to push personal limits.
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10.09.2008 - 10.10.2009
Vilnius and Linz present a harmonious front throughout 2009 in the character of loving sisters – if it were not for those occasional bouts when both feel the urge to show which of them is the real cultural superstar.
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17.09.2008 - 29.03.2009
Art and National Socialism in Linz and Upper Austria. Cultural and everyday life between 1938 and 1945 and what happened afterwards.
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18.09.2008 - 16.11.2008
These four sculptors illustrate the framework imposed by the prevailing political and societal systems before and after 1945.
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01.10.2008 - 27.01.2009
The Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität is devising new ways to make music more accessible. In 2009 it will be putting a special emphasis on training at various different levels.
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14.10.2008
A new musical ensemble for the Capital of Culture.
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15.10.2008
Thomas Kerbl compresses Anton Bruckner’s symphonies to snapshots: three- to five-minute quintessences for different ensembles.
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27.11.2008 - 18.12.2008
On the quality of life here and elsewhere.
What everyday realities determine the quality of everyday life? Unadorned figures reflect the underlying facts and show where Linz stands in comparison to other cities.
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28.11.2008 - 01.01.2010
395 steps to solitude
A hermitage will be installed in the Linzer Mariendom in 2009. Judging it safer to keep their distance from the Capital of Culture, hermits (of both sexes, of course) opt for a week of silence and asceticism.
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29.11.2008 - 30.12.2008
Expectations are on the rise: Capital of Culture year is signalling its arrival. It will arrive in style.
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29.11.2008 - 31.12.2009
The Linz composer Romanus Weichlein (1652 – 1706) will be assigned a place of honour in 2009. His praises will be sung from the steeple of the city’s parish church.
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Hörstadt / Acoustic City
29.11.2008 - 21.11.2009
Ruhepol Centralkino, a specially designed acoustic refuge at Landstraße 36 in downtown Linz.
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03.12.2008 - 15.01.2009
A City relates
In the run-up to the Capital of Culture Year the exhibition LINZ TEXAS makes playful comparisons between Linz and cities across the world.
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18.12.2008 - 31.12.2009
In Culture Capital Year Linz will use new and unusual signs to get people’s attention.
To be more specific, the appearance of the place-name signs at Linz’s entry points will be changed. Additional place-name signs in one of the many languages used in Linz will be added to the existing ones.
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31.12.2008 - 06.01.2009
The countdown to the beginning of the New Year is part of a Europe wide cultural event: on New Year’s Eve we will ring in Linz’s year as Europe’s Capital of Culture 2009.
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01.01.2009 - 31.12.2009
What must or can be done to save the world?
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01.01.2009 - 31.12.2009
School Project // Elementary school pupils offer up postcards featuring their own texts and images
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01.01.2009 - 10.05.2009
An Art Collection
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01.01.2009
The expressive sculptures by forum metall still dominate Linz’s Danube embankment. It’s time to shed some proper light on them.
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02.01.2009 - 04.01.2009
after Fernando Pessoa with Klaus Maria Brandauer by Michel van der Aa
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02.01.2009 - 04.12.2009
Everyone is entitled to their share of the city!
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04.01.2009 - 01.01.2010
A nightline with a vengeance. This is not about organising but about playing and entering into partnerships, in the strictly nuptial sense of the word.
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04.01.2009 - 27.12.2009
Linz09 has the licence to be exciting even on Sunday mornings. It has put together a programme for exploring and enjoying the city.
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05.01.2009 - 22.12.2009
Fixed on celluloid: films about Linz, featuring Linz, from Linz, for Linz.
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08.01.2009 - 10.12.2009
Lunchtime readings and a bowl of soup add up to a leisurely literary meal.
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09.01.2009 - 15.01.2009
A man to be afraid of, a play to look forward to, on opera about loneliness and fear.
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12.01.2009 - 16.12.2009
Johannes Kepler lived in Linz from 1612 to 1627. As part of Linz09 the house that the mathematician and astronomer lived in will oversee a series of scientific dialogues.
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13.01.2009 - 20.02.2009
We invite you on a year long journey that will take you across all continents and enable you to partake in an exciting world of theatre, dance, performance, and puppetry.
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Theater Mania 1: Snowstorm
13.01.2009 - 17.01.2009
Sensitive explorer of the area where theatre, art and music overlap
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16.01.2009 - 12.12.2009
The EU’s new member states will be showcasing the music of “new” Europe. From Bulgaria to Slovenia, they will be taking turns month by month in leaving their musical calling cards.
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Part of
Theater Mania 1: Snowstorm
18.01.2009 - 19.01.2009
May 1809. France vs. Austria. 40,000 dead in 2 days.
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Part of
Theater Mania 1: Snowstorm
19.01.2009 - 20.01.2009
CanDoCo Dance Company are an integrated ensemble of disabled and non-disabled dancers.
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21.01.2009 - 11.08.2009
For Linz09 and the festival sicht:wechsel it is a given that art created by handicapped people is assigned its proper place in the cultural programme.
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Part of
Theater Mania 1: Snowstorm
22.01.2009 - 23.01.2009
Dancer and choreographer Faustin Linyekula from the Democratic Republic of Congo has found a interesting approach to the problem of creating a performance about his country‘s brutal and violent history.
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Theater Mania 1: Snowstorm
24.01.2009 - 25.01.2009
A sharp, street-wise, high-energy show created by choreographer Constanza Macras with a group of teenagers from Neukölln, a district of Berlin with 150,000 inhabitants from over 160 countries.
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Part of
Theater Mania 1: Snowstorm
26.01.2009
In each section of this three-part dance programme, Andréya Ouamba and Fatou Cissé recreate a different reality before our very eyes.
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Theater Mania 1: Snowstorm
27.01.2009
An evening full of surprises, just like this text by director Cuqui Jerez: This project is a research into the trufades of bontinics and oregomatics.
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28.01.2009 - 22.10.2009
Reading Stifter against the grain: unusual guests read and re-interpret Stifter.
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Theater Mania 1: Snowstorm
29.01.2009
Slovenian-born Mala Kline is an exciting newcomer on the European contemporary dance scene.
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Theater Mania 1: Snowstorm
30.01.2009
The Acco Theatre Center has created groundbreaking new forms of social theatre in Israel and established strong alliances between Arab and Jewish artists.
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Part of
Theater Mania 1: Snowstorm
31.01.2009 - 28.05.2009
The European premiere of a new play by leading Palestinian-American playwright Betty Shamieh.
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31.01.2009 - 02.11.2009
“In the Harbor of Longing for…” is a series of events that will be held regularly throughout the year in Hafenhalle09 by immigrant communities and associations in cooperation with Linz09.
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01.02.2009 - 20.12.2009
A Place Especially for Kids and Families in the Altes Rathaus
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01.02.2009 - 13.09.2009
Cultures of commuting
Four guided tour routes familiarise visitors with the culture, character, history and stories of the Mühlviertel.
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01.02.2009 - 31.12.2009
Educational Program for Students // Former members of the workforce at the voestalpine steel mill
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Part of
Theater Mania 1: Snowstorm
02.02.2009 - 04.02.2009
Like many works of genius, it‘s incredibly simple. And at the same time highly sophisticated.
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04.02.2009 - 30.04.2009
The aim is quite simply to give a real boost to real productions. Support for the local scene guarantees the continuity of its creative diversity.
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04.02.2009 - 27.12.2009
“Let art pitch its camp where the economy flourishes.” Businesses and institutions take this motto to heart and network with regional artists in the area of Greater Linz to make use of the boom in high culture.
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Theater Mania 1: Snowstorm
05.02.2009 - 06.02.2009
Looking around the world, pessimism rules.
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05.02.2009 - 26.04.2009
The Stadtmuseum Nordico devotes an exhibition to the sensationhappy, irrational, superstitious and eccentric side of Linz and recounts a magical story about the city.
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06.02.2009 - 06.06.2009
The Capital of Culture becomes the Capital of Schools! And sweeps the whole province along with it!
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08.02.2009 - 13.12.2009
This new version of Maria Stuart revisits the territory of Schiller’s familiar classic from a contemporary perspective.
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12.02.2009 - 19.04.2009
The Lentos Kunstmuseum puts on a comprehensive solo exhibition by the Turkish artist Kutlug Ataman.
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12.02.2009
Two continents, two writers, two contemporaries. Bernhard has been dead for 20 years, Begley travels to Linz from the US to give a reading as part of a tribute to Bernhard.
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12.02.2009 - 26.03.2009
75 years ago this coming year, civil war broke out in Austria, with the fi rst bloodshed occurring in Linz. CIVIL WARS will analyse the traces left behind by these events and by comparable happenings across europe.
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14.02.2009 - 20.09.2009
It is the obscure jubilees rather than the obvious ones that make the most effective vehicles for bizarre stories, and traditional celebrations stand to gain a great deal from performances, installations and sculptures.
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14.02.2009 - 05.03.2009
Readings, music and culinary highlights (some of them brewed) enable Linzers to sample Lithuania’s everyday culture.
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Part of
Theater Mania 1: Snowstorm
16.02.2009 - 20.02.2009
Arjun Raina is a remarkable author and solo performer, who creates gripping stories about contemporary India and its development as part of our dynamic, globalized world.
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Part of
Theater Mania 1: Snowstorm
18.02.2009 - 19.02.2009
Maria Callas was the iconic stage artist of the twentieth century. 36, Avenue Georges Mandel is the address in Paris where she spent her final years.
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20.02.2009 - 25.03.2009
An antiwar play by Fernando Arrabal is the basis for an opera by Constantinos Stylianou.
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22.02.2009 - 30.12.2009
An empty house somewhere near the centre of the city is converted into a residence for stories: to marvel at, discuss, perform, hide or be made up.
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26.02.2009 - 19.11.2009
It’s not mandatory, it’s not permitted—to say anything, write anything, react to anything. Cultural programs are mostly consumed passively; those partaking of them just sit around, stand around, walk around. “Zeit Geschichte Vermitteln” (Mediating the Encounter with Modern History) reacts to this passive state by launching new discourses and instigating further reactions.
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26.02.2009 - 15.05.2009
Selection of Worldwide Contemporary Art
Offenes Kulturhaus OÖ will exhibit a selection of works from the most interesting biennials of 2008 with a particular focus on Asia.
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27.02.2009 - 13.06.2009
Ulrichsberg and its environs is the venue of Peter Ablinger’s LANDSCHAFTSOPER: a work in seven parts, whose theme is the place and its landscape.
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27.02.2009 - 31.12.2009
The story of Linz’s bridgehead buildings in the Nazi era is confronted by Unter uns , an installation.
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28.02.2009 - 14.06.2009
Exactly one hundred years after part of his oeuvre was first shown in Austria the exhibition at the Landesgalerie Linz focuses on one of the artist’s most characteristic features.
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01.03.2009 - 10.10.2009
The Ill Rabbit//Crazy About Linz
“How Much Craziness Can One Province Take?”
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03.03.2009 - 24.04.2009
The Medien Kultur Haus Wels is transformed into a think tank and a productive workshop.
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06.03.2009 - 08.03.2009
The interdisciplinary Festival for Comics and Cartoon Art focuses on the interrelationship shared by cartoons with film, electronic media, music and theatre.
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07.03.2009 - 03.10.2009
Experience Histories and Herstories by Bus
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10.03.2009 - 26.12.2009
Writers are being given their say; they shift the focus on seemingly marginal matters, reflect on stories of marginalisation and contiguity, and deal with issues of privilege and deprivation.
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11.03.2009 - 21.03.2009
The Jewish festival of Purim as staged by David Maayan brings merriment and rebellion to the system of underground tunnels that make up Linz’s Cembran Keller.
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11.03.2009
Signs inscribed in squares and buildings make Linz’s Nazi past visible.
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19.03.2009 - 02.05.2009
Who is Europe? What is Europe? Is there a “European identity and culture”? Linz09 focuses on Europe beyond the realm of the European Union: Norway, Turkey and Switzerland.
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20.03.2009 - 21.03.2009
A symposium explores the ruptures and/or continuities in the musical policies of Linz and the Gau Oberdonau before and after 1945.
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24.03.2009 - 26.06.2009
Backstage in a caravan: Zooming in on Upper Austria’s writers
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25.03.2009 - 04.07.2009
Clear the stage for a fresh, dynamic and young theatre and raise the curtain on 150 unusual performances!
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31.03.2009 - 19.04.2009
Poetry days - This festival, which encompasses several different disciplines and venues, opts for a remarkably open-minded approach to the term “poiesis”.
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03.04.2009
School Project // Three Countries // Prejudices
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04.04.2009 - 30.04.2009
Simple inquisitiveness is the impulse that has driven the Lentos to reach out to the world. Artists and art lovers are cordially invited to join a collective brainstorming session on the future direction of the museum as an institution.
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07.04.2009
Through the eyes of animals: An ORF documentary in the UNIVERSUM format focuses on the fauna of Linz from the perspective of an animal.
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13.04.2009 - 26.10.2009
At the weekends between Easter and 24 October 2009 there will be short organ recitals at different churches in Linz’s inner city.
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15.04.2009 - 29.04.2009
South Caucasus and Europe – Young Perspectives
School Project // Exhibition // Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Lithuania, Austria
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15.04.2009 - 18.04.2009
Theatre inflames, provokes, causes excitement. The spark leaps across, schools in the region and international youth groups catch it on the wind and fan it into flames.
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20.04.2009 - 26.04.2009
>strong>It is a well established tradition for Linz’s annual European film festival to concentrate on young, unconventional auteur filmmakers.
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21.04.2009 - 26.04.2009
The project, initiated by Israeli film producer Micha Shagrir is another step in his investigation of Heimat which started with Linz, Bischofstraße in 2004.
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25.04.2009 - 01.08.2009
Hiking routes converge on Linz – combining music, literature, ecology and contemporary history.
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28.04.2009 - 12.11.2009
An exhibition at the StifterHaus presents observations on Linz by celebrities past and present.
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29.04.2009 - 21.11.2009
Another Linz first! Linz is listening. Our acoustic environment matters – and now it’s political.
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29.04.2009 - 08.11.2009
Do you know Linz?
Twelve women elaborate on a neighborhood. Female immigrants to Linz guide walking tour groups through Linz Mitte and show the fascinating world they inhabit.
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30.04.2009 - 02.05.2009
Three days and three premieres are flanked by the three acts of a landscape opera. The principles at work will be composition and improvisation, space and moving sounds, patterns and autonomous forms.
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01.05.2009 - 03.05.2009
On three days in May marching bands will lure you to the periphery of Linz.
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06.05.2009 - 09.05.2009
Whispering, shouting, singing. This is about the age old theme of the song, of the human voice with all its nuances, different facets and capacity for interpretation.
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08.05.2009 - 04.10.2009
The Botanical Gardens put on a European garden show.
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09.05.2009 - 01.06.2009
In 2009 the Festival of Regions will be setting its sights on Linz’s southern suburbs, particularly Auwiesen and the residential areas of solarCity.
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10.05.2009 - 16.05.2009
Surveillance free city tours
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11.05.2009 - 30.08.2009
CIRCUS has no arena – it is itself an arena! It’s all there for everyone to see, it’s all transparent. In more than one hundred performances CIRCUS becomes a magical venue with magic as its programme. Step inside! Take part!
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Part of
Circus
11.05.2009 - 01.08.2009
Music from animated films mirrors the legacy of an avant-garde.
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13.05.2009
On 13 May 2009 Brucknerhaus will transform itself into an open music house for hundreds of young people.
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13.05.2009 - 14.08.2009
Linz as reflected in the rhythmic patterns of its twin cities.
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Part of
Circus
13.05.2009 - 14.05.2009
After a period of more than 300 years Linz rediscovers highly expressive music composed by a master.
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14.05.2009 - 17.05.2009
Counter culture and resistance technology fair.
An opening for Linz as the place to go to if you want to know about resistance!
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Part of
Circus
15.05.2009 - 30.08.2009
When radical remixes of Anton Bruckner’s symphonies are performed in the CIRCUS, someone like Pablo Casals might grumble:
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Part of
Circus
16.05.2009 - 12.07.2009
Hidden in sound collages, in the gold fish bowl of classic cover versions, enlarged into veritable tableaux of sound flutter, sail, teeter and buzz through the CIRCUS
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Part of
Circus
18.05.2009 - 15.06.2009
School girls and boys will be making themselves heard and giving us their take on Linz09.
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19.05.2009 - 23.05.2009
A high-volume festival for young people. Waves of sound and visitors. A heart warming prospect.
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Part of
Circus
21.05.2009 - 20.08.2009
East of the sun & west of the moon
Musical sounds conjured in hearts cleared of preconceptions. A series of fascinating acoustic scenes from the countries of the Rising Sun.
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Part of
Hörstadt / Acoustic City
21.05.2009 - 26.10.2009
In early summer 2009, a second Ruhepol will open in Linz’s inner city. From March 21 to October 26, 2009, Rudigier Hall in Linz’s St. Mary’s Cathedral will be dedicated to silent contemplation.
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22.05.2009 - 23.05.2009
This is a play with music and a timeless theme that centres on the figure of Stephan Fadinger, the well-known leader of Upper Austria’s peasant uprising.
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Part of
Circus
25.05.2009
Students of the sound workshop create their own very personal musical using their emotional relationship to what they are experiencing in Linz.
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25.05.2009 - 29.05.2009
Doug Hammond has written an orchestral piece expressly for Linz09. His “Dream Band” brings back Gil Evans’s tentet formation.
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Part of
Circus
27.05.2009 - 28.05.2009
An audible journey to visible music with 3 actresses and 5 trumpeteers.
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28.05.2009 - 31.10.2009
Art on the rooftops of Linz
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29.05.2009 - 01.06.2009
Soccer teams from past and future capitals of culture meet in Linz for the Youth European Soccer Cup – Youth European Soccer or YES09 for short.
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29.05.2009 - 01.06.2009
LINZFEST in the Donaupark is an open air festival where days can be spent lazing about in friendly company amid the greenery of Linz.
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30.05.2009 - 30.09.2009
The lower valley of the river Inn is celebrating its world-famous painter with the “Year of Kubin”.
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04.06.2009 - 05.06.2009
Literature as a medium for shaping and reflecting memories. Aspects of the work of Adalbert Stifter and Heimrad Bäcker
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Part of
Circus
04.06.2009 - 28.08.2009
CIRCUS LEBASI
"Anything that’s different is circus.
Johann Le Guillerm
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04.06.2009 - 13.09.2009
This exhibition is going to turn the Stadtmuseum Nordico into a residential house whose rooms reflect the city and its development over the last threee decades.
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Part of
Circus
10.06.2009 - 24.08.2009
Circus Hieronymus will present its racy revue “Denn die Sehnsucht kommt aus dem Chaos!” (Because longing is the fruit of chaos).
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13.06.2009 - 27.09.2009
A journey across time traces the development of wind music in Upper Austria and offers live tableaux illustrating its history.
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Part of
Circus
14.06.2009 - 06.08.2009
The term “music of the future” was coined by the music critic L. Bischoff in his polemics against Richard Wagner.
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15.06.2009 - 20.06.2009
Premiere
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16.06.2009 - 20.06.2009
A conference on jazz, taking in improvised and new music, with a curtain raiser concert at the Count Davis.
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17.06.2009 - 08.09.2009
Around the world to come in 80 days: Turn up in Linz’s Hauptplatz or at the new Ars Electronica Center and join the expedition.
20.06.2009
Merry, colourful, noisy: KIDS’ PARADE is Europe’s only no-nonsense demonstration for the Rights of the Child. It is, after all, with our children that the future starts!
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20.06.2009 - 09.08.2009
In the summer of 2009 Ottensheim will tempt visitors to dive into the river and float in a world of poetry, a place where laws are at work that differ from those in force on dry land. Discover them with us!
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22.06.2009 - 27.06.2009
FRISCHLUFTKLASSIK is a an open air, interactive music festival with something for everyone – young and old.
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24.06.2009 - 13.09.2009
The Yellow House
A temporary structure erected over the municipal autobahn is offering new perspectives of Linz.
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Part of
Schäxpir
25.06.2009 - 23.10.2009
For SCHÄXPIR 2009 u\hof: has developed an unusual format, part of which are face to face conversations with youngsters between the ages of 12 and 18, from all parts of the city, from all kinds of backgrounds and cultures.
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Part of
Hörstadt / Acoustic City
28.06.2009 - 29.03.2010
World of Hearing
European Research and Education Center for the Sustainable Development of Acoustic Space
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29.06.2009 - 31.12.2009
School Project // Chilean Artists at VS 40
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29.06.2009
“Peace” has received the most diverse treatments throughout the history of music: as a warning of the imminence of war, as a critique of militarism or as visions of what genuine peace would presumably have to look like.
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Part of
Circus
03.07.2009 - 04.07.2009
The circus ring is filled by analog, electroacoustic sounds and its handlers!
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03.07.2009 - 05.07.2009
Hubert von Goisern and Friends
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04.07.2009 - 10.01.2010
A green belt now spans the continent where the Iron Curtain used to divide Europe: a unique ecosystem caught between wilderness and cultivation.
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Part of
Circus
05.07.2009 - 06.07.2009
A three-part tour de force, taking in old tablatures, stirring music from the Innviertel region and contemporary blues.
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Part of
Circus
07.07.2009 - 08.07.2009
Nature and creation.
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10.07.2009 - 23.10.2009
International studio house Linz: The former Salt Authority in Linz’s city has been converted into an international meeting place for artists.
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Part of
Circus
13.07.2009 - 12.08.2009
What would be a circus without surprises?
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18.07.2009 - 28.11.2009
A selection of festivals within easy reach of the Capital of Culture.
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Part of
Circus
20.07.2009 - 21.07.2009
In a discreet and whimsical manner a brass quintet, a string septet and a wind quintet deconstruct the time hallowed structural dogmas of traditional serious music. For this they can count on support ...
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21.07.2009 - 28.08.2009
Welcome to the Summer09 block of the Academy of the Impossible in Linz!
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Pflasterspektakel
22.07.2009 - 25.07.2009
Spectacle with lights and live music.
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23.07.2009 - 25.07.2009
International Linz street art festival with Street Art College.
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28.07.2009 - 02.09.2009
Theatre mania is back! The journey continues.
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28.07.2009 - 29.07.2009
The main deck of the Ars Electronica Center provides a stunning setting for the opening of theatre mania2: sunburn with a new piece by Wim Vandekeybus, entitled nieuwZwart.
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29.07.2009 - 16.08.2009
Theater Hausruck have quickly established themselves as a significant element in the Upper Austrian theatrical summer with their epic works written by Franzobel and directed by Georg Schmiedleitner fo...
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30.07.2009 - 01.08.2009
House of the Holy Afro is the temple of modern African groove – a genre-busting club show where gospel, poetry and dance come together in an explosion of colour, rhythm and thumping exuberance.
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31.07.2009 - 01.08.2009
Willi Dorner takes dance to the streets in a new multi-disciplinary collaboration with the designer Katharina Heistinger and composer Bernhard Lang.
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Part of
Theatre Mania2: Sunburn
01.08.2009 - 07.08.2009
The Freinberg high above Linz is a natural stage, offering commanding views of the River Danube and the city below. In earlier times it was also the “Galgenberg”, the site of public executions.
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03.08.2009 - 04.08.2009
One of the simplest, oldest and most beautiful forms of theatre anywhere: made with shadows from the light of a flickering oil lamp.
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04.08.2009 - 09.08.2009
Jean Michel Bruyère is an artist who creates installations which he calls spaces to think.
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05.08.2009 - 09.08.2009
Kutiyattam is the oldest surviving acting tradition in the world and dates back over a thousand years.
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06.08.2009 - 19.09.2009
Contemporary music needs the close cooperation of composer and performing artists before it can really come into its own. In temporary workshops this cooperation is extended to encompass two cultural pheres.
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Part of
07.08.2009 - 30.08.2009
Even the most ordinary events can touch on the most remarkable stories.
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Part of
10.08.2009 - 11.08.2009
Back to Back Theatre is a company from Australia with an established international reputation who specialize in performing in urban public spaces.
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Circus
13.08.2009 - 14.08.2009
SHANGRI-LA invites its audiences to travel to their own utopia, into a temporary space without beginning or end, to the legendary utopia in the depths of the Himalayas.
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14.08.2009 - 15.08.2009
Heroes on fire that kick ass!
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Part of
15.08.2009 - 20.08.2009
A fictionalized investigation into the very real stories lurking in the tunnels below Linz.
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Part of
Circus
15.08.2009 - 16.08.2009
The OMAN CONSORT transports its audiences into the sensual world of the baroque, into the pleasure garden of Antonio Vivaldi’s concerti, and to places that thrill to the irresistible exotic rhyt...
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23.08.2009 - 20.09.2009
Art symposium for Europe ’s Capitals of Culture – 2009 in Linz.
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25.08.2009 - 29.08.2009
Membros come from Macaé, one of the city with Brazil’s highest murder rate. Their hip hop dance trilogy RAIO X, FEBRE and MEDO is packed with thrilling images and extreme stories. For its founde...
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26.08.2009 - 18.09.2009
An initiative fostering the further development and presentation of innovative currents in and sensitive interpretations of the folk culture of Alpine regions in the areas of architecture, music, dance, clothing and cuisine.
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26.08.2009 - 28.08.2009
Karagöz is the Turkish name for the figure also known as Kasperl or Punch.
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27.08.2009 - 10.01.2010
SEE THIS SOUND deals with how sounds and images interact in art, media and perception.
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Circus
29.08.2009
Dreaming Europe - Real Europe
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29.08.2009
“Europeanisation” is coming on apace, yet we still remain ignorant of the culture of our nextdoor neighbours. The “East” is experienced by many predominantly as a threat. FLUID BORDERS aims to show how much we actually have in common.
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30.08.2009 - 07.09.2009
You. A bike. And the city.
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31.08.2009 - 02.09.2009
An international debate on the interplay between art and the electronic media: current trends, cross pollinations, impulses.
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03.09.2009 - 08.09.2009
In 2009 Ars Electronica celebrates its 30th anniversary: reason enough to reflect not only on how it has evolved but on media art worldwide. The opening of the new Ars Electronica Center marks the beginning of the next chapter of this success story…
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04.09.2009
The church of the monastery of St. Florian provides the setting for the performance of a landmark of modern music: Alfred Schnittke’s Second Symphony will be coming home for the first time to the Stiftskirche St. Florian.
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05.09.2009
Fabulous creatures make their way through the city, transforming it into a miraculous biosphere with the power to save – or to destroy.
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09.09.2009
Nine radio plays for the city
On 09/09/09 the winners of this Europe wide radio play competition will come before us with something worth listening to.
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09.09.2009 - 14.10.2009
Electro acoustic concerts and sound installations in Linz’s churches and sacred rooms
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12.09.2009 - 15.09.2009
Who stands to benefit from our research and our writing? How did we get to be who we are? A key theme for the new cultural sciences arises from questions about cultural and social identity.
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13.09.2009 - 05.10.2009
In Cultural Capital Year the Brucknerfest again insists that it is“classical but with a difference” and moves the inevitable and often cited interplay between image and sound centre stage.
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15.09.2009 - 22.09.2009
An insightful story about power and happiness. A world premiere that promises to be an evening of remarkable prose.
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20.09.2009 - 09.01.2010
Philip Glass’s opera, written expressly for Landestheater Linz and Linz09, deals with the intellectual cosmos of the great astronomer.
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21.09.2009 - 22.09.2009
Dealing with the Material Remains of Nazi Crimes
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22.09.2009
School Project // Art from Africa and Europe // UNESCO Workshop
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22.09.2009 - 29.09.2009
Contemporary Dance & Performance
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23.09.2009 - 27.09.2009
Linz09 declares the election campaign of 2009 a cultural event and puts it under European surveillance.
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26.09.2009 - 16.02.2010
Bertolt Brecht’s play about the good woman is a parable situated between traditional times and the present. In Linz it will be shown in a production by director Ong Keng Sen.
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02.10.2009
The Linz Diaries!
A fictional love story involving dance and jazz, inspired by life abroad and victory in the struggle against loneliness.
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02.10.2009 - 30.11.2009
The mobile book depot in Schillerplatz has become the temporary home of a library and will be given a new “purpose in life” through a collection of books and events that speak to Linzers and their many cultures.
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02.10.2009 - 26.10.2009
And what if it wasn’t just happening on a stage? What if pictures that “looked like pictures only a moment ago” suddenly came to life?
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05.10.2009 - 04.11.2009
More than two decades ago Forum Design generated impulses that created a much greater stir internationally than in Linz itself. In 2009 this has definitely got to change.
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08.10.2009 - 21.10.2009
From puppets to robots , from shadows to animation: a festival
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14.10.2009 - 28.02.2010
The exhibition on the “case” Forum Design celebrates an exceptional cultural phenomenon and touches on some of the intricacies of local politics it got caught up in.
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20.10.2009
Music, performance, spatial installation, video, drawing: the Brucknerhaus presents an “intermedia” performance that negate the generic boundaries separating art and music.
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21.10.2009 - 22.10.2009
Trialogue between Jews, Christians and Muslims.
A panel discussion between prominent representatives of the three Abrahamic religions and a stage for musical encounters.
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23.10.2009 - 24.10.2009
The third Austrian Poetry Slam championship takes to the stage in the Posthof.
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26.10.2009
More than 1,000 singers and instrumentalists in Austria’s largest church.
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26.10.2009
What does the great federal capital do when all of a sudden her little sister starts hogging all the limelight? She makes Linz a present: a concert for Austria.
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26.10.2009 - 11.12.2009
Testimonies of jewish families from the centropa
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29.10.2009 - 13.12.2009
This exhibition focuses on Japan’s provinces as seen through the lenses of European photographers.
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29.10.2009 - 30.10.2009
Kristian Smeds converts his vision of the future of the European Union into a multi-disciplinary stage experience.
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31.10.2009 - 21.06.2010
Franz Lehár’s 1929 operetta tells an Austrian-Chinese love story. In this production the renowned Chinese director Li Liuyi focuses on the eastern perspective.
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04.11.2009
Overcoming Boundaries
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04.11.2009 - 08.11.2009
Expect more than simply sacred music. Listen out for a reconciliation of East and West, of the Middle Ages and modernity.
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04.11.2009 - 27.11.2009
Europe’s citizens between autonomy and paternalism
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06.11.2009 - 15.11.2009
Alfred Kubin’s only novel is about to hit the stage. Live action, puppet theatre and video sequences will breathe new life into this fascinating work.
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06.11.2009 - 27.11.2009
Twelve crime writers, five evenings, five sessions of social criticism: a plea in favour of the most popular of all literary genres.
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11.11.2009 - 21.11.2009
Welcome to
That’s the way to do it!
A proper Punch & Judy show
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22.11.2009 - 29.11.2009
Entertaining and at the same time demanding films from all over the world: suitable for children of six and over and for all those who have a soft spot for great children’s films.
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04.12.2009 - 06.12.2009
Linz09 will be the stage for the ninth edition of Jazzatelier Ulrichsberg’s PHONOMANIE with the musician Paul Lovens at its heart. The musician will be displaying the whole bandwith of his creativity over three days.
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05.12.2009 - 17.04.2010
The Battle of Two Men in the Vast City of Chicago
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07.12.2009
The oratorio “De Curru Igneo” was inspired by the memory of the destruction of St Martin’s in Freiburg in a WWII bombing raid.
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31.12.2009
A Linz09 New Year’s Eve extravaganza on the Main Square will ring out this unforgettable Capital of Culture year!
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