Monika Krautgartner, often referred to as the Grand Dame of contemporary dialect literature, invites you to an entertaining reading at the Gasthaus Maria vom Guten Rat in Gstaig to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Feldkirchen municipal library.

“Cheerfully into Autumn” is the motto of the whimsical literary evening featuring cheerful texts about harvesting, giving thanks, sweet fruits, and rustling leaves. “I have specifically put together a lovely program for the anniversary of the Feldkirchen municipal library,” promises the Innviertler poet with a smile, “Humor, garden whispers, potato boxes, and the harvest of life are my topics this time, of course with a big portion of humor in my backpack.” During the break and after the reading, Monika Krautgartner will be happy to engage in personal conversations and chats, and will of course gladly sign her books.


Monika Krautgartner lives in Tumeltsham in the Ried district and has been working as a freelance artist for over 30 years. The mother of two adult children and multiple grandmother has been awarded numerous times for her work, including the golden honorary award of her hometown Ried im Innkreis, the cultural medal of the state of Upper Austria, and the consultant title awarded by the state government. Numerous other national and international awards document the artistic significance of her extensive oeuvre.

VIND are five musicians who do not allow themselves to be limited by common genre labels. In their nuanced playing, they uncompromisingly express their musicality, blending Baroque with jazz, jazz with pop, and pop with Baroque.

Whether as a band or in crossover projects with larger ensembles, such as the Aachen Symphony Orchestra and the Concerto Stella Matutina, VIND works intensively to create an aesthetically unique musical language from a profound knowledge of historical material while simultaneously being grounded in contemporary music. Baroque song forms like Colasciones and Passacaglias are broken down and transformed into modern pop songs, jazz compositions suddenly sound like a lament aria, and new original compositions combine the best of both worlds.

The acoustic instrumentation with Winnie Brückner on vocals, Herbert Walser-Breuss on trumpet and flugelhorn, Thor-Harald Johnsen on lutes, guitars, and theorbo, and Florian King on double bass is complemented by electronic manipulation and sound loops, transforming it into a contemporary sound. Tobias Steinberger's masterful percussion and frame drum playing enhance the sound with pulsating grooves that always remain true to the Baroque tradition.

VIND draws on music from many centuries, creating a new, brilliantly imagined genre.

In 1964, an agreement on the recruitment of Turkish workers was signed between Austria and Turkey. The play "Kommen und Gehen" questions the memories and consequences of the migration that began as a result. At the center is Özlem, a German teacher at a high school, whose parents migrated from Turkey to Austria. When her mother sends her a mysterious cassette, her ordered world begins to unravel. She is confronted with her family past, which she believed she had distanced herself from. The cassette contains recordings from the time before her birth, when her father lived alone in Austria. The distinction between past and present becomes permeable, with three generations entering into dialogue. In search of a language that expresses her experiences, she encounters the poetry of Kundeyt Şurdum.

The world-famous Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of chief conductor Michael Sanderling, will perform for the first time in Feldkirch – accompanied by none other than the Czech star pianist Lukáš Vondráček.

This exclusive event promises to be an unforgettable experience for all classical music lovers!

Program:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)
Overture to Egmont in G major, Op. 84

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 – 1943)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1
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Antonín Dvořák (1841 – 1904)
Symphony No. 5 in F major, Op. 76

From Chinese Shanghai to La Rochelle on the French Atlantic coast - across a total of 12 time zones and within two decades - exceptional musicians Alexey and Olga Kleshchenko, originally from Russian Karelia, have performed countless concerts and festival appearances under the name of their ensemble EXPROMPT - and this with overwhelming success!

From a very young age, the Kleshchenko children - daughter Daria and son Aleksandr - have grown up surrounded by music. They have absorbed their parents' love for music almost from birth. Both share their parents' passion, deciding early on to study music with the goal of conquering the world as professional artists - Daria as a concert pianist, Alexandr as a clarinetist - both highly gifted. After a solid musical education in their hometown of Petrozavodsk, the siblings began their studies at the Moscow Conservatory in 2018.

Daria with Professor Igor Goldenberg, Aleksandr at the Prokofiev Music College with Professor Yurij Shatalov.

In 1964, an agreement on the recruitment of Turkish workers was signed between Austria and Turkey. The play "Kommen und Gehen" questions the memories and consequences of the migration that began as a result. At the center is Özlem, a German teacher at a high school, whose parents migrated from Turkey to Austria. When her mother sends her a mysterious cassette, her ordered world begins to unravel. She is confronted with her family past, which she believed she had distanced herself from. The cassette contains recordings from the time before her birth, when her father lived alone in Austria. The distinction between past and present becomes permeable, with three generations entering into dialogue. In search of a language that expresses her experiences, she encounters the poetry of Kundeyt Şurdum.

Constantly, there's something going on! Between timelines, deadlines, and animal videos, there's barely enough time left to give false hopes to the employment agency counselor. Maria Muhar is irritated.
The last thing she needs right now is to babysit her friend's offspring and have the world explained to her by a know-it-all elementary school student. As the evening progresses, substantial questions pile up: How does parenthood work in the apocalypse? Why is Red Bull a leftist drink? Do children's drawings hang on the urologist's wall? And where is her friend, anyway? The most important thing is not to fall asleep now.
Because these days, whoever falls asleep is only benefiting the ÖVP.

In her Best-Of ZEITLOOS, Aida Loos presents the greatest jokes from her past four solo programs and brings current topics to life, as well as reviving past ones. It is finely polished thoughts on uncouth occurrences, a rollercoaster of emotions, and ultimately an evening full of glamour, gags, and grind.

DuoLia. (Vienna/Vorarlberg/AT) make indie-folk music with self-written songs and loud thoughts. Two voices that catch and complement each other. Sometimes loud, sometimes soft, always surrounded by the warm sound of the guitar and violin. DuoLia. are Alia Wüschner and Julia Jackel; where friendly harmonies sway in half-naked texts that invite you to open your eyes, but much more often to close your eyes to feel what there is to feel.

Markus Linder - 'Tschaka-Laka'
The tenth program
Music comedian Markus Linder embarks on a quest to find the soundtrack of his life and surfs through a wave pool of memories spanning decades. From the old bluesmen of the American South to The Stones and local hero Bilgeri, from Chuck Berry to Johnny Cash and Adamo, he explores with the astounded audience the blueprint of a hit song and the hidden depth of some lyrics. It turns out that for every situation in our lives, there is exactly one perfectly fitting song.
'Tschaka-Laka' - An adrenaline rush of life energy!

Ulli Troy and his cousins ​​Richard and Jos Natter – have created numerous new songs for their current program "vo d’r Scheso bis in Schrago" (= from cradle to grave) and also dug up some classic Bahnteifl songs. The theme of being young and growing old with the many facets in between runs like a red or "black-humored" thread through the new program. They are accompanied for the first time by two Vorarlberg cabaret artists. Markus Lins and Manfred Kräutler - who grew up on the shores of the Nafla - decided to spend part of their cabaret life together after engagements at the Vorarlberg Volkstheater. Markus, a passionate trumpeter, and Manfred, with a penchant for theater, are on the road in Vorarlberg with their - by now - fourth joint cabaret program. The (first-time) collaboration with Hanskaspas Enkel - the combination of quirky music and cabaret - guarantees a highly varied and entertaining evening.

The enchanting priest Gert Smetanig invites you to a truly magical evening on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Feldkirchen community library, where the incomprehensible will be experienced together and interactively with the audience. The focus of the show is on mental magic. The "Magic Priest" takes his audience into the future and fascinates the viewers by being able to read their thoughts. In doing so, many guests will discover that they possess special abilities of which they were previously unaware.



At the age of seven, Gert Smetanig received his first magic set as a gift, and for 37 years now he has been captivating audiences with his shows. His great role model is David Copperfield, whom he has visited twice in Las Vegas. Gert Smetanig sees no contradiction between his calling as a priest and his magical hobby – after all, even Saint Don Bosco, the patron saint of magicians, amazed his audiences with little tricks during his lifetime. And technically, these tasks are quite similar, as both a priest and a magician should possess the ability to inspire people!



“There is nothing more beautiful for a magician than to do things on stage that others say are impossible,” explains Gert Smetanig. “I want people to say after the show: I don't know how all this was possible, but it brought me immense joy!”

In the Mühlviertel they say it takes three things to become an adult man: one must conceive a child, build a house, and plant a tree. Benedikt Mitmannsgruber is not a man like any other. He is thin, weak, has a mustache, wears an old Norwegian sweater, and is a classic anti-hero, a sensitive loser type. Instead of building a house and becoming a father, he sits in a sparsely furnished back room in a bleak city with a cup of St. John's Wort tea and writes funny stories.
At some point, his family realizes that he doesn't age. While his friends grow older, take on responsibilities, buy cars, conceive children, and work, Mitmannsgruber is stuck in time. He wants to remain in his mid-20s forever. He keeps postponing adulthood until it becomes unattainable and out of reach. And then he packs his things. Without a goal in sight, he travels through the stages of Austria and Germany. He appears on television, wins awards, and receives anonymously sent underwear.
Can art save the disoriented ne'er-do-well? Can the disoriented ne'er-do-well possibly save art? "The strange case of Benedikt Mitmannsgruber" is the grand fate of a young anti-hero and the people he encounters in his life: he finds love, meets conspiracy theorists, gets disappointed, has to isolate and learns what is of timeless significance: his dog, his girlfriend, and avocado spread.
"Those who could escape from the revolving door of life in the Mühlviertel to study the small border trade with blueberries to the Czech Republic, in order to then stoically sink Jörg Haider as an albino python in the toilet - those who constantly sharpen their own supposed naivete with malice deserve the executioner's axe." (Jury statement Passauer Scharfrichterbeil 2022)

When Christoph Fritz meets his mother, they shake hands to greet each other. Sometimes, he longs for closeness so much that he is delighted to receive spam emails or letters addressed to the previous tenant.

However, since one should not reply to spam emails and secretly opening other people's letters over steam is not a permanent solution, he sets out in search of intimacy, which he finds in unexpected places.

Thus, a secluded street in France, a nighttime garden in Lower Austria, or a urologist's office become the settings for unexpected tenderness.