FELIX MITTERER: FEUERNACHT

Felix Mitterer returns to Telfs. Herbert Pixner composes - and plays live with his band every evening. However, the true star of the evening is the Tyrolean story: With this spectacular premiere, the Volksschauspiele 2026 bring to the stage for the first time the continuation of Mitterer's "Die verkaufte Heimat" about the stories and fates of people in South Tyrol between the late 1930s and the 1960s.
"Die Feuernacht" takes place in the early 1960s, during the height of the so-called "Bumser," when South Tyrol was in a permanent state of emergency. In the "Feuernacht" from June 11 to 12, 1961, numerous power masts were blown up to draw international attention to the cause of the German-speaking South Tyroleans. Even today, 65 years after the "Feuernacht," there is highly emotional debate about the sense or nonsense of these actions.
Is there a historically unjust border? Does it become less unjust just because time passes? Should we finally stop talking about it? The history of Tyrol contains, aside from this regional trauma, that very explosive material which seems familiar from the global history of humanity. These are also patterns and dynamics of our present. Did the prudent forces of that time gradually gain extensive autonomy status despite or because of the violent rebellion – a prerequisite for the transformation of the catastrophe into one of the wealthiest regions in the entire EU?

Like under a magnifying glass, "Die Feuernacht" examines the people and their stories entangled in the conflicts of those tumultuous times. The now mostly demolished South Tyrolean settlement becomes a breathtaking open-air stage for the incomparable sound of Felix Mitterer and Herbert Pixner, for grand opera and small stories amidst the grand history, directed by Thomas Gassner, in a specially created stage version by Peter Lorenz – an explosive, captivating evening of theater about courage and doubt, responsibility and consequence, flight and home, freedom and identity.

FELIX MITTERER: FEUERNACHT

Felix Mitterer returns to Telfs. Herbert Pixner composes - and plays live with his band every evening. However, the true star of the evening is the Tyrolean story: With this spectacular premiere, the Volksschauspiele 2026 bring to the stage for the first time the continuation of Mitterer's "Die verkaufte Heimat" about the stories and fates of people in South Tyrol between the late 1930s and the 1960s.
"Die Feuernacht" takes place in the early 1960s, during the height of the so-called "Bumser," when South Tyrol was in a permanent state of emergency. In the "Feuernacht" from June 11 to 12, 1961, numerous power masts were blown up to draw international attention to the cause of the German-speaking South Tyroleans. Even today, 65 years after the "Feuernacht," there is highly emotional debate about the sense or nonsense of these actions.
Is there a historically unjust border? Does it become less unjust just because time passes? Should we finally stop talking about it? The history of Tyrol contains, aside from this regional trauma, that very explosive material which seems familiar from the global history of humanity. These are also patterns and dynamics of our present. Did the prudent forces of that time gradually gain extensive autonomy status despite or because of the violent rebellion – a prerequisite for the transformation of the catastrophe into one of the wealthiest regions in the entire EU?

Like under a magnifying glass, "Die Feuernacht" examines the people and their stories entangled in the conflicts of those tumultuous times. The now mostly demolished South Tyrolean settlement becomes a breathtaking open-air stage for the incomparable sound of Felix Mitterer and Herbert Pixner, for grand opera and small stories amidst the grand history, directed by Thomas Gassner, in a specially created stage version by Peter Lorenz – an explosive, captivating evening of theater about courage and doubt, responsibility and consequence, flight and home, freedom and identity.

FELIX MITTERER: FEUERNACHT

Felix Mitterer returns to Telfs. Herbert Pixner composes - and plays live with his band every evening. However, the true star of the evening is the Tyrolean story: With this spectacular premiere, the Volksschauspiele 2026 bring to the stage for the first time the continuation of Mitterer's "Die verkaufte Heimat" about the stories and fates of people in South Tyrol between the late 1930s and the 1960s.
"Die Feuernacht" takes place in the early 1960s, during the height of the so-called "Bumser," when South Tyrol was in a permanent state of emergency. In the "Feuernacht" from June 11 to 12, 1961, numerous power masts were blown up to draw international attention to the cause of the German-speaking South Tyroleans. Even today, 65 years after the "Feuernacht," there is highly emotional debate about the sense or nonsense of these actions.
Is there a historically unjust border? Does it become less unjust just because time passes? Should we finally stop talking about it? The history of Tyrol contains, aside from this regional trauma, that very explosive material which seems familiar from the global history of humanity. These are also patterns and dynamics of our present. Did the prudent forces of that time gradually gain extensive autonomy status despite or because of the violent rebellion – a prerequisite for the transformation of the catastrophe into one of the wealthiest regions in the entire EU?

Like under a magnifying glass, "Die Feuernacht" examines the people and their stories entangled in the conflicts of those tumultuous times. The now mostly demolished South Tyrolean settlement becomes a breathtaking open-air stage for the incomparable sound of Felix Mitterer and Herbert Pixner, for grand opera and small stories amidst the grand history, directed by Thomas Gassner, in a specially created stage version by Peter Lorenz – an explosive, captivating evening of theater about courage and doubt, responsibility and consequence, flight and home, freedom and identity.

FELIX MITTERER: FEUERNACHT

Felix Mitterer returns to Telfs. Herbert Pixner composes - and plays live with his band every evening. However, the true star of the evening is the Tyrolean story: With this spectacular premiere, the Volksschauspiele 2026 bring to the stage for the first time the continuation of Mitterer's "Die verkaufte Heimat" about the stories and fates of people in South Tyrol between the late 1930s and the 1960s.
"Die Feuernacht" takes place in the early 1960s, during the height of the so-called "Bumser," when South Tyrol was in a permanent state of emergency. In the "Feuernacht" from June 11 to 12, 1961, numerous power masts were blown up to draw international attention to the cause of the German-speaking South Tyroleans. Even today, 65 years after the "Feuernacht," there is highly emotional debate about the sense or nonsense of these actions.
Is there a historically unjust border? Does it become less unjust just because time passes? Should we finally stop talking about it? The history of Tyrol contains, aside from this regional trauma, that very explosive material which seems familiar from the global history of humanity. These are also patterns and dynamics of our present. Did the prudent forces of that time gradually gain extensive autonomy status despite or because of the violent rebellion – a prerequisite for the transformation of the catastrophe into one of the wealthiest regions in the entire EU?

Like under a magnifying glass, "Die Feuernacht" examines the people and their stories entangled in the conflicts of those tumultuous times. The now mostly demolished South Tyrolean settlement becomes a breathtaking open-air stage for the incomparable sound of Felix Mitterer and Herbert Pixner, for grand opera and small stories amidst the grand history, directed by Thomas Gassner, in a specially created stage version by Peter Lorenz – an explosive, captivating evening of theater about courage and doubt, responsibility and consequence, flight and home, freedom and identity.

FELIX MITTERER: FEUERNACHT

Felix Mitterer returns to Telfs. Herbert Pixner composes - and plays live with his band every evening. However, the true star of the evening is the Tyrolean story: With this spectacular premiere, the Volksschauspiele 2026 bring to the stage for the first time the continuation of Mitterer's "Die verkaufte Heimat" about the stories and fates of people in South Tyrol between the late 1930s and the 1960s.
"Die Feuernacht" takes place in the early 1960s, during the height of the so-called "Bumser," when South Tyrol was in a permanent state of emergency. In the "Feuernacht" from June 11 to 12, 1961, numerous power masts were blown up to draw international attention to the cause of the German-speaking South Tyroleans. Even today, 65 years after the "Feuernacht," there is highly emotional debate about the sense or nonsense of these actions.
Is there a historically unjust border? Does it become less unjust just because time passes? Should we finally stop talking about it? The history of Tyrol contains, aside from this regional trauma, that very explosive material which seems familiar from the global history of humanity. These are also patterns and dynamics of our present. Did the prudent forces of that time gradually gain extensive autonomy status despite or because of the violent rebellion – a prerequisite for the transformation of the catastrophe into one of the wealthiest regions in the entire EU?

Like under a magnifying glass, "Die Feuernacht" examines the people and their stories entangled in the conflicts of those tumultuous times. The now mostly demolished South Tyrolean settlement becomes a breathtaking open-air stage for the incomparable sound of Felix Mitterer and Herbert Pixner, for grand opera and small stories amidst the grand history, directed by Thomas Gassner, in a specially created stage version by Peter Lorenz – an explosive, captivating evening of theater about courage and doubt, responsibility and consequence, flight and home, freedom and identity.

FELIX MITTERER: FEUERNACHT

Felix Mitterer returns to Telfs. Herbert Pixner composes - and plays live with his band every evening. However, the true star of the evening is the Tyrolean story: With this spectacular premiere, the Volksschauspiele 2026 bring to the stage for the first time the continuation of Mitterer's "Die verkaufte Heimat" about the stories and fates of people in South Tyrol between the late 1930s and the 1960s.
"Die Feuernacht" takes place in the early 1960s, during the height of the so-called "Bumser," when South Tyrol was in a permanent state of emergency. In the "Feuernacht" from June 11 to 12, 1961, numerous power masts were blown up to draw international attention to the cause of the German-speaking South Tyroleans. Even today, 65 years after the "Feuernacht," there is highly emotional debate about the sense or nonsense of these actions.
Is there a historically unjust border? Does it become less unjust just because time passes? Should we finally stop talking about it? The history of Tyrol contains, aside from this regional trauma, that very explosive material which seems familiar from the global history of humanity. These are also patterns and dynamics of our present. Did the prudent forces of that time gradually gain extensive autonomy status despite or because of the violent rebellion – a prerequisite for the transformation of the catastrophe into one of the wealthiest regions in the entire EU?

Like under a magnifying glass, "Die Feuernacht" examines the people and their stories entangled in the conflicts of those tumultuous times. The now mostly demolished South Tyrolean settlement becomes a breathtaking open-air stage for the incomparable sound of Felix Mitterer and Herbert Pixner, for grand opera and small stories amidst the grand history, directed by Thomas Gassner, in a specially created stage version by Peter Lorenz – an explosive, captivating evening of theater about courage and doubt, responsibility and consequence, flight and home, freedom and identity.

FELIX MITTERER: FEUERNACHT

Felix Mitterer returns to Telfs. Herbert Pixner composes - and plays live with his band every evening. However, the true star of the evening is the Tyrolean story: With this spectacular premiere, the Volksschauspiele 2026 bring to the stage for the first time the continuation of Mitterer's "Die verkaufte Heimat" about the stories and fates of people in South Tyrol between the late 1930s and the 1960s.
"Die Feuernacht" takes place in the early 1960s, during the height of the so-called "Bumser," when South Tyrol was in a permanent state of emergency. In the "Feuernacht" from June 11 to 12, 1961, numerous power masts were blown up to draw international attention to the cause of the German-speaking South Tyroleans. Even today, 65 years after the "Feuernacht," there is highly emotional debate about the sense or nonsense of these actions.
Is there a historically unjust border? Does it become less unjust just because time passes? Should we finally stop talking about it? The history of Tyrol contains, aside from this regional trauma, that very explosive material which seems familiar from the global history of humanity. These are also patterns and dynamics of our present. Did the prudent forces of that time gradually gain extensive autonomy status despite or because of the violent rebellion – a prerequisite for the transformation of the catastrophe into one of the wealthiest regions in the entire EU?

Like under a magnifying glass, "Die Feuernacht" examines the people and their stories entangled in the conflicts of those tumultuous times. The now mostly demolished South Tyrolean settlement becomes a breathtaking open-air stage for the incomparable sound of Felix Mitterer and Herbert Pixner, for grand opera and small stories amidst the grand history, directed by Thomas Gassner, in a specially created stage version by Peter Lorenz – an explosive, captivating evening of theater about courage and doubt, responsibility and consequence, flight and home, freedom and identity.

FELIX MITTERER: FEUERNACHT

Felix Mitterer returns to Telfs. Herbert Pixner composes - and plays live with his band every evening. However, the true star of the evening is the Tyrolean story: With this spectacular premiere, the Volksschauspiele 2026 bring to the stage for the first time the continuation of Mitterer's "Die verkaufte Heimat" about the stories and fates of people in South Tyrol between the late 1930s and the 1960s.
"Die Feuernacht" takes place in the early 1960s, during the height of the so-called "Bumser," when South Tyrol was in a permanent state of emergency. In the "Feuernacht" from June 11 to 12, 1961, numerous power masts were blown up to draw international attention to the cause of the German-speaking South Tyroleans. Even today, 65 years after the "Feuernacht," there is highly emotional debate about the sense or nonsense of these actions.
Is there a historically unjust border? Does it become less unjust just because time passes? Should we finally stop talking about it? The history of Tyrol contains, aside from this regional trauma, that very explosive material which seems familiar from the global history of humanity. These are also patterns and dynamics of our present. Did the prudent forces of that time gradually gain extensive autonomy status despite or because of the violent rebellion – a prerequisite for the transformation of the catastrophe into one of the wealthiest regions in the entire EU?

Like under a magnifying glass, "Die Feuernacht" examines the people and their stories entangled in the conflicts of those tumultuous times. The now mostly demolished South Tyrolean settlement becomes a breathtaking open-air stage for the incomparable sound of Felix Mitterer and Herbert Pixner, for grand opera and small stories amidst the grand history, directed by Thomas Gassner, in a specially created stage version by Peter Lorenz – an explosive, captivating evening of theater about courage and doubt, responsibility and consequence, flight and home, freedom and identity.

FELIX MITTERER: FEUERNACHT

Felix Mitterer returns to Telfs. Herbert Pixner composes - and plays live with his band every evening. However, the true star of the evening is the Tyrolean story: With this spectacular premiere, the Volksschauspiele 2026 bring to the stage for the first time the continuation of Mitterer's "Die verkaufte Heimat" about the stories and fates of people in South Tyrol between the late 1930s and the 1960s.
"Die Feuernacht" takes place in the early 1960s, during the height of the so-called "Bumser," when South Tyrol was in a permanent state of emergency. In the "Feuernacht" from June 11 to 12, 1961, numerous power masts were blown up to draw international attention to the cause of the German-speaking South Tyroleans. Even today, 65 years after the "Feuernacht," there is highly emotional debate about the sense or nonsense of these actions.
Is there a historically unjust border? Does it become less unjust just because time passes? Should we finally stop talking about it? The history of Tyrol contains, aside from this regional trauma, that very explosive material which seems familiar from the global history of humanity. These are also patterns and dynamics of our present. Did the prudent forces of that time gradually gain extensive autonomy status despite or because of the violent rebellion – a prerequisite for the transformation of the catastrophe into one of the wealthiest regions in the entire EU?

Like under a magnifying glass, "Die Feuernacht" examines the people and their stories entangled in the conflicts of those tumultuous times. The now mostly demolished South Tyrolean settlement becomes a breathtaking open-air stage for the incomparable sound of Felix Mitterer and Herbert Pixner, for grand opera and small stories amidst the grand history, directed by Thomas Gassner, in a specially created stage version by Peter Lorenz – an explosive, captivating evening of theater about courage and doubt, responsibility and consequence, flight and home, freedom and identity.

FELIX MITTERER: FEUERNACHT

Felix Mitterer returns to Telfs. Herbert Pixner composes - and plays live with his band every evening. However, the true star of the evening is the Tyrolean story: With this spectacular premiere, the Volksschauspiele 2026 bring to the stage for the first time the continuation of Mitterer's "Die verkaufte Heimat" about the stories and fates of people in South Tyrol between the late 1930s and the 1960s.
"Die Feuernacht" takes place in the early 1960s, during the height of the so-called "Bumser," when South Tyrol was in a permanent state of emergency. In the "Feuernacht" from June 11 to 12, 1961, numerous power masts were blown up to draw international attention to the cause of the German-speaking South Tyroleans. Even today, 65 years after the "Feuernacht," there is highly emotional debate about the sense or nonsense of these actions.
Is there a historically unjust border? Does it become less unjust just because time passes? Should we finally stop talking about it? The history of Tyrol contains, aside from this regional trauma, that very explosive material which seems familiar from the global history of humanity. These are also patterns and dynamics of our present. Did the prudent forces of that time gradually gain extensive autonomy status despite or because of the violent rebellion – a prerequisite for the transformation of the catastrophe into one of the wealthiest regions in the entire EU?

Like under a magnifying glass, "Die Feuernacht" examines the people and their stories entangled in the conflicts of those tumultuous times. The now mostly demolished South Tyrolean settlement becomes a breathtaking open-air stage for the incomparable sound of Felix Mitterer and Herbert Pixner, for grand opera and small stories amidst the grand history, directed by Thomas Gassner, in a specially created stage version by Peter Lorenz – an explosive, captivating evening of theater about courage and doubt, responsibility and consequence, flight and home, freedom and identity.

FELIX MITTERER: FEUERNACHT

Felix Mitterer returns to Telfs. Herbert Pixner composes - and plays live with his band every evening. However, the true star of the evening is the Tyrolean story: With this spectacular premiere, the Volksschauspiele 2026 bring to the stage for the first time the continuation of Mitterer's "Die verkaufte Heimat" about the stories and fates of people in South Tyrol between the late 1930s and the 1960s.
"Die Feuernacht" takes place in the early 1960s, during the height of the so-called "Bumser," when South Tyrol was in a permanent state of emergency. In the "Feuernacht" from June 11 to 12, 1961, numerous power masts were blown up to draw international attention to the cause of the German-speaking South Tyroleans. Even today, 65 years after the "Feuernacht," there is highly emotional debate about the sense or nonsense of these actions.
Is there a historically unjust border? Does it become less unjust just because time passes? Should we finally stop talking about it? The history of Tyrol contains, aside from this regional trauma, that very explosive material which seems familiar from the global history of humanity. These are also patterns and dynamics of our present. Did the prudent forces of that time gradually gain extensive autonomy status despite or because of the violent rebellion – a prerequisite for the transformation of the catastrophe into one of the wealthiest regions in the entire EU?

Like under a magnifying glass, "Die Feuernacht" examines the people and their stories entangled in the conflicts of those tumultuous times. The now mostly demolished South Tyrolean settlement becomes a breathtaking open-air stage for the incomparable sound of Felix Mitterer and Herbert Pixner, for grand opera and small stories amidst the grand history, directed by Thomas Gassner, in a specially created stage version by Peter Lorenz – an explosive, captivating evening of theater about courage and doubt, responsibility and consequence, flight and home, freedom and identity.

FELIX MITTERER: FEUERNACHT

Felix Mitterer returns to Telfs. Herbert Pixner composes - and plays live with his band every evening. However, the true star of the evening is the Tyrolean story: With this spectacular premiere, the Volksschauspiele 2026 bring to the stage for the first time the continuation of Mitterer's "Die verkaufte Heimat" about the stories and fates of people in South Tyrol between the late 1930s and the 1960s.
"Die Feuernacht" takes place in the early 1960s, during the height of the so-called "Bumser," when South Tyrol was in a permanent state of emergency. In the "Feuernacht" from June 11 to 12, 1961, numerous power masts were blown up to draw international attention to the cause of the German-speaking South Tyroleans. Even today, 65 years after the "Feuernacht," there is highly emotional debate about the sense or nonsense of these actions.
Is there a historically unjust border? Does it become less unjust just because time passes? Should we finally stop talking about it? The history of Tyrol contains, aside from this regional trauma, that very explosive material which seems familiar from the global history of humanity. These are also patterns and dynamics of our present. Did the prudent forces of that time gradually gain extensive autonomy status despite or because of the violent rebellion – a prerequisite for the transformation of the catastrophe into one of the wealthiest regions in the entire EU?

Like under a magnifying glass, "Die Feuernacht" examines the people and their stories entangled in the conflicts of those tumultuous times. The now mostly demolished South Tyrolean settlement becomes a breathtaking open-air stage for the incomparable sound of Felix Mitterer and Herbert Pixner, for grand opera and small stories amidst the grand history, directed by Thomas Gassner, in a specially created stage version by Peter Lorenz – an explosive, captivating evening of theater about courage and doubt, responsibility and consequence, flight and home, freedom and identity.

FELIX MITTERER: FEUERNACHT

Felix Mitterer returns to Telfs. Herbert Pixner composes - and plays live with his band every evening. However, the true star of the evening is the Tyrolean story: With this spectacular premiere, the Volksschauspiele 2026 bring to the stage for the first time the continuation of Mitterer's "Die verkaufte Heimat" about the stories and fates of people in South Tyrol between the late 1930s and the 1960s.
"Die Feuernacht" takes place in the early 1960s, during the height of the so-called "Bumser," when South Tyrol was in a permanent state of emergency. In the "Feuernacht" from June 11 to 12, 1961, numerous power masts were blown up to draw international attention to the cause of the German-speaking South Tyroleans. Even today, 65 years after the "Feuernacht," there is highly emotional debate about the sense or nonsense of these actions.
Is there a historically unjust border? Does it become less unjust just because time passes? Should we finally stop talking about it? The history of Tyrol contains, aside from this regional trauma, that very explosive material which seems familiar from the global history of humanity. These are also patterns and dynamics of our present. Did the prudent forces of that time gradually gain extensive autonomy status despite or because of the violent rebellion – a prerequisite for the transformation of the catastrophe into one of the wealthiest regions in the entire EU?

Like under a magnifying glass, "Die Feuernacht" examines the people and their stories entangled in the conflicts of those tumultuous times. The now mostly demolished South Tyrolean settlement becomes a breathtaking open-air stage for the incomparable sound of Felix Mitterer and Herbert Pixner, for grand opera and small stories amidst the grand history, directed by Thomas Gassner, in a specially created stage version by Peter Lorenz – an explosive, captivating evening of theater about courage and doubt, responsibility and consequence, flight and home, freedom and identity.

FELIX MITTERER: FEUERNACHT

Felix Mitterer returns to Telfs. Herbert Pixner composes - and plays live with his band every evening. However, the true star of the evening is the Tyrolean story: With this spectacular premiere, the Volksschauspiele 2026 bring to the stage for the first time the continuation of Mitterer's "Die verkaufte Heimat" about the stories and fates of people in South Tyrol between the late 1930s and the 1960s.
"Die Feuernacht" takes place in the early 1960s, during the height of the so-called "Bumser," when South Tyrol was in a permanent state of emergency. In the "Feuernacht" from June 11 to 12, 1961, numerous power masts were blown up to draw international attention to the cause of the German-speaking South Tyroleans. Even today, 65 years after the "Feuernacht," there is highly emotional debate about the sense or nonsense of these actions.
Is there a historically unjust border? Does it become less unjust just because time passes? Should we finally stop talking about it? The history of Tyrol contains, aside from this regional trauma, that very explosive material which seems familiar from the global history of humanity. These are also patterns and dynamics of our present. Did the prudent forces of that time gradually gain extensive autonomy status despite or because of the violent rebellion – a prerequisite for the transformation of the catastrophe into one of the wealthiest regions in the entire EU?

Like under a magnifying glass, "Die Feuernacht" examines the people and their stories entangled in the conflicts of those tumultuous times. The now mostly demolished South Tyrolean settlement becomes a breathtaking open-air stage for the incomparable sound of Felix Mitterer and Herbert Pixner, for grand opera and small stories amidst the grand history, directed by Thomas Gassner, in a specially created stage version by Peter Lorenz – an explosive, captivating evening of theater about courage and doubt, responsibility and consequence, flight and home, freedom and identity.

FELIX MITTERER: FEUERNACHT

Felix Mitterer returns to Telfs. Herbert Pixner composes - and plays live with his band every evening. However, the true star of the evening is the Tyrolean story: With this spectacular premiere, the Volksschauspiele 2026 bring to the stage for the first time the continuation of Mitterer's "Die verkaufte Heimat" about the stories and fates of people in South Tyrol between the late 1930s and the 1960s.
"Die Feuernacht" takes place in the early 1960s, during the height of the so-called "Bumser," when South Tyrol was in a permanent state of emergency. In the "Feuernacht" from June 11 to 12, 1961, numerous power masts were blown up to draw international attention to the cause of the German-speaking South Tyroleans. Even today, 65 years after the "Feuernacht," there is highly emotional debate about the sense or nonsense of these actions.
Is there a historically unjust border? Does it become less unjust just because time passes? Should we finally stop talking about it? The history of Tyrol contains, aside from this regional trauma, that very explosive material which seems familiar from the global history of humanity. These are also patterns and dynamics of our present. Did the prudent forces of that time gradually gain extensive autonomy status despite or because of the violent rebellion – a prerequisite for the transformation of the catastrophe into one of the wealthiest regions in the entire EU?

Like under a magnifying glass, "Die Feuernacht" examines the people and their stories entangled in the conflicts of those tumultuous times. The now mostly demolished South Tyrolean settlement becomes a breathtaking open-air stage for the incomparable sound of Felix Mitterer and Herbert Pixner, for grand opera and small stories amidst the grand history, directed by Thomas Gassner, in a specially created stage version by Peter Lorenz – an explosive, captivating evening of theater about courage and doubt, responsibility and consequence, flight and home, freedom and identity.

FELIX MITTERER: FEUERNACHT

Felix Mitterer returns to Telfs. Herbert Pixner composes - and plays live with his band every evening. However, the true star of the evening is the Tyrolean story: With this spectacular premiere, the Volksschauspiele 2026 bring to the stage for the first time the continuation of Mitterer's "Die verkaufte Heimat" about the stories and fates of people in South Tyrol between the late 1930s and the 1960s.
"Die Feuernacht" takes place in the early 1960s, during the height of the so-called "Bumser," when South Tyrol was in a permanent state of emergency. In the "Feuernacht" from June 11 to 12, 1961, numerous power masts were blown up to draw international attention to the cause of the German-speaking South Tyroleans. Even today, 65 years after the "Feuernacht," there is highly emotional debate about the sense or nonsense of these actions.
Is there a historically unjust border? Does it become less unjust just because time passes? Should we finally stop talking about it? The history of Tyrol contains, aside from this regional trauma, that very explosive material which seems familiar from the global history of humanity. These are also patterns and dynamics of our present. Did the prudent forces of that time gradually gain extensive autonomy status despite or because of the violent rebellion – a prerequisite for the transformation of the catastrophe into one of the wealthiest regions in the entire EU?

Like under a magnifying glass, "Die Feuernacht" examines the people and their stories entangled in the conflicts of those tumultuous times. The now mostly demolished South Tyrolean settlement becomes a breathtaking open-air stage for the incomparable sound of Felix Mitterer and Herbert Pixner, for grand opera and small stories amidst the grand history, directed by Thomas Gassner, in a specially created stage version by Peter Lorenz – an explosive, captivating evening of theater about courage and doubt, responsibility and consequence, flight and home, freedom and identity.

FELIX MITTERER: FEUERNACHT

Felix Mitterer returns to Telfs. Herbert Pixner composes - and plays live with his band every evening. However, the true star of the evening is the Tyrolean story: With this spectacular premiere, the Volksschauspiele 2026 bring to the stage for the first time the continuation of Mitterer's "Die verkaufte Heimat" about the stories and fates of people in South Tyrol between the late 1930s and the 1960s.
"Die Feuernacht" takes place in the early 1960s, during the height of the so-called "Bumser," when South Tyrol was in a permanent state of emergency. In the "Feuernacht" from June 11 to 12, 1961, numerous power masts were blown up to draw international attention to the cause of the German-speaking South Tyroleans. Even today, 65 years after the "Feuernacht," there is highly emotional debate about the sense or nonsense of these actions.
Is there a historically unjust border? Does it become less unjust just because time passes? Should we finally stop talking about it? The history of Tyrol contains, aside from this regional trauma, that very explosive material which seems familiar from the global history of humanity. These are also patterns and dynamics of our present. Did the prudent forces of that time gradually gain extensive autonomy status despite or because of the violent rebellion – a prerequisite for the transformation of the catastrophe into one of the wealthiest regions in the entire EU?

Like under a magnifying glass, "Die Feuernacht" examines the people and their stories entangled in the conflicts of those tumultuous times. The now mostly demolished South Tyrolean settlement becomes a breathtaking open-air stage for the incomparable sound of Felix Mitterer and Herbert Pixner, for grand opera and small stories amidst the grand history, directed by Thomas Gassner, in a specially created stage version by Peter Lorenz – an explosive, captivating evening of theater about courage and doubt, responsibility and consequence, flight and home, freedom and identity.

FELIX MITTERER: FEUERNACHT

Felix Mitterer returns to Telfs. Herbert Pixner composes - and plays live with his band every evening. However, the true star of the evening is the Tyrolean story: With this spectacular premiere, the Volksschauspiele 2026 bring to the stage for the first time the continuation of Mitterer's "Die verkaufte Heimat" about the stories and fates of people in South Tyrol between the late 1930s and the 1960s.
"Die Feuernacht" takes place in the early 1960s, during the height of the so-called "Bumser," when South Tyrol was in a permanent state of emergency. In the "Feuernacht" from June 11 to 12, 1961, numerous power masts were blown up to draw international attention to the cause of the German-speaking South Tyroleans. Even today, 65 years after the "Feuernacht," there is highly emotional debate about the sense or nonsense of these actions.
Is there a historically unjust border? Does it become less unjust just because time passes? Should we finally stop talking about it? The history of Tyrol contains, aside from this regional trauma, that very explosive material which seems familiar from the global history of humanity. These are also patterns and dynamics of our present. Did the prudent forces of that time gradually gain extensive autonomy status despite or because of the violent rebellion – a prerequisite for the transformation of the catastrophe into one of the wealthiest regions in the entire EU?

Like under a magnifying glass, "Die Feuernacht" examines the people and their stories entangled in the conflicts of those tumultuous times. The now mostly demolished South Tyrolean settlement becomes a breathtaking open-air stage for the incomparable sound of Felix Mitterer and Herbert Pixner, for grand opera and small stories amidst the grand history, directed by Thomas Gassner, in a specially created stage version by Peter Lorenz – an explosive, captivating evening of theater about courage and doubt, responsibility and consequence, flight and home, freedom and identity.

FELIX MITTERER: FEUERNACHT

Felix Mitterer returns to Telfs. Herbert Pixner composes - and plays live with his band every evening. However, the true star of the evening is the Tyrolean story: With this spectacular premiere, the Volksschauspiele 2026 bring to the stage for the first time the continuation of Mitterer's "Die verkaufte Heimat" about the stories and fates of people in South Tyrol between the late 1930s and the 1960s.
"Die Feuernacht" takes place in the early 1960s, during the height of the so-called "Bumser," when South Tyrol was in a permanent state of emergency. In the "Feuernacht" from June 11 to 12, 1961, numerous power masts were blown up to draw international attention to the cause of the German-speaking South Tyroleans. Even today, 65 years after the "Feuernacht," there is highly emotional debate about the sense or nonsense of these actions.
Is there a historically unjust border? Does it become less unjust just because time passes? Should we finally stop talking about it? The history of Tyrol contains, aside from this regional trauma, that very explosive material which seems familiar from the global history of humanity. These are also patterns and dynamics of our present. Did the prudent forces of that time gradually gain extensive autonomy status despite or because of the violent rebellion – a prerequisite for the transformation of the catastrophe into one of the wealthiest regions in the entire EU?

Like under a magnifying glass, "Die Feuernacht" examines the people and their stories entangled in the conflicts of those tumultuous times. The now mostly demolished South Tyrolean settlement becomes a breathtaking open-air stage for the incomparable sound of Felix Mitterer and Herbert Pixner, for grand opera and small stories amidst the grand history, directed by Thomas Gassner, in a specially created stage version by Peter Lorenz – an explosive, captivating evening of theater about courage and doubt, responsibility and consequence, flight and home, freedom and identity.

FELIX MITTERER: FEUERNACHT

Felix Mitterer returns to Telfs. Herbert Pixner composes - and plays live with his band every evening. However, the true star of the evening is the Tyrolean story: With this spectacular premiere, the Volksschauspiele 2026 bring to the stage for the first time the continuation of Mitterer's "Die verkaufte Heimat" about the stories and fates of people in South Tyrol between the late 1930s and the 1960s.
"Die Feuernacht" takes place in the early 1960s, during the height of the so-called "Bumser," when South Tyrol was in a permanent state of emergency. In the "Feuernacht" from June 11 to 12, 1961, numerous power masts were blown up to draw international attention to the cause of the German-speaking South Tyroleans. Even today, 65 years after the "Feuernacht," there is highly emotional debate about the sense or nonsense of these actions.
Is there a historically unjust border? Does it become less unjust just because time passes? Should we finally stop talking about it? The history of Tyrol contains, aside from this regional trauma, that very explosive material which seems familiar from the global history of humanity. These are also patterns and dynamics of our present. Did the prudent forces of that time gradually gain extensive autonomy status despite or because of the violent rebellion – a prerequisite for the transformation of the catastrophe into one of the wealthiest regions in the entire EU?

Like under a magnifying glass, "Die Feuernacht" examines the people and their stories entangled in the conflicts of those tumultuous times. The now mostly demolished South Tyrolean settlement becomes a breathtaking open-air stage for the incomparable sound of Felix Mitterer and Herbert Pixner, for grand opera and small stories amidst the grand history, directed by Thomas Gassner, in a specially created stage version by Peter Lorenz – an explosive, captivating evening of theater about courage and doubt, responsibility and consequence, flight and home, freedom and identity.