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4/21/2026 / 7:30 PM

“The man striving for meaning must feel alien in a meaningless world.” – Albert Camus

The story of a young Frenchman in Algeria, who is made a murderer by a ridiculous coincidence, became a literary sensation in occupied France in 1942 and developed into one of the most printed French novels of the 20th century. The work marked the literary breakthrough for Albert Camus and is now considered one of the main texts of existentialism.

“Today, Mama died. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know.” – with these words, Camus’ protagonist Meursault begins his story, taciturn and without emotion. After the wake and burial in the countryside, Meursault resumes his unexcited daily life in Algiers. He perceives details of his surroundings without taking a stance – whether it is about violence and injustice or love and connection. A job offer to build a career in Paris does not entice him; he is content as long as his everyday life continues as usual. His neighbor, Raymond Sintès, drags the emotionless one into a revenge story with a former lover. When Meursault is blinded by the sun’s glare on the blade of an attacker, he reaches for a weapon and kills the opponent with a shot. “I realized that I had destroyed the balance of the day, the unusual silence of the beach where I had been happy.” Camus’ work contains a plea for humanity in its brutal depiction of indifference.

Albert Camus (1913–1960) is regarded as one of the most significant French authors of the 20th century. During World War II, he was the intellectual figurehead of the French Résistance against the German occupation. His journalistic work is heavily influenced by the philosophy of existentialism. In 1957, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his body of work. He died in a car accident in 1960.

Murat Dikenci studied Applied Cultural Studies in Lüneburg. In Berlin, he gathered his first theater experiences. Since 2007, Dikenci has been active as an actor in film/television (including “Berlin Station,” “Tatort”) and theater (Maxim Gorki Theater, Schauspiel Köln). His first directorial work “Sesperado” was invited to the Theatertreffen der Jugend in 2017. Since the 2023/2024 season, he has been leading the STUDIO Я at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin.

Classical Concert Tickets from € 55.40

Schlosskonzerte Mirabell

4/21/2026 / 8:00 PM

Salzburg, Marmorsaal Schloss Mirabell

Experience an evening dedicated to classical music and enjoy the special ambiance of the baroque Marble Hall at Mirabell Palace. The Marble Hall was once the ballroom of the Prince Archbishop and is now considered one of the most beautiful concert halls in the world. Here, Father Leopold Mozart and his children Wolfgang and Nannerl once made music. Let yourself be enchanted by the soloists and the changing ensembles, who will captivate you with their intense and atmospheric works. Look forward to the different interpretations of the finest chamber music.

Theater Tickets from € 13.50

Ballhaus – Ein Sommernachtstraum / UA

4/22/2026 / 7:30 PM

Salzburg, Salzburger Landestheater

John von Düffel / William Shakespeare
Play with sports and ballet

Acting, dancing, and playing sports – all of this was possible in the Ballhaus. Theater has been performed at Mirabellgarten for 400 years. The first theater building was constructed in 1625 and was called Ballhaus. In fact, the impressive building with its open roof structure, three galleries, and nearly 50 meters in length served multiple functions, namely as a theater, dance hall, and sports venue.

On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the present-day state theater, John von Düffel is writing a play that brings the prehistory to life as it might have been. An ambitious architect plans the new construction as a place of civic community; however, of course, disputes arise early on over its usage. Sports, dance, and theater clash during the day, but at night, the Ballhaus becomes a place of longing and dreams. Suddenly, the plot of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" unfolds there in the interplay of disciplines. Lovers seek and find a place where confusions and mix-ups occur, encounter fairies, a theater ensemble, and experience a crazy night with fabulously dancing shadow beings. The next morning, no one really knows what was real and what was not.

William Shakespeare's plays flourished in London when the Ballhaus was built in Salzburg, and thus theatrical founding times come together creatively in this piece, which complements "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with an added framing narrative. The acting ensemble will be joined by dancers from the ballet genre, and Salzburg sports clubs are invited to use the Ballhaus as a showcase.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) and John von Düffel (*1966) are the authors of the bridge from then to today. In the state theater, at the site of the former Ballhaus, which Prince-Archbishop Paris Lodron commissioned in 1625 "for the purpose of ball games," for the amusement of the court society and to experience theater, their texts connect to form a play.

Carl Philip von Maldeghem and Reginaldo Oliveira celebrate with the world premiere of John von Düffel's commissioned work the play – both the athletic and the theatrical – as an interdisciplinary festival of acting, ballet, and sports. For this, set designer Thomas Mika creates a pictorial reminiscence of the Ballhaus from back then.

Theater Tickets from € 30.90

Aufhören - kollektiv KOLLINSKI und Theater der Mitte

4/22/2026 / 7:30 PM

Salzburg, kleines theater

From Benjamin Blaikner
Direction Benjamin Blaikner Stage Nina Vasilchenko
Costumes Nina VasilchenkoWith Elisabeth Breckner, Susanne Lipinski, Caroline Richards (Acting and Play Development)
Production collective KOLLINSKI and Theater der Mitte
Duration approx. 85 min
Everything is important, everything is not that important.
(Christian Morgenstern)

Three former actresses have one goal: to achieve their big breakthrough at 50. One of them has written what is probably the best comedy in the world. The three flatmates want to stop working in their dead-end jobs to finally get back on stage. But in doing so, old wounds reopen. Their friendship is at risk of breaking apart, and each of the three women often finds their own ego and the other two standing in their way.

AUFHÖREN, an autofictional comedy about deep friendships, futile hopes, and last chances, dares to make a fresh start with a lot of honesty and self-irony.

Benjamin Blaikner: Project Management | Direction | Text

Doctor of Philosophy. Various diverse training, studies, and engagements in the areas of music, dance, and theater: E-bass studies, composition lessons, acting exams, as well as courses, seminars, and workshops for direction and writing.

Founded the association “Theater der Mitte” http://www.theaterdermitte.at, board member of IG Kultur Österreich (2022-2024) and of “Theater ecce” (since 2017). Since 2022, he has been leading the youth club at kleines theater Salzburg. Since September 2023 at kleines theater Salzburg (artistic operational office, dramaturgy, and public relations). Board member of the umbrella organization Salzburg cultural institutions (since June 2024). Father of a daughter.

Nearly 25 works as a director in Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, and Romania. Author of more than twenty plays and screenplays, composer/author of numerous musical pieces. Premieres in Canada, Ukraine, Hungary, Germany, and Austria. Winner of the Audience Award at the Heidelberger Theatertagen 2024 with the play “Tinder - A fucked up Night” (Text and Direction).

Susanne Lipinski: Project Management | Acting | Play Development

("*1.9.1977) – grew up in Pinzgau, studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and with international teachers in Graz (stage maturity exam 2003) and completed her studies in German philology there in 2004. Since her early 20s, she has been working as an actress, director, dramaturg, and theater educator: Theater am Alsergrund (Vienna); Theater am Ortweinplatz, Theater t’eig, Next Liberty (Graz); Toihaus Theater, Verein ikult (Salzburg); Ceren Oran (Munich). She lives and works in Salzburg and is increasingly establishing herself as a networking, freelance artist and performer in Salzburg in search of new theater spaces, innovative forms of play, and cross-genre projects.

Works of collective KOLLINSKI:

2024: BLUATSUPPN – Direction: Natascha Grasser, with: Susanne Lipinski and Victoria Fux (Music): Sonja Prlic. Cooperative event open mind frequently ARGEkultur. Bluatsuppn - a musical family celebration

2023: We Care – Direction: karl Zehenter, Dramaturgy: Sonja Prlic. Cooperation goldextra & Sommerszene Salzburg. Solo performance. Scene Salzburg | Sommerszene 2023 | WE CARE | FS1 (youtube.com)

2022/23: BIG BANG – a sorting evening into infinity; Direction: Natascha Grasser. Cooperative event with ARGEkultur.

Further works with Adam Ledger (UK), Ed Hauswirth (A), Edith Draxl (A), Grazyna Dylag (PL), Hans-Peter Horner (CH), Marcello Diaz (ARG), Thomas Sobotka (A) and many others.

Elisabeth Breckner: Acting | Play Development

Elisabeth Breckner received her training as an actress at the Folkwang University in Essen. Her engagements took her through Recklinghausen, Essen, Münster, and Koblenz to Vienna and Salzburg, where she also completed training as an elementary music and movement educator at the Mozarteum. After her seven-year engagement at Toihaus, Theater am Mirabellplatz, in Salzburg, she works as a freelance actress. She also teaches acting and speech technique at Musikum Hallein. Works in ARGEKultur include: KasparHäuserMeer by Felicia Zeller, Wir schlafen nicht by Kathrin Röggla, Hilda by Marie Ndiaye, Nachwehen by Mike Bartlett. With the collective KOLLINSKI socially, she has already co-developed AUSTROPOPO.

Caroline Richards: Acting | Play Development

Caroline Richards is an actress and director of British origin. She grew up in Bedfordshire near London, where she completed her schooling. She then studied English literature and theater studies at the University of Edinburgh. From 1988 to 1990, she went to Paris to study at the Ecole internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. Her training there forms the foundation for her theater work. Since 1991, Richards has been working in Austria. Her stops: Stadttheater St. Pölten; over 60 plays directed to date. Since 2000, she has been the artistic director of "Theater TATU" (formerly "Taka-Tuka") and since 2007, she has been part of the management team of the "Kleines Theater - Haus der Freien Szene" in Salzburg. Between 2012-2018, Caroline directed the "Salzburger Adventsingen" in the large festival hall. Her productions have been awarded several times by the Bmukk, and in 2010 she received the cultural promotion award from the City of Salzburg for her theater work for and with children and youth.

Nina Vasilchenko: Design | Stage

Mag.a Art Nina Vasilchenko is a multidisciplinary artist who completed her studies in stage and costume design, film and exhibition architecture at the University of Mozarteum Salzburg. Recently, Vasilchenko completed her master's degree in Multimedia Arts with a focus on film at FH Salzburg and is currently working on her master's thesis.
For six years, she has been leading the project The FACTORY Free Art Space, which is known for its innovative impulses to promote contemporary art and has already received the Peyrebère de Guilloutet Intercultural Scholarship as well as the PRO SALZBURG Landeskulturstiftung award.