EU-CAPITAL OF CULTURE | October 9 - 13, 2024 | Bad Ischl, Salzkammergut, Austria

At the European Theatre Festival the focus is on the search for new strategies of memory culture

The European Theatre Festival deals with the repressed and forgotten aspects of memory. The focus is not placed on the retelling of the past, but instead on the search for new strategies in memorial culture. The selected projects will question nostalgia and repression and search for new languages and forms for coming to terms with the wounds of the past. European Theatre Festival – digital and analog collects theatre projects that do not limit themselves to simply narrating the past, but instead create a draft for a utopian strategy of remembering.

Theatre, as a medium that exists in physical presence, is more suitable than any other art form for work about remembering and about collective memory. In the theatre, the past can become the newly discovered present each evening and we can put ourselves in relation to our history in the here and now.

More Information at: https://www.salzkammergut-2024.at