steirischerherbst’23
steirischerherbst’23
steirischerherbst’23
steirischerherbst’23
steirischerherbst’23
steirischerherbst’23
steirischerherbst’23
steirischerherbst’23
steirischerherbst’23
steirischerherbst’23

Humans and Demons

The 56th edition of steirischer herbst festival turns to character-based storytelling to show how people navigate today’s moral gray zones and deal with the demons surrounding them.

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Program

This year, the festival brings together over forty works. Next to performances, the herbst cabaret, artist talks, and discussions, four exhibitions take visitors on a journey of discovery through the city and its history.

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Festival opening

steirischer herbst ’23 opens with a performance by Lulu Obermayer on Schloßberg. On the first weekend, performances by Mateja Bučar, Adrienn Hód / HODWORKS, Michael Portnoy, and Giacomo Veronesi await the audience—all of which are new commissions.

Humans and Demons

Villa Perpetuum Mobile

Especially after its renovation in the 1990s, Forum Stadtpark resembles a modernist villa, an incongruous, maybe even utopian home for dissenters. For steirischer herbst ’23, it became the residence of a dissident’s dissident, the physicist, poet, and erstwhile mental patient Stefan Marinov.

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Church of Ruined Modernity

Beginning in the 1960s, the Minoritenkloster became a place of encounters between religion and modern art. One of the artists featured early on was Mira Schendel. She had visited Graz before during the war on a risky journey. Inspired by her phantom presence, the monastery became a Church of Ruined Modernity—representing the continent she left behind.

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Submarine Frieda

Historically, Gries was the lowest part of Graz, which made it prone to flooding. In the world of Humans and Demons, it was buried under layers of waters of the past. At its heart lay the time capsule of Submarine Frieda. But who is Frieda? An accidental, fictitious heroine.

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herbst cabaret

For the second year in a row, steirischer herbst turned to cabaret and its capacity for gritty, gutsy social criticism. Six performances presented a mix of burlesque, street chanson, stand-up, and macabre poetry in the intimate setting of Forum Stadtpark’s basement.

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herbst club

Between techno, post-punk, and brass band music, herbst club invited you to dance the night away following performances and herbst cabarets.

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herbst bars

Four herbst bars with different offers allowed visitors to gather at almost any time of the day or night close to most festival locations.

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Ö1 Festival Podcast

Once again, steirischer herbst was accompanied by its own festival podcast—curated and presented by Ö1.

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Festivals-within-the-Festival

ORF musikprotokoll
interconnected | interdependent
5.10.–8.10.

The recent burst of crises calls into question our individualism, which has been driven to extremes by neoliberalism. ORF musikprotokoll invited us to consider our surrounding environment as a dynamic network of relationships that today, perhaps more than ever, needs conscious shaping.​

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Performance
5.10., 14:30
6.10., 7.10., 19:00

Nick Acorne
IX KLA VIER E

6.10., 7.10., 23:30

Late-Night musikprotokoll

Concert
7.10., 22:00

Gabbeh

Out of Joint
Wer gegen wen?
10.10.–13.10.

Hamlet says: “The time is out of joint,” and he is right: time is still out of joint. Following an idea by German publicist, author, and moderator Roger Willemsen, this year’s edition of the literary festival Out of Joint also took a look at the present from the future. Hamlet changed his question. Now it was no longer: To be or not to be? But rather: Who against whom?

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Partner Program

As always, the festival program of steirischer herbst was accompanied by a rich and varied Partner Program presented by local cultural institutions and artists. Twenty-five projects in Graz and Styria were part of this yearʼs festival.

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