On Wednesday, November 20th, Roland Düringer will be a guest at the Stadtgalerie Mödling with his “Regeneration Evening 2.0”; the cabaret evening starts at 8 p.m. Further information and maps on 0660/8234010, e-mail karten@dieStadtgalerie.at and www.stadtgaleriekultur.info.
On Wednesday, November 20th, Manuel Rubey and Simon Schwarz will open “Das Restaurant” at the Bühne im Hof in St. Pölten; the cabaret evening starts at 7.30 p.m. On Saturday, November 23rd, again from 7:30 p.m., Thomas Maurer will follow with “Despite.” On Tuesday, November 26th, from 5 p.m., there will be a storytelling café with Gert Dressel under the motto “Life stories that connect” on the topic “Wanderlust and Homesickness.” Further information at 02742/908050, e-mail office@buehneimhof.at and www.buehneimhof.at; For tickets call 02742/908080-600 and email karten@buhneimhof.at.
On Thursday, November 21st, Helene Maimann will read from her book “The Shining Star” at the Cinema Paradiso St. Pölten from 8 p.m. We children of survivors”. The historian, author and filmmaker talks about militant resistance by Jews during the Second World War and shows excerpts from her film “Arik Brauer – A Youth in Vienna”. Further information and maps on 02742/21400 and www.cinema-paradiso.at/st-poelten.
Also on Thursday, November 21st, this year’s “Sound Room in Autumn” will continue in the Crystal Hall of Rothschild Castle in Waidhofen an der Ybbs: Under the title “The Praise of Failure,” Tobias Resch will read texts by Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Bernhard from 7:30 p.m , Ludwig Wittgenstein etc.; The duo Laura Lootens and Dominik Wagner play music by Astor Piazzolla, Franz Schubert, Arvo Pärt and others. Further information and maps are available from the Waidhofen an der Ybbs Citizens’ Service on 07442/511, e-mail post@waidhofen.at and www.klangraumimherbst.at.
Sabine Gruber will read from her novel “The Duration of Love” in the Krems city library on Thursday, November 21st, from 6 p.m. In it she describes life after the sudden loss of her partner and addresses the associated challenges in the family environment. Admission: free donation, further information and registration at 02732/801-382, e-mail buecherei@krems.gv.at and www.krems.at/buecherei.
Reading will also take place on Thursday, November 21st, as part of this year’s “Mistelbach Crime Days” in Café Harlekin in Mistelbach, where Mistelbach gardeners will be presenting garden crime stories from 7 p.m. Reservations at 02572/2712, e-mail office@cafe-harlekin.at and www.cafe-harlekin.at; Further information at 02572/2515-5264, e-mail kultur@mistelbach.at and www.vielseitiger.at.
“ARTSchmidatal” invites you to another reading on Thursday, November 21st at the Brandlhof in Radlbrunn, where Christoph Stich, director of the Weinviertel stage, will recite texts appropriate to the season. Starts at 7 p.m.; entry is free. For more information, call 0676/4391652, e-mail doris.buchmann@volkskulturnoe.at and www.artschmidatal.at.
This year’s classroom play, “The Student Gerber” by Friedrich Torberg in a production by Verena Holztrattner, will celebrate its premiere in the theater workshop of the Lower Austria State Theater in St. Pölten on Thursday, November 21st, from 7:30 p.m. After another performance on Friday, November 22nd, from 7:30 p.m. in the Theaterwerkstatt, the State Theater will be a guest in Lower Austrian schools (for more information, email klassezimmer@landestheater.net). On Saturday, November 23rd, the premiere of the premiere “How do we get out of this again?” will follow from 7:30 p.m.: Director and author Eva Spreitzhofer has based her films “What did we do to deserve this?” and “How do we get out of this out again?” developed a theater comedy about wokeness and diversity of opinions, tolerance, respect and cohesion; Follow-up dates: December 6th and January 25th, February 12th and 13th and March 22nd, 2025 from 7:30 p.m. respectively. December 31st from 4 and 8 p.m. In the next “Utopian Space” on Tuesday, November 26th, from 7:30 p.m. in the theater workshop, Ilija Trojanow and Barbara Prainsack, an expert in health, science and technology policy, will explore the utopian potential of our working world. Further information and tickets are available from the Landestheater Niederösterreich on 02742/908080-600, e-mail karten@landestheater.net and www.landestheater.net.
“No more school” is the motto with Andreas Ferner on Thursday, November 21st, in the Tischlerei Melk cultural workshop, before Andreas Vitásek serves his “Spätlese” on Saturday, November 23rd. Both cabaret evenings start at 8 p.m.; Further information and maps are available from Wachau Kultur Melk GmbH. at 02752/54060, e-mail office@wachaukulturmelk.at and www.wachaukulturmelk.at.
The “H13 Lower Austria Prize for Performance”, awarded this year for the 18th time by the NOE art space in the Palais Niederösterreich in Vienna, went to the artist and musician Katharina Ernst, who presented her award-winning performance project “metrics” on Friday, November 22nd, from 7 p.m will perform live for the first time during the award ceremony in the NOE art space. For further information contact Kunstraum NOE on 01/9042111, e-mail office@kunstraum.net and www.kunstraum.net.
With Lukas Resetarits and his “About Life” this year’s Krems “Cabaret & Comedy Festival” will have its finale on Friday, November 22nd in the Krems City Hall; Starts at 7:30 p.m. Maps, etc. below www.oeticket.com; more information at www.kabarettundcomedy.com.
“Lend me your ear” is the motto of a reading by Renate Welsh on Friday, November 22nd, from 7 p.m. in Stöhrs Lesefutter in Traiskirchen. For more information, registration and tickets, call 02252/57097 and email buch@stoehrs-lesefutter.at.
On Friday, November 22nd, the Wald4tler Hoftheater in Pürbach is presenting “Curtain Raise – Exquisite and Experienced” by and with Heinz Marecek and on Saturday, November 23rd, “rabimmel, rabammel, rasPutin” by Arturas Valudskis, an off-theater Production about Vladimir Putin and his power politics. It starts at 7:30 p.m.; Further information and tickets are available from the Wald4tler Hoftheater Pürbach on 02853/78469, e-mail office@hoftheater.at and www.hoftheater.at.
Stories from 1,001 Nights can be heard on Friday, November 22nd at Kottingbrunn Palace, when Katharina Stemberger, Marwan Abado and Peter Rosmanith create a reading with musical accompaniment “On the Footsteps of the Orient”. On Saturday, November 23rd, the one-man comedy “Après Ski – Quiet up there!” by Klaus Eckel, played by Andreas Steiner, follows. It starts at 7:30 p.m.; Further information and maps at 02252/74383, e-mail office@kulturszene.at and www.kulturszene.at.
The Stagefright theater group will play the comedy “How about Mrs. Markham?” by Ray Cooney and John Chapman on Friday, November 22nd and Saturday, November 23rd, from 7 p.m. in the Lebenzeit restaurant in Großengersdorf. Further information and maps can be found at e-mail kartenreservierung@lampenfieber.at and www.lampenfieber.at.
On Saturday, November 23rd, from 7:30 p.m. in the Festspielhaus St. Pölten – for the first time in German-speaking countries – an Ennio Morricone homage by the Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau can be seen, who designed images and figures to the sounds of the film music icon has. The Italian company CCN/Aterballetto is dancing, accompanied by the Tonkunstler Orchestra of Lower Austria under the direction of Maurizio Billi. Further information and tickets are available from the Festspielhaus St. Pölten on 02742/908080-600, e-mail karten@festspielhaus.at and www.festspielhaus.at.
Also on Saturday, November 23rd, the Theater Liberi from Bochum will be performing the family musical “Snow Queen” in the auditorium of Grafenegg Castle from 3 p.m. Further information and tickets at 01/5868383, e-mail tickets@grafenegg.com and www.grafenegg.com.
Mag. Günther Fuhrmann speaks “Of Emperors and Kings” during her reading about the Bourbons and Habsburgs as well as their ruling seats in Vienna’s local mountains from Frohsdorf Castle in Lanzenkirchen to Schwarzau Castle in Steinfeld to Villa Wartholz in Reichenau on Saturday, November 23rd, from November 16th Clock in the Gerhardthof in Reichenau an der Rax. Further information and registration at 0676/5502840 and e-mail office@bellearti.at or www.kral-verlag.at.
“Black is a kind of colorful” is the name of a performance with music for children between the ages of six and eleven by Grips’n’Chips, which deals with death in an emotional way on Saturday, November 23rd, from 4 p.m. at Wolkersdorf Castle . Further information and maps can be found at “forumschlosswolkersdorf” on 0699/81305489, e-mail info@forumwolkersdorf.net and www.forumwolkersdorf.net.
On Sunday, November 24th, the Theater Inszene will perform “Alte Liebe” based on the novel by Elke Heidenreich and Bernd Schroeder about getting older at TAM, the Theater an der Mauer in Waidhofen an der Thaya. Starts at 5 p.m.; Further information and tickets are available from TAM on 02842/52955, e-mail theater@tam.at and www.tam.at.
On Tuesday, November 26th, Peter Meissner will be showing his film “De and mia – The local nicknames on the thermal bath line” at the Theater am Steg in Baden from 7 p.m. as part of a musical cabaret program. Admission: free donation; further information can be found at the cultural department of the Baden municipality at 02252/86800-522 and e-mail cornelia.znoy@baden.gv.at.
Finally, Susanne Mauthner-Weber and Hannes Leidinger will present their latest work “Home is Elsewhere” on Tuesday, November 26th, from 6:30 p.m. in the Lower Austria Museum in St. Pölten: The science journalist and the contemporary historian and exhibition curator invite you on a journey through the History of migration from Ötzi to today, tell of individual fates and challenges and show that migration was the norm in the history of human development. Admission is free; For more information, contact Museum Niederösterreich on 02742/908090-0, e-mail info@museumnoe.at and www.museumnoe.at/zuhause-ist-anderswo.
In what ways is this year’s Kabarett & Comedy Festival in Krems different from previous years, and what can attendees look forward to?
1. What kind of performances can visitors expect at the NOE art space as part of the “H13 Lower Austria Prize for Performance”?
2. What is the Kabarett & Comedy Festival and how is it presented in Krems this year?
3. Can you provide more details about the Wald4tler Hoftheater’s production of “rabimmel, rabammel, rasPutin” and its themes?
4. What is Stagefright Theater’s adaptation of “How about Mrs. Markham?” about, and how does it compare to other works by Ray Cooney and John Chapman?
5. What inspired Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau to create an Ennio Morricone homage, and what can audiences expect from the performance at the Festspielhaus St. Pölten?
6. How does the Theater Liberi’s production of “Snow Queen” differ from traditional musical theater adaptations, and what makes it appealing to families?
7. What unique perspective does Mag. Günther Fuhrmann’s reading on the Habsburgs and Bourbons from the perspective of their royal residences offer, and how does it relate to local history?
8. What is “Black is a kind of colorful,” and how does Grips’n’Chips approach the subject of death in their performance at Wolkersdorf Castle?
9. How does Theater Inszene’s production of “Alte Liebe” explore the themes of aging and getting older, and what kind of music accompanies the performance at TAM?
10. What inspired Susanne Mauthner-Weber and Hannes Leidinger to create their exhibition “Home is Elsewhere,” and how does it challenge common perceptions of migration in history?
