Also, among others: Xenia Hausner live in the studio, Amos Gitai’s work at the castle and in the film museum; afterwards: documentary “Anna Jermolaewa. The language of resistance
Vienna (OTS) – “How do you really speak?” a Salzburg research team from the University of Paris Lodron asked themselves and embarked on a meticulous dialect expedition across Austria. “kulturMontag” takes up the exciting project and dedicates a nine-part series to it, which will start in the next edition on May 6th at 10:30 p.m. on ORF 2. The ORF cultural magazine deals with the topic comprehensively and invites the whole country to participate interactively using the free dialect app OeDa under the motto #sogamoi. Furthermore, the program presented by Clarissa Stadler deals with Xenia Hausner’s latest work as part of the Bad Ischl Salzkammergut Capital of Culture year and welcomes the artist live in the studio. “kulturMontag” also reports on the work of the Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai, which focuses on dialogue and peace, and who is celebrating his premiere on Saturday (May 4th) at Vienna’s Burgtheater with his play “Chronicle of a Murder – Yitzchak Rabin” or with one that has just opened Retrospective in the Film Museum is recognized as a filmmaker.
Following the magazine is the new documentary “Anna Jermolaewa. The language of resistance” (11.30 p.m.) is on the program on the occasion of the 60th Venice Biennale.
#sogamoi: On the trail of the dialect with an interactive language series – participation desired!
Nothing separates as much as a common language, cabaret legend Karl Farkas already knew, and he didn’t just mean the well-known language barriers between the Teutonic neighbors, the Swiss Confederates and the Alpine Republicers. Mr. and Mrs. Austrians do not always agree with each other and the spectrum of dialects in the country is large. A Salzburg research team from the University of Paris Lodron meticulously searched for dialects across Austria. What dialects are there? What changes view? And will the idiom of the Viennese, Styrians or Carinthians even disappear completely? For this ambitious project, the scientists have also developed a free mobile phone app with which Austrians can be involved in scientific research into the local dialects. Via “OeDA”, Oida or Alter in plain Viennese, users can collect dialect words and sentences in various ways, record language samples and have the collected words and pronunciation forms displayed on language cards.
“kulturMontag” presents the project and goes on a research trip across all federal states in a nine-part series. Who still speaks the dialect, what relationship does the nation have to its language and who does the dialect actually belong to? Is it identity-forming or ideologically loaded? The ORF cultural magazine is trying to get to the bottom of these questions together with linguists, artists, musicians and writers. Under the title #sogamoi, “kulturMontag” is launching a call to the public: Austrians should record their favorite, shiest, rarest or most typical expressions on their cell phones and send them to the editorial team. At the end of the series, a map of Austria’s dialects will be created and a dialect song will be created from the words submitted.
Symbol of our time – Xenia Hausner’s sculpture “Breathing Air” in Bad Ischl
The work of the Austrian painter and set designer Xenia Hausner, who lives and works in Berlin and Vienna and has had a studio in Traunkirchen in the Salzkammergut for more than 30 years, is indescribably feminine. The artistic profession is the daughter of the fantastic realist Rudolf Hausner, who died in 1995. After working successfully as a set designer for many years, the now 73-year-old Viennese turned to painting in 1990. It was a life decision, for her the ultimate freedom to be thrown back only to herself. At the center of her meticulously staged work is the human being, but Hausner’s themes and stories are primarily embodied by women who take on all roles and thus act as representatives of all gender affiliations. Hausner’s images of women reflect a differentiated female sensibility. Mostly larger than life, her characters become representatives of generally valid situations and existential life questions.
In the year of the Bad Ischl Salzkammergut Capital of Culture, the internationally renowned artist is also represented on the cultural committee as an ambassador. Hausner has had close ties to the idyllic area since childhood. Now she is presenting her first sculptural work in public space there as part of the Capital of Culture. Under the title “Breathing Air” she is showing a three meter high aluminum and bronze sculpture in front of the train station in the middle of Bad Ischl, with which she wants to point out the social and existential problems of our time. The screaming female figure, with an oxygen tank weighing on her head, is a sensual image of desperation, a struggle for what we need to live, a cry about what we forgive ourselves for. Xenia Hausner talks to Clarissa Stadler live in the studio about the cynicism and lack of a sense of reality in a society, about the perpetrators and victims that we all are, her adopted home and the Capital of Culture year.
Invitation to dialogue – filmmaker Amos Gitai at the Burgtheater and the Film Museum
In times of escalating war, divisions, anti-Semitic violence and a relentless flood of fake news, Amos Gitai’s works offer space for listening and reflection and call for dialogue for a more peaceful future between Israelis and Palestinians. The filmmaker is considered one of Israel’s most renowned directors and a ruthless chronicler of the Middle East conflict: For more than 50 years, he has dedicated himself to his homeland with all its contradictions, controversies and wars; his films revolve around trauma and conflict. Even as a young architecture student, whose father, the Bauhaus architect Munio Weinraub, had fled Nazi Germany in 1933, he was confronted with the horrors of war. In 1973, during the Yom Kippur War, he was called up as a reservist by the Israeli army and was seriously injured during the fighting. The impressions and images of horror never left him. For almost 30 years, Gitai has repeatedly revolved around one topic: the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 by a right-wing extremist student, member of the settler movement, during a peace rally in Tel Aviv, which marked a negative turning point in the peace process that was just beginning at the time between Israelis and Palestinians marked. The director captured the events in his film “Rabin, the Last Day” in 2015. He is now working on his play “Chronicle of a Murder” on the same topic for the Vienna Burgtheater with the actresses Bibiana Beglau and Dörte Lyssewski. The Vienna Film Museum is dedicating a comprehensive retrospective to the 73-year-old, who commutes between his hometown of Haifa and Paris.
TV portrait “Anna Jermolaeva. “The language of resistance” (11.30 p.m.)
What resources do people have at their disposal to arm themselves against injustice, extremism and radicalization in today’s world? Anna Yermolaewa has a few ideas about this. The film by Ines Mitterer accompanies the Austrian artist during the final preparations for her big appearance in the Austria Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024. As in most of her works, it is politically and poetically concerned with socially relevant questions of our time: the struggle for Human rights, the defense of civil rights, the drama of flight and resistance under increasingly repressive and dictatorial regimes – something that Anna Jermolaewa herself experienced as a child and teenager.
Having fled her native USSR in 1989, the artist’s work depicts history – but above all, how the course of history specifically affects individuals and society. The human element has a high priority in Anna Jermolaewa’s art, if not the highest. And that’s why it’s so accessible, seduces with humor and poetry, tempting you to immerse yourself in complex social and political connections.
Since her escape, the woman who was born in Leningrad in 1970 has always dealt with life in today’s Russia and the successor states of the USSR. For the photo “Self-Portrait with Dictator,” he confidently stands next to a wax Putin, accompanies Russian presidential lookalikes from Lenin to Gorbachev to Putin as they work on Red Square in videos, or travels the area for the photo and video installation “Chernobyl Safari.” the exclusion zone around the abandoned nuclear power plant, where the fauna thrives.
Since Russia’s ongoing war of invasion against Ukraine, she has also been actively supporting refugees from Ukraine. In her most recent work, “Rehearsal for Swanlake,” for example, together with the refugee Ukrainian dancer and choreographer Oksana Serheieva, she transforms the ballet Swan Lake into an instrument of peaceful uprising.