LH Mikl-Leitner: “30 years of the Lower Austria Theater Festival – that’s 30 years of diversity, quality and therefore an absolute success story”
St.Pölten (OTS) – Yesterday, Tuesday evening, the anniversary “30 Years of the Lower Austria Theater Festival” was celebrated and at the same time the program for the 2024 season was presented. Chairwoman Kristina Sprenger, directors, artists as well as numerous guests and guests of honor from art, culture and business, including state governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner, looked back on three successful decades together in the Vienna Palais Lower Austria.
“30 years of Lower Austria’s Theater Festival – that’s 30 years of diversity, quality and therefore an absolute success story,” said the state governor. The theater festival offers a variety of 20 venues in the most beautiful places in the country, such as the Staatz rock stage, Gars Castle or the Berndorf city theater. Diversity is also evident in the genres from opera, operetta and spoken theater to children’s theater. In addition, thanks to “the artists, who grow together into a theater family with team spirit and togetherness, under chairwoman Kristina Sprenger, who holds everything together.” With the selection of plays and productions, they all “always manage to inspire visitors .”
Mikl-Leitner wished the Lower Austria Theater Festival, which was attended by around 200,000 people last year, “another 30 years of success” and that it succeeds in continuing to inspire people. In the future, the focus on children should be further strengthened, said the state governor, because “children need art and culture.”
Mikl-Leitner said she would visit “as many venues as possible” and ended the evening “to say thank you, because the members of our Lower Austria theater family are the best ambassadors for art and culture in Lower Austria.”
Kristina Sprenger, director in Berndorf for ten years and chairwoman of the Lower Austria Theater Festival for three years, said: “Felix Dvorak, Jürgen Wilke and Elfriede Ott really demonstrated foresight 30 years ago by founding the ‘Association of the Association of Directors of the Lower Austria Theater Summer’ laid the foundation for the success story of the Lower Austria Theater Festival.” She was pleased to have gained a 20th venue this year, Sitzenberg Castle, and emphasized: “Diversity, quality and magic are what define the Lower Austria Theater Festival.”
The regional director of the ORF NÖ Alexander Hofer said that the ORF will once again accompany the entire Lower Austria Theater Festival, the entire theater summer, in a variety of ways, because “it is our mission to be a stage for the diverse cultural offerings and stages in this country.” As a “special gift” For the anniversary of the 30th anniversary of the Lower Austria Theater Festival, the long-time former cultural director of ORF NÖ Reinhard Linke created a documentary entitled “30 Years of the Theater Festival – No Summer without a Stage”, which was released on May 30th. will be broadcast.
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