Season 2025/2026

The Festspielhaus season 2025/2026 has the motto ‘A sense of community’. In a world characterised by extreme positions, individualisation and demarcation, we want to create spaces in which community can be experienced and reflected upon. A sense of community - as an expression of cohesion, empathy and cooperation - forms the centrepiece of our artistic journey this season. Numerous dance productions and concerts tell stories of solidarity, of the beauty of diversity and of the strength that arises when we stick together.

It is in large part according to the sounds people make that we judge them sane or insane, male or female, good, evil, trustworthy, depressive, marriagable, moribund, likely or unlikely to make war on us, little better than animals, inspired by God. These judgements happen fast and can be brutal.