Joana and Valentin Dorek are a married couple going through a crisis. This prompts them to take a trial session with a couple’s therapist. In the therapist’s consulting room they start off with their standard programme: she won’t stop talking and he isn’t even listening. The broken communication between the couple is a real challenge […]
Rare chamber music works with guitar by Austrian composers Ten remarkable musicians will present three rarely performed works by Austrian composers, which are unique in the repertoire of classical music. The programme consists of a trio, a quintet and a sextet. All pieces include the guitar in their instrumental composition, a trend that began in […]
The first Austrian feature-length animation film, inspired by characters created by late Austrian caricaturist Manfred Deix. The ultra-Catholic provincial village of Siegheilkirchen in the 1960s, somewhere in the hinterland of Austria: The innkeeper's son, known only as "Rotzbub / Snotty Boy," resents the narrow-minded confines of his home village and passes the time by drawing […]
The renowned young Viennese violinist Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, who has been impressing the audiences in prominent musical halls worldwide during the past years, will be joining forces with the exceptional Viennese pianist Kiron Atom Tellian. The duo will present works by Poulenc, Schubert, Tchaikovsky and Fauré. The recital, which is organised by the Pharos Arts Foundation […]
Der trotz seiner Jugend bereits sehr renommierte Wiener Violinist Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, der in den letzten Jahren ein weltweites Publikum in den berühmtesten Konzerthäusern begeistern konnte, vereint seine musikalische Kunstfertigkeit mit dem ebenfalls außergewöhnlichen Wiener Pianisten Kiron Atom Tellian. Das Duo wird Werke von Poulenc, Schubert, Tchaikovsky und Fauré spielen. Das Konzert findet am Samstag 20. […]
Join us for the closing concert of the “Weeks of the German Language 2021”, where we will be celebrating the friendship and culture of our three countries. A trio formation consisting of George Georgiou (clarinet), Sinem Sadrazam (viola) and Rami Serieddine (piano), will perform works by Mozart and Berg (Austria), Schumann (Germany) as well as […]
The unusually thrilling life of 1980s superstar Hans Hölzel, known as Falco, the man behind the first hit "Rock Me, Amadeus" to rearch the American Billboard charts with a German language song. The film portrays his meteoric rise from a child prodigy to an overnight music sensation. The industry pressure led him to escape into […]
A recital dedicated to the Magical World of Lieder will close this year’s Weeks of the German Language, on November 26th at Rialto Theatre in Limassol. The recital is an on-stage musical collaboration between Cypriot sopranos Chryso Makariou and Mariza Anastasiadiou who have proven through their performances, their love and devotion to the delicate but […]
The film follows the amour fou between the Grande Madame of Vienna’s cultural society, Alma Mahler, and the young expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka. Alma allows herself to be painted by the unknown artist, seduces him and instructs the inexperienced young man in the arts of eroticism. He is one of many conquests to her, but […]
A Whole Life, based on the bestselling novel by Robert Seethaler, follows Andreas Egger, a humble labourer who, in his twilight years, reflects on his life spent in his isolated […]
A film by Kafka's publisher Hans-Gerd Koch and filmmaker Clemens Schmiedbauer. The film traces the final stages of Franz Kafka’s life, from Prague to the Wienerwald Sanatorium near Pernitz, then to the University Hospital in Vienna, and finally to his last stop, Dr. Hermann’s Sanatorium in Kierling near Klosterneuburg. Letters and documents are shown, revealing […]
