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FREMDE ERDE - Festival of Outcast Music - Vienna, April 12-29, 2026
From April 12 to 29, 2026, the third edition of the FREMDE ERDE - Festival of Forbidden Music will take place at various venues in Vienna's 7th district. Initiated by VIVA LA CLASSICA!, the festival is dedicated to composers whose works were persecuted, banned, or forgotten during the Nazi era.The festival will open on April 12 at the Volkstheater with the ceremony _"Democracy Needs Contradiction"_. The keynote address will be delivered by the German-French journalist Michel Friedman. The opening will also feature the world premiere of a work by Hans Winterberg, whose 125th birthday will be commemorated in 2026.
The program combines concerts, literature, and film, bringing numerous rarely performed works as well as several premieres and world premieres to Vienna. Highlights include:
- the concert "Immortality" featuring musicians from the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (April 16)
- Hanns Eisler's "Hollywood Songbook" with baritone Guenter Haumer (April 18)
- an evening dedicated to ostracized female composers with a reading by Ruth Cerha (April 23)
- a cabaret program on Jewish cabaret of the interwar period (April 24)
- the closing concert featuring the Polish Radio Orchestra Warsaw under Micha? Nesterowicz, with works by W?adys?aw Szpilman, Alexander Zemlinsky, and Mieczys?aw Weinberg (April 29)
The supporting program also includes a film premiere of the opera "Fremde Erde" by Karol Rathaus, workshops with Thomas Hampson, and an exhibition marking the anniversary of the Exilarte Center at the mdw.
The festival is organized in cooperation with the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, the Jewish Community of Vienna, PEN Austria, Neubau erinnert, and the Exilarte Center of the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
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VIVA LA CLASSICA! develops interdisciplinary artistic productions with a focus on music.
Various forms of expression--such as theatrical performance, literature, dance, and video--make sophisticated music from different eras accessible to all the senses, thereby reaching a broader audience. Themes relevant to humanity and society form the overarching framework.
VIVA LA CLASSICA! is dedicated to rediscovering composers who were persecuted during the Nazi era.
Through world premieres, the association aims to promote as-yet-unknown contemporary composers and contribute to diversity and openness by incorporating works and artists from various countries and cultures.
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