The Austrian Music Theatre Days offer Austrian music theatre professionals networking opportunities and professional exchange with national and international organizers. In 2025, the focus will be on inclusion, with a particular focus on deafness. In addition to issues of accessibility and new approaches at the personnel and structural levels, the event will also discuss how music theatre can be artistically designed so that deaf people can actively participate both in the audience and on stage and contribute their perspectives to the cultural sector.
About:
The music theatre conference AUSTRIAN MUSIC THEATRE DAY was launched in 2015 as part of the MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN and has been taking place since 2018 in cooperation with mica – music austria/Austrian Music Export.
The MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN festival is dedicated to new musical theatre and explores new performance formats and approaches to it in a variety of ways.
When & Where:
Thursday, 18 September 2025, 09:30–17:30
Friday, 19 September 2025, 09:30–15:00
WUK Project Space
Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Vienna
Event in English
Program:
Thursday, September 18
09:30 Bodywork: Soundpainting with Samu Gryllus
10:00 Breakfast
11:00 Welcome words*
11:20 Keynote Helmut Oehring: “nicht ERSTARREN”*
11:50 Break
12:00 Artist Talk Eva Reiter & Ruben Grandits*
12:30 Girolamo Deracco: “The Future ist here: Chamber Opera Festival Lucca”
12:45 Presentations “Call”
– Yoav Chorev
– Aubert Weinzinger
– Siavosh Banihashemi
13:10 Presentation “RING AWARDS” Deborah Siebenhofer
13:20 Lunch Break
14:15 Welcome Back, Introduction “World Cafe”
14:25 World Cafe
15:25 Wrap-up “World Cafe”
15:45 Break
16:00 Video presentation Jeffrey Döring & Zoom Talk**
16:30 Presentations “Call”**
– Ruth Cerha
– Johannes Brömmel
– Egid Joechl
16:50 Break
17:05 Presentation Guy Coolen: O festival Rotterdam**
17:15 Presentation Thomas Desi “Kollapsologie I-IV”
Presentation Georg Steker
* with Austrian sign language interpreter
** Presentations with subtitles
Friday September 19
09:30 Bodywork: Shaking meditation with Sarah Vobr
10:00 Breakfast and start into the day
11:00 Welcome*
11:10 Keynote Anna Blaskó (Beat the silence)*
11:25 Impulse Talk with Martina Gollner and Christina Riedler (FullAccess)*
11:40 Break
12:10 Reflection on the findings of the AMD, conducted by Thomas Desi*
12:45 Break
13:00 Presentations “Call”**
– Simon Vosecek
– Christina Constanze Polzer
– Christian Pusch
13:30 Presentations tba**
– Simone Keller “Hidden Heartache”
– Yum!
– tba
14:00 Lunch
* with sign language interpreter
** Presentations with subtitles
If you have any questions, please contact: amd@mttw.at.
The Austrian Music Theatre Day is supported by the City of Vienna.
Registration:
All those working in the musical theater industry, as well as interested members of the public, are invited.
Participation is free; registration is available here.
The Austrian Music Theatre Day is supported by the City of Vienna.
