Austrian Cultural Forum London

Features & upcoming events

London: The Soul of the Streets

23 May 2013, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

In conjunction with Hubert Blanz's Homeseekers exhibition.

London’s buildings, and the stories they contain, are central to the work of Iain Sinclair, Andrea Zimmerman and Ken Worpole. In this event they respond to Hubert Blanz’s idiosyncratic portrayal ...

WHAT LITTLE HANS KNEW: OPERA'S INVISIBLE MAN. Performance presentation by Gerald Davidson

21 May 2013, 7.00pm | Freud Museum London

To mark the Wagner bi-centenary Gerald Davidson revives his performance about Freud's "Little Hans", first presented in 2009 to mark the centenary of the publication of "Analysis of a Phobia in a five-year-old boy ...

The Perfect American

1 – 30 June 2013 | London Coliseum

Based on Austrian writer Peter Stephan Jungk’s novel and written by Philip Glass, one of the world’s most important composers, The Perfect American imagines the final months of Walt Disney’s life, including ...

Mahler on Film. presented by Gavin Plumley

2 June 2013, 10.30am | Austrian Cultural Forum London

Many people's first experience of Mahler is in the cinema. Luchino Visconti's conspicuously sublime Death in Venice (1971) provided a version of the composer – death-addled, neurotic – which has prevailed. Ken Russell parodied Visconti ...

Reading by Arno Geiger

4 June 2013, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

Arno Geiger, born 1968 in Vorarlberg (Austria), is this year’s Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature Writer-In-Residence and will give a special reading at the ACF London. Winner of the German Book Prize 2005 ...

vie]noise[eries on tour

5 – 7 June 2013 | various venues

This project, conceived by BBC contributor and musician Peter Marsh, will showcase some of the most interesting, diverse and vital talents from the Austrian experimental music community and encourage collaboration with British musicians. From the ...

Exchange & Collaborate III

5 June 2013, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

This concert marks the continuation of the highly successful collaborative project between two of Europe’s most prestigious music colleges: the Mozarteum Salzburg and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London. This collaboration has been ...

News

Austrian architecture shortlist!

The Islamic Cemetry in Altach, Voralberg is shortlisted for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Find out more here.

Salzburger Festpiele win Opera Award

The Salzburger Festspiele have won the award for best opera festival at this year's opera awards in London!

Artist-in-Residence in Vienna

The Austrian Ministry for Art and Culture is offering 50 artist-in-residence scholorships in Vienna in 2014. Applications can be submitted until 31 May 2013. Click here to find out more.

Call for scores

Cheltenham Festival is calling for scores for their New Composer Academy. Apply here.

Joseph Horovitz Composer of the Week

Vienna-born British composer Joseph Horovitz is featured as BBC Radio 3's Composer of the Week from 15 - 19 April.

Call for applications

The city of Graz is calling for applications for their "Writer of the City of Graz" scholarship which includes the provision of an apartment and a monthly allowance from September until the following August. For further details and information please contact kulturamt@stadt.graz.at

University of Vienna Summerschool

The University of Vienna offers a variety of courses in law, politics, economics, history, cultural studies and German at their summer school campus in Strobl on the Wolfgangsee - a picturesque Austrian lake near Salzburg from July 13 – August 10, 2013. Find out more here.

ForeignStudents.com

An excellent resource for foreign students coming to or already in the UK. The website includes a directory of scholarships & a useful guide to the NHS. Find out more at www.foreignstudents.com/

Austrian government awards, grants and subsidies for translation

With a view to promoting (Austrian or foreign) translators or the translation of Austrian contemporary literature, subsidies, grants and awards are available from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture. Click here for more information.