NEWSLETTER 05 | 2019

EVENTS IN MAY

Athens, „Reigen“ by Arthur Schnitzler at the Municipal Theater of Piraeus,

from 3rd May

The Municipal Theater of Piraeus presents the

stage play "Reigen" by Arthur Schnitzler, directed

by Thomas Moschopoulos.

Ten people meet in pairs and conduct ten

dialogues. As a structural principle Schnitzler uses

the dance form of Reigen, in which a figure always

joins hands with a new figure for the next scene.

WHERE and WHEN:

At the Municipal Theater of Piraeus (32 Leof. Ir.

Politechniou, 185 35 Piraeus). On Wednesdays,

Thursdays & Fridays at 20:30, On Saturdays at 18.00

and 21.00 and on Sundays at 19.00.

@Municipal Theater of Piraeus

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Athens, Calliope on Tour meets Tricky Women: “Women and Culture - An

Austrian-Greek perspective”, B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts

& Music Athens, 10th May

On the occasion of the 100th introduction

of women's suffrage in Austria, the Austrian

Embassy Athens in cooperation with the

"European

Union of Women", Greek section, organizes an

event on the topic of women and culture on

10th May at 18:30 at B & M Theocharakis

Foundation for the Fine Arts & Music Athens.

During the event the "Tricky Women" film

series will be shown and an Austrian expert

from the Institute of History (University of

Vienna) Prof. Dr. med. Brigitta Bader-Zaar will

deliver a speech on the historical perspective

of women rights. The event will be held in

cooperation with the European Union of

Women. Greek participants will be Prof. Giouli

Rapti and Pepi Mavroudi.

Athens, Festivities on the occasion of Europe Day, 11th May

On 9th May every year the European Union celebrates Europe Day. The day is dedicated to

peace and unity in Europe. The day refers to the speech of the then French Foreign Minister

Robert Schuman on 9th May, 1950. His vision: A new form of political cooperation in Europe

- a collaboration that should make war between European nations unimaginable. This

speech is considered as the starting point of European integration.

For this reason, around 9th May Europe will be the focus of attention in all EU member

states. In Athens, festivities will be held in the garden at Zappeion on Saturday, 11th May.

The ÖSD Institute Greece and the Austrian Embassy will be present, representing Austria.

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Thessaloniki, Opening of the Austrian-Greek Music Summer, 13th May

This year's opening concert of the

Austrian-Greek Music Summer will take

place on 13th May at 19.00 in the auditorium

of Aristotle University. The Austrian

conductor Karolos Trikolidis, who founded

the Neo Odeio 40 years ago, will conduct the

first performance of C. Saint Saëns - Messe

de Requiem in Greece at this jubilee concert.

The concert is a collaboration with "Giannis

Mantakas" choir of the Aristotle University of

Thessaloniki and the State Orchestra of

Thessaloniki, more particularly with music graduates of Neo Odeio Thessaloniki.

INFORMATION: www.neo-odeio.gr

2310277251, 2310281100

The program of the whole Austrian-Greek

Music Summer 2019 can be found here

(German) or here (Greek).

Athens, LATRA, „CUT THROUGH THE NOISE“

LATRA is a socially-innovative non-profit agency, enabling Cultural and Creative Industries

to respond at the frontlines of global humanitarian, environmental and societal challenges.

LATRA’s vision is to BUILD THE WORLD BETTER, by

empowering marginalized communities to utilize

culture in addressing the adversities they face, and

build a future society which is inclusive, adaptive and

resilient. For its practice in Greece, LATRA was

awarded the Intercultural Achievement

Recognition Award by the Austrian Ministry of

Foreign Affairs (2018), won the International

@ Karolos Trikolidis

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UNCOVER Design Prize (2018), and first place in the Global Be.Creative Competition (2017).

LATRA is a member of the global UNICEF Design Pool, and has produced projects in Greece,

Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, South Africa & Qatar. Projects are

financed by the European Commission, European Cultural Foundation, European Union

National Institutes of Culture, Creative Industries Fund in the Netherlands and Nordic

Council of Ministers amongst others.

CUT THROUGH THE NOISE, is a series of 7 diverse cultural events taking place in 3 locations

across Greece (Athens, Lesvos, Ioannina), during the week of the European Elections (20-26

May).

The aim is to use culture as a driving force, to reach out to a wide segment of voters during

the EU elections, with a particular focus on underrepresented and undervoiced groups,

communities and individuals.

Further information: https://www.latra.gr

Athens, Chamber Orchestra Vienna-Berlin with concertmaster Rainer Honeck at

Megaro Mousikis, 20th May

On 20th May at 20.30 the Chamber Orchestra

Vienna-Berlin with the Austrian concertmaster

Rainer Honeck and the violinist Anne-Sophie

Mutter will perform a concert at Megaro

Mousikis.

Program:

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, K. 211

Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216,

‘Strassburg’

Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219,

‘Turkish’

Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major, Κ. 16

Information and tickets:

http://www.megaron.gr/default.asp?la=2&pid=

5&evID=4234

@ Rainer Honeck

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Athens / Preveza: JAZZ CONCERTS „Month of Sundays“, 30th and 31st May

Within the framework of the

Austrian-Greek Music Summer

2019, the Jazz Quartet "Month of

Sundays" will perform on 30th May

at 22:00 at Technopolis Jazz Festival

(100 Peiraios, 118 54 Gazi, Athens)

and on 31st May at 21:00 at

Preveza Jazz Festival (Ethinikis

Antistasis 121, 48100 Preveza).

The ensemble, founded in 2013 and

based in Vienna, perform minimal

music, post-rock and decelerated

jazz. Alexander Kranabetter, Philipp

Harnisch, Ivo Fina and Johannes Wakolbinger create perfectly balanced instrumental music

at the interface of acoustic and electronic sound aesthetics.

In the spring of 2015 the quartet released its debut album and was pleased to receive many

positive press reviews. This was followed by invitations to well-known festivals, including the

Jazz Fest Wien, the Jazz and the City Festival in Salzburg and the Jazz-November Bayreuth.

They joined the finals of the BAWAG Next Generation Awards in Vienna's Porgy & Bess and

performed numerous concerts in Austria and abroad. The highlight of the concerts abroad

were shows at the Austrian Cultural Forum and the Rockwood Music Hall in New York City.

The quartet was selected for the two-year young talents promotion program New Austrian

Sound of Music 2018 – 2019.

Further information: 2130109300, www.technopolisjazzfestival.com (Athens), 6937/414233

and http://prevezajazzfestival.wixsite.com/(Preveza).

@Alexander Mairhofer

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Athens, Maerzbuehne – “Walking in Athens for Bauhaus”, 30th & 31st May and

1st June

The new production of the

MAERZBUEHNE is Walking in

Athens for Bauhaus.

Performances will take place

on 30th and 31st May, as well

as 1st June 2019.

More information will be

available from 15th May on

the following homepage:

www.maerzbuehne.eu

Democracy Award 2019, Margaretha Lupac Foundation’s call for submission of

applications – Application deadline: 15th June

The Austrian Embassy Athens informs that the Austrian

Parliament’s non-profit organisation Margaretha Lupac

Foundation has invited to apply for the 2019 Democracy

Award. The call is addressed to persons and institutions that

stand for extraordinary civil society commitments to democracy and parliamentarism in

Austria. Applications should be sent electronically to the jury of the Margaretha Lupac

Foundation for Parliamentarism and Democracy, E-Mail: lupacstiftung@parlament.gv.at.

Both personal applications and submissions for other candidates are allowed. Applications

are submitted electronically and are possible up to and including 15th June 2019.

Further information about the call for submission of applications as well as the documents

can be found at www.lupacstiftung.at or may be requested at

lupacstiftung@parlament.gv.at.

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International Composition Competition "Sound of Children´s Rights" -

Submission deadline: 15th July, 2019

On the occasion of this year's 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the

Child, the Austrian Federal Chancellery, Section V - Families and Youth in cooperation with

the University of Music and Performing Arts - mdw and UNICEF Austria organizes the

International Composition Competition "Sounds of Childrens Rights". The invitation to

this competition is aimed at young composers and musicians who are willing to deal with

the topic of children's rights in a musical form.

Eligible for participation are young people from all nations with a later date of birth than the

15th of July, 2001.

The deadline for participation in the competition is 15th July, 2019!

Website: https://www.kinderrechte.gv.at/

APRIL REVIEW

Athens, Morning meeting with ND-MP Giorgos Koumoutsakos, 2nd April

During the meeting between ND-

Shadow Foreign Minister and MP

George Koumoutsakos and

Ambassador Andrea Ikic-Böhm on 2nd

April a broad range of issues,

including the European elections and

the future of the EU, the regional

developments in Southeast Europe

and the Eastern Mediterranean and

the relations between Austria and

Greece were discussed.

© Austrian Embassy Athens

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Ioannina, Courtesy visits of Ambassador Andrea Ikic-Böhm, 4th April

© Austrian Embassy Athens

© Austrian Embassy Athens

On 4 April Ambassador Andrea Ikic-Böhm, accompanied by Ms. Maria Maroussi (Austrian

Embassy Athens), traveled to Ioannina for a courtesy visit. She had talks i.a. with the

Governor of the Epirus Region Alexandros Kachrimanis, the Mayor of Ioannina Thomas

Begas, the Protosyncellus of the Metropolis of Ioannina Archimandrite Thomas Andreou, the

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President of the Jewish Community Prof. Moses Elisaf and the Director General of Police

Konstantinos Skoumas (in the order of the photos). Ambassador Andrea Ikic-Böhm was

impressed by the beauty of the city and thanked for the warm welcome and the interesting

exchange of views with her interlocutors.

Athens, Kos, Rhodes and Thessaloniki, Visit of an Austrian crisis support team

for an exchange of experiences with Greek partners, 7th-13th April

Athens:

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Rhodes:

Thessaloniki:

© Austrian Embassy Athens

From 8th to 13th April 2019, a delegation consisting of representatives of the Austrian

Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, the Austrian Ministry of the

Interior and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Defense visited Athens, the islands of Kos and

Rhodes as well as Thessaloniki. The focus was on in-depth discussions with a large number

of various representatives of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Civil Protection, the port

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authorities, Mayors of Kos and Rhodes, Fraport representatives as well as representatives of

the aviation authorities etc. The talks focused on an exchange of experience in the field of

crisis management. The Embassy would like to thank its partners for this interesting

exchange of views!

Athens, EU-HoMs breakfast meeting with ND party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis,

9th April

© Austrian Embassy Athens

On 9th April the current EU Council President H.E. Ambassador of Rumania Lucian Fătu

invited the EU HoMs for a breakfast meeting with ND party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis as

guest of honor. They covered a range of topics, including business and finance, South-

Eastern Europe and migration, the EU and many other domestic and foreign policy issues of

common interest.

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Athens, Soroptimist International Austria – Club Murau, 10th April

On 10th April Ambassador Andrea Ikic-

Böhm was delighted to welcome to the

Embassy numerous visitors who had

come to Athens in connection with a trip

of the "Club Murau - Soroptimist

International Austria" and present the

activities of the Austrian Embassy in

Greece. Afterwards, Ambassador Ikic-

Böhm answered many questions of the

interested group from Styria.

© Austrian Embassy Athens

Athens, Diplomats in Concert, 10th April

@ SOS Children's Villages; from left George Protopappas - General Manager of the SOS Children's Villages, H.E. Lucian Fatu - Ambassador

of Rumania, Andrea Ikic-Böhm - Ambassador of Austria, Nikos Tsaousis - Artistic Director of the Diplomats in Concert in Athens, Professor

Kostas Syrigos - President of the SOS Children's Villages Greece

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A special charity event took place on Thursday, 10th April, at 20.00 at Parnassos Literary

Society (8, Karitsi Square, 105 61 Athens). Diplomats, their partners and friends as well as

professional musicians and singers participated in the „Diplomats in Concert“ event. This

charity event was established in 2003 in Vienna as “Ambassadors in Concert" by

Ambassadors accredited to Vienna, was launched in 2014 by the Austrian Embassy Athens

and takes place annually since then – since 2017 as “Diplomats in Concert”. At this year's

concert, which took place again on the initiative of the Austrian Embassy and with the active

support of Doyen, H.E. the Ambassador of Rumania Lucian Fatu and was produced and

directed by Nikos Tsaousis (Greek National Opera), Austria was represented by Attaché

Richard Dullnig and Mrs. Melanie Rottenberger-Zinner. Before the concert, President Prof.

Kostas Syrigos presented Ambassador Andrea Ikic-Böhm with her nomination for the

"Good-will friend and supporter" of the SOS Children's Villages Greece.

The proceeds from the event went to the SOS Children’s Villages Greece. The SOS

Children’s Villages International was founded in 1949 by the Austrian Hermann Gmeiner and

is now active in 133 countries and regions. This NGO helps tens of thousands of children

worldwide in currently over 575 SOS Children’s Villages and 739 youth facilities.

The SOS Children’s Villages Greece were founded in 1975 and include the following

programs: SOS Children's Village in Vari, SOS Children's Village in Plagiari, SOS Children's

Village in Alexandroupolis, Youth Houses in Paleo Faliro and Thessaloniki, Social Centres in

ten major cities in Greece, an SOS Babies Home in Maroussi and the new SOS Children's

Village in Finikia.

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Thessaloniki, Information evening event for Austrians living in Greece,

11th April

© Austrian Embassy Athens

On 11th April 2019 a consular information evening event took place in cooperation between

the Austrian Embassy and the Association of Austrians in Northern Greece (pictured here:

The Board). The speakers (on the right of the picture: Consul Christoph Reitinger) discussed

topics, such as citizenship, name rights, military service, etc. Afterwards, the numerous

visitors had the opportunity to ask the Consul questions.

Athens, NASOM Formation “Airborne extended” at the Alternative Stage of the

Greek National Opera at SNFCC, 12th April

The contemporary Austrian ensemble airborne

extended gave a concert on 12th April at 20.30 at the

Alternative Stage of the Greek National Opera at Stavros

Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center within the

framework of the festival "O qual incendio". The airborne

extended ensemble was founded in 2013 as an extension

of the airborne ensemble in order to interpret a repertoire

for such instruments as harp, harpsichord, flute and

recorder. The extraordinary combination of these

instruments gives airborne extended the opportunity to

© Airborne extended

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create a wide range of new sounds and colors. The concert took place with the support of

the Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs.

Further information is available on the following website:

https://www.nationalopera.gr/enalaktiki-skini/enalaktiki-skini-festival/item/2502-o-qual-

incendio.

Veria, Exhibition of the Austrian Honorary Consul Evelyn Papadopoulou,

19th April

The opening of the art exhibition ΠΡΟΒΑΤΟΦΥΛΑΚΕΣ -

GUARDIAN SHEEP took place on Friday, 19th April, at 20.00

at Papatzikou gallery, 26 Ag. Antoniou street, in Veria.

Evelyn W. Papadopoulou is artistically playing with the

concept of the “Sheep” and hand-washed sheep's wool. The

resulting wool installations transformed the gallery space

into a wonderful scenery.

Athens, Visit of a delegation of the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior,

22nd April

On 22nd April Ambassador Andrea Ikic-

Böhm received at the Embassy a

delegation from the Austrian Federal

Ministry of the Interior headed by the

group leader Deputy Director General

Mag. Wolfgang Taucher (pictured

second from left). Subsequent

discussions on asylum and migration

conducted between the delegation and

their Greek partners contributed to a

@Evelyn Papadopoulou (photo from left: Dr.Alexis Lappas, Prof.Afroditi Liti, Vicky Papatzikou.and Evelyn Papadopoulou

© Austrian Embassy Athens

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further deepening of the excellent bilateral relations.

Season opening of the top travel destination Rhodes by Austrians

According to an article written

by Elisa Hübel in “Griechenland

Zeitung”, holidaymakers from

Austria have opened the tourist

season on the island of Rhodes

again this year. As reported on

the homepage of the Dodecanese Island Municipality, the first charter flight of this year

landed on Vienna's "Diagoras" airport on Sunday (31st March).

The approximately 100 passengers were also welcomed by the Philharmonic Orchestra of

the island. Guests from Austria have also received information material, herbs and

traditional sweets as gifts. Afterwards Deputy Mayor for Tourism Mariza Chatzilazarou

stated: "Rhodes is one of the safest top travel destinations in the world." The Austrian

Embassy and the recently opened Austrian Honorary Consulate in Rhodes with Honorary

Consul Maria FIROGLANI-MOSCHI firmly believe that "with such a warm welcome many

Austrian tourists will surely become enthusiastic Rhodes vacationers".

GREETINGS BY THE AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR

Dear friends of the Austrian Embassy in Athens,

The Austrian Embassy in Athens is pleased that Greece is one of the

top destinations for Austrian tourists. In the period from January to

September 2018 alone, a growth of 30% was recorded and we are

approaching half a million. The trend continues to increase and is

made further possible by the many summer destinations that

particularly Austrian Airlines fly to from Austria. The fact that

Austrians are particularly welcome in Greece in the sense of the

"Philoxenia", which is so typical of Greece, was recently demonstrated

by the warm welcome Austrian holiday travelers received at the

opening of the tourist season in Rhodes - even the Philharmonic

Orchestra of the island played on their arrival.

© Austrian Embassy Athens

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In order to be able to support Austrian tourists in the best way even in case of unexpected

events, such as earthquakes, an inter-ministerial delegation from Austria in April examined

the preparations and plans for crisis management in Greece in the sense of an exercise and an

exchange of experience and visited Athens and Thessaloniki as well their Greek partners on

Kos and Rhodes.

On the 13th of May we will celebrate the opening of the Greek-Austrian Music Summer in

Thessaloniki, which will take place for the fourth time this year. In addition, at the end of May,

the jazz ensemble "Month of Sundays", which was selected for the NASOM young talent

promotion program of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Jazz division, will be

performing in Greece. A total of 24 concerts are planned at 14 locations from May to

September within the framework of the Austrian-Greek Music Summer. We will report more in

the next issues of our newsletter and would like to invite you gladly to attend our concerts.

This year, too, the main theme of the Greek-Austrian Music Summer is the joint music-making

and the expansion of the bond between the Austrian and Greek artists. The Austrian Embassy

is very honored by having again been granted the auspices of the Foreign Ministry of the

Hellenic Republic for the Greek-Austrian Music Summer, thereby showing its appreciation for

our cultural initiative. We are looking forward to the numerous summer concerts, which will

take us once again to the most diverse places in Greece in order to deepen the friendship

between Austria and Greece musically.

With my warmest regards,

Ambassador Andrea Ikić-Böhm

Information:

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