TRENDLETTER 20-July-2021

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Salzburg Festival's 'Jedermann' costumes for the new production are developed from two perspectives: Gender fluidity and from the Renaissance idea of reviving the past for new views on the present The theatre play 'Jedermann. Das Spiel vom Sterben eines reichen Mannes.' (The Play about the Death of the Rich Man) by Hugo von Hofmannsthal will be performed in a new staging and with a new cast for a changed perspective on the main roles under the direction of Michael Sturminger from 17 July – 26 August 2021 at the Domplatz in Salzburg. Pictures from the rehearsal show the actors Lars Eidinger (Jedermann) and Verena Altenberger (Buhlschaft) in costumes designed by Renate Martin. Verena Altenberger appears as paramour in a red pantsuit with a wide cape and short hair like an emancipated power girl who lives 'gender fluidity' in her relation to Jedermann...

Fashion.at's excursion to an exhibition about the culture of dining and the celebration of events like weddings at Schloss Halbturn in Burgenland Living in Austria has almost pre-pandemic-lightness - almost. The strategy against infections with new variants, especially the Delta variant, is to offer an increasing number of vaccinations at popular places where people can get their jabs without former registration. ... Fashion.at visited the restaurant 'Mole West' at Neusiedlersee this week. The restaurant can be recommended because of the served food, drinks (tip: non-alcoholic cocktails),... But lake Neusiedl wasn't the reason for Fashion.at's excursion. The restaurant was visited after the exhibition about the dining culture of gourmets from the antique until today at the popular wedding and event location Schloss Halbturn in the district of Neusiedl am See. The exhibition 'Bei Genießern zu Gast' (means 'Hosted by Connoisseurs') presents with a wide range of objects from tableware to furniture, art, costumes,... the lifestyle of mainly aristocratic...

Salzburg Insight: Austrian designer Lena Hoschek presented the country's first official hunter jacket with story book-like lining showing forest motifs The woman's 'Jägerinnenjacke' (hunter jacket) was designed by internationally active Lena Hoschek and developed together with leather and traditional clothing specialist Markus Meindl for the lifestyle and demand for practicability of Austrian hunters. The idea for a special clothing piece in couture quality came from Salzburger Landesjägermeister (state hunter master) Max Mayr Melnhof who is active in wildlife projects like...

Sound, health and recreation tip: 5 days yoga, meditations, sound baths, dance, and explorations of nature at the new Selina Bad Gastein, Austria The hotel in Bad Gastein is new in the portfolio of Selina. The hotel property chain is specialized in turning locations into contemporary homes with recreation services and remote working places for global nomads. Recently, the Selina hotel location in the Austrian spa and ski town Bad Gastein sent information about the upcoming special sound, health and recreation programme 'Yoga & Sound Meditation Retreat' by medical doctor...

Environment & Sound: Artists Labs by Wiener Festwochen call participants for exploring Vienna through the eyes and from sound perspectives of artists from Brazil, Turkey and Iran The Wiener Festwochen 'Artists Labs' will happen over several days in the 1st half of September. The calls for participants who are interested in art, artistic research are currently ongoing and will end on 31 July. For the application, the artists request some information from the candidates such as Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha (Brazil) who will select for the 5-days lab 'Encounters of Waters' a diverse (nationalities, interests, crafts,...) group of women for the shamanic-inspired exploration of the Danube. Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha asks questions such as...

Product design in the former GDR (German Democratic Republic): MKG Hamburg exhibits the work of designer and teacher Christa Petroff-Bohne Female designers from former East Germany (GDR, 1949 - 1990) are rarely celebrated like male colleagues from the West. The exhibition 'Beauty of Form. The Designer Christa Petroff-Bohne' closes now this historical gap in the cultural consciousness about the achievements of designers of the former GDR (or in German, the DDR) during the 1950ies, 60ies when design was brought into people's everyday life...