No matter whether you want to attend one performance in a group of six or visit six performances on your own – our block of six tickets lets you do both!


No matter whether you want to attend one performance in a group of ten or visit ten performances on your own – our block of ten tickets lets you do both!


The Night of the Moles (Welcome to Caveland!)

Fri 23/09 & Sat 24/09

Helmut List Halle


This year’s opening production whisks us off to the dream worlds of French theatre wizard Philippe Quesne. For steirischer herbst he digs his way under the surface of the earth, where he encounters a fantastic society.


Forever

Sat 24/09 & Sun 25/09

Orpheum


Eternity and mortality between Orient and Occident: Together with Gustav Mahler and vibrating porcelain, two artists from Needcompany draft a new universe for a deliciously fragile choreography.


Cemetery of Splendour

Wed 28/09

Orpheum Extra


steirischer herbst is screening the latest film of Thailand’s internationally most important director Apichatpong Weerasethakul for the first time in Graz: A gentle masterpiece of dreamlike magic.


Fever Room

Thu 29/09 & Fri 30/09

Orpheum


Projected consciousness: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s first stage production is showing for the first time in the German-speaking region at the steirischer herbst festival.


State

Fri 30/09 & Sat 01/10

Dom im Berg


Inspired by ritual dances Ingri Fiksdal and Jonas Corell Petersen search for new rituals with their high-calibre company – in a rhythmic narrative of choreography, live music and costume.


Late Night

Fri 30/09 & Sat 01/10

Hugo Wolf Saal Leibnitz


The end of the world in Greek: Blitz Theatre Group dances a surreal waltz of death over the ruins of Europe, brimming with subtle melancholy and a fine sense of humour.


Willkommen in der Europaschutzzone

Sat 08/10, Sun 09/10,
Fri 14/10 & Sat 15/10

Kniely Haus Leutschach


Hans-Werner Kroesinger and Regine Dura take their audience on a performance walk along the green border between Austria and Slovenia.


Pink Eye

Sun 09/10

Orpheum Extra


Congolese-Austrian choreographer Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe takes a look at the gaze itself and confronts us with the question: Can you see without looking?


En Alerte

Thu 13/10 & Sat 15/10

Dom im Berg


In a breathtaking performance, Moroccan dancer Taoufiq Izeddiou sets out to probe the boundaries between tradition and modernity.


Empire

Fri 14/10 & Sat 15/10

Schauspielhaus Graz


What is flight? What is home? What will the new face of Europe look like? With “Empire”, the final installment of his acclaimed European trilogy, Swiss director Milo Rau is presenting a piece at steirischer herbst 
for the first time.


Guerrilla

Fri 14/10 & Sat 15/10

Orpheum


Together with a large company, El Conde de Torrefiel projects fascinatingly uncanny images from the comfort zone of Europe: A young generation questions the
future – in both senses.


Mikrokosmos

Sat 24/09 & Sun 25/09

Neue Galerie Graz


A different kind of museum experience: US artists Steffani Jemison and Justin Hicks take a performance-based look at the Neue Galerie collection.


Schuldfabrik

Sat 24/09, Sun 25/09, Wed 28/09,
Thu 29/09, Fri 30/09, Sat 01/10 &
Sun 02/10

Volksgartenstraße 4-6


How do we profit from debt? Can we somehow get rid of it? In an installative trail over several rooms, Julian Hetzel investigates the concept of debt. Strikingly and surprisingly, he demonstrates the different types of indulgence trade between beauty clinic and soap production.


The Benefactor

Sun 02/10

Orpheum Extra


Julian Hetzel donates money, and that is art! He explains his project on hunger and success in an entertaining lecture performance at steirischer herbst.


Die Dinge der Welt

Sat 24/09, Sun 25/09 &
28/09 – 02/10

Haus der Architektur


Performer and choreographer Philipp Gehmacher ventures into the realm of visual art, asking: Where do the things of the world come from? And how can we grasp them?


Grenzlandgespräche

Sat 15/10

Kniely Haus Leutschach


steirischer herbst 2016 does not only cross boundaries in the metaphorical sense. Not only is the border region in southern Styria artistically in focus – but culinarily too, as here, at an evening meal with an unusual blind date.


Kuenta i Tambu / Sarah Farina

Sat 24/09

Orpheum Extra


With hip bass music from Amsterdam and Berlin at the opening weekend of steirischer herbst, Kuenta i Tambu set the rhythm, Sarah Farina DJs.


Moddi plays Unsongs

Sat 25/09

Orpheum Extra


Forbidden pleasure: Pål Moddi Knutsen has collected forbidden songs from the blacklists of the world.


Group A

Thu 29/09

Orpheum Extra


The soundtrack for the band’s visually high-contrast performances is created with synthesiser, voice and violin.


Heterocetera

Fri 30/09

Orpheum Extra


The eclectic club sounds of Lotic, Kablam and Why Be not only challenge the boundaries between genres but actively fight against them.


Flamingods

Thu 06/10

Orpheum Extra


The Flamingods weave psychedelic-intercontinental pop songs out of Asian sounds and African rhythms.


Aïsha Devi / Dis Fig

Fri 07/10

Orpheum Extra


Orient and Occident meet in the personality of Aïsha Devi. The Nepalese Swiss singer let us hear her intense vocals, before New Yorker Dis Fig contrasts street culture with digital aesthetic.


Kairo is Koming

Sat 08/10

Orpheum Extra


Kairo is coming to steirischer herbst, panning out some astonishing insights into the vibrant Egyptian club scene.


Perera Elsewhere

Thu 13/10

Orpheum Extra


In her solo project, Sasha Perera combines experimental ambient pop with acoustic sounds and a smidgen of Trip Hop.


Noite Príncípe

Fri 14/10

Orpheum Extra


With its young DJs, the Lisbon-based label Príncípe Discos creates new sounds and a rhythmic compulsion to dance.


A legendary keyboarder from Ethiopia and an archaeologist among DJs conclude the steirischer herbst club series.


Das grüne Album

Fri 30/09, Sat 01/10,
Fri 07/10 & Sat 08/10

Leibnitz, Graz, Allerheiligen bei Wildon, Leutschach


On their musical tour of town and country, Natalie Ofenböck and Der Nino aus Wien combine Styrian and Viennese sounds – an album like a road movie.


musikprotokoll 2016

06/10 – 09/10

Graz


musikprotokoll at steirischer herbst sets sail for many a hidden realm on its journey this year.


Die Logik der Engel

29/09 – 30/10

Graz


Based on a mediaeval logic machine that can even “prove” God, musikprotokoll builds an interactive sound installation at Kunsthaus. Vokalensemble NOVA deploys the Llullophone in order to marry very old with very new music.


Voidness of Touch

Thu 06/10

Dom im Berg


Every stone was once liquid, nothing in this world is rigid, everything is constantly changing shape, everything is in motion: This is what Gil Delindro points out in his art.


2 Superheldinnen

Thu 06/10

Dom im Berg


Whether in the guise of superheroines or castle damsels, Brigitta Bödenauer and Susanna Gartmayer constantly devise new approaches to music, by way of a surprising stage presence.


Blixa Bargeld

Thu 06/10

Dom im Berg


Cash or legend: The famous frontman of Einstürzende Neubauten takes to the stage at musikprotokoll as a purist and (almost) on his own.


austreiben/antreiben

Thu 06/10

Dom im Berg


In the pieces for his solo debut, Andi Stecher explores the musical potential of alpine Perchten processions.


A summit meeting: The ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra meets Klangforum Wien.


Charles Curtis Quartet

Fri 07/10

Helmut List Halle


Eighty-five-year-old American Alvin Lucier scrutinises and challenges music’s individual elements until they reunite to form a new whole. For musikprotokoll he follows the movement of cellist Charles Curtis.


Trio premiere: Multitasker Renald Deppe joins forces for the first time with an established virtuoso and a rising wizard of live electronic music.


Cold Songs

Sa 08/10

Helmut List Halle



Demi Broxa

Sat 08/10

Helmut List Halle



Paradise

Sun 09/10

MUMUTH


Split selves and hybrid bodies: In Martin Hiendl’s walk-in opera installation the audience decides what they want to hear.


All Hail Mother Internet

Sun 09/10

esc medien kunst labor


Musician and artist Deena Abdelwahed presents her award-winning radio art performance on the living conditions of Tunisian millennials at the musikprotokoll.