WHAT CONSEQUENCES CAN WAR TRAUMA HAVE FOR CHILDREN AND SOCIETY?

HOW CAN WE AS ARTISTS HELP TO OVERCOME THESE CONSEQUENCES?

The participants of the Balthasar NOVA academy program want to explore these two key questions together with the audience and Dr. Barbara Preitler, psychologist and psychotherapist at the HEMAYAT care center for torture and war survivors.

Framed by excerpts from Erwin Schulhoff's String Sextet and Richard Strauss's “Metamorphoses” in an arrangement for string septet, space is created for an exchange about art as a resonance chamber in the process of processing and overcoming trauma.

He was his teacher, educator, advisor, manager and, above all, his loving father – November 14 marks the 306th anniversary of Leopold Mozart's birth: the close relationship between father and son, which was often viewed very differently, is the subject of this special tour, provided by Dr Ruth Müller.

What caused Mozart's death? Was he poisoned? Was he murdered by Antonio Salieri or perhaps by a Freemason? And who was the mysterious commissioner of the Requiem? These questions, myths and legends have been circulating for 234 years – on the anniversary of the death of the immortal musical genius, they will be subjected to a fact check in a special tour provided by Dr Ruth Müller.