The opening day of the festival invites you to experience art and culture in an unconventional way. The connection between Braunau and Simbach will be celebrated artistically with a mixture of performative and musical elements as well as interactive program items. The day offers space for reflection, exchange and communal celebration – a prelude that will characterize the entire festival.
Trailer for the Festival der Regionen 2025
Coming together on Linzer Straße is the realistic dream for the festival centre of this year’s festival.
The performance Deep Rest is based on a recurring dream of the artist, in which she stands outside, wrapped only in her blanket. Based on this experience, she developed a live performance that blurs the boundaries between privacy and public space.
In the course of a performative reading (spoken by Marlene Hauser), a will is announced: the original will (edited and alienated by Lydia Haider).A liberation of the people. An object, designed by Martin Grandits and Vito Baumüller, is reminiscent of a Nazi club and is swung by the performers and the audience during the performance.
Chicken soup is cooking in the Heimathaus: time for conversation, silence, stirring, reading, singing and lingering. Each day, a different guest takes on the role of chef. Anyone who would like to help with the preparation is very welcome.
The appropriation of patriarchal-rural traditions as a realistic dream: the Zeche Hinterfotzing gathers FINTA* people for the first “Menscha*zech” of the Innviertel! In a “Zechen Bootcamp” and two “Ziagan” through Braunau, the sly Menscha* celebrate gstanzl, dance and satirical poetry in a rebellious and humorous way.
The project focuses on the Goldhauben women of the Braunau district, building a bridge between tradition and future.
Doris Leeb can do it: say a lot without needing many words. In her second volume of poetry, “Menscha”, she presents dialect poetry that tells us all about our lives.
Lou Paulsen takes us on a colorful journey “Queer through Austria”.
Hearth – on wet grounds is the next development of Magdalena Forster’s solo performance „Hearth“, in which the choreographer uses iron objects to create connections and draw the audience into a world that ranges from subtle, fleeting details to larger contexts.
Hannah Shakti Bühler and Simon Mayer create a new space for dance and art in the Innviertel region. Inspired by historical dance manias, they breed a “dancing virus” full of joie de vivre, which is then allowed to spread throughout Braunau: the resulting dance village is mobile, bridge-building and open to everyone.
Open to everyone, and open to culture along the way: as part of the “Festival of Regions”, jazz trombonist Paul Zauner, in coordination with photographer Andreas Mühlleitner, organizes a peace hike from Braunau to Schärding.
Somnarium is a walk-in dream room that invites visitors to float between waking and dreaming. Guided meditations, sound installations and drawing processes create a growing collection of collective dream worlds – a space for visions that can become reality.
The Stahlpark Riedersbach is revitalized in the project kUNSt geHÖRT geSEHEN (Art Belongs Seen). Ten monumental steel sculptures from the Stahlpark Riedersbach are curated and presented in an impressive exhibition on the meadow between the river Salzach and the Riedersbach power plant.
A Literary Feast for All. The „Banquet at the Bank“ celebrates 10 years of the „Summer of Migration“ when many people from Syria, Afghanistan and Iran had to leave their countries and came to Austria in 2015.
Stefanie Claes’ grandmother was imprisoned in the German concentration camp Ravensbrück during the Second World War. In this solo piece, Claes carefully and delicately follows the traces that still remind us of this past today.
Audiences are invited to the screening of five films in the festival center.
A festival doesn’t just begin with its opening – it grows, unfolds, leaves traces. Road to the Festival takes this path literally and brings together students from the festival region to make their voices heard: unadorned, direct, poetic.
This performative poetry contest is all about winning over the audience – a powerful contest in which words come to life! Poets battle for your enthusiasm with rhyming, rapped or narrative prose stories.
After one slam, comes the next. The Slamily (our slam family) is moving on from Braunau to Schärding, where the next stop is the State Garden Show. The open-air slam in the afternoon will be hosted by Laura Hellmich and Laura Hybner from the association Wortwerkler. Katharina Wenty, Jasmina Amasha, Pascal Simon, and other slam… weiterlesen
Ping Pong–Stream am Strom builds a media bridge between Linz and Braunau.
Yasmo & die Klangkantine (light) are known as a band for their sophisticated songwriting, cutting-edge lyrics, and high-energy, connective music. A concert by them is a shared experience. As part of the Festival of Regions, they won’t just be playing for us – they’ll be playing with us.
A culinary leap in time combines the seriousness of sauerkraut with tropical grooves. The centerpiece is the Frühschoppen installation: in a newly designed food truck, which is more than just a kitchen, history is preserved and the future is prepared.
What spirits do we need in public space today? A ritual of transformation makes invisible bodies visible: dreams, stories, and sensations intertwine in a performance that questions existing labels and unlocks collective imagination.
Spaces for Dreams. How can dreams – big and small, personal and collective – be captured, made visible, and perhaps even realized? Spaces for Dreams invites people to share their wishes for themselves, their surroundings, or the future with us.
Who is actually working on the other side of the Inn? What cultural initiatives are there? And how can we network? The Festival of Regions invites you to a special bus tour with four stops: a journey to art and cultural sites on both sides of the Inn.
Bust talks is a performance series that has been running since 2018, based on the assumption that busts and statues are not just cold, soulless objects, but potential witnesses whose experiences and views can have an impact in the present.
A festival for all the senses and for everyone – the 2025 Festival of Encounters invites you to a day full of music, dance and fashion.
On Sunday, June 22, 2025, at 10 a.m., the Association for Contemporary History invites you to a reading with Emran Feroz at the Bezirksmuseum Herzogsburg.
This installation makes borders surmountable, connects people through words and sound and questions who owns language with a wink.
FREI.LAND is a temporary intervention that consists of 50 small sculptures – concrete chickens ready to be fried – on the Old Innbrücke, opposite the bronze “Gockel Walter”.
The political attempt to neutralize one past with another is the starting point of the exhibition “Marble Plate & Disk with Duck”.
The project offers the opportunity to rediscover Braunau by means of a circular hiking trail that opens up communal spaces.
Large-format cyanotype fabric panels – installed on the city wall facing Simbach – depict the realities of the lives of female-presenting people from the Innviertel.
The Braunau City Seamstress creates a public workplace on the city square of Braunau, where she will process textiles brought by the public into a patchwork quilt.
Five artists, one curator: They all grew up in the Innviertel and left at some point. To study, work, make art or just to be somewhere else.
The Bussi group explores the stories of buildings in the Innviertel region that have been taken out of service or are scheduled for demolition, documents their past and brings them back to life on the edge of Braunau’s old town.
The Bauhoftheater Braunau Makes a Cultural-Political Statement on the Lack of Cultural Venues. A greenhouse for the “cultural plant” offers a visionary response to precarious working conditions and the lack of performance spaces in a city full of vacant buildings.
The Free Radio Innviertel is a training radio station – commercial-free and diverse, with contributions directly from the lives of the people in the Innviertel. As a media partner, we make “(un)realistic dreams” and their dreamers audible.
From April 2025 on, BüroREAL on the town square in Braunau has been a lively meeting place for art, society and creative exchange. Even before the Festival of the Regions, BüroREAL opens its doors to anyone interested in creative processes and collaborative design.
With “Birds of a feather”, the 20gerhaus Ried is showing current works by Roman Pfeffer.
The cultural association KiK – Kunst im Keller is organizing a Pride Parade in Ried im Innkreis together with “Kunst und Kultur Innviertel” as part of the Festival of Regions.
Workshops for people in class
For a relaxed festival finale, we come together to reflect on the past days – with delicious food, smooth music, and a warm summer evening.