1971

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Posters for steirischer herbst were artistic contributions in their own right from the very beginning. However, while the first three posters were abstract, Karl Neubacher’s 1971 design was provocative due to its image of a fourfold self-portrait, each with only one sensory organ in an otherwise empty face. This year’s musikprotokoll was dedicated to an extensive retrospective on Hanns Eisler, which honored him as one of the most important Austrian composers of the 20th century, and the Oper Graz dedicated itself to the “gigantic task” of a mounting a production of Krzysztof Penderecki’s Die Teufel von Loudun (The Devils of Loudun), with a set designed by Ernst Fuchs.

trigon 71: Intermedia Urbana focused on the intermedial expansion of art in public space—of the 104 proposals submitted to the ideas competition, the jury nonetheless deemed none of them worthy of a prize. The Festival des chansons was new to the program of steirischer herbst. As a result of the legal and statute-related instability, 1971 was a critical year on the whole for steirischer herbst: Mayor Gustav Scherbaum cast doubt on the continued financial support of the festival by the City of Graz, whereupon Emil Breisach stipulated that the festival should distance itself from political entities—which happened some years later.

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