Award-winning writer Eva Menasse will open the Dachstein Dialoge 2025 | International Festival for Tolerance.

Anton Gerzenberg, the young, award-winning piano virtuoso, plays the opening concert of the Dachstein Dialoge 2025.

SEMINAR: Uprisings, persecutions, ruptures in time for 500 years of peasant wars I

A high-level conversation on migration and international law featuring Judith Kohlenberger and Ebrahim Afsah, moderated by Philipp Blom.

A relaxed concert in an informal setting in which musicians play a work or individual movements, or rehearse a work together.

Literature/music performance, based on the novel ‘Notgasse’
Peter Gruber (reading) / Peter Angerer (music)

In his lecture, Dr. Wolfgang Maderthaner, historian and former director of the Austrian State Archives, will speak about this year’s historical focus, the 500 year anniversary of the Peasant Wars that were set in motion centrally in the region around the Dachstein massif. 

!HANDMADE – Le septième art’
is the latest project by Marko Živandinović, accordionist, composer and arranger, based on his own compositions and offering a unique blend of improvised music, European folk music, contemporary music and jazz.

A conversation with Michael Ignatieff – Canadian historian, author, journalist, and former politician – and Solmaz Khorsand, Austrian journalist and author with Iranian roots. Together, they reflect on the festival’s central theme.

A relaxed concert in an informal setting in which musicians play a work or individual movements, or rehearse a work together.

Everything, whether ideas, things or objects, migrates from one country to another, where the foreign then becomes our own; nothing that is ours really comes from here.

A talk with Philipp Blom, historian, writer, and artistic director of the Dachstein Dialoge. Details on (additional) participants coming soon. About Philipp Blom

Reinhard Latzko plays the cello suites 1 – 6 by Johann Sebastian Bach, 2 on each of three evenings in the Catholic church in Ramsau.

SEMINAR: Uprisings, persecutions, ruptures in time for 500 years of peasant wars II

‘Historical hike’ with Alois Hartinger

Further information on participants coming soon.

Trio Bohémo is an award-winning Czech chamber ensemble known for their dynamic performances and mastery of the classical piano trio repertoire.

Reinhard Latzko plays the cello suites 1 – 6 by Johann Sebastian Bach, 2 on each of three evenings in the Catholic church in Ramsau.

SEMINAR: Uprisings, persecutions, ruptures in time for 500 years of peasant wars III

A relaxed concert in an informal setting in which musicians play a work or individual movements, or rehearse a work together.

A movie about belonging – and the director’s second attempt to (finally completely) belong. With: Toxische Pommes, Judith Kohlenberger, Robert Menasse and many more.

“HUMAN” is a timeless documentary film by French photographer and director Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The film consists primarily of interview sequences with over 2,000 people from more than 60 countries and spectacular aerial and landscape shots from all over the world. The film screening will be introduced by Michael Ignatieff, author and former president of the Central European University.

Seminar – Uprisings, persecutions, ruptures in time for 500 years of peasant wars IV

To what extent are people from the region still characterised today by the consequences of the Peasants’ Wars, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation? Where do their strengths and weaknesses, their self-confidence and their fears come from?
Christl Lieben sets off on a journey of discovery with anyone who is interested.

Choral Performance and Reading at Dachstein Dialoge 2025

Discussion with Shila Behjat, German-Iranian journalist, publicist and cultural editor.

Reinhard Latzko plays the cello suites 1 – 6 by Johann Sebastian Bach, 2 on each of three evenings in the Catholic church in Ramsau.

SEMINAR: Uprisings, persecutions, ruptures in time for 500 years of peasant wars V

Closing speech of the Dachstein Dialoge 2025 by Kwame Anthony Appiah.

Closing concert of the Dachstein Dialoge 2025