Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 22nd, 2010
Inga and Ben from Hamburg, the winners of our blogger campaign ‘Train vs. Plane’, have arrived in Pinzgau! On 17th January the two passionate bloggers and some friends of theirs boarded the fully occupied plane heading for Salzburg airport. Upon their arrival they were awaited by Attila from the bus company Vorderegger, a Hungarian ‘who [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 13th, 2010
After their debut at Kaprun Castle in September 2009 IRISHsteirisch, Beriga Pascher, and Rainer Casna did not fail to completely enthral their audience again. This time another factor was added to the already extremely successful concept of the event ‘Mit’n Kopf zom, mit’n Oasch zom’: Saskia Konz live on her bagpipes. Last Friday, 8th January, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 12th, 2010
Kaprun Castle has hosted the final event of the twelve days of Christmas 22 times already. Every year on 5th January the coldest season and long, dark nights are seen off with performances of Krampuses, Schön- and Schiachperchten as well as carol singers. Of course, we held fast to this tradition in 2010, too, and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 9th, 2009
I guess it is safe to assume that many of us had visitors last weekend. And all those who had been good boys and girls in the last twelve months had nothing to fear from Saint Nicholas and his grim companion Krampus, right? The eerily beautiful creatures roamed Stadtplatz square in Zell am See on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 18th, 2009
The last preparative measures are being taken: after almost one week of setting the site, vendors at the magical Advent market of Zell am See are about to open their stalls in the forecourt of the Ferry Porsche Congress Center. On Friday at 6 pm Mayor Hermann Kaufmann and Michael Scholz, chairman of the town’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 2nd, 2009
Tomorrow the time for the long night of museums has finally come! In the entire country interested guests can visit as many as 650 museums, art galleries, and cultural institutions until 1 am. This cultural event is organized for the tenth time now and the museum of local history of Kaprun is participating, too. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 9th, 2009
This was exactly what happened at Kaprun Castle last Saturday. Two completely different music styles were taken beyond their borders and merged in an absolutely unique and still harmonious way.
In the beginning the audience still had the premonition that two worlds were about to clash violently in regard to the optical appearance of the bands [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 18th, 2009
‘Trapped at the Chair Lift’ was the title of the play performed by the ‘Theatre without a Stage’ on Schmittenhöhe last Saturday: a ‘tragic’ comedy which did not fail to stimulate the risible muscles of 150 enthusiastic guests.
The gorgeous weather contributed its share and allowed for the last two Hochkultur events to take place as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 13th, 2009
Dr. Eduard Strauss graced Zell am See with his presence last weekend and offered the visitors of the kick-off event of Hochkultur an insight into 150 years of musical family history. He enthralled his audience with his lively story-telling which was complemented by many audio samples and pictures.
Subsequently, the quartet Neue Wiener Concert Schrammeln displayed [...]
Posted in A hot tip on Jun 30th, 2009
Zell am See-Kaprun is brimming with cultural treasures. Anyone who has already been here will readily confirm this. But the region has more hidden facets. Maybe it is precisely because there are so many great sights that we tend not to see the forest for the trees. Have you ever, for instance, paid attention to [...]
