Capital of Culture 2024

Heiner Goebbels: In the machine of memory

A Europe between mausoleum and ruin: Heiner Goebbels' polyphonic stage play(Bild: Konrad Fersterer)

The European performance "Everything That Happened and Would Happen" by Heiner Goebbels had its Austrian premiere on the Perner-Insel in Hallein. In it, the German playwright combines man's obsession with power with anecdotes and current catastrophes.

If the 2020 Vienna Festival had not been canceled due to the pandemic, Heiner Goebbels' stage event "Everything That Happened and Would Happen" would have already been shown. But now it has worked out: on Friday, the Salzburg Festival brought the production to the stage of Perner Island in Hallein, Salzburg, in collaboration with the Salzkammergut Bad Ischl 2024 Capital of Culture.