Hiemetsberger & Chorus sine nomine

Brucknerfest Linz 2026. Bachmann unendlich. Linz premiere of the new work Frühling. Empty Land by Wolfgang Sauseng on a text by Ingeborg Bachmann with Johannes Hiemetsberger and the Chorus sine nomine

In the twilight of the "dark night land" between life and death - or death and life - walks a small group of rememberers: the wanderers do not yet fully understand where they are. Their tired thoughts revolve around their last hours and what their lives may have been like. Only one boy knows nothing: his every step is carried by a cheerfulness that he would like to share with the others. Bells ring out. The boy realizes that the hour has come to end his aimless journey ... In her story The Caravan and the Resurrection, Ingeborg Bachmann addressed the big questions of transcendence, redemption and the meaning of life just a few years after the end of the Second World War. Composer Wolfgang Sauseng and librettist Elisabeth Vera Rathenböck, together with Chorus sine nomine and Johannes Hiemetsberger, impressively bring the prose of the Austrian writer, who would have celebrated her 100th birthday in 2026, to the stage.