Herbert Gantschacher (born December 2, 1956, at Waiern in

Feldkirchen in Kärnten Feldkirchen in Kärnten ( sl, Trg) is a town in the Austrian state of Carinthia and the capital of the district of the same name. It consists of the Katastralgemeinden ''Fasching'', ''Feldkirchen'', ''Glanhofen'', ''Gradisch'', ''Hoefling'', ''K ...

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, Austria) is an Austrian director and producer and writer.

Education

1976 Gantschacher graduated on the second school in

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. From 1977 to 1980, he studied at the Academy for Music and

Performing Arts The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. They are different from the visual arts, which are the use of paint, canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Perform ...

Graz Graz (; sl, Gradec) is the capital city of the Austrian state of Styria and second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. As of 1 January 2021, it had a population of 331,562 (294,236 of whom had principal-residence status). In 2018, the popul ...

(now

University of Music and Performing Arts Graz The University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, also known as Kunstuniversität Graz (KUG) is an Austrian university. Its roots can be traced back to the music school of the '' Akademischer Musikverein'' founded in 1816, making it the oldest u ...

). He graduated with honors in 1980 and in 1988 he got the M.A.

Master of Arts A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Tho ...

Artistic activities

Gantschacher worked for the Schauspielhaus in Graz, the

Salzburg Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian) is the List of cities and towns in Austria, fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872. The town is on the site of the ...

State Theatre, the Tyrolian State Theatre

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, the Danubefestival in Krems, the Chamberopera in

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, the Theater an der Winkelwiese in Zürich, the festival "Musica Iudaica" in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

, the "Kulturbrauerei" in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

, the Polish festival "Theatre without Borders" in

Szczecin Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major s ...

, the National Theatre of Kosovo in

Priština Pristina, ; sr, / (, ) is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. The city's municipal boundaries in Pristina District form the largest urban center in Kosovo. After Tirana, Pristina has the second largest population of ethnic Albanians an ...

, the

National Arts Centre The National Arts Centre (NAC) (french: Centre national des Arts) is a Arts centre, performing arts organisation in Ottawa, Ontario, along the Rideau Canal. It is based in the eponymous National Arts Centre (building), National Arts Centre build ...

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, the Concordia-University in

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, the

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. Adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the USHMM provides for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust hi ...

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, dem Museum of The Holocaust in

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, the festival „musica suprimata“ in Sibiu/

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and

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/ Klausenburg in Romania, the

Felicja Blumental Felicja Blumental (28 December 1908 – 31 December 1991) was a Polish pianist and composer. "She was one of the relatively few women born in the first quarter of the twentieth century to have achieved an important career as a concert pianist ...

International Music Festival at the

Tel Aviv Museum of Art Tel Aviv Museum of Art ( he, מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות ''Muzeon Tel Aviv Leomanut'') is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. The museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of modern and contemporary art from Israel and aroun ...

and the

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

Arts Festival. In

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

Gantschacher worked for the "Staatsschauspiel", the "kleine Szene" of the

Semperoper The Semperoper () is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Saxon State Opera) and the concert hall of the Staatskapelle Dresden (Saxon State Orchestra). It is also home to the Semperoper Ballett. The building is located on the ...

, the "Dresdner Zentrum für zeitgenössische Musik" and the "

Festspielhaus Hellerau Festspielhaus Hellerau (English: Hellerau Festival House or Hellerau Theatre) is a theatre/studio building/classroom building located in Hellerau, the famous garden city district of Dresden, Germany. Built in 1911, it was an important center for e ...

". Also in

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

he worked for some institutions as the

Kulturhuset House of Culture (Swedish: Kulturhuset) is a cultural center situated to the south of Sergels torg in central Stockholm, Sweden. The House of Culture has been described as a symbol for Stockholm as well as of the growth of modernism in Sweden. ...

and the

Royal Swedish Opera Royal Swedish Opera ( sv, Kungliga Operan) is an opera and ballet company based in Stockholm, Sweden. Location and environment The building is located in the center of Sweden's capital Stockholm in the borough of Norrmalm, on the eastern side ...

(Kungliga Operan). Gantschacher worked also in cities

Erfurt Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia. It is located in the wide valley of the Gera river (progression: ), in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest. It sits i ...

Odesa Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative ...

Sankt Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...

and

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...

, there he worked as a

lecturer Lecturer is an List of academic ranks, academic rank within many universities, though the meaning of the term varies somewhat from country to country. It generally denotes an academic expert who is hired to teach on a full- or part-time basis. T ...

at the

University of Bergen The University of Bergen ( no, Universitetet i Bergen, ) is a research-intensive state university located in Bergen, Norway. As of 2019, the university has over 4,000 employees and 18,000 students. It was established by an act of parliament in 194 ...

in the section of theatre research and at the

Saint Petersburg Conservatory The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (russian: Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория имени Н. А. Римского-Корсакова) (formerly known as th ...

and at the JAMD -

Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance ( he, האקדמיה למוסיקה ולמחול בירושלים), is a school for the music and the performing arts in Jerusalem. It is located on the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusa ...

, there he gives masterclasses and lectures on the music of

Viktor Ullmann Viktor Ullmann (1 January 1898, in Český Těšín, Teschen – 18 October 1944, in KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau) was a Silesia-born Austrians, Austrian composer, conductor and pianist. Biography Viktor Ullmann was born on 1 January 1898 in Český ...

Hugo Wolf Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf (13 March 1860 – 22 February 1903) was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Ro ...

Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism ...

Alban Berg Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( , ; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively sma ...

Anton Webern Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern (3 December 188315 September 1945), better known as Anton Webern (), was an Austrian composer and conductor whose music was among the most radical of its milieu in its sheer concision, even aphorism, and stea ...

Arnold Rosé Arnold Josef Rosé (born ''Rosenblum''; 24 October 1863 – 25 August 1946) was a Romanian-born Austrian Jewish violinist. He was leader of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for over half a century. He worked closely with Brahms. Gustav Mahler was ...

and

Alma Rosé Alma Maria Rosé (3 November 1906 – 4/5 April 1944) was an Austrian violinist of Jewish descent. Her uncle was the composer Gustav Mahler. She was deported by the Nazis to the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. There, for 10 months, sh ...

. Now Gantschacher is the artistic director of ''VISUAL'' The European and International Visual Theatre Festival with

deaf Deafness has varying definitions in cultural and medical contexts. In medical contexts, the meaning of deafness is hearing loss that precludes a person from understanding spoken language, an Audiology, audiological condition. In this context it ...

and hearing artists and

deaf-blind Deafblindness is the condition of little or no useful hearing and little or no useful sight. Different degrees of vision loss and auditory loss occur within each individual. Because of this inherent diversity, each deafblind individual's needs re ...

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

and Austria. He is also the artistic director of the theatre- and research-project "War is daDa". For that research work he created the two projects entitled "Witness and Victim of the Apocalypse" (Exhibition and book about

in World War I and the influence of the experiences of war to his music especially to the opera ''

The Emperor of Atlantis ' (''The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobedience of Death'') is a one-act opera by Viktor Ullmann with a libretto by Peter Kien. They collaborated on the work while interned in the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt concentration camp, There ...

'' or ''The Disobedience of Death'' ARBOS, Vienna-Salzburg-Klagenfurt-Arnoldstein-Prora 2007/2008). A Czech translation of the book has been published at Prague and a Czech version of the exhibition has been presented at the City Archives of Prague in the

Clam-Gallas Palace The Clam-Gallas Palace ( cs, Clam-Gallasovský palác) is a Baroque palace in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. The building is situated on the corner of Husova Street and Mariánské Square, in Prague Old Town. History The palace wa ...

in 2015. A Russian translation of the book has been published at St. Petersburg and a Russian version of the exhibition has been presented at the Russian Museum of the city of

Kingisepp Kingisepp (russian: Ки́нгисепп or ), formerly Yamburg (), Yam (), and Yama (; Votic language, Votic: Jaama), is an ancient types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center of Kingiseppsky District of Lening ...

and at the House of Composers in St. Perersburg in 2016. A Slovenian translation of the book has been published at Nova Gorica and a Slovenian version of the exhibition has been presented at the museum Grad Kromberk of the Goriški muzej in

Nova Gorica A nova (plural novae or novas) is a transient astronomical event that causes the sudden appearance of a bright, apparently "new" star (hence the name "nova", which is Latin for "new") that slowly fades over weeks or months. Causes of the dramati ...

in 2018 and 2019.

Other activities

From 1980 to 1981 Gantschacher was a

at the ''Academy for Music and Performing Arts'' in Graz (today ''University for Music and Performing Arts Graz'') and gave also a seminar about the ''

Faust Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust ( 1480–1540). The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil at a crossroads ...

''-writings of

Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treat ...

, one of his students has been the theatre and opera director

Martin Kušej Martin Kušej (born 14 May 1962) is an Austrian theatre and opera director, and is director of the Burgtheater Vienna. According to German news magazine Focus, Kušej belongs to the ten most important theatre directors who have emerged in the G ...

. 1999 Gantschacher was a

at the ''Institute for Theatre Research'' of the University

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. In 1999, 2000 and 2016 Gantschacher was a lecturer at the

''Rimsky-Korsakov'' in Russia. In 2018 Gantschacher was the curator of the masterclass project ''School of Form'' together with Zvi Semel at the JAMD –

about the composer and musician

and the one-armed war-disabled pianist

Paul Wittgenstein Paul Wittgenstein (November 5, 1887March 3, 1961) was an Austrian-American concert pianist notable for commissioning new piano concerti for the left hand alone, following the amputation of his right arm during the First World War. He devised nove ...

with masterclasses for voice (Therese Lindquist), violin and chamber music (Annelie Gahl) and composition in classical and jazz style (Wolfgang Pillinger). Gantschacher worked on a lot of conferences as lecturer and director in Vienna at the International Conference "The Unifying Aspects of Culture" (2003), in

Villach Villach (; sl, Beljak; it, Villaco; fur, Vilac) is the seventh-largest city in Austria and the second-largest in the federal state of Carinthia. It is an important traffic junction for southern Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. , the po ...

"On the Eve of the Apocalypse" (2004), in Nötsch "Art and War" (2005), in Villach "The Great War – The Forgotten War" (2005), "The Great War – The Great Dying" (2006), "The Great War – The Last Victory" (2007), "The Great War – Long Live the Republic!" (2008) and in Nötsch and Arnoldstein "Art.War.Music" about music and The Great War. From 2014 to 2019 he is the curator of the international project "War=daDa" in Nötsch,

Arnoldstein Arnoldstein ( sl, Podklošter, it, Oristagno) is a market town in the district of Villach-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Geography Location Arnoldstein is located at Austria's southern border between the Carnic Alps and the Karawanke ...

(Austria),

(Czech Republic),

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

(Russia),

Kobarid Kobarid (; it, Caporetto, fur, Cjaurêt, german: Karfreit) is a settlement in Slovenia, the administrative centre of the Municipality of Kobarid. Kobarid is known for the 1917 Battle of Caporetto, where the Italian retreat was documented by Erne ...

Bovec Bovec ( or ; , german: Flitsch, fur, Plèz) is a town in the Littoral region in northwestern Slovenia, close to the border with Italy. It is the central settlement of the Municipality of Bovec. Geography Bovec is located from the capital Ljublj ...

, Lepena (Slovenia),

Cividale Cividale del Friuli ( fur, Cividât (locally ); german: Östrich; sl, Čedad) is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of Udine, part of the Northern Italy, North-Italian Friuli Venezia Giulia ''regione''. The town lies above sea-level in the foo ...

, Redipuglia,

Spilimbergo Spilimbergo (german: Spengenberg; fur, Spilimberc or ) is a ''comune'' with a population of 11,961, located in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, in northern Italy, on the right side of the Tagliamento river. The town is notable as the home of the ...

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

(Italia). Due to his research work Gantschacher reconstructed the Digital

Wilhelm Jerusalem Wilhelm Jerusalem (11 October 1854 in Dřenice – 15 July 1923 in Vienna) was an Austrian Jewish philosopher and pedagogue. Biography Jerusalem studied classical philosophy at the University of Prague and prepared a doctorate entitled "The I ...

Archive in the year 2018 eighty years after its destruction by the Nazis as a part of the memorial year ''Austria 1918–2018'' in a digital form for the department of manuscripts at the national archive of the state of Israel in the national library at the

Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. Also in 2018 Gantschacher built the Digital

Arnold Schönberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, ; ; 13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was as ...

Archive in the House, Court and State Archive of the National Archives in Vienna, there he put together for the first time all preserved original documents about the composer Arnold Schönberg and his military service in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 as a digital archive and completed the biography of the composer Schönberg. For the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation

ORF ORF or Orf may refer to: * Norfolk International Airport, IATA airport code ORF * Observer Research Foundation, an Indian research institute * One Race Films, a film production company founded by Vin Diesel * Open reading frame, a portion of the ...

Gantschacher worked as a director for

radio drama Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine ...

. From 1994 to 1999 Gantschacher was a member of the Arts Council of the Government of

. Since September 2013 he was again a member of the Arts Council of Carinthia till 2018. And from 2013 to 2014 he was the chairman of the Council for Performing Arts of the Government of Carinthia too. 2018 he became the curator of the projects of the State of Carinthia of the memorial year "Austria 1918–2018" and the follow-up projects till 2023. Since 2015 he works as a columnist for the

Kleine Zeitung ''Kleine Zeitung'' (, ''Small Newspaper'') is an Austrian newspaper based in Graz and Klagenfurt. As the largest regional newspaper in Austria, covering the federal states Styria and Carinthia with East Tyrol, the paper has around 800,000 readers ...

, one of the most important newspapers of Austria.

Awards

For his theatre works Gantschacher got some important awards: *Musictheatreperformance of the year 1993 in the

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...

for production of the opera "The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobedience of Death" by

*Maecenas-Price 1994 for the project "Kar", music theatre in the mountains in cooperation with the Verbund-Company *Maecenas-Price 2002 für the project "Theatretraps in the Underground of Vienna" *European Label 2002 for innovative language projects *Maecenas-Price 2003 für the project "Dada in Tramline 1 & Tramline 2" *Nomination for the Bank Austria Art Prize 2012 *Award of The UNESCO for the Visual Theatre Library for the "development of human rights for all" 2012 *Award by the Federal Minister Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek for the theatre project "Sense of Touch – Sense of Smell – Sense of Taste" about the culture and communication techniques of the deaf-blind with deaf-blind students and five sensed students in 2014 *Award by the Federal Minister Sonja Hammerschmid for the theatre project "Layers of History" *Arteco-Price the project "Different Trains" (three operas on a moving train through Europe on stations in

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

and Austria dealing with the theme of deportation and death during the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

) *"Cerec-Award" of the

Financial Times The ''Financial Times'' (''FT'') is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs. Based in London, England, the paper is owned by a Japanese holding company, Nik ...

Works

Publications

Essays about theatre

* "Signer and

Rossini Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music. He set new standards f ...

– two brothers in spirit?" – 1992 * "Crossing Boarders" – 1993 * "The new music theatre project KAR – a cooperation between industry and art" – 1994 * "Music Theatre at the

concentration camp Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simply ...

Terezín Terezín (; german: Theresienstadt) is a town in Litoměřice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,800 inhabitants. It is a former military fortress composed of the citadel and adjacent walled garrison town ...

by the example of the composer

and its significance for our time" – 1994 * "The Emperor of Atlantis – Lecture for CINARS 1994 in Montreal" – 1994 * "About the Open Form of Theatrical Art of Theatre – Lecture about the new opera house in

Linz Linz ( , ; cs, Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. In the north of the country, it is on the Danube south of the Czech border. In 2018, the population was 204,846. In 2009, it was a European Capital of ...

" – 1996 * "Memories and present, music and language, original and draft" – 1996 * "Music, Theatre, Dance in Austria – Lecture for CINARS 1996 in Montreal" – 1996 * "Art crossing Boarders" 1997 * "For years, the mirror is imposed! About the correspondences of cultural behavior" – 1998 * "The Art of Dialogue" – 1998 * "Memory as a mirror of ideology" – 2000 * "WorldWideWeb – Reality – Tool – Interaction" – in: TRANS – Internetmagazine for Cultural Studies Nr.9 – 2000 * "That there is this attempt of political change in the world definitely" – 2004 * "Victim myth Austria" – 2005 * "The Rescue of to be forgotten! – The correspondence between the Austrian-Jewish philosopher

and the American deafblind author Helen Keller" – 2009 * "On Your Own - Laudation for the opera and theatre director Univ.-Prof. Mag.

, artistic director of the Austrian National Theatre

Burgtheater The Burgtheater (literally:"Castle Theater" but alternatively translated as "(Imperial) Court Theater"), originally known as '' K.K. Theater an der Burg'', then until 1918 as the ''K.K. Hofburgtheater'', is the national theater of Austria in Vi ...

receiving the Prize for Culture of the State of Carinthia in the Republic of Austria" in German and Slovenian * "The Archivist" Laudation for Hubert Steiner 2017. * "Promoting Cultural Education" essay about the new school-youth-theatre project as a contribution of the State of Carinthia to the memorial year of the Republic of Austria "Austria 1918–2018", gift 1/2018, Vienna 2018, * "Peace Education, School Education, Cultural Education" essay about the school-youth-theatre project "The Peace Education of the Individual and of the Society", Klagenfurt 2019. * "Deafness and Deafblindness in the First World War" essay about Helen Keller, Wilhelm Jerusalem, Werner Mössler, Viktor Ullmann and war-disabled deaf, blind and deafblind persons (together with Gabriele Laube), Vienna 2019.

Books

* "Crossing the Boarders" – Das Zeichen 22/1992 – * "Plurality instead of Uniformity (Klagenfurt on other tracks)" – Kärntner Druck und Verlagsgesellschaft 1996 – * "Tracks to Victor Ullmann" with essays written by Viktor Ullmann,

Herbert Thomas Mandl Herbert Thomas Mandl (August 18, 1926 - February 22, 2007) was a Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak-Germans, German-Jewish author, concert violinist, professor of music, philosopher, inventor and lecturer. He authored novels, stories and dramas that are ...

Dževad Karahasan Dževad Karahasan (born 25 January 1953) is a Bosnian writer, essayist and philosopher. Karahasan was awarded with Herder Prize and Goethe Medal for his writings. In 2020, the city of Frankfurt awarded him the Goethe Prize. Early life Karahas ...

, Ingo Schultz and Herbert Gantschacher published by ARBOS – Company for Music and Theatre / (Vienna: edition selene 1998), * "Forms of life" (a theatre book written by Herbert Gantschacher and

) – edition selene 1999 – * "The Mirror of History – The Past as Ideology" (3rd Prora Conference) – Stiftung Neue Kultur Berlin 2000 * Co-Editor of "The Unifying Aspects of Cultures" – LIT 2004 – * "I Carry the Flag or War = daDa" – Peter Lang Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften 2006 – , * "Witness and Victim of the Apocalypse" (Book for the exhibition about the composer

in World War I and the influence of the experiences of war to his music especially to the opera "The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobidience of Death") – ARBOS, Vienna-Salzburg-Klagenfurt-Arnoldstein-Prora 2007/2008 * "From the Austrian-Hungarian Wehrmacht to the German Wehrmacht" – ARBOS, Vienna-Salzburg-Klagenfurt-Arnoldstein 2009 * "Forward, Don`t Forget!" in "Dirty Bucket K..." edited by FreiraumK, Drava Verlag-Založba Drava Klagenfurt/Celovec 2013, * "VIKTOR ULLMANN ZEUGE UND OPFER DER APOKALYPSE – WITNESS AND VICTIM OF THE APOCALYPSE – Testimone e vittima dell'Apocalisse – Prič in žrtev apokalipse – Svědek a oběť apokalypsy" – Complete original authorized edition in German and English language with summaries in Italian, Slovenian and Czech language, ARBOS-Edition , Arnoldstein-Klagenfurt-Salzburg-Vienna-Prora-Prague first edition 2015 and second edition 2019 with a new preface. * ''Viktor Ullmann – Svědek a oběť apokalypsy 1914–1944'', Archiv hlavního města Prahy 2015. * Герберт Ганчахер ''Виктор Ульман – Свидетель и жертва апокалипсиса'', «Культ-информ-пресс» Санкт-Петербург 2016. * ''At the broadcasting house in the Argentinierstraße was a studio for radiodramas'' – IN: ''BROADCASTING HOUSE ANTHOLOGIE'' Commermorative edited by Gerhard Ruis and Ulrike Stecher, Edition Autorensolidarität, Vienna 2017. * ''VERBORGENE GESCHICHTE HIDDEN HISTORY Скрытая история'' , ARBOS-Edition, , Arnoldstein – Klagenfurt – Salzburg – Vienna 2018. * ''KRIEGSGEFANGEN – KRIEGSINVALID / PRISONER OF WAR – WAR-DISABLED / военнопленные – инвалиды войны'' ARBOS-Edition, , Arnoldstein – Klagenfurt – Salzburg – Vienna 2018. * ''Viktor Ullmann – Priča in Žrtev Apokalipse'' (dodatno besedilo Aneja Rože, spremno besedilo Marko Klavora, prevod Angela Žugič) Goriški muzej Kromberk, , Nova Gorica 2018 * ''ВИКТОР УЛЬМАН СВИДЕТЕЛЬ И ЖЕРТВА АПОКАЛИПСИСА – Viktor Ullmann Zeuge und Opfer Apokalypse – Witness and Victim of th Apokalypse – Testimone e vittima dell´Apocalisse – Priča in žrtev apokalipse – Svědek a oběť apokalypsy'' ARBOS-Edition, , Arnoldstein – Klagenfurt – Salzburg – Wien 2018. * ''"I am the Death, I have survived" – Meetings with Karel Berman'' musica reanimata Berlin, mr-memorandum Nr.99, December 2019. * ''Peacebuilding. Weapons are creating no Peace, and Weapons are not secure any Jobs , Friedensbildung. Waffen schaffen keinen Frieden, und sie sichern auch keine Arbeitsplätze , La cultura di pace. Le armi non portano la pace, e nemmeno garantiscono posti di lavoro , Mirovna vzgoja. Orožje ne prinaša miru in tudi ne zagotavlja delovnih mest'' in Werner Wintersteiner, Cristina Beretta, Mira Miladinović Zalaznik (Hrsg. , a cura di , ur.): ''Manifest, o Alpe-Adria. Voices for A European Region of Peace and Prosperity , Manifest, o Alpe-Adria. Stimmen für eine Europa-Region des Friedens und Wohlstands , Voci per una regione europea di pace e prosperità , Glasovi za evropsko regijo miru in blagostanja.'' Löcker Edition, Vienna 2020 (edition pen Nr. 151). . * ''Caelo in terram - Himmel auf Erden - Heaven on Earth'' - A sort of comedy piece and presumption of innocence with prologue, epilogue and a main act, ARBOS-Edition, , Wien-Graz-Klagenfurt 2021. * ''Disobey Any Military Work!'' together with ''Strike Against the War!'' by Helen Keller and ''The War Is Over, But Peace Has Brought Us No Relief.'' by Wilhelm Jerusalem (both texts are translated into German by Herbert Gantschacher), ARBOS-Edition, , Vienna-Salzburg-Klagenfurt 2021. * ''Some Notes about the Lives of Wilhelm Jerusalem and Theodor Herzl'' and the transcription and edition of the letters of Helen Keller and Wilhelm Jerusalem from the original facsimiles translated into German plus the first publication of ''The Deafblind Author Helen Keller'' from the original Hebrew into English and German by Edmund Jerusalem translated by Michael Jerusalem and Herbert Gantschacher plus ''The Deafblind Author, Pacifist and Human Rights Activist Helen Keller'' connected with the edition of the letters of Helen Keller and the Vice-President of US-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Henry Wallacce, ARBOS-Edition, , Wien- Salzburg-Klagenfurt 2021. * ''The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobedience of Death'' Anti-war opera by Viktor Ullmann (Music and libretto), original text of the libretto for the first time published in the German original including translations into English, Polish and Czech language with essays by Herbert Gantschacher and Dževad Karahasan, edited by Herbert Gantschacher, ARBOS-Edition, , Vienna-Salzburg-Klagenfurt 2022. * ''Turning Points'' in ''PERSPECTIVES on Current Affairs in Carinthia 1989-2022'' edited by Peter Karpf, Werner Platzer, Wolfgang Platzer and Thomas Pseiner for the Edition of the State of Carinthia, , Klagenfurt 2022.

Translations

* "Disconnected – Kein Anschluß" by

Willy Conley Willy Conley (born August 5, 1958, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA) is an American deaf photographer, playwright, actor and writer. Education In 1981, Conley received a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Photographic Communications at the Rochester I ...

. 2000 * "On the edge of the desert" by

. 2003 * "Banquet" by Dževad Karahasan. 2005 * "The Universal Drum – Trommeln allerorts" by Willy Conley. 2011 * "Strike Against The War!" by Helen Keller. 2013–2014 * "Salem and the Stubborn Wizard" a picture story about peace from the year 2003 from Damascus by Muḥammad Dīb. 2017–2018, .

Theatreplays

* "Agnus Dei" draft of a libretto based on a story by Francisco Tanzer, 1987 in:

Austrian National Library The Austrian National Library (german: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) is the largest library in Austria, with more than 12 million items in its various collections. The library is located in the Neue Burg Wing of the Hofburg in center of V ...

– Austrian Literature Archive. * "The Couple" (in cooperation with Francisco Tanzer) 1987/1988 in:

– Austrian Literature Archive. Tanzer * "Late Afternoon in Paradise". Chamberopera (together with Walter Müller). Music: Stefan Signer – 1992 * "The Language in Space" – 1994 * "The Singing Of The Fools about Europe" together with

– 1994 * "Rehearsals on Dialogues" – 1996 * "19182338 – The number You have called is disconnected". Music theatre. Music: Werner Raditschnig – 1998 * "I Can See Something You Cannot See" – 2000 * "Chronicle 1933–1945". Dokumentary Theatre about the biographies of

Robert Ley Robert Ley (; 15 February 1890 – 25 October 1945) was a German politician and Labour Union, labour union leader during the Nazi era; Ley headed the German Labour Front from 1933 to 1945. He also held many other high positions in the Party, inc ...

and

Victor Klemperer Victor Klemperer (9 October 188111 February 1960) was a German scholar who also became known as a diarist. His journals, published in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the Germa ...

(together with Katharina and Jürgen Rostock) – 2000 * "Snow and Death". Dramatization of the novel "The Ring of Shahrijar" by Dževad Karahasan – 2002 * "The Death of

Empedocles Empedocles (; grc-gre, Ἐμπεδοκλῆς; , 444–443 BC) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a native citizen of Akragas, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is best known for originating the cosmogonic theory of the fo ...

". Dramatization of the Fragments written by

Friedrich Hölderlin Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (, ; ; 20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a German poet and philosopher. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans", Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticism. Part ...

(in cooperation with Dževad Karahasan) – 2005 * "Banquet". Transmission of the Librettos of

from the Bosnian Language. Music: Herbert Grassl, Bruno Strobl and Hossam Mahmoud – 2005 * "A First Step" – 2008 * "

– Helen Keller – Letters" – 2008, published as Visual Theatre Library Volume 1; ARBOS-Edition © & ® 2010–2012 * "Heaven on Earth" – 2012 * *Pig Alm" – 2013 * "Talking Gloves" a visual theatre play about the painter

Albin Egger-Lienz Albin Egger-Lienz (29 January 1868 – 4 November 1926) was an Austrian painter known especially for rustic genre and historical paintings. Career He was born in Dölsach-Stribach near Lienz, in what was the county of Tyrol. He was the natural s ...

and the poet Dichter

August Stramm August Stramm (29 July 1874 – 1 September 1915) was a German war poet and playwright who is considered the first of the expressionists. Stramm's radically experimental verse and his major influence on all subsequent German poetry has caused him ...

– 2014/2018 * "The Four Seasons" a theatre play about sensual understanding of the deafblind – 2018 * "The Five Senses" a theatre play about the human senses from the perspective of deafblind persons with music from the deafblind

Laura Bridgman Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (December 21, 1829 – May 24, 1889) was the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, twenty years before the more famous Helen Keller; Laura's friend Anne Sullivan becam ...

– 2019 * "M.a.r.s.h." a theatre play for body and bewegte moved voice - 2020 World Premiere at the Anschlussdenkmal Oberschützen in the State of

Burgenland Burgenland (; hu, Őrvidék; hr, Gradišće; Austro-Bavarian: ''Burgnland;'' Slovene: ''Gradiščanska'') is the easternmost and least populous state of Austria. It consists of two statutory cities and seven rural districts, with a total of ...

in Austria on May 8 and 9 2020 * "One Desk and Three Chairs" a deafblind theatre play 2021 * "The Snake and The Stork" a deafblind theatre play adopted from a picture story from Bethlehem in Palestine 2022

Exhibitions

* "Witness and Victim of the Apocalypse – The Austrian Composer

in World War I as an artillery observer witnessing the poison gas attack at the Isonzo front on 24 October 1917 in Bovec (Flitsch / Plezzo), and in World War II as victims of murder by poison gas on 18 October 1944 in Auschwitz" – Arnoldstein 2007, Prora 2008, Prague 2015, Kingisepp 2016, St. Petersburg 2016 * "From The Austro-Hungarian Wehrmacht in The German Wehrmacht" – Arnoldstein 2009, Prora 2010 * "About Images and Card Counterfeiters – The

Paris Commune The Paris Commune (french: Commune de Paris, ) was a revolutionary government that seized power in Paris, the capital of France, from 18 March to 28 May 1871. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, the French National Guard had defended ...

in the 19th century, Lenin 1917 and 1918, Austrian school atlas 2008" – Arnoldstein 2010 * ""Refuse Any Military Work!" – Arnoldstein 2011 * "The Servants of All Lords" Arnoldstein 2012 * "'... I receive a pension from the Wiener Philharmoniker subsidy whose amount shall be fixed by the General Assembly in accordance with the available resources ...' AS THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE VIENNA PHILHARMONIC DEVALUED THE PENSIONS OF THEIR JEWISH MUSICIANS BEFORE THE DEPORTATION IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS SHOWN WITH DOCUMENTS FOR ASSET RECOVERY AND QUESTIONS FOR RESTITUTION" – Arnoldstein 2013 * "Political Murder – the instrumentalization of politics in the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century" Arnoldstein 2013 * ''WAR AND LIAR or THE THIRD WAR AT THE BALKANS AS A RESULT OF THE DOUBLE MURDER OF SARAJEVO or THE BREAK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW BY THE IMPERIAL AND ROYAL WEHRMACHT AND THE VIENNESE MINISTRY FOR FOREIGEN AFFAIRS IN BELGIUM IN AUGUST 1914'' (Arnoldstein 2014). * ''Members of the Vienna Philharmonic in The Great War and The Salzburg Festival 1918'' (Arnoldstein 2014). * ''WAR CRIMES and WAR RESISTERS'' (Arnoldstein 2015). * ''WOMEN AT WAR: 'La Soldate Femme' Women-Soldiers in The Great War – Helen Keller: 'Strike Against The War!'' (Arnoldstein 2016). * ''„DEAR FRIEND!“: Arnold Schönberg and his piece „Gurrelieder“ and the proposed performance in Switzerland by the "Kriegspressequartier"'' (Klagenfurt 2017) * ''THE LAST BATTLE OPERATOR: Victorious Commander instead of peacebringing Emperor and King Charles'' (Arnoldstein 2017), * ''The New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic, its cultural-political origins, its predecessors and forerunners in the context of the former combatants and war invalids in the First World War'' (Klagenfurt 2017/2018) * ''Hidden History – Fate of War-Disabled in Austria – Deafness, Blindness and Deafblindness in The Great War 1914–1918'' Vienna * ''Viktor Ullmann – Priča in Žrtev Apokalipse'' Goriški muzej Kromberk, Nova Gorica 2018–2020 * ''"'... I receive a pension from the Wiener Philharmoniker subsidy whose amount shall be fixed by the General Assembly in accordance with the available resources ...' AS THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE VIENNA PHILHARMONIC DEVALUED THE PENSIONS OF THEIR JEWISH MUSICIANS BEFORE THE DEPORTATION IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS SHOWN WITH DOCUMENTS FOR ASSET RECOVERY AND QUESTIONS FOR RESTITUTION, NEW DOCUMENTS TO THE PERSONS WOBISCH, KERBER, STRASSER, MANKER AND THE CASE OF PROF. ERICH MELLER"'' Klagenfurt Main Railway Station 2018–2019 * ''Viktor Ullmann – School of Form'' Klagenfurt Main Railway Station 2019–2020 * ''War and War Disability'' Klagenfurt Main Railway Station 2020 * ''Disobey Any Military Work! - About Military Work, Compulsory Social Service, Compulsory Military Service, Non-Violence, Conscientious Objectors, Deserters, Murderers and Privatization of War - Helen Keller and Wilhelm Jerusalem as a Part of Global Pacifism'' Klagenfurt Main Railway Station 2020-2021 * "From the K.u.K. Wehrmacht to the German Wehrmacht - Officers of the Hapsburg Empire made careers in the NS-dictatorship" Klagenfurt Main Railway Station 2022-2023

Films

* "Viktor Ullmann – Way to the Front 1917" Documentary Film, Book and Director: Herbert Gantschacher, Editor: Erich Heyduck; ARBOS-DVD Vienna-Salzburg-Klagenfurt-Arnoldstein 2007. * "Spuren nach Theresiestadt – Tracks to Terezín" Documentary Film about the survivor of the

, Interview and Director: Herbert Gantschacher, Camera: Robert Schabus, Editor: Erich Heyduck/DVD in German and English; ARBOS, Wien-Salzburg-Klagenfurt, 2007. * "The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobedience of Death" Documentary Music Theatre about the opera of Viktor Ullmann, Book and Director: Herbert Gantschacher, Sound-engineering: Roumen Dimitrov, Editor: Erich Heyduck, Montage: Dieter Werderitsch; ARBOS-DVD Vienna-Salzburg-Klagenfurt in German 2009, in English 2010, in Italian 2010, in Czech 2015.

Literature

* Christian Martin Fuchs: "The Trip into the Dream" – 1992 * Burgis Paier: "Love is no Tomato Juice!" – 1993 *

: "About the Exile in an Open Society" – 1994 * Dževad Karahasan: "Speech for the award of the

Bruno Kreisky Bruno Kreisky (; 22 January 1911 – 29 July 1990) was an Austrian social democratic politician who served as Foreign Minister from 1959 to 1966 and as Chancellor from 1970 to 1983. Aged 72 at the end of his chancellorship, he was the oldest Ch ...

Award" – 1995 * Alfred Goubran: "Music for eyes and ears" – 1995 *

Dominik Maringer Dominic is a name common among Roman Catholics and other Latin-Romans as a male given name. Originally from the late Roman-Italic name "Dominicus", its translation means "Lordly", "Belonging to God" or "of the Master". Variations include: Domini ...

: "Music in Tanzenberg" – 1996. * Jean-Jacques van Vlasselaer: "The Emperor of Atlantis" – 1996 * "Theatre Crossin Borders: 'The Emperor of Atlantis'. First production of the CD and Premiere at

" – 1996 * Johannes Birringer: ''Media & performance: along the border'' – 1998. * Michael Ausserwinkler: "Speech for the Culture Awards 1998" * Beate Scholz: "Delicatessen!" – 1999 * Carolin Walker "The Project Kar" in: Thomas Heinze "Arts Funding: Sponsoring – Fundraising – Public-Private-Partnership" – 1999. * Gerhard Ruiss: "Spent commitments" – 1999 * Guido Fackler: "Voice of the camp – Music in Concentration Camps" – 2000 * Hans-Günter Klein: "Live in the moment, live in eternity. The lectures of the symposium of the 100th Birthday of Viktor Ullmann" – 2000. * Alf Krauliz, Marion Mauthe, Lukas Beck: ''Rooms on the move – 10 years Donaufestival''. 2002. * Herbert Arlt: "Trans: documentation of a cultural polylog test in the WWW" – 2002. * Michal Caban, Šimon Caban, Jan Dvořák: "Baletní jednotka Křeč" – 2003. * Elena Makarova, Sergei Makarov, Victor Kuperman: "University Over the Abyss, The story behind 520 lecturers and 2,430 lectures in KZ Theresienstadt 1942–1944" – 2004. * Jan Vičar: "IMPRINTS Essays on Czech Music and Aesthetics" – 2005, (Department of Musicology of Palacký University Faculty of Philosophy in Olomouc), (Togga) * Eva Zwick: "Hearing. 'Hearing Rooms' in Deaf Theatre" – 2007 * Dario Oliveri "Musica e cultura nel ghetto di Theresienstadt – 2008, * Jana Unuk: "The Vilenica 2010 Prize Winner Dževad Karahasan", pages 9, 13, 17 – 2010. * Rafael Ugarte Chacón "Theatre und Deafness" pages 195–203, transcript Edition Bielefeld 2015 * Gabriela Vojvoda "Room and Construction of Identity in the Novels of Dževad Karahasan" pages 241–253, LIT edition Berlin 2014 * Irene Suchy & Susanne Kogler ''"Scores of the Bodies" Gestures in Composition and Performance'', Irene Suchy "Signs and Art" (p. 19-21) about performances of paintings of

and poems of

, Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 2018, * Barry Davis "The Sounds of Theresienstadt live on" essay in the Jerusalem Post published on 2019-12-07, page 12 * Jean-Jaques Van Vlasselaer "Music in the Nazi Concentration Camps" p. 569-580, in "Music in Context – Commemorative for

Peter Revers Peter Revers (born 1954) is a German-Austrian musicologist and university lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Life Born in Würzburg, Revers is the son of the psychologist . He studied musicology, psychology, philosophy ...

" Hollitzer Edition, Vienna 2019

External links

TRANS for Cultural Studies
''WorldWideWeb - Reality – Tool – Interaction'' – The Internet Chamber Opera ''It was raining yesterday evening'' by Eberhard Eyser (Music) and Eberhard Schmidt (Libretto) after to two stories written by

Fernando Namora Fernando Namora (15 April 1919 – 31 January 1989), with the full name Fernando Gonçalves Namora was a Portuguese writer and medical doctor. Namora was born in Condeixa-a-Nova, Coimbra District and died in Lisbon, Portugal. He received his med ...

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"The Limits of Virtual Reality –

–

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– Andreas Latzko"
Viktor Ullmann „The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobidience of Death“ at the American Legion Building in Hollywood, Los Angeles
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Cecilia Porter about Ullmann and "The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobedience of Death" Feuilleton
in the

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Viktor Ullmann "The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobedience of Death" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Herbert Gantschacher on 1000LETTERS
Barry Davis "The Sounds of Theresienstadt live on" Essay
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Literature by and about Herbert Gantschacher in the catalogue of the

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References

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