Culture Summer Güssing 2025: Viennese cabaret meets Burgenland!

Culture Summer Güssing 2025: Viennese cabaret meets Burgenland!

The Cultural Summer Güssing will take place from July 4th to 27th, 2025, which promises numerous cultural highlights under the motto “VIENNA KÜSST GÜSSING”. Andreas Vitásek, the festival's director, describes the event as a “matter of the heart” that aims to show the complexity of cabaret. With a program that offers a varied mix of music, cabaret, readings and summer cinema, the event invites visitors from near and far to enjoy the cultural diversity. Small newspaper reports on the celebrity participants who will contribute to the entertainment with a wide range of performances.

The star acts include well-known faces such as Gery Seidl, Klaus Eckel, Alfred Dorfer, Lydia Prenner-Kaspar, Isabell Pannagl and Erwin Steinhauer. In addition, the renowned Rabenhof Theater from Vienna will present the show “Hansi Lang – Songs from the Community Building”. This artistic diversity should help to position the festival as an outstanding event in the region, says State Councilor Leonhard Schneemann (SPÖ), who emphasizes the combination of Viennese schmäh with Burgenland hospitality and artistic passion.

Program highlights

The opening gala will take place on July 4, 2025, followed by a varied program. On July 7th, Klaus Eckel will appear with his program “If you speak slowly, you won't be believed,” followed by Erwin Steinhauer and “klezmer reloaded extended” on July 9th. The summer cinema will premiere by showing classics such as “The Third Man” on July 13th and “Tales from the Vienna Woods” on July 20th.

There are also numerous readings in the Ensemble Gerersdorf open-air museum. Here visitors can enjoy Thomas Maurer on July 16th, Wolfram Berger on July 17th and Konstanze Breitebner on July 24th. Admission to these events is free and all tickets can be ordered online, with accessible seating available.

A look into the history of cabaret

The cabaret has a rich tradition that dates back to the 19th century. It began with the opening of the “Chat noir” in Paris on November 18, 1881. The aim of the cabaret was and is to illuminate political events in a humorous way and to educate humanity in an entertaining way. The birth of German-language cabaret was in 1901 with the “Bunten Theater” (Überbrettl) in Berlin, which significantly influenced the art form. Cabaret archive offers comprehensive information about the development and most important stages of cabaret up to the present day.

The diversity and dynamism that can be expected as part of the Kultur Sommer Güssing show once again that cabaret remains a living art form that is still able to humorously address social challenges today.