Council of the Republic

A council that represents the audience and at the same calls on the city, the country, Europe and the entire world to join the Free Republic of Vienna.

The core of the council is formed by eighty Viennese citizens: 69 inhabitants of Vienna who were nominated by the 23 district partners as well as eleven local personas from the fields of art, culture, activism, science and media who will contribute their expertise in the design of civil society processes and their various fields, and who have been involved in the structural process since February. These eighty Viennese members of the council will accompany the entire festival, producing the Viennese declaration as the ‘constitution’ of the Free Republic of Vienna in the context of the hearings. The jury for the Vienna Trials will also be chosen from among the council members. The council will have its central office together with local and international activist initiatives, students and the Festwochen team at the House of the Republic.

Honorary members

Viennese experts

Viennese citiziens

Coming Soon

Elfriede Jelinek

Sibylle Berg

Kirill Serebrennikov

David van Reybrouck

Elisabeth Großschädl

Carola Rackete

Bibiana Beglau

Srécko Horvat

Yosi Wanunu

Kid Pex

Alexander Martos

Jean Ziegler

Fariba Mosleh

Monika Mokre

Meinhard Rauchensteiner

Camille Étienne

Yanis Varoufakis

Juan Son

Annie Ernaux

Kim de l´Horizon

Oksana Lyniv

Lucia Steinwender

Noomi Anyanwu

Dunia Khalil

VALIE EXPORT

MST – Movimento dos Sem Terra

Inhabitants Zad de Notre-Dame-des-Landes

Letzte Generation Österreich

Dirk Stermann

Gerlinde Heil

Romana Rotschopf

Florian Böhm

Martin Genahl

Olga Flaum

Martin Zoglmann

Marlene Wagner

Jason Acid

Wolfgang Kaleck

Sandra Hüller

Baharak Abdolifard

Katrina Herre

Sofija Milic

Elliot Holmberg

Barbara Klampfl

Alexander Wanitschek

Ruth Beckermann

Yvan Sagnet

Olena Nechay Nosal

Peter Seifert

Belma Beslic-Gal

Irmeli Hübchen

Victoria Daucher

Agnes Chorherr

Ernst Kanitz

Samo Zeichen

David Walser

Gerald Straub

Dominic Jarka

Doris Dittrich

Bruno Gina

Simone Uran

Ben Aurel Schill

Helen Radermacher

Nikolaus Preglau

Barbara Kopacka

Christian Kreuzer

Ursula Napravnik

Jasmin Arrich

Martina Sawa

Bengül Müldür

Selin Müldür

Liam Kutschera

Afiyet Koyun

Leila Offinassinga

Clelia Molina Xaca

Susanne Höhne

Nico Wind

Salaheddine Najah

Gabriele Weber

Dagmar Höfferer

Georg Wagner

Alina Sesser

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Institutions and initiatives from the fields of culture, sports, religion, leisure and social life cast a web across the entire city in their role as district partners. The district partners nominate the 69 members of the council from the districts and will present L’Addition, this year’s pièce populaire, each in their own district – on football pitches, in lidos, pubs and on meadows.

Kirill Serebrennikov — Kirill
Serebrennikov

Rat der Republik

Member of the Council of the Republic Sibylle Berg

I am a part of the Council of the Republic, because ...
… wir vor der richtigen Revolution einmal kurz üben sollten.

Member of the Council of the Republic Kid Pex

I am part of the Council of the Republic, because ...
…wir endlich mitbestimmen. Nicht bestimmen dürfen, sondern mitbestimmen müssen. Wir - ALLE.

Vienna Declaration

The Free Republic of Vienna will conclude its first (constituting) year by issuing its own constitution, the Vienna Declaration, which is intended to be a practical set of rules for the festival of the future. Should invitations to artists be tied to political tenets? What does the Free Republic of Vienna say about quotas and questions of sustainability? How much innovation and how much tradition does the ‘festival of the future’ need? The Vienna Declaration will be written by the Council of the Republic following the five-week artistic programme, numerous hearings and debates and shall remain valid for the next four years. It will be read out by the Council of the Republic on the final day of the Festwochen during a closing ceremony at the House of the Republic

Council of the Republic