Helga Rabl-Stadler, festival chairman in Salzburg for 27 years, has taken on a new task on Wednesday. She becomes special advisor for foreign culture at the Alexander Schallenberg (ÖVP) department.
Rabl-Stadler, who will be celebrating her 74th birthday on June 2, will be co-responsible for “the further development of Austria’s cultural presence abroad,” it was announced in a broadcast on Tuesday.
30 cultural forums need to be strengthened
Its area of responsibility ranges “from dialogue with science, the arts and culture scene and civil society to international cultural mediation in the traditional sense to innovative co-creative formats in new territory”, it said. The goal is “an even better basis for discussion and an even deeper understanding of each other”. In concrete terms, the 30 Austrian cultural forums worldwide must be strengthened, in addition to innovative projects and collaborations, also through “intensified involvement of the federal states”.
Schallenberg praises Rabl-Stadler
Rabl-Stadler was delighted with her new job. “I firmly believe that art can and should provide orientation in our world that has gotten out of hand. Austria, the small country, should play a big role in this: if we lure people out of their mind bubble, if we encourage them to think deeper and further, if we help develop the imagination for new solutions.” Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg (ÖVP) praised Rabl-Stadler’s “pioneering will to get things done” and is “an enormous enrichment for our home”.
Source: Krone
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