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Festival of Joy |
on the thematic focus "perpetrators in nationalsocialism'" |
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Welcome address |
by presenter Katharina Stemberger |
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Willi Mernyi |
Welcome speech by Willi Mernyi, Chairman of the Mauthausen Committee Austria |
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Alexander Van der Bellen |
Address by the Federal President of the Republic of Austria |
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Lucy Waldstein |
Contribution by contemporary witness |
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Vienna Symphonics |
Information about the music program will be available soon. |
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Katharina Stemberger |
Reading of a text to the 2026´s theme |
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As in previous years, the Festival of Joy will conclude with the 'Ode to Joy' from Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. |
