Michael Fleischhacker is an Austrian journalist and is known to a wide audience as a TV presenter.

After working at the Viennese daily newspaper “Der Standard”, he came to the daily newspaper “Die Presse”, of which he was editor-in-chief and managing director until 2012.
In 2014, Fleischhacker joined the team at the Austrian private broadcaster ServusTV as the television presenter of Talk im Hangar-7.
In his home office newsletter, Fleischhacker took a deliberately critical stance on the measures in connection with the COVID-19 crisis and commented on the population’s reactions with suspicion from the distance of the observer.
In the Salon conversation, he took us into his “Corona universe”, highlighted the quite violent reactions to his programs and explained to what extent the virus has changed the political options for action for the future.

Wilfried Reiter is a consultant.
He has been accompanying managers and change processes in organizations for many years.

Many successful projects resulted in the “Workshop for Transformation”, which he runs together with his wife Claudia Freund.
He is an enthusiastic author, consultant and companion in times of change.
Development processes that are currently necessary in many places are his profession.
His belief: People who feel valued are happy to cooperate with all their hearts.
The cooperative nature of people and the solution potential of systems make value creation possible.

Andreas Gfrerer spoke to Wilfried Reiter about the effectiveness of systems, what is needed for change and what conditions must be met for change to succeed.

The lawyer and lawyer Wilfried Haslauer has been in Salzburg state politics since 2004, initially as deputy state governor, and since 2013 he has been state governor of Salzburg.

His departments include business and tourism, which are closely linked to the cultural sector.
Salzburg is a global tourism brand that is essentially based on the pillars of “Mozart”, “Salzburg Festival” and “World Heritage”, complemented by scenic beauty and Alpine recreational opportunities.
Travel mobility and major events are now among the virologists’ problem children, a circumstance that hits Salzburg particularly hard as an international travel destination and as a location for culture and congresses.
The consequences will be felt throughout the economy.

Andreas Gfrerer spoke to Wilfried Haslauer about his personal experience of the crisis, his idea of ​​the country’s future and the possibilities for shaping politics.

Peter Lohmeyer is a German film and theater actor who is known to a wide audience.

For eight years he has been on the stage in front of the cathedral as Death in Salzburg’s Jedermann, and this year he completed his 100th performance.
During his time in Salzburg, he not only dealt intensively with the city and its people, but also with his role on Cathedral Square.

Andreas Gfrerer asked Peter Lohmeyer in the Goosebumps Talk about how an actor views the new distance rules and greeting rituals and which aspects of the crisis make him think.

Claudia Freund is a consultant and coach.

Together with her husband Wilfried Reiter, she runs the workshop for transformation in Bad Vöslau.
Her courageous path made her an expert in entrepreneurial and personal change.

Andreas Gfrerer went to her with the intention of making himself available as a client and with the request to have an additional consultation with him, just as she is currently doing with many people who are asking themselves the question: “What happens next?”
and end up in either-or.
Finding or creating new paths, Claudia Freund wants to be a companion and supporter, with all the wealth of her many years of experience.

Tina Heine is a restaurateur, director, lecturer, consultant and above all: a gifted networker.

In addition to the conception, curation and production of cultural formats, she gives lectures and seminars.
It brings together like-minded people and people who think differently and awakens the desire to develop new things together or transform existing ones.
With these processes, she creates spaces for special encounters and meaningful impulses for constructive cooperation.
She is familiar to Salzburgers as the artistic director of Jazz&The City.
This summer she was also responsible for the “ZWISCHERÄUME” festival.

Andreas Gfrerer spoke to Tina Heine about improvisation as a cultural technique, about thinking “out of the box” and what we can learn from the artists for our coexistence.

Christopher Dell is a Berlin urban theorist and jazz vibraphonist.

He studied vibraphone, drums and composition and worked as a freelance composer and musician, as well as as a lecturer at the Darmstadt Academy of Music from 1992 to 2000.
Dell has headed the “Institute for Improvisation Technology” in Berlin since 2000.
From 2008 to 2010 and from 2015 to 2018 he held a substitute professorship for urban planning theory at the “Urban Design” chair at HafenCity University Hamburg.
Dell has been teaching urban planning and urban renewal at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2017.
In May 2012 he received his doctorate at the University of Duisburg-Essen with the thesis “The improvising organization: Management after the end of plannability”.

Andreas Gfrerer – in a double act with Tina Heine – asked Christopher Dell whether the trend of urbanization is now coming to a standstill and how we should imagine or – better – wish for coexistence in cities.

Elisabeth von Thadden is a German journalist, literary scholar and non-fiction author.

She says about herself: “I got into journalism through Goethe, ecology and the fall of ’89, first in the Wochenpost, then in the Berliner Zeitung and then in 1999, with two small children at the time, in the ZEIT in Hamburg. I am responsible for the philosophical pages of Sinn & in the features section here. I have been in the DFG college on post-growth societies at the University of Jena every year since 2012
One month as a permanent fellow.
Most recently, my book ‘The Contactless Society’ (C.H.Beck) was published in autumn 2018.”

In the column “What are you thinking about?”
she asks philosophers and sociologists about current events.
Tina Heine and Andreas Gfrerer asked Elisabeth von Thadden exactly this question at the GÄNSEHAUT salon.

Michael Kerbler is one of the most prominent broadcast journalists in Austria.

He was a member of the ORF in various functions for almost 38 years.
As a host, he shaped the Ö1 series “In Conversation” for many years, which has been one of the most successful Ö1 programs for more than two and a half decades.
Kerbler’s guests included Václav Havel, Peter Handke, Olga Neuwirth, Günter Grass, Margarete Mitscherlich, Christoph Schlingensief, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Maja Haderlap, Martin Walser, Stephane Hessel, Saul Friedländer and the Dalai Lama.

On behalf of the Salzburg Festival, he moderated the “Everyman Symposium” in this year’s jubilee year to mark its 100th anniversary – and the equally long tradition of performing this piece.
Andreas Gfrerer invited Michael Kerbler in a goosebumps conversation to look back at these three events, which were dedicated to three allegories in Everyman, namely money, death and love.

Josef Weghaupt is a baker.

That means he’s not actually that, he’s a trained food technologist, but he’s so successful with his organic sourdough bakery Joseph Brot that he stands for artisanal quality when it comes to bread – and is also happy to be called a baker.
The center of his company, which now has five branches in Vienna, is in the Waldviertel, in Burgschleinitz.
From there he is now putting out feelers further and conducting market research in Salzburg to test how the people of Salzburg accept his bread.
He found a hostel for his pop-up store in the Blaue Gans, where good ideas are at home.
I’m curious what Josef thinks about the fact that baker’s yeast was sold out during the shutdown, what makes Josef Brot successful and why now is the time for him to think about expansion.
So Josef, what’s next?

Dorit Ehlers has lived and worked as a freelance actress and theater maker in Salzburg for twenty years.

In 2007 she founded the network for theater and art projects with other artistse “untitled”, theres cross-disciplinary theater developed in a wide variety of formats. The Hamburg native uses her theatrical craft to take the harbor into the mountains and, with the artistic-theatrical concept “SHIP FICTION”, has embarked on an idiosyncratic research into ships and longing, into an idiosyncratic “cross&”Cross journey”, as she says, which also anchors in galleries, museums and libraries along its route.

The basic idea starts with imagination, with the desire to play, which always leaves room for serious questions and questions. Andreas Gfrerer saw this as an invitation to clarify with Dorit Ehlers the question of whether longing is the force that makes us set off or whether it perhaps even prevents us from setting off on an adventure.

Helga Rabl-Stadler was festival president for 27 years.

The “Lioness of Salzburg”, as the conductor Franz Welser Möst described her, is a master of networking – and fundraising – she was able to bring more than 150 million euros to Salzburg for the festival during her time in office.
She accompanied six directors as president, most recently Markus Hinterhäuser, whose vision of making Salzburg the “epicenter of the special” she also saw as her own mission.

At a soirée entitled “The World as a Guest in Salzburg” as part of the Eat&Meet festival on May 11, 2022, I spoke with Helga Rabl-Stadler in the Salzburg Marionette Theater about her lack of talent for frustration, about thorn pricks and heroic journeys, as well as about her role as hostess of the world that meets in the summer
in the city of Mozart.

What shouldn’t you miss this festival summer?
Andreas Gfrerer talks to classical music expert and Blaue Gans regular Thomas Rauchwald in the Goosebumps Salon about the program of the 2023 Salzburg Festival. Together they leaf through the program booklet and discuss which highlights you shouldn’t miss.
Part 1 highlights the Ouverture Spiritual and the first week of the official program in August.

What shouldn’t you miss this festival summer?
Andreas Gfrerer talks to classical music expert and Blaue Gans regular Thomas Rauchwald in the Goosebumps Salon about the program of the 2023 Salzburg Festival. Together they leaf through the program booklet and discuss which highlights you shouldn’t miss.
In this episode, the two passionate festival goers look at the program from the 2nd week of August.
They also reveal which other places you should see in the city of Salzburg.

The program for the 2024 Salzburg Festival is officially out and now the question arises: what should you definitely not miss?
Andreas Gfrerer discusses with “Opernglas” author Thomas Rauchwald, himself a regular at the Blaue Gans and operator of the classical music blog

rauchenwald-classik.com, about the expected highlights of the 2024 festival season.

About the person: Thomas Rauchwald is an independent legal advisor specializing in labor law.
But that is just one facet of his personality: as a part-time job, as he says, he is an author for Opernglas and runs a classical music blog, rauchenwald-classik.com, which is well worth reading.

Since the age of 15, Thomas has devoted his free time almost exclusively to classical music.
He owes it to the mother of his best childhood friend that he became a Wagnerian.
During his studies in Vienna, the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Music Association became his second living room and remain so to this day.

Of course, Thomas Rauchwald is a regular guest at the major festivals in Europe and particularly likes to stay in Salzburg, where he stays in the Blaue Gans, which, in addition to Thomas’ proven connoisseurship, was reason enough for me to invite him to our goosebumps salon for the second time to browse the 2024 festival program with me.

So Thomas Rauchwald, what’s next for the Salzburg Festival?