“ORF III Kulturdienstag”: double premieres “Austrian Heritage” including “Secrets of Vienna’s Inner City”
Also: “Mariahilf nostalgic – The Raimund Theater and the Gumpendorfer”, new episodes “Miracle or Plunder” and “Out of the Frame”
Vienna (OTS) – The “ORF III Kulturdienstag” on September 21, 2021 is immersed in the history of Vienna in two “Erbe Österreich” premieres:
At the beginning, the “secrets of Vienna’s inner city” will be revealed – from the catacombs under the Theseus temple in the Volksgarten to the Kaiserforum. Then ORF III shows on the occasion of the reopening of the newly renovated music theater “Mariahilf nostalgic – The Raimund Theater and the Gumpendorfer”. Afterwards, Wolfgang Böck invites you to a new episode of “Wunder oder Plunder” before a new edition of “Out of the Frame” with Karl Hohenlohe “Off to the wilderness!” – to the Dürrenstein-Lassingtal wilderness area.
“Erbe Österreich” opens the main evening with the new ORF III production “Secrets of the Inner City of Vienna” (8:15 pm) by Alexander Frohner: A whole series of Habsburg secrets still slumbers in Vienna’s old town, where the court has been intriguing for centuries forged and careers promoted or broken. Emperor Franz Joseph, for example, allied himself for his mammoth project on the Ringstrasse, the so-called Kaiserforum, with a man who was a wanted revolutionary in his native Saxony. There the name stood for the “Semper Barricades”, while in Vienna it stood for the most conservative building project in Europe. In the end, the Kaiserforum remained obsolete, but many other things became reality, such as Maria Theresa’s sins of construction at the Hofburg. Or the catacombs under the Theseus temple in the Volksgarten.
Then “Erbe Österreich” will present the new production “Mariahilf nostalgisch – The Raimund Theater and the Gumpendorfer” (9:05 pm) by Martin Vogg. Of all Vienna’s suburbs, Mariahilf is perhaps the best place to understand the life of the people of that time in Vienna away from the center. The district was then, and partly still today, a Grätzel-like biotope in which petty bourgeois life pulsed. Numerous hotels along Mariahilferstrasse in Gumpendorf testify to the time when strangers were quarantined here so that they would certainly not bring any diseases into the city center. Shops, leisure activities, entertainment, small traffic and also culture shaped the townscape in the 19th century. The Gumpendorfer decided to build the Raimund Theater here, and created a stage that was to become an institution full of stars and which has been an integral part of the Viennese musical theater business to this day.
The second episode of the new season of “Wunder oder Plunder mit Wolfgang Böck” (9:55 pm) is again about the connoisseur’s point of view: gold-plated objects that are outwardly quite similar to each other are separated into valuable and worthless. This time, Wolfgang Böck welcomes the candidates Heidi (50), Christian (53) and Curt (45). Which of them will take home the greatest haul? A classicist clock, a beer mug and a Goldscheider porcelain table lamp are to be evaluated.
The “ORF III Culture Tuesday” closes at 10.45 pm with “Out of the frame: Off into the wild!”. In this new edition, presenter Karl Hohenlohe dives into the wilderness area of Dürrenstein-Lassingtal in Lower Austria. A new museum has opened in Lunz am See, which sees itself as the “House of the Wilderness” and wants to convey this unique piece of nature to people. Modern technology and virtual reality are used there to make it possible to experience what needs to be strongly protected.
