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Olala: 34.International Street Theatre Festival

22.-26.07.2025

One of the most popular and best-known festivals of its kind in Europe!

 

Olala changes not only the city, but also the people - for longer than the festival week in July.

This year Olala turns the city upside down again in the last week of July and surprises with productions that one would otherwise expect to see in big cities rather than in a small town in the Tyrolean mountains. The programme is wide-ranging, so the different tastes of the audience and the many facets of modern street art are adequately covered here. From large-scale square productions to installations and cabaret with artistry, acrobatics, non-verbal comedy, walk acts and fanfare.

 

The festival and its artists (approx. 30 groups from 14 different countries) regularly transform the sunny town of Lienz into a large open-air cultural arena on the last days of July, enchanting passers-by into curious observers and transforming everyday life into a sensual cultural experience. Always on the lookout for something new, the festival combines elements from art, theatre and circus and thus presents new contemporary forms of performative staging.

 

Whimsical, poetically enchanting, uproariously funny, breathtaking - a few keywords that describe the festival pretty well.

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Drei Seilartistinnen beeindrucken das Publikum am Olala 2025 mit spannenden Akrobatikinszenierungen am Lienzer Hauptplatz.
The artists of ‘Wise Fools’ from Finland and South Africa impress with their artistic acrobatics at lofty heights.
Drei Seilakrobatik-Künstlerinnen hängen in einer Formation mehrere Meter über dem Lienzer Hauptplatz bei Olala 2025.
The ‘Wise Fools’ perform with great joy and elegance at Olala in Lienz.
Drei Artistinnen am Olala 2025, zwei davon hüllen die dritte in dicke Winterkleidung, rundherum stehen und sitzen begeisterte Zuseherinnen und Zuseher.
Wrapped up warm in the middle of summer? The acrobats bring winter to Olala.
Die Menschenmenge bei Olala 2025 am Lienzer Hauptplatz klatscht begeistert in die Hände.
The audience applauds the performances at the Olala street theatre.
Ein riesiger, organgefarbener Papagei des Theatro Pavana stolziert bei Olala am Lienzer Hauptplatz umher.
The artists of Teatro Pavana impress with their proud dances as colourful ‘Pappagalli’.
Ein großer Papagei in türkisem Kunstfederkleid schwingt seine großen Flügel inmitten des begeisterten Publikums bei Olala in Lienz.
Young and old alike are thrilled by the colourful ‘Pappagalli’.
Drei Artisten turnen auf, in bzw. vor einer großen Spirale aus Eisen am Lienzer Hauptplatz im Rahmen von Olala 2025. Sie werden vom begeisterten Publikum rundherum bestaunt.
The three artists of the Tea Time Company perform in flowing movements around an oversized spiral.
Zwei Akrobaten von The Tea Time Company turnen im Rahmen von Olala auf einer großen Spirale aus Eisen im Kreis am Lienzer Hauptplatz. Viele Schaulustige sind hier am Lienzer Hauptplatz, um sich das Spektakel anzusehen.
Daring stunts challenge the balance of the Tea Time Company on Lienz's main square.
Drei Seilartistinnen beeindrucken das Publikum am Olala 2025 mit spannenden Akrobatikinszenierungen am Lienzer Hauptplatz.
The artists of ‘Wise Fools’ from Finland and South Africa impress with their artistic acrobatics at lofty heights.
Drei Seilakrobatik-Künstlerinnen hängen in einer Formation mehrere Meter über dem Lienzer Hauptplatz bei Olala 2025.
The ‘Wise Fools’ perform with great joy and elegance at Olala in Lienz.
Drei Artistinnen am Olala 2025, zwei davon hüllen die dritte in dicke Winterkleidung, rundherum stehen und sitzen begeisterte Zuseherinnen und Zuseher.
Wrapped up warm in the middle of summer? The acrobats bring winter to Olala.
Die Menschenmenge bei Olala 2025 am Lienzer Hauptplatz klatscht begeistert in die Hände.
The audience applauds the performances at the Olala street theatre.
Ein riesiger, organgefarbener Papagei des Theatro Pavana stolziert bei Olala am Lienzer Hauptplatz umher.
The artists of Teatro Pavana impress with their proud dances as colourful ‘Pappagalli’.
Ein großer Papagei in türkisem Kunstfederkleid schwingt seine großen Flügel inmitten des begeisterten Publikums bei Olala in Lienz.
Young and old alike are thrilled by the colourful ‘Pappagalli’.
Drei Artisten turnen auf, in bzw. vor einer großen Spirale aus Eisen am Lienzer Hauptplatz im Rahmen von Olala 2025. Sie werden vom begeisterten Publikum rundherum bestaunt.
The three artists of the Tea Time Company perform in flowing movements around an oversized spiral.
Zwei Akrobaten von The Tea Time Company turnen im Rahmen von Olala auf einer großen Spirale aus Eisen im Kreis am Lienzer Hauptplatz. Viele Schaulustige sind hier am Lienzer Hauptplatz, um sich das Spektakel anzusehen.
Daring stunts challenge the balance of the Tea Time Company on Lienz's main square.
Drei Seilartistinnen beeindrucken das Publikum am Olala 2025 mit spannenden Akrobatikinszenierungen am Lienzer Hauptplatz.
The artists of ‘Wise Fools’ from Finland and South Africa impress with their artistic acrobatics at lofty heights.
Drei Seilakrobatik-Künstlerinnen hängen in einer Formation mehrere Meter über dem Lienzer Hauptplatz bei Olala 2025.
The ‘Wise Fools’ perform with great joy and elegance at Olala in Lienz.
Drei Artistinnen am Olala 2025, zwei davon hüllen die dritte in dicke Winterkleidung, rundherum stehen und sitzen begeisterte Zuseherinnen und Zuseher.
Wrapped up warm in the middle of summer? The acrobats bring winter to Olala.
Die Menschenmenge bei Olala 2025 am Lienzer Hauptplatz klatscht begeistert in die Hände.
The audience applauds the performances at the Olala street theatre.
Ein riesiger, organgefarbener Papagei des Theatro Pavana stolziert bei Olala am Lienzer Hauptplatz umher.
The artists of Teatro Pavana impress with their proud dances as colourful ‘Pappagalli’.
Ein großer Papagei in türkisem Kunstfederkleid schwingt seine großen Flügel inmitten des begeisterten Publikums bei Olala in Lienz.
Young and old alike are thrilled by the colourful ‘Pappagalli’.
Drei Artisten turnen auf, in bzw. vor einer großen Spirale aus Eisen am Lienzer Hauptplatz im Rahmen von Olala 2025. Sie werden vom begeisterten Publikum rundherum bestaunt.
The three artists of the Tea Time Company perform in flowing movements around an oversized spiral.
Zwei Akrobaten von The Tea Time Company turnen im Rahmen von Olala auf einer großen Spirale aus Eisen im Kreis am Lienzer Hauptplatz. Viele Schaulustige sind hier am Lienzer Hauptplatz, um sich das Spektakel anzusehen.
Daring stunts challenge the balance of the Tea Time Company on Lienz's main square.

Olala - what a theater

A lively hustle and bustle prevails every year in the city center of Lienz, one could almost describe it as restless and excited. Austrian dialect mixes with languages from all parts of the world, a teeming of voices, accents, laughter. Olala is what it's called, Osttirol's street festival. Every year all the artists, performers and onlookers come together to celebrate. To laugh. To marvel. Olala - an exclamation of admiration.

An unconventional circus

Unconventional, innovative, somewhere even anarchistic. Olala breaks the rules - the unspoken rules of living together, the rules of behavior, the rules of attitude. In fact, the artists set their own rules, without overstepping the boundaries of togetherness. Above all, it is about taking the citizens out of their comfort zone , opening their eyes to the joys of everyday life. To get them away from the doctrine of restraint and to bring the circus to the people. This is how they come together, people from all countries, from all cultures, from all professions. The artists manifest their openness and carefreeness and project this attitude towards life onto the audience. Here, no one cares about superficiality or outward appearances. Much more, the commonality and the fun of the music and the performances are in the foreground.

Seeing the art in people

Olala is more than a colorful circus, more than quantitative art. It is a breaking down of norms, a lot of social criticism, lovingly packed into breathtaking performances and memorable displays. No compulsion, but still an incentive to think. For what would art be if it were not also critical, loud, colorful? And yet Olala is different. The street festival gives life, feelings and empathy to the substance of art. Unlike painting on a piece of paper or forming sculptures, the dichotomy between art and man in the theater is non-existent at Olala. Man is art, art is man.

Kulturverein UmmiGummi
Elisa Mutschlechner
9900 Lienz
T. +43 699 12264200
info@ummigummi.at
www.olala.at
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