Bregenz
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The annual summer music festival Bregenzer Festspiele
Bregenzer Festspiele
Bregenzer Festspiele is a performing arts festival which is held every July and August in Bregenz, Austria.Founded in 1946, the festival presents a wide variety of musical and theatrical events in several venues:...

is a world-famous festival which takes place on and around a stage on Lake Constance, where a different opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

 is performed every second year.

Sport

  • A1 Bregenz HB is a handball
    Team handball
    Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

     team.
  • SC Bregenz
    SC Bregenz
    SC Bregenz is an Austrian association football club from Austria, based in the town of Bregenz, which was founded in 1919. They play their home games at the Casino Stadium. They currently participate in the Austrian Regional League...

     is the football team of the town, competing in the Austrian Regional League (Third Division).

Personalities

  • Hans-Peter Martin
    Hans-Peter Martin
    Hans-Peter Martin is an Austrian journalist and politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 1999.Born in Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Martin worked for the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel...

     - member of the European Parliament
    Member of the European Parliament
    A Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...

  • Sieghardt Rupp
    Sieghardt Rupp
    Sieghardt Rupp is an Austrian actor who has performed in film and television and later theatre....

     (1931-) -actor
  • Stefan Sagmeister
    Stefan Sagmeister
    Stefan Sagmeister is a New York-based graphic designer and typographer. He has his own design firm—Sagmeister Inc.—in New York City. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Aerosmith and Pat Metheny.-Biography:Sagmeister studied graphic design at the...

     - Graphic designer
    Graphic designer
    A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...

  • Karl Michael Vogler
    Karl Michael Vogler
    Karl Michael Vogler was a German actor probably best known for his appearances in several big-budget English-language films of the 1960s and 1970s, including The Blue Max where he co-starred with George Peppard and Ursula Andress followed a few years later by Patton, in which he portrayed Erwin...

     - actor (Patton
    Patton (film)
    Patton is a 1970 American biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, and Karl Michael Vogler. It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a script by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H...

    ) - was raised in Bregenz
  • İlber Ortaylı
    Ilber Ortayli
    İlber Ortaylı , is a leading Turkish historian, professor of history at the Galatasaray University in Istanbul and at Bilkent University in Ankara...

    (* 1947) - Turkish historian - was born in Bregenz

External links

  • http://www.fw.bregenz.at/vkl Official site in German
  • http://www.bregenz.at Official site (in German)
  • http://www.pfaender.at Official site (German/English/Italiano/Francais) of the Pfänder Mountain
  • http://www.pfaenderbahn.at (in German)
  • http://www.scbregenz.at Official site (in German) of local Football Club
  • Bregenzer Festspiele/ Bregenze Festival website
  • Bregenz Tourism Information
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