Facts and Figures 2024

of Bregenz Festival

(Figures given are for one year as a rounded-off average of the past five festival seasons)

Legal form of company

non-profit-making organisation with limited liability (gGmbH)

Shareholder

Bregenz Festival private foundation

Board

Hans-Peter Metzler – president
Verena Brunner-Loss – vice-chair of the board
Wilhelm Muzyczyn – vice-chair of the board (mandate suspended)
Michael Grahammer, Sabine Haag – members of the board

Chief executives

Elisabeth Sobotka (artistic director)
Michael Diem (commercial director)

Total personnel

1,500 people

Annual budget

27 million euros
of which public subsidies: 6,94 million euros
of which funds from sponsors and donors: 1.3 million euros

Subsidies from

40 % Republic of Austria, 35 % federal state of Vorarlberg, 25 % municipality of Bregenz

Visitors to the Lake Stage show (basis: visitor survey 2019, n=14.000)

63 % Germany
23 % Austria
11 % Switzerland/Liechtenstein
3 % other

Seating capacity - Maximum no. of seats (actual no. may differ)

Lake Stage: 6.719
Festspielhaus, Great Hall: 1.656
Workshop Theatre: 1.563
Lake Foyer: 204
Lake Studio: 330
Park Studio: 220
Vorarlberger Landestheater: 502
Kunsthaus Bregenz: 150
Theater Kosmos: 148
total: 11.492

The Bregenz Festival would like to thank its sponsors

21.11.2016

Tribüne - allgemein

© Anja Köhler
14.11.2014

Seetribüne mit Publikum

© Bregenzer Festspiele / Anja Köhler
02.12.2013

Festspielhaus Bregenz mit Seetribüne

© Bregenzer Festspiele / Anja Köhler
20.08.2013

Die Zauberflöte - Tribüne

© Bregenzer Festspiele / atelier pi
20.08.2013

Die Zauberflöte - Vorplatz vor Beginn der Oper

© Bregenzer Festspiele / atelier pi
19.08.2013

Die Zauberflöte - Überblick Seebühne

© Bregenzer Festspiele / Achim Mende
29.11.2012

Publikum auf der Seebühne

© Bregenzer Festspiele / pigrafik
18.08.2012

Bregenzer Festspiele von oben

© Bregenzer Festspiele / andereart
17.08.2012

Zeppelin über Festspielhaus

© Bregenzer Festspiele / Dietmar Mathis
23.06.2009

Publikum auf der Seebühne

© Bregenzer Festspiele / Markus Tretter