Facts and Figures

Legal form of company

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

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
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: 6.980
Festspielhaus, Great Hall: 1.656
Workshop Theatre: 1.563
Lake Foyer: 168
Lake Studio: 330
Park Studio: 220
Vorarlberger Landestheater: 502
Kunsthaus Bregenz: 150
Theater Kosmos: 148
total: 11.717

The Bregenz Festival would like to thank its sponsors