General information

The Bregenz Festival:
Facts and figures

(Figures given per year as a rounded
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, member of the board

Sabine Haag – vice-chair of the board, member of the board

Michael Grahammer – member of the board

Chief executives

Lilli Paasikivi (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: 6.722
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: 150

total: 11.497

Sponsors

The sponsors of the Bregenzer Festspiele