Final show in Italy

As a results of the theatre labs activated at school, a final show concerning a parody of the famous book "I Promessi Sposi", was prepared by Italian students with the cooperation of families and grandparents and shown at the end of the school year in June 2014.

Students plan a public square by creating stopmotion films

In the last couple of weeks Austrian have students created stop-motion films in order to present their results for the creation and design of a new public square in Judenburg. Students have produced the most different plans how the present square could be redesigned. Then they created model squares and produced short film presentations using iPads and Apps. The model squares were created by the students themselves and of each step a picture was made with the App „Stopmotion“. Each stopmotion film consisted of 100 – 200 pictures. On the iPads and on computers all films were cut and joined and music was added. Finally all films were shown at school.

The link to the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_bjAwMZI1M&feature=youtu.be

Students participate in a local improvising circus

Teachers and students started the project in February 2014 and organised an introductory course with the artist Stefan Demming. First they visited the workshop of the artist where the students collected first impressions and experience in the artists ideas of the circus. Then the students started to work on a show and were finally invited to join the presentation at the circus on in May 2014. The students prepared different shows and performanced in which they could let their feelings and improvisations a free flow. Finally the shows took place in May. 

 

Austrian Artists  

Johann Strauss 

Johann Strauss, often referred to as Johann Strauss II, was born on October 25, 1825, in Vienna, Austria. His father, Johann Strauss the Elder, was a self-taught musician who established a musical dynasty in Vienna, writing waltzes, galops, polkas and quadrilles and publishing more than 250 works. Johann the Younger went on to write more than 500 musical musical compositions, 150 of which were waltzes, and he surpassed both his father's productivity and popularity. Compositions such as The Blue Danube helped establish Strauss as "the Waltz King" and earned hi

m a place in music history. He died in Vienna in June 1899.

Strauss began composing for the Vienna Men's Choral Association in 1847. His father died two years later, prompting him to conflate his own and his father's orchestras, after which he mounted a successful career. In 1853, Strauss fell ill, and his younger brother, Josef, took control of the orchestra for six months. After recovering, he dove back into conducting and composing activities—a pursuit that proved to be stronger than ever, gaining the eventual attention of such luminaries as Verdi, Brahms and Wagner.

An der schönen blauen Donau (The Blue Danube; 1867) would be the piece that defined Strauss to the listening public, and the work still resonates 150 years later. Other Strauss waltzes include Morgenblätter (Morning Papers; 1864), Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods; 1868) and Wein, Weib und Gesang (Wine, Women and Song; 1869).

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart was born in Salzburg to a musical family. From an early age, the young Mozart showed all the signs of a prodigious musical talent. By the age of 5 he could read and write music, and he would entertain people with his talents on the keyboard. By the age of 6 he was writing his first compositions. Mozart was generally considered to be a rare musical genius, though Mozart said that he was diligent in studying other great composers such as Haydn and Bach.

During his childhood, he would frequently tour various palaces around Europe playing for distinguished guests. Aged 17, he accepted a post as a court musician in Salzburg; although this did not suit him very well, the next few years were a time of prolific composition. In 1781, he moved permanently to Vienna where he stayed for remainder of his life. In Vienna, he became well known and was often in demand as a composer and performer.

However, despite his relative fame and renown he struggled to manage his finances and moved between periods of poverty and prosperity. This difficulty was enhanced when, in 1786, Austria was involved in a war which led to lower demand for musicians. In 1782, he married against the wishes of his family; he had 6 children but only 2 survived infancy.

The work of Mozart is epic in scope and proportion. There were few branches of music Mozart did not touch. He composed operas, symphonies, concertos, and single pieces for the piano. His work spanned from joyful lighthearted pieces to powerful, challenging compositions which touched the human emotions. In the beginning of his career, Mozart had a powerful ability to learn and remember from the music he heard from others. He was able to incorporate the style and music of people such as Haydn and J.C. Bach. But, as he matured he developed his very own style and interpretations. In turn the music of Mozart very much influenced the early Beethoven

Mozart was brought up a Roman Catholic and remained a member of the church throughout his life.

Some of his greatest works are religious in nature such as ‘Ave Verum Corpus’ and the final Requiem. Mozart was very productive until his untimely death in 1791, aged 35.

In the last year of his life, he composed the opera The Magic Flute, the final piano concerto (K. 595 in B-flat), the Clarinet Concerto K. 622, a string quintets (K. 614 in E-flat), the famous motet Ave verum corpus K. 618, and the unfinished final Requiem K. 626.

Falco

Falco was the most internationally successful pop artist ever to come out of Austria, best known for his 1986 chart-topping hit "Rock Me Amadeus." Born Johann Holzel in Vienna on February 19, 1957, he was a classically trained child prodigy, but after graduating from the Vienna Conservatoire, he relocated to West Berlin and began fronting a jazz-rock band. Rechristening himself Falco in honor of the German skier Falko Weissflog, he returned to Vienna in time to play bass on the punk outfit Drahdiwaberl's 1979 album Psycho Today, penning their best-known song, "Ganz Wein." Falco began his solo career in 1982 with the LP Einzelhaft; his "Der Kommissar," which fused techno-pop with rapped German lyrics, became a major European hit and a club favorite in the U.S., with a cover version by the group After the Fire reaching the Top Five in 1983. The follow-up, "Jeanny," was banned outright by radio as a result of its theme of prostitution, but nevertheless went on to top the German charts. While 1984's Junge Roemer attracted little attention, in 1986 Falco issued Falco 3, highlighted by the single "Rock Me Amadeus," a campy blend of classical music and synth pop which topped both the American and British charts. While the rock ballad "Vienna Calling" was a minor hit, Falco's subsequent efforts, including 1986's Emotional and 1988's Wiener Blut, fared poorly; he had been long out of the spotlight when he died in a car accident on February 6, 1998 at the age of 40.

Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was one of the most innovative and controversial artists of the early twentieth century. The son of an engraver, he studied at the State School of Applied Arts in Vienna. In the 1880s and 1890s he produced murals for public buildings -- including Vienna's Burgtheater and new Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum) -- in the prevailing classical-realist style. Klimt's style grew increasingly experimental, however, and his murals for Vienna University, commissioned by the State in 1894, were roundly attacked by critics for their fantastical imagery and their bold, decorative style. Partly in response to this reaction, in 1897 Klimt helped form the Secession, a group of artists dedicated to challenging the conservative Academy of Fine Arts. Influenced by European avant-garde movements represented in the annual Secession exhibitions, Klimt's mature style combined richly decorative surface patterning with complex symbolism and allegory, often with overtly erotic content.

After 1900 he concentrated on portraits and landscapes, although he also produced two of his greatest murals during this period -- The Beethoven Frieze, exhibited at the Secession in 1902, and decorations for the Palais Stoclet in Brussels (1904-1911). Klimt spent most of his summers on the Attersee, near Salzburg, where he drew inspiration for many of his landscapes, and where he painted some of his best-known works, including The Kiss of 1907-8

Students create pictures and a school-art-gallery

Students of the BG/BRG Judenburg went on the mission to decorate our school. Many walls had been empty and had been covered with many pictures in vivid colours. Through the decoration of the walls students enlarged their horizon on realation to arts and studied new methods to paint. But also techniques for craftship were developed because they created their own frames.

The results were the following:

In the entrance hall a picture called „Cross-linking“ was created and a picture galery in the adjacent school building was installed.

 

Activities in Denmark during the project

Final Show

In april the final show took place during the Comenius visit in Denmark. During the day all students participated in work shop learning about the famous vocal group Postyr Project. Two of the members of the group, Anders and Kristoffer taught the students techniques, their ideas of the music and finally the students learned a song which they perfomed at nigth together with Postyr Project for families, friends, grandparents and other guests from Aalborg.

Decoration

During Christmas 2013 the Danish students worked with decoration of cupcakes. The cupcakes were handed out to the older peoples homes in the nearby neighbourhood.

Andy Warhol Workshop

During february 2013 the Danish students worked the tecniques of the American artist Andy Warhol to make their own self portraits. 

Graphic Novels

The Danish students worked in november 2012 with graphic novels - "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi and "Maus" by Art Spiegelman was the inspiration to make a scene from their own graphic novel.

The Danish Artists

The Danish writer H.C. Andersen

H.C. Andersen was Denmark's most famous writer. He wrote all from fairy tales, to poems. He is mostly known for his fairy tales especially for ‘’The Ugly Duckling’’, “The Princess And The Pea’’ and “The little mermaid” . Hans Christian Andersen was born the second of april 1805 in Odense in the poor part of the city. He died of liver cancer, in Copenhagen in 1875 at the age of 70.

If you want to read one of his stories: 

The Little Match Girl

.The Danish Actor

Mads Dittmann Mikkelsen is born on November 22, 1965. He is a Danish actor. Originally a gymnast and a dancer, he began his career as an actor in 1996. He rose to fame in Denmark as Tonny the drug dealer in the first two films of the “Pusher film trilogy.”

Mads Mikkelsen became more widely known internationally for his role as Tristan in Jerry Bruckheimer’s production "King Arthur" which was in 2004. But he is best known worldwide for playing the main antagonist Le Chiffre in the twenty-first James Bond Film, Casino Royale (2006)

Video mads mikkelsen

The Danish Singer Christopher

His full name is Christopher Lund Nissen. He is originally from a place called Amager, close to the Capital of Denmark; Copenhagen. He is 22 years old and very popular - especially girls are very occupied with him.

He is a singer and a songwriter. He have dated another danish pop singer Medina who is in Denmark called the danish pop queen, but they broke up about 3

months ago. Before he made his big hit; against the odds, he made a cover version of Robyns

hit; “Call your Girlfriend”. It was actually one of his friends who made him visit different record companies, that became the start of his career. His debut single was “Against the odds” it was released in September 2011, reaching number 23 on the Danish Singles Chart. We are now going to listen a bit of the song; Against the odds.

He published his debut album: “Colors” in 2012, the album got 5 stars and won the award The Voice price. 

Last year in april is was Christopher who sang before Justin Bieber at a sold out concert in Copenhagen.

In 2013 at Danish Music award Christopher sang his hit “Told you so” after the show he got compared to the world know pop singer Justin Timberlake. So you can compare the two singers