always Wednesdays 1 - 6 pm

In the summer of 1936, the festival play "Bi ös im Appezöllerlendli" was performed over five days in a specially built festival hut in Appenzell. Several thousand people traveled to see around three hundred people from the village dancing, singing and telling mythical stories on stage to create a self-image of rural life. The play had two scenes, which were interrupted by a brief artificial thunderstorm. Two landscape paintings by the young artist Carl Walter Liner (1914-1997), which are on permanent loan from the Appenzell Male Choir in the collection of the Heinrich Gebert Kulturstiftung Appenzell, served as an alternating backdrop. The exhibition sheds light on this moment and reconstructs the large-format backdrop paintings into an open stage space.


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