Category Archives: Ball 2025

Ticket sales start for #SciBall25

Ball 2025
These happy people look as if they have already secured their tickets! ©Romar Ferry

Edit: 6 Dec 2024: Student tickets are sold out.

Ticket sales have been online since Monday, 11 November. “The good news: All systems are running smoothly. The homepage and web shop work perfectly. The even better news: Demand is enormous. We have seen a particularly high level of interest from guests who signed up for the newsletter and were thus informed in advance,” says ball organizer Oliver Lehmann, summing up the first 48 hours of sales. To sign up for the newsletter, simply send an email to ball@wissenschaftsball.at with the subject “Ball Info”. Tickets for the anniversary ball can be booked at www.wissenschaftsball.at/shop/. Prices: €120 for regular tickets, €40 for students. Tables can also be booked in the shop for the time being. Continue reading Ticket sales start for #SciBall25 →

Maja Göpel gives Vienna Lecture on Science Communication

Ball 2025
© Anja Weber

As an organizing committee, we believe it is important to address the relevance of science communication beyond the ball evening. That is why we have designed the Vienna Lecture on Science Communication together with the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

This season, the renowned German political and media scientist Maja Göpel will give a lecture on the need for good science communication, especially in challenging times. Participation on Friday, January 24, 2025, at the Academy of Sciences is free, registration is required, and tickets will be allocated in the order in which registrations are received: www.wissenschaftsball.at/vienna-lecture-25/. Please note that the lecture will be in German only. Continue reading Maja Göpel gives Vienna Lecture on Science Communication →

US media rave about the ball

Ball 2025, General

Author Jessi Jezewska Stevens visited three Viennese balls last season for the magazines Foreign Policy and The Dial. She was particularly taken with the Science Ball. Here’s an excerpt:

“The Vienna ‘ball season refracts the flamboyant anachronisms of a region in transition. Dozens of guests and former debutantes (…) described the events to me in terms of glorious contradiction. The balls, I was told, are elegant, tacky, rarified, intimidating, democratic, elite, ironic, gorgeous, decadent, tiresome, astonishing; they are both political and apolitical, accessible and inaccessible, international and decidedly Viennese.'”