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The ball team uses its Christmas party at the excellent Ludwig & Adele to inspect the pop-up ball office in Vienna’s Stadtkino (open from 8 January 2024). In a festive mood from left to right: Martin Mühl (Monopol Verlag), Chiara Joos (Ball Editor), Claudia Spitz and Emilie Kleinszig (Producers), Petra Eckhart (Ball Management), Thomas Pani (Web Management) and Oliver Lehmann (Ball Organizer). We wish you happy holidays!
Photo: Roland Ferrigato
The excitement is great, as is the interest: tickets for the 9th Vienna Ball of Sciences on 27 January 2024 are now available in the webshop.
The Chairman of the Ball Committee, Oliver Lehmann, recorded extremely high interest even before tickets went on sale, both from Austria and abroad. Tickets can be booked immediately at https://www.wissenschaftsball.at/shop/. The prices: € 100 for regular tickets, € 40 for students. Tables and boxes can also be booked at https://www.wissenschaftsball.at/shop/.
Lehmann: “What was apparent last year has been confirmed again this season: interest in the Science Ball is extremely high. Even before tickets went on sale, we were flooded with enquiries! The Science Ball represents the diversity, size and excellence of the universities, universities of applied sciences, private universities and research institutions in the greater Vienna area.”
The programme in the ballrooms on the Beletage and – for the first time since 2020 – also in the Volkshalle of the town hall presents a stimulating mix of amazing scientific presentations, surprising tastings and music ranging from waltzes and jazz to soul and tango, including the opening committee and midnight quadrille. Thanks to the commitment of the 400 orchestra and band musicians, dancers, event technicians and catering staff, the Science Ball makes a significant contribution to Vienna’s cultural and event scene.
Lehmann: “Music from all genres, from waltz to swing, world and tango to hip hop, awaits you on five stages from 8.00 pm to 4.00 am. Presentations from the world of science will transform the town hall into an open-plan laboratory of enlightened pleasure.”
Once again, the rectors, presidents and heads of all Viennese universities, private universities, universities of applied sciences as well as the Austrian Academy of Sciences, IIASA, ISTA and WPI will form the committee of honour, underlining the relevance of Vienna as the most important university and research location in Central Europe. Highlights of the programme will be announced over the coming weeks, as will the ball ambassadors from science, business, culture and society.
The marketing activities for the ball are now in full swing.
The main source of information is the website www.wissenschaftsball.at and the social media channels @SciBall.
Free photos of the Ball 2023 for download
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Oliver Lehmann, ball organiser
E-mail: lehmann@wissenschaftsball.at
Homepage: www.wissenschaftsball.at
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok: @SciBall
So here it is: The ball video including interviews and all highlights in just under 4 minutes. Enjoy and theank you for coming!
At the beginning of the evening, the Red Carpet was the meeting place for members of the the Honorary Committee and other stakeholders, whose support and advocacy is vital for the realisiation of the Science Ball. Thank you very much!
A first batch of pix from last Saturday is online now, ready for (payable) download. More pix to follow asap. Stay tuned!
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When Ethel Merhaut talks about music, you can feel her passion. At #SciBall23, Ethel will be performing the midnight extravaganza together with the Divertimento Viennese ball orchestra. Continue reading Ethel Merhaut
Undoubtedly, an emotional highlight of the midnight extravaganza: Europe’s anthem, the “Ode to Joy” from Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, as a sing-along modeled on the Last Night of the Proms. Here are the lyrics. Do give it a try! Continue reading Ode to Joy
“We students are delighted that after difficult years of pandemic-related break, the Vienna Ball of Sciences can finally take place again. Especially in times like these, the Science Ball has an even more fundamental role than in previous years. While the status of universities and students is currently being renegotiated politically, anti-scientific attacks and tendencies are on the rise at the same time.
So when, if not now, is it fitting and necessary to dedicate an evening of joy, celebration, and affirmation to science? Let’s celebrate science together – to vigorously defend its freedom and importance today as well as tomorrow.”
Keya Baier is the chairwoman of the federal representation of the Austrian National Union of Students (ÖH). She studies political science and economics at the University of Vienna and ran as the top candidate for the Greens and Alternative Students in the 2021 election. Before, she was chairwoman of the ÖH at the University of Salzburg.
He was one of the very first supporters of the Science Ball – and has been a regular ever since! Today, he has received the well-deserved Nobel Prize for Physics 2022. We are very happy for him and we are looking forward to his visit to the Science Ball 2023 on 28 January 2023! Here is his ball message from December 2014:
“What would Vienna be without its balls? Definitely not Vienna. To have ‘one’s’ ball in this city means to play a visible role in the life and self-perception of the city. The sciences and research have long played a significant role. Now they are also visible in the ball calendar, alongside the traditional balls of Viennese universities. Seen in this light, the Vienna Ball of the Sciences is actually long overdue. It is good that it now exists.”
o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. DDr. h.c. Anton Zeilinger, President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Photo by Jacqueline Godany
Photo by Jacqueline Godany