Stefan Herheim, director of the Musiktheater an der Wien (TaW), calls for more “expertise” and less “signal politics” from politicians. “Especially in Vienna, where every euro invested in culture comes back threefold, hasty savings decisions will cast a long shadow,” he said in one Delivery man-Interview with a view to the City of Vienna’s subsidy cut for the United Theaters Vienna (VBW) of five million euros for 2026.
