Literaturhaus Salzburg
The Literaturhaus Salzburg is a meeting-place, venue and seat of six literary institutions. Its events include the crime thriller festival peng! and programmes for children aged 5 upwards.
After Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Vienna, the Literaturhaus Salzburg is the fifth of its kind to open. The Trägerverein [sponsoring group], founded in 1991, together with five autonomous literary societies and writers' groups, established themselves in the 400-year-old protected Eizenbergerhof. Besides the function rooms, the building houses a library and a small café named "h.c.café" after the poet and writer H. C. Artmann.
Besides the wide-ranging programme for children, young people and adults, the Literaturhaus organises the crime thriller festival peng!, which has brought top-ranking writers to Salzburg annually since 2009. As part of the network of German speaking literary institutions, it also co-operates with the TV channel Arte.
