Until 2 years ago the Radical Faerie Movement did not come to Austria and the countries of Central Europe such as Czechia, Slovakia or Hungary. And this had a reason: Austria, a neutral country in the heart of Europe between the western and the eastern hemisphere was a rather catholic and conservative country like Italy and Spain, had a very bureaucratic system with thinking in clichés, categories and dogmas. Austria is a country where freedom and the respect of the other as he is do not have the highest value. That is also why gays and lesbians always had to hide for a long time. The legal equality came very late. And the countries east of Austria where behind the iron curtain for more than 30 years and they had other aims to reach than living in faerie spirit after the opening of the borders in 1989. Austria had historically been an important mediating function and provided always the spirit of prosperity and the upturn into the eastern countries.

But faerie energy never reached and manifested in Austria till 2008. It was coincidence that I got into contact with a man in Northern California via internet who invited me to come to Wolf Creek in Oregon and at the same time a friend in Berlin insisted that I should come to the first Wannsee Gathering in Berlin because “they also needed some Austrian charm” there as he explained. And as I entered this space it was for me like coming home to my real world, full of freedom, love and respect, the place I was searching my whole life and that I missed so much in Austria. I discovered that Faeries from all over the world loved the idea of having a gathering in Austria one day, the land of “Sound of Music”, Freud and the most beautiful landscape. For many years I felt like being the only Faerie in Central Europe as Faeries normally lead a secret life and do not come out as such. I only knew that there had to exist more Faeries like me.

After 4 years of experiencing a lot of faerie gatherings around the world and finding my partner Red Rose we were ready to organize the first Austrian Gathering under the condition that we would find the ideal space in Austria, which was not so easy to find. But finally, after we have reviewed over 50 local offers we have found the perfect place in the Alps near Salzburg. In order to give the Austrians and the neighbouring countries the chance to take part at this unique gathering our dream was to bring the whole faerie movement to Austria and the central European countries. But how could our dream become true in a quick and effective way? We were all totally beginners in everything that had anything to do with marketing.   

A group of friends in Austria created folders, posters, a Eurofaeries Austria Website and a Facebook Group “Austrian Faeries” and we decided to take part at the  Vienna Pride week and the “Rainbow parade” 2012.  I also created regular Newsletters for the Austrian Faeries. And these were my experiences from this remarkable week:

“The Eurofaeries have made their first appearance at the fringes of mainstream gay life in Austria – and at Vienna Pride on City Hall Square, no less – the most public place in Vienna, where the Lifeball – the biggest charity event fighting Aids and HIV in Europe is also traditionally held.

The public reaction was surprisingly positive. Most stopped briefly to gaze curiously, wondering whether they had read it right … “Radical Faeries”? – They had never read anything like that before. A lot of people checked us out from a distance – building a spontaneous, superficial opinion about who they thought we might be: a “travel agency” or a “partner club”, punks, hippies, transvestites, a sect, an artist group, “radicals” or simply “three stupid sissies”.

The Eurofaerie’s tent was different from the other conventional groups if not simply because of the altar made of simple gold fabric with the words “freedom, love, respect the faerie in you and in others”.

The ones who gave in to their curiosity and entered our tent for more information and to have a look at all the photos soon had a spark in their eyes. “There’s something about the faerie concept, you are a really dedicated group, a great stand!” The history of the faeries and why we are called faeries got many people thinking.

The thing the Austrian Faeries most wanted here was to give potential Austrian faeries the chance to discover themselves and other Faeries, to network among each other, to meet and say for once: we really exist! It is very important to us to have a safe, trusted place, to create a “Faerie space” where everyone can develop his or her unique self – which naturally can’t be where the public and the media are. But when the radio broadcaster FM4 interviewed us about what the Faeries really are that was OK.

We thought it was a very positive sign that Vienna’s Deputy Mayor from the Austrian Green Party visited us and listened to us openly. We told her that we thought the reason why the faerie movement hadn’t made its way to Austria yet is because respecting the individuality or otherness of other people is not really anchored in the collective consciousness of most Austrians. The word “radical” also confused a lot of people, since it actually has negative connotations in everyday use – but the faeries use it more like the Latin “radix”, which means from the root or origin.

We were struck by the superficiality of many people who walked by, who put anything unknown, like the faeries, into a box, without being willing to delve into its origin. This concept that “Outward appearance is the only thing that matters” is still far too prevalent in Austria. If you don’t fit into a “box”, especially most of the media outlets will immediately cancel out. But we still met a few really nice and open people, a few of whom even said they were actually faeries, too.

We think it was a good start and a good showing of the faeries in Austria. We moved something in the minds of the people, made contacts, and started something new in the community.

WE ARE PROUD TO BE THE FIRST AUSTRIAN FAERIES!

The Austrian Eurofaeries also participated in the Rainbow Parade around Vienna’s Ringstraße as a small group for the first time. We specially thanked the extremely friendly Cubans, who permitted us to march behind their vehicle!

We gazed into thousands of clicking cameras and believe that our simple and friendly appearance without any delusions of stardom allowed us to win over the hearts of many viewers. We also thought it was great when 50 to 100 young people stepped in behind our “Radical Faeries” banner near the Parliament and marched with us.

To sum it up: The faeries showed their true colors in Vienna. Now also Austria knows that we exist!”

At the Vienna Pride I also met El and she brought me to her garden and when I visited this marvelous wood at the border to Czechia, we both had the vision of creating a new faerie sanctuary in Austria specifically for the faeries in Austria, Central and Eastern Europe. Here is a creative paradise and we are all of good cheer, to create a true Faerie Space for the future here.

In Vienna we also celebrate the festival of EQUINOX in autumn and sometimes in spring as a combination of spirit, art and entertainment party bringing the idea of the “No talent Shows” to Central Europe.

In 2013 our participation at the Vienna Pride in June 2013 was an even greater success for the Radical Faerie movement. We were established not only right next to the big tent of the Austrian Green Party in the middle of the Heldenplatz, but we also made friendship with the Homosexual Initiative – “Hosi Vienna” – the most important political representation of lesbians and gays in Austria, with whom we shared the tent and brought us a lot of attention by the daily visitors.
Bastian had the idea that all visitors of our tent could help to shape our Faerie Creative altar for the Rainbow Parade and this idea was very well received – especially by the children who could let their imaginations run wild when decorating.
Then we also officially signed up as the first Radical Faerie community in Europe with a start number for a CSD parade. … And the response was tremendous!
We all have probably experienced never before so much love, laughter and admiring recognition of tens of thousands of Viennese and tourists. Some of the organizers also said that without us the rainbow parade would not have been so fabulous because we were all so „photogenic”. Many also were thrilled that we have brought over so much of our Spirit with incense and the procession with the wonderfully creative decorated altar.
In this 6 days of holding tireless position in our tent we have met wonderful new people who have given us strength and energy to continue and accompany us on our journey „bringing the Faerie Movement to Austria, Central and Eastern Europe“.

After this participation the official queer Vienna was fully behind us. The QWien “The Viennese Center for gay / lesbian culture and history” added the Radical Faerie movement to the queer history of Vienna and the local government of Vienna accepted to support financially a documentary film project of the university about the beginning of the Faerie Movement in Austria with € 3000. This short documentary will be presented in queer film festivals all around the world in the next years.

 

In summer 2013 there were both temporary and a new permanent manifestations of faerie love in Austria. Europe is about to be home to a second faerie sanctuary, 8 years after the inauguration of Folleterre in the Vosges mountains of north eastern France, came the Kissing Awake of Wienviertel Sanctuary, a new faerie home in Austria, generously opened up to us all by the landowner. Ceremonials to kiss awake the new land happened 15-16 August 2013.

 

The secret paradise at the end of Austria will be a real Faerie sanctuary in the coming years … the ideal gateway at the Czech border to the Faeries of the eastern part of Europe – is the little sister of the big European Faerie Sanctuary’s in Folleterre in France and is already the natural meeting place for faeries in Central Europe, where we were celebrating wonderful Summer Solstice Weekends. At the solstice, the sun is worshiped to ensure that it gives us the desire for life, sexuality, creativity, energy, health and wishes.

 

Starting with the Kissing AWAKE 2013 it will become the meeting place of the Faeries in Central and Eastern Europe and the Faeries all over the world, when they can share time and life stories at Faerie space and talk about finding inspiration and self-worth. People lit up their hearts from the calm and loving acceptance of the Austrian Faeries.

 

For this purpose 3 Community Workweeks will be held here in the year 2014 where everything necessary for the conservation and making alive of this “silent paradise at the end of the world” is done and thus can stay enough Faeries here.

 

The Kissing AWAKE of our new Faerie Home in Austria was a little gathering of some cute faeries from all around the world to open it……… I had the idea to name it “Kissing Awake”, when I woke up one morning and was considering what can we do with a sleeping beauty? Maybe Inauguration sounds too sacred, but kissing sounds human and sexy at the same time. Kissing is good for human souls, for trees and animals. And kissing was always a taboo for me when I was young. So I also wanted to break a taboo in me and among the faeries. It is not necessary always to name everything “holy” in a sanctuary. It should also be a blessed, beloved and loving place. And you can best show love externally if you kiss somebody! I really would strongly hope that everybody involved deeply incorporates this spirit! It is a real chance to get a new life!

The event started for me and Fauny with a serious and intensive talk about the views of “Folleterre” about the new sanctuary / faerie homes in Austria and about our views of Folleterre in general. Are we all still very close to the roots of the Radical Faerie movement in Europe? Should we open up to new ideas? Is the whole thing getting too commercial? Many questions in our heads! Fauny was the faerie who also led the inauguration in Folleterre 8 years ago, so he knew definitely how to do it! We talked about the program of the ceremony and we had a delicious meal cooked by a lot of faeries. But before the ritual started around the fire, there came a big surprise. Some new faeries in beautiful masks arrived at the Sanctuary accompanied by two American Faeries from California who some years ago met Harry Hay personally and one of them told us that Hay was the reason to encourage him to his Coming Out as a Gay person. Then we were all ready to start the unique Kissing AWAKE Ritual with a little heart circle around the fire.

When it was dark the procession started and we walked one after another to the 4 corners of the sanctuary with burning candles in our hands. A candlelight procession to get to know all the secrets of the land. But before we asked for protection for the land and that it would allow us to be safe and gentle and spiritual to it and we promised to be good to the land and take care for it! Then in every corner we asked for the spirits of the 4 hemispheres. In the second corner we asked for the spirits of the animals for blessing which was my task to do so, because I specially love the animals in this sanctuary! In the third corner we were finding our way at the land through the darkness by waiting at our own imaginary altar and then going back creating a spiral with our candles as a symbol for creation – the founding of a new sanctuary.

At the forth corner finally we did the real kissing awake ritual where we gathered around a beautifully red and orange decorated bench in the wood and we all started to kiss another faeries one after another at the bench. The kissing ceremony was just amazing and very touching for us all. We all were very grateful to have this wonderful moment in our lives. Yes and from now on also the Sanctuary was kisses and sacred.

Then the performances started on our stone stage. Red Rose and Mata Hari performed the modern but wild interpretation of Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre de Printemps” which we thought was perfectly representing the idea of this special event. This 20 minutes fight between the tribes of the world which was led with soil, plants and honey, the sacrifice of the virgin ended up with the crowning of the fire in nakedness. Till midnight our two Faeries from California gave us a wonderful time playing beautiful songs at the guitar and we all hoped that this romantic and warm summer night would never end.

In the morning we started building a shrine for the sanctuary and we had our first real heart circle “kissed awake” in beautiful sun under shady woods. On the occasion of the ceremony the circle started by presenting nice little gifts from Folleterre to the Austrian Faeries. The gift touched us a lot and with tears in our eyes we all spoke from the heart.

I must admit that I did not want to leave this space at this moment. Everything was so calm and gentle. I could not imagine that tomorrow there should start the first full 10 days Gathering in Austria in the Alps near Salzburg. But we had to face the reality – the faerie reality! And we started the faerie track west across the country to the Sound of Music territory of Salzburg where 63 faeries met for the first full 10 day international Austrian Gathering.”– Not knowing what was expecting us – but with my only real intention – to have an open heart for all and to feel and bring and spread GOOD ENERGY! – To LET IT FLOW in Austria!

…And as all the reactions worldwide show us – yes! – Everybody appreciated that!

 

The movement is spreading step-by-step across Europe and it is heading eastwards. Friends from Czechia and Slovakia like Matty the Deer wanted to know more about the Faeries as they admire their values and way of life. Since that summer the Deer has been meeting them, attending small events like heart circles and exhibitions and closely observing the attempts to create a sanctuary in a neglected, yet beautiful piece of land – which happens to be a walking distance from the Czech borders.

 

In August 2013 Matty the Deer got the chance to take part in the first international Faerie Gathering that took place in the alpine region of Austria. He was a participating observer and was fully accepted into the circle. The outcome of his time with the Faeries was his research Study for the Czech University in Brno about “Lifelong Learning Potential within the International Movement Radical Faeries”.

Yoohoo Faeries! We are approaching the East and we will never give up!

 

 

                       

 

 

 

– why this Sanctuary in Austria is so important for me! –

A very personal report from a quiet gatherette

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Since this weekend I know the true meaning which this “Wunderort” only 1 hour away from Vienna has for me and why this soon real Faerieland has taken me more and more. Because I was with a shock of the brutal and stupid excesses of civilization – namely the crime brought back to reality. Our city apartment in Vienna was a week earlier, on 12 April 2013 robbed and the stolen cell phone service was located by police two days later in Bulgaria. My Faerie altar was desecrated. My original Indian Hanuman statues from Varanasi and the Taj Mahal miniature were stolen – not as valuable in material, but on symbolic value. Parts of my appearance robe as Mata Hari have disappeared, such as the 15 meter long red and gold fabric, in which at the beginning of my performance during Folleterre Summergathering 2012 I and at the end all other faeries were wrapped. How crazy and poor are parts of civilization that they must steal from the Faerie space? How disgusting people can be who have never heard of the true idea of ​​the Radical Faeries?

But no matter – one they will never be able to desecrate – our Sanctuary! And for this wondrous place my soul now demanded urgently. I knew that there I could find my inner peace again. Because this wonderland was made by ANIMALS and MOTHER NATURE to what it is, a sacred place – and this space cannot be deconsecrated by man. A Sanctuary is not only a place of celebration and togetherness, it is not only beautiful, created by nature or enchanted by the faeries, but it may be primarily a haven for souls “brought out of balance” and a refugium which brings us back the belief in humanity. The humans – in this case the faeries – who discovered this space for themselves – have only borrowed this space from nature – as our inner source of strength, the last place of refuge – and which may be only a place in nature, which our heart has chosen as a home. In the Sanctuary we find the divine silence again, what we need to resist this constant manipulation of a merciless material-minded civilization and media – a brainwashing that wants us to constantly persuade that nature in its many manifestations and their spirit behind it is worth nothing, and if it is worth something, then just to earn money with it. The last weekend I called for a Quiet Gatherette. I longed for this total serenity-which does not exist in civilization. I needed this retreat to refuel the strength to go on my way positive, which is the way of Faerie movement in Central Europe – with every part of my body and soul! Each of these wondrous free animals I have encountered at this resort, and every evening again there looking for their tree as their home and going to bed, sent me the message to stand up for this Faerie Wonderland to fight for its preservation, for some of my time to invest, to work for it. My children and the many faeries sent me through the ether world this message into my heart.  How incredible it is yet to come out of the house before the onset of total darkness and listen to the pheasants on the trees all around, as they lie down to sleeping, or even as they flee before thee there upon the nearest tree. Or as the nocturnal bats flutter from their hiding tree and the owls send their miraculous calls in the silence – where deer and rabbits jump into the Sanctuary to hide or flee scared when you go through the forest, where you hear the bees buzzing everywhere in the Sanctuary, where opalescent butterflies fly around when you enjoy breakfast outside, where the sparrows play a concert at almost any time of day, where you come across again and again to nuts bearing of mice. To find the ladybugs on almost every flower and relaxed snails crawling in the morning dew. Yes, everything I’ve seen here.

Of two animals that I have directly perceived this weekend, I would like to highlight the symbolic importance as a mirror of the soul. The pheasant was always the symbol of religion – well, although the Radical Faeries are the exact opposite of a dogma, but the spiritual power that lies in the encounter with pheasants tells us what is really important in life and how we should align ourselves. And bats symbolize the rebirth (which we should actually celebrate as people daily, especially as Faerie). More truthful a symbiosis with the elements of nature I cannot imagine after my traumatic experience a week earlier. I also would like to mention a little very amusing experience I had before the fence door of the Sanctuaries after getting up on Sunday morning: two gorgeous male pheasant ran hastily thereof in my appearance over the fields, when I caught her red-handed making love. – The fauna is sooo faerie here! Oh I’ m loving it! – But here the animals nothing bad happens, here the faeries are actually the invaders, but they are also its allies, because they want to preserve this paradise and make it even more fantastic – and the animals accept it gratefully. I think in no other Faerie Sanctuary worldwide you can experience so many wild animals immediately around you in such a connectedness. What is going on here just in a single tree you can hardly see in a zoo in this diversity. Here, however, all the animals and fairies are united in freedom and gentleness and they have chosen it as their sanctuary, the place to which they return again and again. Nature also finally begins to bloom. Violets and bright yellow-orange marigolds sprout from the ground. Buds are already everywhere to be seen. Spring is awakening, probably the most beautiful season, when everything comes to life and this wonderland like no other shows you the true values ​​of life. These are mainly the work in this enchanted place, creating space for the future life and pleasures here, the Dispose of “old burdens”, repairing (including mental) damage caused in the course of time and planning for the activities in the immediate future.

I felt this Quiet Gatherette where Red Rose, El and I were three on Saturday and four on Sunday with Roswitha, to be tremendous relaxing and mentally blissful, although we have worked almost all the time in the rooms. But the sun was always smiling at us. I had fun and it was really relaxing to free many of the rooms of the cobwebs and Red Rose cleaned all sanitary facilities. We found many hidden ideal treasures that have accumulated here over 35 years and which are sent for recycling. Here is a creative paradise and we are all of good cheer, to create a true Faerie Space for the future here.

For this purpose Community Weeks will be held here in the next few years, where everything necessary for the conservation and making alive of this “silent paradise at the end of the world” is done and thus can stay enough Faeries here.

So nothing stands in your way of the inauguration of “Els Wonderland” in August and thus the re-inauguration of my desecrated Vienna Faerie Apartment, we are really looking forward to it.

Being picked up at the train station in Lure for a summer gathering at Folleterre is always very special to me. When I first visited this “crazy land” two years ago and saw the first faerie in the car, Mercedes, I thought he was the craziest punk I had ever seen. He was so eager to get very close to me that I considered us friends from the first second on. He convinced me to take my first trip to India half a year later, and then he died, which was a big shock for me. His passing inspired me to return to Folleterre to perform a tribute to him and to Gezel, who also died the same year, at the no-talent show.

Lets look at the Earth from “ABOVE”. We see a beautiful bright little ball in the vast universe. However when looking at the earth more closely, we see that it is punctured with the bright or dark cobwebs of civilized humanity, with its electricity, roads and settlements. And we see the many holes humanity has beaten out of the planet to get as many resources as possible from her. And we accelerate this damage with our greed for goods, and the demands of a ‘progressive’ world without really realizing something.

 “The Faerie Gathering in Austria was FANTASTIC … a rollercoaster of fun, dance, rhythm, love, erotism, talks, magic, soul ….!”

 

In Austria this summer there were both a temporary and a new permanent manifestation of faerie love. Europe is about to be home to a second faerie sanctuary. 8 years after the inauguration of Folleterre in the Vosges Mountains of north eastern France, came the Kissing Awake of Weinviertel Sanctuary, a new faerie home in Austria.

Ceremonials to kiss awake the new land happened 15-16 August and were followed by a faerie trek west across the country to the Sound of Music territory of Salzburg where 63 faeries from 14 different countries (including Australia, Austria, Brazil, Czechia, England, Israel and USA) met for the first full 10 day Austrian Gathering. It was a bigger success than we could imagine! Many lives have definitely changed! Still the emotions roll over – but in the most positive way!

We could show the whole (faerie) world what faerie spirit and faerie energy is and could be. I was only the one who gave so many wonderful faeries from all over the world the opportunity in the most unexpected but real nature to BE what they really ARE – people longing for the real magical spirit and making them appreciate to what faeries and human beings are possible to create if you let them step out of this mainstream mentality.

 

The Indian God Ganesha showed me this image that you are a sexual person and maybe whenever I wake up at night I will have this image in my mind – to believe that the time of regretting anything in your life is over now. You never should regret anything that happened to you in your life. It all brought you to these 10 days of love and respect and diversity. I really was kissed awake these 10 days – starting 2 days before in the opening ceremony of the sanctuary in Austria.

For me it was the “Sound of DIVERSITY” Gathering –and I did not want any other gathering! It is so important that everybody on earth feels accepted – some faeries still have to work on this, but you have to give them time to accept this.

 

Maybe the most touching moments for me was the closing ceremony – very simple, but when the Music of Mozart –the overture of Don Giovanni started – the whole atmosphere + the whole gathering transformed again. I really could see in the eyes – that this was such a great moment in all the lives of the faeries who were in this circle when we all started to kiss and to light up the candles and to look into each other eyes: We directly went into heaven at this moment – it was unbelievable beautiful. This moment I wanted to create! This moment Mozart wanted to create! This was true entrance to Paradise.

And looking deeply into the eyes of each faerie made me very calm and grateful. I really saw

each heart at its most beautiful moment. There are no other words to describe that. 25 hearts

being ONE! Real living, real love, everybody touched. Life animating the whole. Faeries animating the whole. And when we blew out the candles we closed the gathering. It was so unreal that this Magic really happened and that it should end now.

No, it will continue in our hearts – through our spirit and energy we will spread it out to the whole world – and it will manifest again in 2 years at this place and we all will come together again – sharing love, peace, hearts, problems and hope! – that this world is a better one – a faerie world!

– because we all know that spirit, heartfulness + stillness unites us all – and the sound of faeries in faerie diversity

– and we deeply and completely love and accept this!

 

 

2008:

Wolf Creek  Permaculture and Sustainability Gathering:

The discovery of Faerie Spirit (at the sun altar)

 

1st Berlin Wannsee Gathering: Madonna “Give it to me”

 

2009:

Fatherstone Winter Gathering: Madonna “Jump”

 

10th Terschelling Gathering: Mata Hari’s “Rebirth”

Barbara “Vienne”, “L’Aigle noir” (Rebirth performance)

 

2010:

Fatherstone Winter Gathering: “Tribute to Michael Jackson+”:

Michael Jackson “Gone too soon”, “Childhood”, “Jam”

 

2nd Berlin Wannsee Gathering: “Tribute to Berlin”

Fellini’s Casanova “Il Duce di Wurttemberg”

Hildegard Knef/Nina Hagen ”Für mich soll‘s rote Rosen regnen” (with Cocopierre)

 

Folleterre  Summer Gathering: “Tribute to France”,”Sacrificed to a wild animal”:

Juliette Greco ”Avec le temps”

King Kong (Max Steiner) “Aboriginal Sacrifice Dance”, “Entrance of Kong” (as King Kong)

 

2011:

Thailand Ko Yau Yai Asian Gathering: “Tribute to India”

A.R.Rahman “Dreams on Fire”, “Jai Ho” (from Slumdog Millionaire)

Charles Aznavour “What makes a man” (with Franz Bloem)

 

11th Terschelling Gathering: “Homage to Elizabeth Taylor+”

Michael Jackson “Hollywood” (as Cleopatra)

Charles Chaplin / E. Taylor “Send me the Clowns” (with Ankh-Aton)

 

Folleterre Summer Gathering:  “Homage to 2 dead Faeries+: Mercedes, geZel”

Spencer Day “Maybe”, “Vagabond”

Lady Gaga “Marry the Night”

 

2012:

Fatherstone Winter Gathering: “Tribute to Michelangelo”

Arvo Pärt: “Collage sur Bach” (as a group)

“Tribute to George Michael”

George Michael “Jesus to a Child”, “The first Time I ever saw your Face” (with Shokti +Pikachu+Loverabbit), “Flawless”

 

3rd Berlin Wannsee Gathering: “Homage to Transgenial dead Women+”

Whitney Houston+ “I have Nothing” (with Gabriel and Ankh-Aton)

Sammy Davis Jr./ Paul Anka “I’m Not Anyone”

Amy Winehouse+ “Wake Up Alone” (with Red Rose)

 

Folleterre Summer Gathering: “The Birth of the Faeries”

Karl Orff “Carmina Burana” (as a group)

John Lennon “Imagine” (with Jonny Golightly)

Beatles / Mata Hari ”Faerieday”

 

1^st Equinox in Vienna (Arena Bar) Herbst

 

2013:

Fatherstone “The End of the World and the beginning of a new Faerie Aera”

Adele ”Skyfall” (with Efthimios and Tiny Viking)

Nick Howard “Unbreakable”

Elton John “I’m Still Standing”

 

2^nd Equinox in Vienna (Marea Alta) Frühling

 

KISSING AWAKE the Sanctuary (Hadres Austria):

Boy George ”Stranger In This World”

Strawinsky “Le Sacre de Printemps” (with Red Rose)

 

1^st “Sound of Faeries” Gathering Hochkönig Austria: “The Faerie Revolution”

Lehar (The Merry Widow) “Lippen schweigen” (with Red Rose)

Falko ”No time for Revolution” (with Awen, Aismalya, Aki, Black Panther, Efthimios)

Beatles “Let it be” (with Yellow Longhair)

Elisabeth von Trapp ”Somewhere over the Rainbow/ What A Wonderful World”

Peter Alexander “Der letzte Walzer”, “Dankeschön” (with Red Rose)

 

3^rd Equinox in Vienna (Arena Bar) Herbst

 

Wintergathering Pfaffenseifen: “Hommage to Freedom and Nelson Mandela+”,

Lady Gaga: “AURA”

Youssou N’Dour: “She doesn’t need to fall” (with Tadzio)

“Hommage to Love”: Josephine Baker: “Besame Mucho” (with Yellow Longhair)

 

2014:

Fatherstone “Hommage to David Bowie”

Jean Cocteau ”La Belle et la Bete” (with Eddi)

David Bowie “The Beauty and the Beast” “Where are we now” (with Eddi)

“Hommage to J.R.R.Tolkien”: Ed Sheeran “I see Fire” (with Ananga + T.Viking)

Judi Garland “It’s a new world” (with Woodpigeon)

 

Short Mountain Sanctuary BELTANE: “Greetings from Vienna”

Deanna Durbin “Blue Danube Dream” Spring Parade / Johann Strauss / Robert Stolz

Kissing + Touching the European Sacred Faerie Shawl (with Wallace / Bangee Report Chicago)

 

Folleterre Summer Gathering: „Tribute to Beloved“

Vincenzo Bellini Norma „Casta Diva“ (by Maria Callas)

Tribute to Conchita Wurst “Rise like a Faerie”

 

4^th Equinox in Vienna (Arena Bar) Herbst

 

Gavdos Gathering: “Hommage to Greece”

Claude Debussy “Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune” (as Nijinsky’s Faun)

Mata Hari / Conchita Wurst “Rise like a Faerie”

Vicky Leandros “You make me feel brandnew” (with Black Panther, Efthimios and Daniel) “Don’t break my heart” (with Red Rose)

Rona Nishliu “Suus” (performing the Eurovision Song Contest song of Albania 2013)

Reinhard Fendrich / Mata Hari “I am from Faerieland” (with Red Rose)

James Broughton “Wondrous – Two Dudes in Love” (presenting the Sacred Shawl)

 

2015:

Tribal Vision Folleterre: “Hommage to the Faeries”

Jerry Herman „We Are What We Are“ (La Cage aux Folles) with Junis, DeeTale, Michael and Divine

Edson Cordeiro “Lovesong”

Conchita Wurst “You Are Unstoppable”

 

Summer Gathering Folleterre:

“Willkommen” (Cabaret) with Serendipity

Queen “The Show Must Go On”

Homage to Billy Holliday “Tenderly” (with Atlantis and Petit bison)

 

2^nd “Sound of Faeries” Gathering Hochkönig Austria:

Leo Fall Operetta Die Kaiserin “Einzug zum Maskenball” (with Lala Lametta, ESsss and Flora)

In Memory of the Nazi Terror in Austria: Theme From Schindler’s List

Burt Bacharach “A House is not a Home” (with Mother Goose)

Tribute to Udo Jürgens “Mercie Faerie” (with Yellow Longhair)

Amit Hayo “I am Happy, I am Gay” (with Amit Hayo)

 

Faerie X-Mas Vision Gathering: (SPA Belgium)

Jacques Brel “Quand on a que l’amour”, “Je suis un soir d’été, Je suis a Radical Faerie” (with Alexis)

Diana Coupland “Underneath the mango tree” (with Red Rose)

Queen “One Vision” (with Tinkabell and Freedom)

 

2016:

1^st Wintergathering Israel: near Gaza “Hommage to Blackstar”

David Bowie+ “Girl Loves Me”

Burt Bacharach “Close to You” in Gratitude to the Israel Radical Faeries

Natalie Cole+ “Nature boy”

John Lennon “Give Peace a Chance” (with Ananda)

 

Faeborhood Gathering: (Portland, Oregon)

Remember: Life is short  (Reading from my book „Rise Like A Faerie“ in

Memoria of the Massagre in Orlando the day before)

 

Summer Gathering Folleterre:

Native American Healing Song

 

1^st Waterlilies Gathering Hungary: (Heviz)

Feeling my Waterlilieness

 

Samhain Fatherstone: „Homage to Prince+“

Prince „If I Was Your Girlfriend“ (with Luca Loopa)

Barbara Streisand Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory „Pure Imagination“ (with Phalles)

Homage to Mark Thompson+ and „The Fire in Moonlight“: Reading from the book: „Rise Like A Faerie“: „The Magic of Good Bye“

 

2018:

Fools n Faeries: Easter Gathering, New Zealand:

“Tribute to the Maori and the NZL Radical Faeries”, Donny Hathaway “A Song For You” (with Iceleaf and Louis), Tina Turner “Let’s Stay Together” (with Day)

3^rd China Faerie Gathering Beijing, China:

Georg Michael “Heel The Pain” (with Schifon), Tina Turner “We Don’t Need Another Hero”                                                                                                                                    In Bali

3^rd “Sound of Faeries” Gathering Hochkönig, Austria:

Nat King Cole “Nature Boy” (with Mama Pixie), Marie Wegener

“Königlich” (with Red Rose), Shlomi Moto Wagner “Mata Hari”

2^nd Burning Man Austria “Schloss Schönburn”:

„The Greatest Show“ from „The Greatest Showman“ (with Hanjo Unicorn)

Katy Perry “Firework” Equinox “Bones”

Sissi Mabon Equinox Gathering, Austria:

Austrian Folk Dance

 

2019:

“Many Fae Station Gathering” Lake Atitlan, Guatemala:

Conchita “Rise Like A New Sanctuary” Severija “Zu Asche, Zu Staub” Lady Gaga “Heal Me”

Shirley Bassey “Moonraker” (with Red Rose)

2^nd Berlin City Gathering: Walpurgisnacht

“Tribute to Berlin Babylon”: Severija “Zu Asche, Zu Staub”

Europride Vienna City Gathering “Tribute to 50 years Stonewall Roits”

Sylvester “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real),” Lady Gaga “Heal Me”                           In Transylvania

Golden Sands Black Sea Gathering Varna Bulgaria “Tribute to the Earth”

Marvin Gaye “Save the Children”, Shirley Bassey “What Kind Of Fool Am I?” (with Dido), Marlene Dietrich “Just A Faerie-Oh”

3rd Burning Man Austria “Schloss Schönburn”:

„The Greatest Show“ from „The Greatest Showman“ (with Hanjo Unicorn)

Jennifer Lopez  “Do It Well”

Lady Gaga “Heal Me”

„Hey MataHari! Looking forward to see your grace at the notalentshow again!“ „You were fantastic“ „… so inspiring“ „I was really touched“ „you were the surprise of the evening“ „…these are the biggest compliments you can wish!“ SHE says! …. Since 2008 the faery world celebrates the rebirth of a legend – in secrecy – not perceived by the mainstream of the gay and straight world. „… and thus it should also go on!“ SHE says.  „this is my audience, they understand me –and they are also ready to let enchant and to get deeper in the fairy empire“ where charm, grace, but also sometimes pure wildness rules. „I do not make this for myself – I make it for many unique beings which cure me over and over again and to which I am obliged too so many thanks. I love these Faeries! I want to get them unforgettable touching moments in her life – that’s why we all are here! To experience this what is not possible in the real world there outdoors.“ But these enchanting moments exist – one must only allow them. One may not avoid to show emotions also sometimes – not as well as on television where every shown emotion is manipulated in the background. With the Faeries I feel every second of my life sensibly spent!“