Beforehand, we thank our public supporters the Federal Ministry of Education, Art and Culture, the cultural authorities of Styria Province and the city of Graz, and Graz Tourismus.

Special thanks are due to Steiermärkische Sparkasse, that has meanwhile been lending its generous support as festival sponsor to steirischer herbst and as a sponsor of the festival centre for three years.

Our opening sponsors Think! and AVL Cultural Foundation make it possible for steirischer herbst to get this year's season off to a tremendous start.

We would also like to point out the valuable contributions of our festival centre sponsors for the realisation of this year's festival centre: Steiermärkische Sparkasse, Industriellenvereinigung Steiermark and Saubermacher.

Our media partners Kleine Zeitung, Radion Österreich 1, Der Standard, ORF Steiermark, Falter and Fm4 have helped to reach a broader public.

Our insurance sponsor UNIQA is providing steirischer herbst's insurance for the second time.

International festival guests are being flown in by our festival airline InterSky and transported locally by our festival carriers Hertz or Citroën.

We can be sure that our visitors are perfectly accommodated at our festival hotels Hotel Europa and Romantik Parkhotel.

We are obliged to our wine and catering partners for culinary delights at the various events: Weingut Lackner-Tinnacher and Weingut Winkler-Hermaden

Restaurant partners: Mangolds, iKU, Die Scherbe and Santa Clara and catering sponsors: Auer Brot, Zipfer, Gasteiner kristallklar, Java Cafe, Makava, von Herzen Biobauern, Toni's Freilandeier, z o t t e r Schokoladen.

Finally, thanks to all other steirischer herbst partners who provided support in many different ways: Energie Steiermark, Bene, Eucarbon, A1, Spark7.