2015 LA Krampusfest Events

Some of our 2015 Guests from Austria: Moorpass Maishofen.
Some of our 2015 Guests from Austria: Moorpass Maishofen.

THE KRAMPUS: Lecture with Media and Costumes: Saturday, November 28, 2015: The lore of the Krampus illustrated with a festive stream of rare images, film clips, and walk-ons by costumed members of the Krampus LA Troupe at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles in the midtown museum district.

THE KRAMPUS BALL: Saturday, December 5, 2014: Once again in its chalet-like home in Highland Park, the Krampus Ball, is the scariest costume party this side of the Alps. While we await the storming horde of devils and otherworldly beast of Krampus LA, we’ll be entertained by everyone’s favorite traditional Bavarian dance troupe, GTEV D’Oberlandler back with their alphorns, accordions, cowbells,and lederhosen, German cabaret from  Christina Linhardt and “Tuba” Heatherton, Polka with Linda Herman and the Raving Polka, the experimental, pagan neofolk of Tatzelwurm, and the diabolical dance of Miss Krampest Storm.

LA KRAMPUSLAUF, Thursday, December 10, 2015: This year the Krampus LA troupe will be joined by over a dozen members of the Moorpass Maishofen from Austria!  This first large scale outing by American and Austrian troupes together will cross paths with the Downtown Art-Walk, visit the Pershing Square Holiday Festival, an Austrian Cafe right in downtown LA, and take over a historic retail atrium.

KRAMMPSTEIN at ALPINE VILLAGE: Saturday, December 12, 2015: Rammstein meets Krampus as the horned hybrid Krammpstein performing this year in the über-deutsch ballroom of Alpine Village. Opening acts, and other costumed Christmas devilry TBA. The spectacle takes place in conjunction with Alpine Village’s European-style Christmas Faire, so in the bargain you get mulled wine, German beer, foods, sweets, and tons of snow carted in for the occasion.

ST. NICHOLAS 1888: Traditional Krampus Play and Film: Sunday, December 13, 2015, (Two shows): A traditional Austrian Krampus play from the 1880s complete with St. Nicholas, angels, Death, Lucifer, murderous innkeepers, and Krampuses. Presented with a rare TBA film themed to the occasion.  All in the gothic revival splendor of Pasadena’s historic Anglican Church of the Angels.

(Past Events: 2013, 2014)

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Alpine Nicholas-Krampus Play to Premiere

(ABOVE: Turn-of-the-century Nicholas troupe. SOURCE: Vienna Folklore Museum).

On December 13 2014, Krampus Los Angeles will claw its way to the very wellsprings of the Krampus tradition with the world’s first English-language production of an authentic Alpine Nikolausspiel, one of a series of “Nicholas plays” traditionally performed on the saint’s feast day in parts of Austria and Bavaria.

In 2014 UNESCO recognized the  the Nikolausspiel as an element of Austria’s “intangible cultural heritage,” or in the parlance of the UN, a “Human Treasure.”  Our Los Angeles presentation is a composite of several village plays, incorporating not only the Krampus and Nicholas, but also a juicy tirade by the Prince of Hell, the “Lucifer Sermon,” usually presented as a standalone act, as well as “Death and the Youth” featuring an exceedingly clueless young man stalked by a remorseless Reaper.

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DECEMBER 21: The Krampus Rumpus!

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Come as yourself or as your favorite costumed Alpine incarnation for this celebration of the Winter Solstice and the older more pagan end of Krampus season.

As tonight’s headliner, we offer the world premiere of a world-class spectacle: KRAMMPSTEIN, the high-concept, hard-rocking industrial Ragnarök of  Rammstein hybridized with the horns, pelts, and masks of our favorite Alpine Devil.  Green Jellÿ alum Greg Reynard and his crew of infernal co-Krampi, churn out Rammstein’s greatest hits obsessively reworked to lyrically reflect the inner world of the Krampus, hellfire, brutal thrashings, and Christmas cookies.

To further satisfy the hidden needs of your inner Krautrocker, we bring you the über-Germanic posturing of THE SOFT SERVE, “Leipzig’s biggest minimal synth band,”

And in a more traditional vein we offer FREE RANGE ORKESTAR changing key from Balkan to Alpine oohm-pah for the occasion. Then there is THE KRAMPUS CHOIR, yuletide manifestation of outsider artist Rich Polysorbate ever-baffling CLOWNS AND FETUSES.

Out back behind the club, you will find a pleasant beer garden, Krampus vendors, and MISTRESS KRAMPUS’ SALON & SPANKERY where sultry  she-devils spank away the cares and guilt of naughty grown-up children.

This  is the final event of Krampusfest 2013 and one not to be missed, but rest assured we’ll be back bigger and even badder in 2014.

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THE KRAMPUS RUMPUS
Saturday, December 21. Doors 7:30.
Complex
806 E Colorado Street
Glendale, CA 91205

Tickets: $10 at door.
Tickets: $7 in advance.

 

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