On July 18, 2026, Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas and his wife, Mollena Lee Williams-Haas, will take center stage at the Grafenegg Academy. On this extraordinary concert day in Grafenegg, the world premieres of the second and third parts of Georg Friedrich Haas’s «Hyena» trilogy – works commissioned by Grafenegg and, in some cases, even composed there – will take place. In the «Hyena» trilogy, Mollena Lee Williams-Haas tells a multifaceted story – in a powerful and captivating way – of her life-threatening alcohol addiction and her journey back to a life worth living today.

In this special episode of the Grafenegg Podcast, the storytelling performer Mollena Lee Williams-Haas talks at the cottage in Grafenegg: In the first part, she shares autobiographical stories; in the second part, which begins after about 20 minutes, she offers insights into, among other things, a dark chapter of her life that ultimately led to the «Hyena» cycle.  

Design and Production: Markus Hennerfeind

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