Austria

The earliest dated milestone found for Austria is from 2011, in Vienna. That year Vinciens and his partner founded Kinbaku Studio Vienna, also known as Hasenstall, according to the studio’s own site. Vienna is also among the cities where local versions of the xplore festival have been organized; Felix Ruckert had launched xplore in Berlin in 2004 as a program on creative sexuality, BDSM and tantra, and Dock 11’s portrait of him says such versions began in 2011, without dating Vienna’s first.

An Osada-ryū dojo

The official Osada-ryū site lists the studio, as Shibari Dojo Vienna, among the dojos of Osada Steve’s school and records Vinciens as a licensed instructor since 2011. As of February 2024, German Wikipedia named Vienna as one of four schools affiliated with Osada’s Tokyo dojo outside Japan, all teaching the same Osada-ryū kyū system; the official dojo list now names three outside Japan, Vienna, Bremen and Secret56 in Switzerland, described on the Germany and Switzerland pages. The studio’s site is in German.

Beyond the capital

Outside Vienna, the sources found for this page show a club and an individual teacher. In Amstetten, in the Mostviertel region of Lower Austria, the shibari association Nawagee runs courses and training evenings from its club premises, covering suspension, decorative ties and self-tying; its rules ask for sportswear and state that it is not a swingers’ club. In Graz, the teacher Elena Strawberry offers beginner workshops for small groups, one-to-one rope sessions and photo sessions through Shibari Graz.

How it fits together

The Vienna guide covers the lineage dojo and the city’s other groups and rope jams. The wider European story is told in Kinbaku in Europe. If you are new to the differences between schools and open groups, see Choosing a teacher.