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Before we start the new festival season on May 11 with the »Fest Spiel Overture«, the overture of the past year closes our »nachgehört« series . In the Forum am Schlosspark Oksana Lyniv conducted the emotional opening concert under the motto »No More War« with Mozart’s Piano Concerto and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.
In the summer of 2022, members of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra played
Mozart’s
Clarinet Quintet in A-Major in the Ludwigsburg Residence Palace. A work
that had already been performed at this venue 90 years ago to mark the
founding of the Mozart community in Ludwigsburg,
The entire concert with other works by Poulenc, Martinů and Françai can now be heard in our series »Nachgehört« on our Digital Stage.
Are you contributing to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and would like to inspire others to do the same? Then share your knowledge at the »17 Goals Camp« at Kunstzentrum Karlskaserne! Institutions and initiatives from business, science and culture, as well as citizens, can present their work, exchange ideas and develop new formats.
Inspired by Shel Silverstein’s famous book »The Giving Tree,« the Rothko String Quartet has nature conduct a trial against humanity in the concert of the same name. As both plaintiff and defendant in one, the quartet presents music from the Renaissance to the present, penned purely by women composers. In it, the voices of gardens, forests, seas, and animals rise up.
Listen now to the entire concert in our series »nachgehört« on our Digital Stage.
For his work as a Cultural initiator and manager
Jochen Sandig, director of the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele, was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit) in January 2023. Berlin’s Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey
presented him with the Cross of Merit on ribbon on behalf of Federal President
Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
The Festival ticket office will open for you as usual in 2023. From Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. we are looking forward to your visit at the Grävenitz Palace. Outside the opening hours, you will of course receive online, by phone or at Easyticket for the festival season 2023. We look forward to your visit!
Even before the start of the Ludwigsburg Festival, many people are looking forward to the grand finale with fireworks at the Monrepos Open Air. Björn Wilhelm, Managing Director of Potsdamer Feuerwerk GmbH, reveals the effort behind a professional and successful fireworks show. Read more read here.
We wish you happy Holidays and a good start into the new year! From December 24 to January 8 our ticket office will take a short break for the holidays, until then you can still buy the last Grävenitz to buy the last Christmas presents. Online you can book tickets for the Schlossfestspiele 2023 during the holidays. As of January 9, we will be back and look forward to your visit.
One city, four vouchers, and numerous possibilities. The Ludwigsburg-Gutschein (voucher) can be used at over 180 stores, restaurants, and service providers. You can also redeem your voucher at the Ludwigsburg Palace Festival in the Palais Grävenitz ticket office. The perfect gift idea for your loved ones!
Learn more about the Ludwigsburg Voucher at the Ludwigsburg City Association LUIS.
On Monday, March 6, our general advance sale begins with a wide variety of concert and dance evenings. Tickets are already available for Pina Bausch’s legendary »Vollmond« by the Tanztheater Wuppertal, which was postponed due to the pandemic and will now be performed in 2023 on Friday, June 9 and Saturday, June 10 at 8 p.m. each. You can find the booking here.
Also already on sale are magnificent orchestral concerts with violinist Lisa Batiashvili, the legendary Monrepos Open Air, and the beguiling song recitals «Winterreise« and «Songwriter« with Benjamin Appl, who will also be giving master classes in Ludwigsburg as part of an artist residency.
The program calendar and links to purchase tickets can be found here.
Concert experiences are not only a nice
Christmas gift for your loved ones, but often also a surprise for yourself.
for oneself. For all those who are already curious about the concerts
we prepared a playlist on our digital stage that invites you to get in the mood for the Schlossfestspiele during Advent.
Our little musical glimpse through the curtain will hopefully will hopefully sweeten the waiting time until the curtain rises for the concerts
While we are already in the middle of the
preparations for the 2023 festival season, we still want to provide you with exceptional concert experiences: On our digital
stage, every month you will find a new video from our »nachgehört« series,
which will bring the special atmosphere of the Ordenssaal to your home.
The series kicks off with a performance by the Mahler Chamber
Orchestra and works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Claude
Vivier. With melancholic pieces, the musicians thrilled us in May.
We hope you will enjoy the concert at home or on the road.
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Give yourself our someone you know a little gift: A Christmas package for the Ludwigsburg Festival. The special subscription includes the »Fest Spiel Overtüre«, Schubert’s »Winterreise« with baritone Benjamin Appl, and the »Monrepos Open Air« with fireworks, and grants a 20 percent discount. Until 23. December 2022 it is available in our ticket office and online at Easy Ticket.
For a free choice of tickets for at least three concerts, we continue to offer the popular Wahl-Abo including a 10 percent discount. In addition, the ticket office issues vouchers of any value. Our team will answer your questions Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in our ticket office at Palais Grävenitz.
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Visit us today at the Ludwigsburg Christmas Market and give the gift of the Palace Festival: Today, Thursday, 24. November , you can buy tickets at booth 304 (next to the Protestant City Church) for Ludwigsburg Castle Festival and other Christmas surprises for yourself or as a gift, as well as take part in a prize draw. On offer are, for example, the special subscription «Christmas Package«, which includes the «Fest Spiel Overture.« Schubert’s »Winterreise« with baritone Benjamin Appl, and the «Monrepos Open Air« (available only until December 23, 2022). December 2022), as well as the popular elective subscription (from three events) or value vouchers in any amount. Let us advise you and give unforgettable festival moments!
What does everyday life at the Ludwigsburg Festival look like? During the city stories of the Ludwigsburg Museum, our artistic director Jochen Sandig will take you takes you behind the scenes of one of the most traditional festivals in Baden-Württemberg. In the monthly lecture series »City Histories,« experts will introduce unique places, fields of work and institutions in Ludwigsburg. On October 12, the stately rooms of the historic building and learn more about the vision for our celebration of the arts, democracy and sustainability.
[This text has been translated electronically] What is worth preserving? What is forward-looking and what should Ludwigsburg take with it into its future? With these questions, artists Thomas Rustemeyer, Bruno Jacoby and Julian Warner invite Ludwigsburg residents to collect objects, ideas, melodies or anecdotes for a »memory of the future« as part of the ÜBER:MORGEN festival. In the course of the exhibition, the urban society fills the memory with personal answers to questions about the future and creates a communal and walk-in show depot.
Social observations also give rise to the art of Brad Hwang, who has been a resident artist at the Schlossfestspiele several times. The artist and sculptor creates mechanical and social sculptures – in the spirit of Joseph Beuys – from everyday objects and materials, which he breathes new life into, as well as installations that invite participation and encounters.
In 2021, he constructed a hugging machine with a mobile loom. From the encounters of Ludwigsburg*innen with the artist in the middle of the city, a social sculpture in the form of a woven piece was created from old gauze bandages, documenting the history of his experiences on site – as a woven recording of the passage of time. With this collective artwork, we contribute to the »Memory of the Future« as a celebration of the arts, democracy and sustainability.
The exhibition grows with your personal objects. Until October 15, you can bring your own things and learn what other Ludwigsburg* residents consider important for the future of the city. All information and opening hours can be found on the website of the city of Ludwigsburg.
We have lifted the curtain a little and are pleased to present to you eleven highlights of our upcoming festival season. In doing so, we span the arc from our glamorous opening concert with violinist Diana Tishchenko to the American-intoned to the American-intoned »Monrepos Open Air« with the »Symphonic Dances« from West Side Story. You can look forward to charismatic soloists, chamber-musical border crossings chamber music, baroque pearls and electrifying dance. Here you can Here you can take a look at the festival highlights, which include Lisa Batiashvili, Lars Eidinger, Benjamin Appl and the Collegium Vocale Gent. All of these events are already on presale.
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We look forward to welcoming you to the Monrepos Open Air on July 16 and to celebrate the end of the festival season of 2022 with you. In the following section we have compiled the most important information:
Arrival Monrepos Open Air
From the S-Bahn stops Favoritepark and Freiberg as well as from Ludwigsburg train station (bus platform 18) free shuttle buses will run.
The P+R parking lot on Reuteallee is available free of charge, as well as the parking spaces at the University of Education and the adjacent schools (P1 – P3). Free shuttle buses run from the Pädagogische Hochschule bus stop. Parking on the Bärenwiese in Ludwigsburg’s city center (Friedrich-Ebert-Straße) is also city center (Friedrich-Ebert-Straße) is possible. At the bus stop at the Forum at the Schlosspark is also served by free shuttle buses. Fee-paying parking spaces (5,- €) are available in dry weather directly opposite the entrance to the to the Seeschloss Monrepos on the L1138 (P4). The shuttle buses run from each of the above-mentioned bus stops between 17:30 and 20:45 to the open-air grounds and and back again after the concert from 11:30 pm to 0:30 am.
Admission
The box office opens at 5 p.m., admission to the open-air site begins at 6 pm.
For security reasons it is NOT allowed to bring the following items: all means of transportation with wheels (this includes all sizes of ladder trucks, bike trailers, pull suitcases, shopping or folding trolleys, folding carts), beer table sets, paperhanging tables and garden tables, garden chairs and plastic chairs that cannot be folded up pavilion tents, sun umbrellas and umbrellas, open fires, pyrotechnical objects, gas burners, barbecue and fondue equipment, garden torches, flame bowls, Candlesticks and candles, dogs and other animals, and drones.
Permitted are: foldable camping camping tables and chairs as well as tea lights
Food & Drink
The Schlosshotel Monrepos offers food and drinks that can be consumed in the catering area. Self may only be consumed in the picnic area.
Further questions about Monrepos Open Air are answered in our FAQ.
[This text has been translated electronically] In a fine tradition, the Ludwigsburg Festival plays in September some of its outlying venues in Baden-Württemberg at the end of the festival year. After a wonderful weekend in picturesquely situated Wolfegg with musicians from the Festival Orchestra, the great actor Jens Harzer and the British vocal ensemble Stile Antico the festival tour now continues to Haigerloch (Bad Imnau). The Hamburg group Elbtonal Percussion will play everything that percussion has to offer in the Fürstensaal on September 25 at 7 pm. From pure drum pieces to polyphonic marimba works and a percussive choreography of hands – the four musicians from Hamburg know how to inspire. This stand-alone pearl of percussion music closg7lhastyh1es the Schlossfestspiele for 2022. Visit us one last time before the next season begins on May 11, 2023!
Tickets are available online, at the ticket office at Palais Grävenitz or at the box office. We are looking forward to your visit!
At the last Ordenssaal concert on July 14 at 8 p.m., recorder player Dorothee Oberlinger and her ensemble L’arte del mondo will guide the audience through the history of the flute and its musical works. Tobias Dellit & the silent majority perform on July 15 at 6 p.m. at the »Frei Luft Musik« on Ludwigsburg’s market square.
On July 16 the Monrepos Open Air with the Festival Orchestra and the tenor Julian Prégardien can take place at the lakeside castle Monrepos. Unfortunately, due to an acute injury, conductor Alondra de la Parra had to cancel her participation. At short notice, the young British conductor Harry Ogg could be won for the musical direction of the open-air concert in her place. Before the main program begins, the orchestra of Ludwigsburg's Goethe Gymnasium will set the mood for the evening with a preliminary program starting at 8 pm. From 9 p.m., the Festival Orchestra, Julian Prégardien and Harry Ogg will perform a magical, rousing summer night program.
The tickets for »L’arte Mondo Oberlinger« and the »Monrepos Open Air« can be purchased online, at the ticket office or directly at the box office. We are looking forward to a fantastic festival ending with you!
The tenth festival week begins with the performance of »THE B-SIDE: Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons. A Record Album Interpretation« by the Wooster Group theater company and will be shown on July 7 and 8. July at 8 p.m. each night in the Kammertheater of the Schauspiel Stuttgart. At July 7 at 8 p.m. Anna Prohaska, Carolin Emcke and the LaFolia Baroque Orchestra will present an evening around hope and mourning in times of pandemic. Babette Haag and her percussion ensemble perform July 8 at 6 p.m.. at the »Frei Luft Musik« on Ludwigsburg’s market square. On the occasion of Schütz’s 350th death anniversary the vocal ensemble Voces Suaves will perform a special concert on July 8 at 8 p.m. with works by Heinrich Schütz, Johann Hermann Schein and Samuel Scheidt in the Schlosskirche. In cooperation with the International Bach Academy and the Forum am Schlosspark, on July 8, 9, and 10, Handel’s »Acis and Galatea« under the direction of Hans-Christoph Rademann and with the Gaechinger Cantorey. The dance production »The 3rd Box« by the Junge Theater Freiburg deals with gender roles and identity and will take place on July 10 at 7 p.m. in the rehearsal stage of the Academy of Performing Arts in Ludwigsburg. Ludwigsburg.
Tickets for your favorite events can be purchased online, at the ticket office at Palais Grävenitz or at the respective box office. We look forward to your visit!
[This text has been translated electronically] The performance of Beethoven’s «Missa Solemnis« on July 13, 2022 in 2022 in the Friedenskirche in Ludwigsburg had to be cancelled by the Freiburg Baroque Baroque Orchestra and the RIAS Chamber Choir for Corona reasons and to the great regret of the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele. Because of Due tonumerous Corona illnesses in the ensembles, the large-scale work could not be rehearsed. The concert under the under the musical direction of René Jacobs is to be repeated in 2023. Tickets already tickets already purchased donot remainvalid and can be returned to the respective They can be returned to the advance booking office where they were purchased. Further information on ticket refunds can be found here.
On March 26. the participants of the »Spoken Moments Poetry« workshop met in Ludwigsburg and spent six intensive and creative hours at Palais Grävenitz under the motto »Type. Man. Character.« Whether writing or organizing: everyone was able to contribute as he or she wished, to prepare the concert on May 15, 2022, as part of the Ludwigsburg Festival. The resulting texts finally met the «Monograms« by the contemporary composer York Höller. On our digital stage, you can now watch the exciting process, from the first meeting up to the final bow.
Interested in diverse and queer issues? Fancy movement and dance? The »3RD BOX WORKSHOP« at the beginning of July allows for a safe and playful exploration of gender and gender identities and prepares for the visit of »THE 3RD BOX« on 10 July on a deeper level. We welcome registrations until 1 July.
You can experience two special concerts from the past season in the next few days: The Oberon Trio and Barbara Hannigan with the Festival Orchestra. On 19 June, the chamber music concert with works by Clara Schumann, Julia Purgina and Franz Schubert will be broadcast as »Concert Document of the Week« on Deutschlandfunk at 21:05. Shortly afterwards, on 20 June at 00:40, they can watch the rousing concert by Barbara Hannigan and the Festival Orchestra retrospectively.
[This text has been translated electronically] A high feast for the Trumpet during a long night at the Scala: the two different concerts by Marco Blaauw entitled Global Breath Composers (originally scheduled for Saturday, June 25, and Sunday, June 26, in the Ordenssaal) will, for dispositional dispositional reasons, will be combined into one evening and new venue. The program will now take place on Saturday, June 25, starting at 8 p.m. at the Scala at the Scala in Ludwigsburg.
The Belarusian activists Maria Kalesnikava, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and Veronika Zepkala have been awarded this year’s International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen for their services to the unity of Europe. In her speech, Federal Foreign Minister Baerbock referred to the laureates as «the most courageous women in Europe«. As the «Festival of the Arts, Democracy and Sustainability« we are very happy about this news and welcome this important sign for freedom and democracy. The International Charlemagne Prize is one of the most significant European and has been awarded to personalities and institutions since 1950.
The concert «The Unfinished Revolution«, which will take place on June 11 at the Forum am Schlosspark, will be dedicated to the Belarusian peace activist Maria Kalesnikava. The Belarusian conductor Vitali Alekseenok and the orchestra of the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele will perform Schubert’s 7th Symphony with poem settings by Belarusian composers.
On Sunday, May 15 at 5 p.m., we cordially invite you to the »Dabke Community Dance« in our festival center in the castle courtyard. The traditional circle dance Dabke is danced in the eastern Mediterranean region at holidays, family celebrations or for travelers. The dancer and choreographer Medhat Aldaabal and the percussionist Ali Hasan look forward to a moving togetherness. Also interested people without previous knowledge are welcome! Put on comfortable shoes and dance along!
With our subscription packages »Beethoven hoch drei«, »Tanz
and Ritual« and »Welt im Wandel« you can look forward to a unique
of three productions from the 2022 festival season and benefit from a 20% discount on your purchase. Select the subscription that suits youand book it through the Ludwigsburg Festival ticket office.
On September 9, 2022, we will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle’s »Speech to the German Youth« and we ask ourselves: What would actually be a speech from the youth today? What wishes, goals and criticism would young voices of the present want to articulate? The emergence of such a speech the Ludwigsburg Festival would like to give time and space to the creation of such a speech in the coming months. Members of the Youth Community Council have already declared their willingness to participate in this project. A next meeting for the development of a »speech of the youth« will take place on Monday, April 25, 4 pm. A great opportunity to exchange ideas with other young people and to collect first ideas. Sign up for this up to 22. April by mail to: Education@schlossfestspiele.de We are looking forward to meet more interested young people who want to contribute their voice and work together on a »Youth Speech«!
With The new Corona Ordinance of the State of Baden-Württemberg of April 3, 2022. the previous contact restrictions at cultural events will fall. Since we care about your health, we would like to encourage you to continue to wear a medical mouth and nose covering indoors. In order to ensure the safest possible attendance at events, we also ask that you observe general hygiene rules such as sneezing and coughing etiquette, and, if possible, to keep a distance of 1.50 meters from other guests and our staff, and in the event of symptoms of illness such as fever, cold, cough, etc. to stay at home . Thank you for your support!
We are pleased to present our complete program for the 2022 season, which is now on pre-sale. With 80 events and over 50 productions in the period from May 5 to July 16, the Schlossfestspiele Schlossfestspiele is entering the tenth decade of its existence. Here you can find the program calendar with ticket sales.
The Ludwigsburg concert of «Einstürzende Neubauten« has been moved for production reasons and will now take place on Tuesday, June 21 at 8 p.m. in the MHPArena in Ludwigsburg. The Stuttgart post-punk band «Die Nerven« will perform with a supporting program. Tickets for this music highlight are still available in our online store and in the ticket office. Tickets that have already been purchased for the concerts scheduled for 2020 or 2021 and are dated accordingly will remain valid.
[This text has been translated electronically] »The Dying Swans Project«, our co-production with Gauthier Dance, was awarded by the leading Italian dance magazine Danza & Danza with the Mario Pasi Award, a special prize for the international international promotion of dance culture. The innovative concept with video and live art convinced the jury of seven. jury. We are very happy and congratulate the team of »The Dying Swans Project«. Swans Project«. The 16 extraordinary video choreographies by »The Dying Swans Project« are still available on our Digital Stage.
Perfectly prepared for the next festival season: the new festival bag and the notebook with deer pole motif have recently moved into our festival shop and are waiting to be used. Collect your concert memories, sketches, or autographs in the notebook and easily transport it in the sustainably produced festival bag. With its practical size of 38 cm x 42 cm, it offers enough space for other belongings. You can still get the bag for the special price of 9€ until Christmas. For only 5€ you can enjoy the notebook. For more information on both products, visit our Festival Shop!
In early May, Oksana Lyniv opened the 2021 season with the festival orchestra, and now the conductor, who was the first woman to take the podium at the Bayreuth Festival in the summer of 2021, will become music director of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in January 2022.
In the series of talks by and with Elisa Erkelenz and David-Maria Gramse, unusual connections of classical music with philosophy, science, (martial) arts and pop are brought to light and thus »the pudel's core« of that genre is explored from a variety of perspectives. The podcast is released on the first of every month and is also available on our Digital Stage.
[This text has been translated electronically] A triad of music, art installation and dance: The Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch has created the legendary choreography »Kontakthof« to Ludwigsburg. The German premiere of the revival took place on 6 October. You can find exciting background information in this interview . Until October 10,«Voices from Belarus« offered an artistic podium to the voices of the Belarusian resistance at the Karlskaserne art center. On October 2, the STEGREIF.orchester performed in the Schiller city of Marbach. Look forward to the coming season from 5 May to 17 July 2022!
Unfortunately, Javier Perianes had to cancel his participation in the original concert evening »Zimmermann Perianes Cantilena« at short notice due to illness. For this reason, Tabea Zimmermann has decided to perform an extraordinary solo programme on Thursday, 8 July at 6 pm and 9 pm respectively with the new title »Tabea Zimmermann Solo«.
Over the course of a month, nine young people between the ages of 20 and 30 came together for six online workshops lasting several hours and dealt intensively with diverse gender identities and perceptions through writing tasks, movement sequences and free exchange. A filmic insight into the work can be seen on the Digital Stage.
In the film »Saz - The Key of Trust«, the instrumentalist Petra Nachtmanova follows the traces of the saz. Hardly represented in books, the history of this Persian or Ottoman-Turkish instrument is a mystery. At the »Saz Musik Fest« on 18 June, she will present her journey from Bosnia to Iran, recorded on film, and will play songs from there together with guests.
Originally scheduled for 11 May 2020, the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung is now bringing the award ceremony for Tabea Zimmermann forward. On 15 June, her more than 30 years of work will be honoured. She will use the prize money to establish a new foundation. We congratulate the prize-winner, who will also be a guest in Ludwigsburg on 8 July!
The »Piano City« concept developed by pianist Andreas Kern will move to the digital in 2021 to celebrate the house music tradition also and especially in these times. If you enjoy playing the piano, we look forward to your contribution on Instagram or Facebook - at whatever level and in whatever genre! For more information, click here.
The year 2021 is still marked by the Corona effects, but also by digital, hybrid and, last but not least, numerous live events. Unlike last year, we were able to cover the entire festival period from 6 May to July 11 as well as the autumn dates in September and October with a total of 37 events! In addition to this we were able to present a triad of music, art installation and dance in the fall. We are grateful and happy and look back on a successful year.
The STEGREIF.orchestra invites you to an exciting new new format: In the digital 360° audiowalk you can follow individually routes to listen to Mozart’s musical and political diversity. For this you need a smartphone, headphones and sturdy shoes. From May 28 the project is available on the Digital Stage.
In a new scenic film project, the »Human Requiem« becomes an examination of the current consequences of Corona. Directed by Jochen Sandig and musically conducted by Gijs Leenaars, the Rundfunkchor Berlin offers hope and comfort in difficult times with Brahms' »Ein deutsches Requiem«.
The Ludwigsburg Festival is launching the 2021 season with new momentum digitally. After the prelude with the »Fest Spiel Overtüre«, we now continue with a project by the STEGREIF.orchester: #bfree. Starting on 8 May on the digital stage. We look forward to your virtual visit!
What concerns you and the people from your city? Where do you experience moments of wakefulness, anger or happiness in public space? Searching for poetic moments in society, the workshop »Spoken Moments Poetry« is pursuing a digital concert experiment for collective success. Interested people from the age of 13 can register now.
The
Ludwigsburg Festival opened the 2021 season with the »Fest Spiel Overture« and presented the digital audience with Oksana Lyniv, Anna Larsson,
Christian Elsner and the Festival Orchestra. In cooperation with ARTE Concert, the opening concert was livestreamed on May 6 at 8pm and is now available on-demand on our Digital Stage until early November. We
look forward to your virtual visit!
April 16 brings 16 new releases: The media »Dying Swans Project« by Gauthier Dance comprises 16 solo choreographies, each with a different signature. The stage version of this project will take place during this year's Ludwigsburg Festival. Visit our Digital Stage and enjoy these digital masterpieces!
Are you between 17 and mid-20s and interested with diverse and queer topics? Then sign up now for the workshop »Somewhere in Between« with director and choreographer Gary Joplin. In May and June you will spend three weekends exploring diverse identities and orientations. You can find the detailed announcement here.
Originally Edivaldo Ernesto was going to give an insight into his »Depth Movement« technique at the Tanz- und and Theaterwerkstatt Ludwigsburg in May. Due to Corona, his workshop cannot take place as planned. We are looking for an alternative date.
Due to the current situation we can unfortunately not be able to hold any events with an audience in May. Therefore, the Fest Spiel Ouvertüre will be broadcast on May 6. Liebe und Tod will also be realised digitally and broadcast by SWR on 11 June. Israel Galván Sacre is cancelled as planned. Find out more here - and keep up to date with our German newsletter.
In the short program of last year's Ludwigsburg Festival, the performance of the Mandelring Quartet with Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartets Nos. 1, 8 and 15 was a particular highlight. On 8 March 2021, the concert recording will be broadcast by SWR 2. Perfectly the Mandelring Quartet presents Shostakovich's incomparable art between lyrical pain, pointed sharpness and smug grotesqueness.
The founder of contemporary »African Dance« has been committed for decades to the deepening and spreading of African Dance. Since the 1960s, Germaine Acogny has been realizing and manifesting her vision, enriching the african - and eventually the international - dance world as a dancer, teacher and mentor. The Biennale Danza Festival now honours her life's work with the Golden Lion. In anticipation of this year's »Sacre« project, we congratulate her!
With »I can't breathe«, the dancer touched not only the visitors of the Ludwigsburg Festival. His renewed performance at the Romaeuropa Festival in September also convinced the jury of the Italian Danza&Danza Awards. We congratulate Edivaldo Ernesto for the award as best dancer 2020!
With the aim of contributing to an open and sustainable society oriented towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, the Ludwigsburg Festival 2020 set off into a new decade. The fact that social cohesion can also be created virtually is also demonstrated by Alondra de la Parra with her project »The Impossible Orchestra«.
A strange year has come to an end - for all of us who love art and music, there was unfortunately far too little of it. That's why we're looking forward to the 2021 season with hopefully much better conditions for culture, the artists and you, our audience.
The 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were also launched by former German President Horst Köhler, among others. Since the 2020 season, he and his wife Eva Luise Köhler are the patrons of the Ludwigsburg Festival. Horst Köhler has shared his thoughts on this in a foreword.