Shaping the future together 

We have a keen interest both in music and in the critical questions of our time – and we believe these go well together, central to both being diverse modes of expression and the understanding of these, questions and answers, thinkers, movers and shakers. We are especially interested in all those who wish to be part of change. Change consistent with the  SDGs is an integral element of the thinking that goes into the Festival – above all, enquiring, creative and intergenerational. Our credo is: Only those who think about tomorrow today still have time to make a difference.

In order to guarantee this approach in future, we want to act now together with the thinkers and movers and shakers of tomorrow. This is why we place special store not only by planning our agenda for our younger audience, but also and above all to discover their creative potential. With formats such as "Generation Zukunft Musik", we offer the young generations the opportunity of changing their perspective and, as creative artists or as communicators of information, to look behind the scenes of the Festival. To sum up, in the spirit of Aurelio Peccei, a founder of the Club of Rome: the first step in tackling future tasks together is participation. This attitude unites everyone in co-operation, dialogue and empathy, and above all provides the opportunity of assuming responsibility for what is to come.

The Ludwigsburg Festival, too, has decided to take an active part in change. Motivated by the 2030 Global Agenda of the United Nations, founded 75 years ago after WWII, we are adopting the 17 Sustainable Development Goals as a guide on the path to a fairer and more humane world. In a personal meeting, Amina J. Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary-General, supported Jochen Sandig in the vision of opening the Festival, with its almost 90-year history, for the critical questions of our age, in the following words: "We created the roadmap and now we need music, dance and all the arts to set people in motion". So the Ludwigsburg Festival would like to invite you all to come together as a community in the context of the events. The idea is to encourage the exchange of ideas through music, dance and conversation, and to expand artistic experience to include socio-political stimuli.

Projects

How how we put our vision into practice can be seen in our participatory projects. participative projects. For example, we are continuing our successful formats »Generation Zukunft Musik« with our educational partners and »Mini Mal Mut« with children from third to sixth grade. We are also launching projects, one of which we can already reveal:

In 2024, the internationally renowned Mahler Chamber Orchestra will will be our guest in Ludwigsburg and, among other things, present its exciting, participatory concert project »Welcome Home!« on June 24, 11:30 am. In it, the orchestra and musically with the themes of home and origin – as an orchestra, whose 45 members come from around 20 nations, this is a central concern. concern. An essential part of the concert is the diverse perspectives of pupils from Ludwigsburg, which are presented in the form of audio recordings and integrated into the program in the form of audio recordings and texts. For this purpose the orchestra has compiled a collection of questions and comprehensive preparatory material on the historical and political context of the musical of the musical works. This offer is aimed at school classes between the ages of 14 and 19. Are you a teacher and interested in your class? class? Please contact us at education@schlossfestspiele.de.

Project info

Entirely in the spirit of the 2024 festival focus, our established participation established participation formats also deal with the topics of democracy and (co)humanity and:

In the »Generation Zukunft Musik« concert not only great ensembles and performances by our four educational partners, but also a supporting program designed by a group of young people. by a group of young people. From March 2024, they will meet in the »Zukunft Musik Gestalten« laboratory and work on rhythm, improvisation, bodywork, language and moderation. moderation. In the workshops, they can explore their own creativity and musicality creativity and musicality and round off the musical-theatrical program of the educational partners into a joint concert experience.

»Mini Mal Mut« also lives from the contributions of the children involved. In this case, it is about school classes between the third and sixth grades, who come up with creative group creative group compositions based on the principles of minimal music. In preparation, four music teachers come to the schools and show them how to make music with everyday objects, instruments and voice or speech, for example and let the classes playfully experience how easy it can be to turn small ideas into can be to create entire pieces of music from small ideas. You can find out more in the video documentation of 2022.