KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen 2016

7 th edition of the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen
12. - 29.05.2016

"Highly interesting concerts and performances, inspiring sound experiences, great artists and an enthusiastic audience: Ingo Metzmacher and his team have mastered their start with the KunstFestSpiele excellently," said Lord Mayor Stefan Schostok, congratulating everyone involved. In 2016, Ingo Metzmacher celebrated his debut as artistic director of the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, opening up the festival to the city and appealing to new audiences with new formats. The new artistic director and team presented 20 productions from the fields of music theater, concert, theater, performance and installation. As a new festival center, the Spiegelzelt provided a place for culinary encounters with the freitagsküche from Frankfurt during the day and offered space for concerts and DJ sets by Feinkost Lampe, and a dance floor in the evening. Impressive productions such as the concert Inuksuit by John Luther with 60 percussionists in the Great Garden, Isabelle Faust's violin solo in the Gallery or the Cage Reenactment by Daniel Wetzel (Rimini Protokoll) in the Orangerie were highlights of the 18-day festival.

 

Graphic: Aoki & Matsumoto, Cover: Jack Fisher


Venues

Großer Garten, Galerie, Orangerie, Spiegelzelt, Christuskirche, Kuppelsaal im HCC, Richard Jakoby Saal der Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Auditorium im Schloss Herrenhausen

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Program brochure 2016
Summary 2016
Sponsors 2016

Events

RESONANZEN

Sound installations
Fri 22.04. - Sat 30.04. - daily from 9:00 am - 7:00 pm
Sun 01.05. - Thu 02.06. - daily from 9:00 am - 8:00 pm
Großer Garten

   

Dance (All Night, Paris)

Melanie Manchot
Video installation
Thu 12.05. - 6:00 (opening)
Fri 13.05. - Sun 29.05. - daily from 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
Orangerie Foyer

   

Wer Ohren hat – Wie wir das Hören neu lernen können

Herrenhäuser Talk
Thu 12.05. - 7:00 pm
Schloss Herrenhausen, Auditorium

 

 

Finsternis1816

Werner Cee, Klaus Grünberg, Beate Schüler
Sound - and light installation
Thu 12.05. - Fri 13.05. - 10:30 pm - 0:30 am
Sun 15.05. - Mon 16.05. - 10:00 pm - 0:00 am
Großer Garten

 

 

urban string 'sk8night'

Ensemble Resonanz, DJ Elephant Power
Spiegelzelt opening
Thu 12.05.
Spiegelzelt

 

 

Three Tales & WTC 9/11

Steve Reich & Beryl Korot
Video opera
Fri 13.05. - 8:00 pm
Richard Jakoby Saal of the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover

   

Premierenfeier

Steve Reich & Beryl Korot: Three Tales & WTC 9/11
LUV (DJ-Set / Electronica)
Fri 13.5. - 9:00 pm
Spiegelzelt

   

Recompose

Lemi Ponifasio
Installation - ceremonie, performance, dialogue
Sa 14.05. - 6:00 pm
Galerie und Gartentheater

   

Gurre-Lieder

Arnold Schönberg
Concert
Sun 15.05. - 11:00 am
Kuppelsaal des HCC

   

the whisper opera

David Lang, Jim Findlay
Music theater (german premiere)
Sun 15.05. - 6:00 pm & 8:30 pm
Mon 16.05. - 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Orangerie

   

freitagsküche

Artist dinner
Dates after the performances on 
Sun 15.05. , Mon 16.05., Thu 19.05.,
Fri 20.05., Sun 22.05., Wed 25.05., Thu 26.05., Fri 27.05.

   

Cuarteto Casals

Work by Schubert, Webern and Ravel
Concert – Replacement for Hagen Quartett
Mon 16.05. - 8:00 pm
Christuskirche

   

KUF

Herr Wieland
DJ-Set
Di 17.05.
Spiegelzelt

   

Carlos Cipa

Concert
Mi 18.05. - 9:30 pm
Spiegelzelt

   

RESONANZEN

Extension
Sound installations
Thu 19.05. to Thu 02.06. - daily from 9:00 am - 8:00 pm
Großer Garten

   

see you on the other side

Matthias Mohr
Music theater
Thu 19.05. - 8:00 pm (premiere)
Orangerie

   

La Double Coquette

Antoine Dauvergne, Gérard Pesson
Opera Intermezzo
Fri 20.05. - 8:00 pm (german premiere)
Sat 21.05. - 8:00 pm
Orangerie

   

Singspiele

Maguy Marin, David Mambouch, Benjamin Lebreton
Dance performance
Sun 22.05. - 6:00 pm
Orangerie

   

graindelavoix

Works by Bach, Josquin, Ockeghem a.o.
A cappella concert
Sun 22.05. - 8:00 pm
Galerie

   

Mehr Licht. Goethe mit Newton im Streit um die Farben

Herrenhäuser forum
Mon 23.05. - 7:00 pm
Schloss Herrenhausen, Auditorium

   

UNLAND

Kay Le Fay
DJ-Set
Mo 23.05. - 7:00 pm
Spiegelzelt

   

Hauschka

Stoff
DJ-Set
Di 24.05. - 9:00 pm
Spiegelzelt

 

 

David Fray

Works by Bach, Boulez, Schönberg, Brahms
Concert
Wed 25.05. - 8:00 pm
Orangerie

 

 

Riding on a cloud

Rabih Mroué
Theater, performance
Thu 26.05. - 8:00 pm
Orangerie

 

 

Isabelle Faust

Works by Nono and Bach
Concert
Fri 27.05. - 8:00 pm
Galerie

 

 

Evros Walk Water

Daniel Wetzel (Rimini Protokoll)
A cage re-enactment
Sat 28.05. - 1:00 pm, 2:30 pm, 4:00 pm, 5:30 pm, 7:00 pm, 8:30 pm
Sun 29.05. - 11:00 am, 12:30 pm, 2:00 pm, 3:30 pm, 5:00 pm
Orangerie

 

 

Nachtkonzert

JACK Quartet, Gavin Bryars Ensemble , Ingo Metzmacher
Sat 28.05. - 11:00 pm
Galerie

 

 

Inuksuit

John Luther Adams
Concert installation with 60 percussionists
Sun 29.05. - 5:00 pm (german premiere)
Großer Garten

 

 

Spiegelzelt-Abschlussfest

wandkontakt
DJ-Set
So 29.05. - 7:00 pm
Spiegelzelt

   

Akademie der Spiele

Workshops for kids and teens
Fri 29.04. - Fri 27.05.

 

Team

Intendance                                           
Ingo Metzmacher

Assistance to the Intendance                
Janna Röper

Dramaturgy            
Stephan Buchberger

Production Management       
Marlies Leibitzki

Technology Management          
Willi Brune

Press and Marketing             
Hendrik von Boxberg, Alexander Krupp, Sarah Kniep, Vera Fleischer

Curator Akademie der Spiele and Video Installation 
Leonore Leonardy

Production Team                                                      
Lisa Magdalena Mayer, Hannah Luttermann, Nora Kronemeyer, Maxi Menja Lehmann, Johanna Storch (FSJ Kultur)

Technology Team                 
Jan Gieseke, Cord Hladun, Mathias Märker, Helmuth Roß, Johann Rüdrich, Anja Schneider, Frank Schulz a.o.

Directorate Herrenhäuser Gärten
Ronald Clark

Divisional Management Events/ Rental      
Inga Samii

Ticketing                                     
Peter Müller KulturManagement

Design 
Aoki & Matsumoto

Translation             
Michael Turnbull

Festival photographer                                
Helge Krückeberg

Editorial     
Stephan Buchberger, Janna Röper, Hendrik von Boxberg, Alexander Krupp, Marlies Leibitzki, Leonore Leonardy, Lea Schneider