KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen 2021
12th edition of the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen
13. - 30.05.2021 (extended until 06.06.2021 due to the pandemic)
The KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen 2021 started purely digitally in the first two festival weeks due to corona. Briefly extended by a week, an 11-day stage festival, partly outdoors in the Herrenhausen Gardens, was able to start on May 27 with a significant drop in incidences.
The online program of the KunstFestSpiele opened on May 13 with Raed Yassin's new work The Sea Between My Soul, which was shown as a recording. The program was followed by live digital broadcasts from the Herrenhausen Gardens or from studios in the places of origin of the invited artists and ensembles.
The premiere of Heiner Goebbels' Liberté d'Action in the Great Garden finally opened the live stage program in front of an enthusiastic audience. Around half of the events between 27.05. and 06.06. could finally be played on site despite pandemic times with audiences, albeit with significantly reduced seating capacity. Other highlights of the KunstFestSpiele 2021 were concerts with, among others, Patricia Kopatchinskaja or Derya Yıldırım, the light installation lost artefacts, lost presence by Mischa Kuball and theater evenings with the Grande Dame of European theater Viviane De Muynck. For the first time in the history of the KunstFestSpiele, the Graft of the Great Garden was navigated by boat, designed as an audio tour by the artist group YRD.Works. The festival center with its open tent in the fresh air offered artists, spectators and the KunstFestSpiele team optimal conditions to meet each other despite the pandemic situation and to enjoy the culinary delights of the freitagsküche. The festival campus Niedersachsen as an educational mission could also be carried out again with safety distances and masks and enable students from the subjects music, art and theater conversations and discussions with artists and scientists.
The realization of the 2021 program was made possible solely by the flexibility of the artists, the concession of Ronald Clark, the director of the Herrenhausen Gardens, and the organizational performance of the entire team around Intendant Ingo Metzmacher. Extensive rapid test offers for the audience, daily tests for the entire team and the artists and a detailed hygiene concept contributed to the safety of the festival. There was no corona case during the entire runtime.
Graphic: Aoki & Matsumoto, Cover: Paula Codoñer
Venues
Arne Jacobsen Foyer, Galerie, Orangerie, Orangenparterre, Großer Garten, Meadow next to the viewing terrace, Overseas container, DHC-Halle, Graft
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Events
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Der Prozess II - RAF krügerXweiss |
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CURRENT TOURS YRD.Works |
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lost artefacts, lost presence Mischa Kuball |
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Liberté d'Action Heiner Goebbels, David Bennent, Ensemble Modern |
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Liederabend Georg Nigl, Ingo Metzmacher |
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DJ Set - Feinkost Lampe DJ Wandkontakt, Lisa Morgenstern |
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Molly Bloom Viviane De Muynck, Jan Lauwers, Needcompany |
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard & Tamara Stefanovich Werke von Birtwistle und Bartók |
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Mal - Embriaguez Divina Marlene Monteiro Freitas |
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| Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Reto Bieri Mit Werken von Bach, Dick, Schulhoff and much more Concert Tue 01.06. - 9:30 pm Meadow next to the viewing terrace/ Großer Garten |
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| The Lichtenberg Figures - Reloaded Eva Reiter, Ictus Concert Wed 02.06. - 7:30 pm Galerie |
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Worktable Kate McIntosh |
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100 Cymbals / But what about the noise of crumpling paper Ryoji Ikeda, John Cage, Les Percussions de Strasbourg |
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The Mountain Agrupación Señor Serrano |
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Farm Fatale Philippe Quesne |
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DJ Herr Wieland und Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher Feinkost Lampe Concert |
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landscape and bodies: Water and Coltan Daniel Kötter, Anna Ptak, Elisa Limberg |
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landscape and bodies: Gold and Coal Daniel Kötter, Sarah Israel, Elisa Limberg |
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Big Bears Cry Too Miet Warlop |
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MONUMENT 0.6: HETEROCHRONIE / Palermo 1599 - 1920 Eszter Salamon |
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Online program 2021
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The Sea Between My Soul Raed Yassin |
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Florian Weber & Ensemble Modern Concert |
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Opus Infinity Shiva Feshareki, Ensemble Modern |
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Des Canyons aux Étoiles Olivier Messiaen, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Ingo Metzmacher |
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Derya's Songbook Derya Yıldırım, Ensemble Resonanz |
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Niklas Paschburg Feinkost Lampe Concert |
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Talks with Friederike Westerhaus |
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Until the Last of Our Labour's is Done Vlatka Horvat |
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Van Eyck Diagrams Graindelavoix |
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Chapelier Fou Feinkost Lampe Concert |
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Before Falling Seek the Assistance of Your Cane Rabih Mroué |
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Team 2021
Intendance
Ingo Metzmacher
Assistance to the Intendance
Mascha Schmid
Dramaturgy
Stephan Buchberger (management), Beate Schüler
Artistic Operations Directorate
Marlies Leibitzki
Production
Lena Breitfuß (management), Anton Fuchs, Sandra Hoffmann, Vivien Hohnholz, Jonathan Kirn, Lina Mayer, Myriam Pechan, Isabel Reichert, Sarah Reichert, Corinna Tetzel, Kristin Wolter, Victor Zapata, Lara Hamborg (FSJ Kultur)
Artistic Operations Office
Julia von Knebel
Technology
Willi Brune (management), Wiglev von Wedel
Press, Marketing and Online
Hendrik von Boxberg, Vera Fleischer, Derya Irrgang
Sponsoring, Fundraising
Simone Anna Blumenthal
Curator KunstFestSpiele Campus and Symposium
Philipp Schulte, Antonia Rohwetter
Support Festival Team
Isabella Guzy, Ceven Jänisch
Ticketing
Peter Müller KulturManagement
Design
Aoki & Matsumoto
Editorial
Stephan Buchberger, Beate Schüler, Vera Fleischer, Marlies Leibitzki, Mascha Schmid, Hendrik von Boxberg
Translation
Michael Turnbull
Directorate Herrenhäuser Gärten
Ronald Clark
We would like to thank Ronald Clark, Director of the Herrenhausen Gardens, and all the other employees of the Herrenhausen Gardens for their excellent cooperation.
