Lake Constance Festival

The Bodenseefestival is a festival program founded in 1989 by the then Südwestfunk (today: Südwestrundfunk ) and the cities of Friedrichshafen and Konstanz as the International Bodenseefestival , which includes numerous individual events.

It takes place every year from the first weekend in May to Whit Monday around Lake Constance .

history

The festival has been organized by Bodensee-Festival GmbH in Friedrichshafen since 1993 . At the Bodensee Festival GmbH are the SWR , the city, Friedrichshafen , the canton of St. Gallen , the city of Constance , the city Ravensburg and another 16 cities and municipalities in the region and public cultural institutions from Germany , the Switzerland and Austria involved. Winfried Neumann and Katharina Ess are currently (2018) the managing directors of Bodensee-Festival GmbH . The main idea of ​​the festival is to enliven and strengthen the common and connecting culture in the culturally related, but politically divided Lake Constance area. "The existing cultural forces in the region should be bundled and complemented by internationally known artists and ensembles."

The festival offers a diverse range of cultural activities, from orchestral , chamber and organ concerts to jazz and ballet to theater , literature , exhibitions and film presentations . "In the past, the culture of a European country was the focus of the festival."

subjects

From 1989 to 1998 a European country was the focus of the International Lake Constance Festival. Since 1999 the annual Lake Constance Festival has had a specific theme, and since 2005 a renowned artist has given the festival an additional accent as Artist in Residence . Since 2014 the festival has been returning to its original concept and once again putting a country at the center of the events.

1989: France 1990: The opening of Eastern Europe 1991: Czechoslovakia 1992: Italy 1993: Russia 1994: Austria 1995: Switzerland 1996: Hungary 1997: Spain 1998: Poland

1999: Turning times - farewell and departure 2000: Heaven and Earth - Baroque Today 2001: Landscape inspiration 2002: Classic - longing for the beautiful 2003: The idea of ​​Europe 2004: Romanticism - Fantasy, Poetry, Longing 2005: Spirituality and lust for life 2006: nobility and bourgeoisie 2007: fairy tales, myths and legends 2008: Departure to modernity

2009: England, oh England 2010: Fantasy and Reality 2011: Impulse Vienna 2012: focus 1912 2013: Keyboard games 2014: Turkey 2015: Bohemia by the lake 2016: Northern Lights 2017: Variations on America 2018: Russia - Onward to New Shores

Artist in Residence

2005: Ton Koopman 2006: Juliane Banse 2007: Dmitri Sitkovetsky 2008: Heinrich Schiff 2009: Jaap ter Linden 2010: Stefan Vladar

2011: Sharon Kam 2012: Tabea Zimmermann 2013: Rudolf Buchbinder 2014: Fazıl Say 2015: Pavel Haas Quartet 2016: Tine Thing Helseth

2017: Cameron Carpenter , Grace Kelly 2018: Dmitri Maslejew , Gabriel Prokofiev

literature

• ABC of ARD: International Lake Constance Festival. ARD, accessed on July 15, 2018 . 

Web link

• Bodenseefestival GmbH, Friedrichshafen: Bodenseefestival (website). Retrieved July 15, 2018 . 

Web links to Lake Constance festivals by year

• Schwäbische Zeitung: Bodensee Festival 2018: tradition meets modernity. March 15, 2018, accessed July 15, 2018 . 
• Südkurier (Corinna Raupach): Cameron Carpenter characterizes the Lake Constance Festival 2017. April 5, 2017, accessed on July 15, 2018 . 
• Schwäbische Zeitung: Nordic sounds at the Bodenseefestival 2016. April 24, 2016, accessed on July 15, 2018 . 
• szene-kultur.de: Bodenseefestival 2015. Retrieved on July 15, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung from March 15, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} ARD International Lake Constance Festival