Brothers Grimm Festival Hanau

The spectators take their seats again to watch the second part of the event

The Brothers Grimm Festival in Hanau are open-air plays that take place in Hanau every year from mid-May to late July . With currently around 80,000 visitors per season, the Hanau Festival is one of the largest open-air plays in Hesse. Since 1985, several fairy tales from the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm have been dramatized and performed in the palace gardens of Schloss Philippsruhe (mainly premieres ).

history

The 200th birthday of the Brothers Grimm in 1985 was the occasion for the 1st Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale Festival. As the birthplace of the Brothers Grimm and as the starting point of the German Fairy Tale Route, Hanau was ideal as a venue. The palace gardens of Schloss Philippsruhe provided a romantic backdrop for the open-air games . The complete seating, at least 600 seats and all the backdrops were cleared away every night.

In the second year, a large grandstand was built in the park for the festival. It offered more viewers and significantly improved visibility and acoustics. Almost 10,000 visitors came over the summer and enjoyed the two productions of fairy tales in the park.

today

In 2000 the venue was moved to the amphitheater Hanau, which has been covered since 2002 and has a capacity of 1230 seats, with the castle and park as a backdrop on the edge of the castle park. In the 2013 season Frank-Lorenz Engel took over the management. A year later, in its 30th season, the festival got a new name and was renamed from “Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale Festival” to “Brothers Grimm Festival”.

Productions in recent years

2006 : Die goldene Gans (musical by Alexander S. Bermange and Dieter Stegmann), Cinderella (play by Benjamin Baumann ), Rapunzel (play by Dieter Stegmann ), Schneeweißchen and Rosenrot (play by Dieter Gring )

2007 : The seven ravens (musical by Alexander S. Bermange and Wolfgang Adenberg ), Von dem Fischer and his wife (play by Anke Gregersen ), The brave little tailor (play by Dieter Stegmann), Little Brothers and Sisters (play by Dieter Gring)

2008 : König Drosselbart (musical by Alexander S. Bermange and Wolfgang Adenberg), Puss in Boots (play by Michael Deckner ), Rumpelstilzchen (play by Sylvia Hoffmann ), Das Wasser des Lebens (play by Dieter Gring)

2009 : Sleeping Beauty (musical by Alexander S. Bermange and Wolfgang Adenberg), Der alte Sultan (play by Michael Deckner), Das Blaue Licht (play by Dieter Stegmann), Cassandrino, the master thief (play by Dieter Gring)

2010 : Snow White (musical by Alexander S. Bermange and Kevin Schroeder ), The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs (play by Ellen Schulz ), Cendrillon or The Glass Slipper (play by Dieter Gring)

2011 : Ali Baba and the forty robbers (musical by Frank Moesner and Kevin Schroeder), Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten (play by Michael Deckner), Der Froschkönig (play by Dieter Gring)

2012 : The Dancing Shoes (Musical by Frank Moesner and Raphael Protiwensky ), Beauty and the Animal (play by Dieter Gring), The brave little tailor (play by Frank-Lorenz Engel )

2013 : Schneeweißchen and Rosenrot (musical by Dieter Gring, Edith Jeske and Friedrich Rau ), König Drosselbart (play by Dieter Gring), Tischlein Deck Dich (play by Frank-Lorenz Engel), Swanhwhita (play by Ellen Schulz)

2014 : Cinderella (musical by Frank-Lorenz Engel, Marc Schubring and Edith Jeske), Once upon a time (play by Frank-Lorenz Engel), fairy tale about someone who set out to learn to be afraid (play by Jan Radermacher ), Das Käthchen von Heilbronn (play by Heinrich von Kleist )

2015 : Puss in Boots (musical by Frank-Lorenz Engel, Marc Schubring and Edith Jeske), Rumpelstilzchen (play by Jan Radermacher), Hansel and Gretel (play by Mathias Frank ), Kabale und Liebe (Grimm Zeitgenossen, play by Friedrich Schiller )

2016 : Rapunzel (musical), Little Red Riding Hood (world premiere), Die goldene Gans (world premiere), Was ihr wollt (comedy by William Shakespeare ), Burning Love (youth play)

2017 : Vom Fischer und seine Frau (musical by Kevin Schroeder and Marc Schubring ), Frau Holle (premiere), The Devil with Three Golden Hairs (premiere), Faust I (tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ), Burning Love (revival)

2018 : Sleeping Beauty (musical by Marian Lux and Wolfgang Adenberg ), Der Froschkönig (world premiere), The Princess and the Pea (world premiere), Der Brandner Kaspar (play by Franz Kobell), The Sorrows of Young Werther (play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe )

2019 : Jacob and Wilhelm - Weltenwandler (play with music by Kevin Schroeder and Marc Schubring - world premiere), Maria Stuart (drama by Friedrich Schiller ), Snow White (play by Stephan Lack - world premiere), Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten (family play with music by Frank- Lorenz Engel and Thomas Schwab - world premiere), The Sorrows of Young Werther (play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - revival)