Bremen Carnival
The Bremen Carnival is an annual carnival parade in Bremen that has been held since 1986, followed by a masked ball and a large number of side events. The carnival has been taking place under annually changing mottos since 1991. It is a carnival with an emphasis on samba . Other “pillars” are: masks, costumes, stilts and spectacles. The operator is the “Initiative Bremer Karneval eV”, the initiator and artistic director is the Swiss artist Janine Jaeggi. The Bremen Carnival is considered the largest samba carnival in Europe and almost coincides with the Venice Carnival .
history
The first move took place on February 15, 1986 with a samba group and around 100 participants in the Ostertor district near the former Paulskloster . It was founded by a samba group in Bremen in 1985. The initiators used the archaic idea of winter expulsion and the play of the burgeoning spring forces as the basic motif for the Bremen carnival. These energies are symbolically symbolized by the living arts such as samba, guggen music, masks, costumes, dance, stilts and spectacles. The period from 1986 to 1990 was characterized by the search for and definition of the framework conditions. Originally, the date of the move was set to be the first full moon night in February, with a clear distinction from the Rhenish carnival. However, since the dates could still overlap, the weekend one week before the big Rhenish carnival parades was chosen. In the first few years, the moving locations also changed, until the sixth Carnival in 1991 saw the emergence of today's moving route from the market square in Bremen via Ostertorsteinweg .
The Bremen carnival had only had a fixed and annually changing motto since 1991, when it was discussed against the backdrop of the Second Gulf War to cancel the carnival entirely. Instead, the move was put under the motto “Bubbling up against the war”. A masked ball has also been held in the Schlachthof cultural center since 1992 . The following years were associated with a significant increase in the number of side events and increased professionalism. Entry is required for many events. The carnival season will also be announced publicly on November 11 of the previous year on the Bremen market square, with the respective annual motto being presented.
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In 2008, the move included over 150 samba groups with around 2,500 participants and around 30,000 spectators. According to the organizers' website, 109 groups were registered for the 2007 move. The parade ends in a street carnival with different stages and a free play between the actors and the audience.
The participating samba groups come from Bremen and the near and far, but also from the Rhineland, Berlin , Augsburg , Munich or Kiel and neighboring countries such as the Netherlands , Austria and Switzerland.
According to police estimates, 35,000 spectators were present at the parade in 2009, the parade itself had 1,400 participants. In contrast to previous years, the move had already started at 11:11 a.m. The background was a game of the Werder Bremen football club on the same day.
In February 2014 around 1,500 people took part in the samba parade under the motto “Home?”. There were also people from Denmark , the Netherlands , the United Kingdom and Switzerland represented in the over one hundred groups .
Over a hundred groups with 1,000 musicians and 1,200 samba dancers, acrobats and stilt walkers took part in the parade on February 6, 2015. According to police estimates, at least 15,000 people watched the move on Bremen's market square , Domsheide and in the district .
Mottos of the Bremen Carnival
- 1. Bremen Carnival (1986): Winter spirits waft through the city
- 2nd Bremen Carnival (1987)
- 3rd Bremen Carnival (1988)
- 4. Bremen Carnival (1989): Ball of Impossibilities
- 5th Bremen Carnival (1990)
- 6. Bremen Carnival (1991): Bubbling up against the war
- 7. Bremen Carnival (1992): What draws and drives us
- 8. Bremen Carnival (1993): We cheat
- 9. Bremen Carnival (1994): We cannot do otherwise
- 10. Bremen Carnival (1995): There is something in the air
- 11. Bremen Carnival (1996): Now come over the dike
- 12. Bremen Carnival (1997): In abundance
- 13th Bremen Carnival (1998): The ghosts we call ...
- 14th Bremen Carnival (1999): The Great Odyssey
- 15th Bremen Carnival (2000): Brush Tower - Flood of images: surreal & expressive!
- 16. Bremen Carnival (2001): Journey to Samba Asia
- 17th Bremen Carnival (2002): Terra magica
- 18th Bremen Carnival (2003): ALL-EVERYWHERE
- 19th Bremen Carnival (2004): Anno 1404.
- 20th Bremen Carnival (2005): Carneval Animal
- 21st Bremen Carnival (2006): Weibsbilder
- 22nd Bremen Carnival (2007): Carnival Industrial
- 23rd Bremen Carnival (2008): Delicacies
- 24th Bremen Carnival (2009): RED
- 25th Bremen Carnival (2010): Land under
- 26th Bremen Carnival (2011): Theatrical
- 27th Bremen Carnival (2012): Metamorphosis
- 28th Bremen Carnival (2013): FAIRkehrte Welt
- 29th Bremen Carnival (2014): Heimat
- 30. Bremen Carnival (2015): The great circus
- 31. Bremen Carnival (2016): The Journey
- 32nd Bremen Carnival (2017): Wonder Worlds
- 33rd Bremen Carnival (2018): Lost in space
- 34th Bremen Carnival (2019): Mood of nature
literature
- Katharina Witte (Ed.): Now come over the dike - 20 years of the Bremen Carnival . Edition Temmen , Bremen 2005, ISBN 3-86108-566-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ No escape: Bremen residents celebrate the Samba Carnival with devotion. senatspressestelle.bremen.de, January 24, 2002, accessed on February 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Kreiszeitung Syke online: Start of the Samba Carnival in Bremen 2017
- ↑ Bremer Karneval 2009 ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Samba Carnival in Bremen. In: Nordwestzeitung Online , February 24, 2014.
- ↑ Samba fever in the city. In: Weser-Kurier , February 7, 2015.
- ↑ Alexander Tietz: Bremen Carnival: 2000 artists and drummers turn the city center into a circus. In: Weser-Kurier , February 8, 2015.
