Carl Orff Festival Andechs
The Carl Orff Festival Andechs was a music and theater festival that took place every summer from 1998 to 2015, from May to August, on the Holy Mountain not far from the grave of Carl Orff . In addition to the central work of Carl Orff, the festival also devoted concerts and scenic productions to “related” artists of Orff and artists who feel committed to Orff's work and spirit. The festival was attended by around 10,000 guests each year. From 2008 to 2015, Marcus Everding was the festival director.
history
In 1992, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Carl Orff's death, a “weekend with music” took place on the initiative of Wilfried Hiller and Father Anselm Bilgri . The worldwide importance of his work and the fact that Carl Orff was buried in the Sorrowful Chapel of the pilgrimage church at his own request was felt by the monastery as an obligation to lay a basis for long-term maintenance of Orff's works on the Holy Mountain. Conceived as a biennale, in the following years the works of Carl Orff were initially performed every two years in reduced versions and as guest performances together with chamber music by his contemporaries.
The decisive development took place in 1998 with the appointment of Hellmuth Matiasek , formerly director of the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz, as artistic director of the now annual festival and the conversion of the former haystack "Florian-Stadl" into a concert hall and thus a permanent venue for the festival.
In 2008, Marcus Everding took over the artistic direction of the festival and developed and opened it up under the maxim of creating “a novelty in the continuum”. In particular, through the establishment of the Andechs ORFF® Academy of the Munich Radio Orchestra , a cooperation project between the Andechs Monastery and the Bavarian Radio , the musical quality of the festival could be further developed in the spirit of Orff's youth work. Under Everding's direction, the Carl Orff Festival acquired a reputation as one of the three major composers' festivals in Bavaria, alongside the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth and the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Until 2010 the sponsorship of the festival was in the hands of the association “Orff in Andechs e. V. ”In 2011, the Andechs Monastery itself took responsibility for the“ Carl Orff Festival Andechs ”; this seemed to secure a long-term perspective.
On May 7, 2015, Andechs Monastery announced that it would end the festival after the 2015 season. The reason given for the end after 18 years was "serious and unbridgeable differences between the monastery and the Carl Orff Foundation". At the end of July 2015, the festival ended with a performance of Der Mond .
Festival program
Since 1998, a large number of Carl Orff's works, including Der Mond , Die Kluge , Carmina Burana , Die Bernauerin , Antigonae , Trionfo di Afrodite or Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream , set to music by Orff, have been performed in Andechs. The audience favorites were Die Bernauerin and Carmina Burana in particular . The woman from Bernau received a guest invitation to the EXPO 2000 in Hanover and was performed there in front of a sold-out house as part of the Bavarian Country Week of the German Pavilion.
The program was gradually expanded to include productions and series of events that are dedicated to "related" artists of Orff and feel committed to Orff's spirit. Among other things, Der Goggolori by Orff's student Wilfried Hiller , the world premiere of 2nachOrff by Marcus Everding and Büchner's Leonce and Lena were shown on the Andechs festival stage.
In addition, guest concerts by the Munich Radio Orchestra , chamber concerts by the academics and numerous additional events accompanying the festival, such as soirées and festival talks , rounded off the respective festival season.
Cooperation with the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation
The "Carl Orff Festival Andechs" maintained a close cooperation with the former "house broadcaster" Carl Orff, which resulted in a large number of joint activities within the framework of the festival.
Guest concerts by the Munich Radio Orchestra
Since 2009, the Munich Radio Orchestra under Ulf Schirmer has been a guest at the Andechs Festival on the Holy Mountain. The respective festival season was thematically supplemented and expanded by the concert. The concert series tried to shed light on Orff in and with his contemporaries, teachers and role models. For example, Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream was presented in contrast to Orff's Midsummer Night's Dream music. Composers such as Richard Wagner , Richard Strauss , Kurt Weil and Heinrich Kaminski also received special attention during the concerts .
Andechs ORFF academy of the Munich radio orchestra
The Andechs ORFF Academy of the Munich Radio Orchestra is an orchestral academy that was founded in 2009 by the Munich Radio Orchestra and the "Carl Orff Festival Andechs". Since the festival was especially dedicated to the cross-border promotion of young talent as the special legacy of Carl Orff, the idea of founding an academy for young talented musicians in training was born. The idea of creating an academy for talented young musicians goes back to Carl Orff himself.
As part of this academy, selected young musicians are encouraged every year in auditions. In several work phases, under the overall artistic direction of Ulf Schirmer and Marcus Everding and the musical direction of Christian von Gehren, they will be familiarized with the music-dramatic work of Carl Orff. The highlight and conclusion is the accompaniment of a festival production and participation in chamber concerts of the “Carl Orff Festival Andechs”. In addition, the young musicians are introduced to the work of Carl Orff in several working phases with orchestral and register rehearsals, workshops on topics such as music theater, drama and chamber music, as well as lectures by Orff experts.
Venues
Festival hall Florian-Stadl
At the foot of the Holy Mountain, the “Florian-Stadl” - formerly used by the monastery's own farm as a hay barn and pigsty - was created as a festival venue for the works of Carl Orff, which stands out due to its architecture and atmosphere of tradition and modernity. In several construction phases between 1997 and 2000, a concert hall with up to 580 seats in the parquet and 200 seats in the gallery was built in this building, which extends over four levels. In the course of a further renovation in 2010/2011, the so-called “twelve-beam cellar”, which served as a backstage for the artists and the stage staff, was fully integrated into the “Florian-Stadl”.
Princely wing of the monastery
The “prince's wing” in Andechs Monastery consists of various rooms in the baroque ambience of the former Bavarian rulers, the Wittelsbachers . The Nikolaussaal, the Alte Bibliothek, the Fürstensaal, the Graf-Berthold-Zimmer, the Fürstensaal and the Herzog-Albrecht-Zimmer were used for concerts and soirees during the festival season .
Pilgrimage Church of St. Nikolaus and Elisabeth Andechs
literature
- Program book of the Carl Orff Festival 2013, 2014.
- T. Siedhoff: Orff in Andechs: 1998-2008: 10 years of the Festival in Florian-Stadl, Andechs. 2008.
- F. Wilnauer, O. Lechner, H. Matiasek: Carl Orff and the Holy Mountain. Kirchheim Verlag, Munich. 2008, ISBN 978-3-87410-121-9 .
- C. Orff: Carl Orff and his work. Documentation, Volume I-VIII. Hans Schneider Verlag, Tutzing 1975–1983, DNB 550820574 .
Web links
- Carl Orff Festival. Retrieved September 16, 2014 .
- Carl Orff. Retrieved September 16, 2014 .
- Carl Orff Center. Retrieved September 16, 2014 .
Individual evidence
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^ Carl Orff Festival - History. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 5, 2014 ; Retrieved September 17, 2014 . 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. F. Wilnauer, O. Lechner, H. Matiasek: Carl Orff and the Holy Mountain. Kirchheim Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-87410-121-9 .
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Off for the Carl Orff Festival.
- ↑ Reinhard Palmer: Where dark powers rule. sueddeutsche.de, July 19, 2015, accessed on July 30, 2015 .
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↑ Carl Orff Festival - Idea and Realization. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 5, 2014 ; Retrieved September 17, 2014 . 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. Program book of the Carl Orff Festival Andechs 2013, 2014.
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↑ ORFF Academy 2014. Archived from the original on October 25, 2013 ; Retrieved September 17, 2014 . Andechs ORFF Academy. Archived from the original on September 3, 2014 ; Retrieved September 17, 2014 .
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↑ Andechs Monastery. Retrieved September 17, 2014 . Festival hall Florian-Stadl. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 23, 2015 ; Retrieved September 17, 2014 . 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. T. Siedhoff: Orff in Andechs: 1998–2008: 10 years of the Festival in Florian-Stadl, Andechs. 2008.
