European Center for the Arts Hellerau
The European Center for the Arts Hellerau ( proper spelling HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts Dresden ) is a cultural enterprise of the city of Dresden on the grounds of the Festspielhaus Hellerau .
history
In 1986 the "Dresden Center for Contemporary Music" (DZzM) was founded under the direction of Udo Zimmermann as a municipal institution, which became known to a broad public primarily through the Dresden Days of Contemporary Music . It was domiciled in a villa on Schevenstrasse in the Loschwitz district of Dresden .
In order to initiate sustainable artistic work on the Festspielhaus grounds, the City of Dresden relocated the Dresden Center for Contemporary Music to Hellerau on July 1, 2002. This was accompanied by a conceptual reorientation. On January 1, 2004, the Dresden Center for Contemporary Music was transformed into the "European Center for the Arts Hellerau". Udo Zimmermann acted as the founding director of this new center, which in the future will also be responsible for ensuring that the festival hall will run. Zimmermann announced that he would perform all of Karlheinz Stockhausen's operas there , but the venture failed due to the funding from the city of Leipzig for the “Wednesday from LIGHT” (1997) - both composers met each other in a friendly but distant manner.
After the interior of the Festspielhaus was renovated in the summer of 2006, the European Center officially renamed itself “HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts Dresden”. After Udo Zimmermann's retirement in 2008, Dieter Jaenicke took over as artistic director in 2009. Since then, the festival hall has been presented with contemporary art all year round. HELLERAU is now one of the most important interdisciplinary centers for contemporary arts in Germany. Contemporary dance, new music, theater, performance, visual arts and new media are at home here. The Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company is a permanent partner of the house along with other artists. From 2003 to 2018 the dance theater DEREVO was also located in HELLERAU. The European Center is a member or part of many international and national associations and networks, including the Alliance of International Production Houses , the KlangNetz Dresden , the International Society for New Music and the European theater network THEATRON. In June 2019 the renowned dance congress , an event of the Federal Cultural Foundation, took place in Hellerau under the artistic direction of Meg Stuart.
The European Center is financed every year with around 3.4 million euros by the city of Dresden.
From 2009 to 2018, the responsibility for the centre's graphic image was in the hands of an advertising agency from Frankfurt am Main . With the change of directorship in summer 2018, a Berlin agency took over this task. The logo is now the word Hellerau, in which a different font is used for the letters r and a .
Institutions
The European Center is divided into the following institutions:
- Supporting company for events and artist residencies
- German composers archive
- International Music Library
- Collection "Ostracized Music"
- Musicological handset with the most important new publications on New Music and related fields
- Documentation center on numerous composers in recent music history
- RAC - Refugee Art Center HELLERAU
Directors
- Udo Zimmermann (2004-2008)
- Dieter Jaenicke (2009-2018)
- Carena Schlewitt (since the 2018/19 season)
literature
- Marion Demuth, Udo Zimmermann (ed.): Sound - space - movement. 10 years Dresden Center for Contemporary Music. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1996, ISBN 3-7651-0331-4 .
- Hellerau - European Center for the Arts Dresden (Hrsg.): Hellerau shines. Festschrift for the tenth anniversary of the reopening of the Festspielhaus Hellerau, self-published, Dresden, 2016
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Dresden Center for Contemporary Music (DZzM) becomes the sponsor of the Festspielhaus site in Hellerau , message from the city of Dresden dated December 15, 2003, accessed on October 30, 2016
- ↑ Attila Kornel: "Deep below us only silence." - The aesthetics of silence in Udo Zimmermann's chamber opera "White Rose". In: DIE TONKUNST, magazine for classical music and musicology. Vol. 11, No. 3, July 2017, pp. 368–377.
- ↑ history on hellerau.org; accessed on August 8, 2018
- ^ Esther Boldt: Alliance of international production houses - An interview on the status of work after two years. Retrieved October 18, 2018 (German).
- ↑ see the annual culture reports of the city of Dresden
- ↑ cf. Hellerau - European Center for the Arts Dresden , reference of the agency; accessed on November 16, 2016
- ↑ website of the agency ; accessed on September 14, 2018
- ^ Website of the composers' archive
- ↑ Project website at hellerau.org
- ↑ Carena Schlewitt takes over artistic directorship in Hellerau , article in the blog Musik in Dresden from 23 September 2016; accessed on November 14, 2016