Fontane Festival

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The Fontane Festival is a festival in Neuruppin that first took place in 2010 to commemorate Theodor Fontane's legacy .

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With the festival Neuruppin would like to live up to its cultural obligation as Fontane's birthplace. In 1998 the city of Neuruppin made the first attempt to honor Fontane with a festival. However, this event did not have the quality and response to continue.

The festival, which was re-launched in 2010, was intended to combine theater, music, literature, multimedia exhibitions and walks in order to bring Fontane's work into the present. While the festival in 2010 and 2012 was organized with substantial participation by the city, the artistic directors founded a special society for 2014, the Fontane Festival gUG.

Under the motto “Beside the track”, 20 authors read from their works on the subject of travel. In 2010 and 2012, the focus was on the Eastern and Southeastern European literary scene; in 2014, the focus was on Great Britain.

Fontane Festival 2010

In 2010 the musical drama Grete Minde based on a crime story by Theodor Fontane was performed in concert on a stage between the monastery church and the Ruppiner See . The music comes from Siegfried Matthus . The executive orchestra was the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt .

Fontane Festival 2012

Fontane's poetry was once part of the irrefutable canon of German literature. The Fontane Lyrik project wants to build on this. In addition, actors read Fontane poems. In 2012 these were Anna Thalbach , Christian Brückner , Julia Jentsch , Katy Karrenbauer and Klaus Dieter Klebsch . As part of the festival, several tours that Fontane described in his hikes through the Mark Brandenburg will be followed , partly on foot, partly by bike, ship or charcuterie .

Fontane Festival 2014

Another item on the program was added in 2014 - the Fontane Film Lounge, which shows film adaptations of Theodor Fontane's novels.

The next festival will take place in 2016.

Fontane Prize for Literature

Since 1994, the city of Neuruppin, which was given the official addition of "Fontanestadt" in 1998, has been awarding the € 5,000 Fontane Prize for Literature . The prize has been awarded at the festival since 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. www.n-tv.de: Neuruppin wants to maintain heritage, accessed on October 3, 2013
  2. www.dradio.de: With Fontane from the negative headlines of May 24, 2012
  3. www.maz-online.de/ Fontane Festspiele can come, accessed on October 3, 2013
  4. Program overview at www.fontane-festspiele.com, accessed on October 4, 2013 ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )