Listening tower
The listening tower is a project of Culturm eV in the water tower of Perleberg ( Prignitz district , Brandenburg ). As part of the project, radio plays are produced and published and radio play cinemas are organized there. The program is aimed primarily at children and young families. It has been an integral part of the region's Prignitz-Summer event calendar for years . The annual cultural program also includes the Johannis Festival in June and the Prignitz Festival of Lights in Advent .
program
The little Dott
The radio play Die kleine Dott - Die Johannisnacht is an in-house production of the Hörurm and was first released on November 30, 2007. It was followed on November 29, 2008 by the radio play Die kleine Dott - In Frau Harkes Reich . The radio plays are based on the novel Wonderful Journeys and Adventures of Little Dott by Tamara Ramsay from 1938. In the story, a little girl explores the country and the history of Prignitz and Germany. The novel has been sold over 160,000 times to date. The radio play is spoken by Rolf Becker , Julia Fölster, Peter Kirchberger , Stephanie Kirchberger , Robert Missler , Sascha Rotermund , Karime Vakilzadeh, Jens Wendland and others. On January 15, 2008, it was nominated for the Radio Play Award 2007 in the category Best Individual Radio Play Children / Youth .
On December 1, 2012 the premiere of the third part, Die kleine Dott - The Flight with the Heron, took place as part of a live radio play. This radio play and the two following parts are spoken by professionals and amateurs alike.
What has been new since 2011 is that the radio plays produced so far are performed by the speaker ensemble, consisting of up to 12 actors, in front of an audience in the listening tower and at selected locations as a live radio play.
Puppet theater
The listening tower has been producing its own puppet theater pieces since 2013 and performing them in the listening tower. The first own production is the musical puppet theater play Mars and Venus . The musical basis is the orchestral suite The Planets by Gustav Holst . The puppet piece was created in cooperation with the puppet theater Camillo, Casper & Co. under the direction of Camillo Fischer from Frankenberg and the district music school in Prignitz under the direction of Alexander Girsch. In the piece, 7 figures from Roman mythology embody the 7 planets, each figure has its own orchestral setting. The figures are built larger than usual. The respective figure develops from the respective planet during the piece, e.g. B. Mars and Venus. The puppet theater piece was specially developed for the extraordinary performance room in the listening tower with its height of 6 meters. The 7 planets float above the heads of the audience, making the piece an absolute novelty. In the performance room there is a gallery ceiling made of glass, the glasses are illuminated tangentially with color LEDs and represent the rings of Saturn. The musical accompaniment is provided by actors from the Prignitz district music school . The world premiere took place on July 18, 2015 at the Festival of the Music and Art Schools Brandenburg in Wittenberge (Sound City 2015) .
Prignitzer Festival of Lights
Every year on the Saturday before the 1st Advent, the Prignitz Festival of Lights takes place in the Perleberg listening tower from 4 p.m. The Prignitz children have been enjoying the Festival of Lights program for many years. It is organized in an exemplary collaboration between the Hörturm team and the city administration of Perleberg. On November 28, 2015, the 10th Prignitz Festival of Lights took place.
Promoter
The organizer and organizer of the hearing tower is Culturm eV. The association was founded in 2002 and is based in the hearing tower.
Awards
Selected location 2012 of the location initiative Germany - Land of Ideas
media
Sascha Fröhlich reported on the Hörturm project on rbb television in November 2003 and the regional television station Prignitz-TV in October 2003 and December 2007. The radio station Antenne Brandenburg of rbb Radio offered further reports . Articles on the subject appear regularly in the Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung and in the Schweriner Volkszeitung .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 4 '17.4 " N , 11 ° 52' 23.4" E