International Dixieland Festival Dresden

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Dixieland Parade of the 42nd Dixieland Festival, 2012
Dixieland Parade 2006 along the Brühl Terrace
Open-air jazz on the open-air stage in the Great Garden
Closing session on the banks of the Elbe

The International Dixieland Festival is a multi-day series of events for Dixieland music in Dresden that has been held annually in May since 1971 . It was founded on the initiative of Karlheinz Drechsel , who to this day moderates many of the events, Joachim Schlese, Erich Knebel and others. The Sächsische Festival Vereinigung eV was founded in 1990 and has been the sponsor and organizer of the festival since then. The director of the festival is Joachim Schlese.

Events

The International Dixieland Festival Dresden takes place annually in the second week of May. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 50th festival has been postponed to May 16-23, 2021.

The festival begins every year with Dixieland in Family , an event at Dresden Zoo . The official starting shot is traditionally the premiere of a new episode of "With Triangle and Klapperholz", the Dixieland ABC for the youngest visitors. Besides many small events in clubs, bars and hotels have, among other events, such as the great Dixie night and the Jazz Band Ball in the Palace of Culture Dresden on Saturday and Blues, Boogie & Swing in Dresden Airport (Friday) a place in the program.

With a "Welcome on board" one of the annual highlights traditionally starts on the Elbe, the riverboat shuffle with the Saxon steamship , the largest and oldest paddle steamer fleet in the world. Dixieland International takes place in the Kulturpalast on Friday evening . This event will be broadcast live by MDR 1 Radio Sachsen . On the second Saturday in May, the bands play on various stages between the main train station and the Altmarkt near Dresden's Jazz Mile . On the final Sunday there will be an open-air jazz in the open-air stage Großer Garten (Young Guard) . The finale of the International Dixieland Festival Dresden is the Dixieland parade through the city center with a subsequent closing session.

history

The first festival took place on Pentecost Sunday 1971 with three Dixieland bands from the GDR and one each from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. The central venue of the festival has been the Kulturpalast since 1971 . Just 900 interested parties came in the first year. In the second year the festival was extended to two days; it was almost sold out - for the first time with bands from the west too. From 1974 onwards, a selection from Amiga's concerts was published annually on record , also to document the international participation . The festival developed into a prestige object for the city.

In 1974, bands from western Germany appeared at the festival for the first time with the Old Merry Tale Jazzband from Hamburg and the Barrelhouse Jazzband from Frankfurt. The Umbrella Jazzmen were the first West Berlin band to perform at the Dixieland Festival in 1979. The festival was expanded to include other events outside the Kulturpalast and, with around 30,000 visitors annually, developed into a popular success; In 1980, 80,000 people came for the 10th anniversary.

In addition to the music, it was also about “the international flair during the festival with the touch of the big, wide world.” Until the fall of the Berlin Wall, it was common to form so-called waiting groups until the coveted tickets were available at the advance booking offices. There were waiting communities that existed in a similar composition for up to 25 years. A record-breaking waiting time of 14 days was in 1989.

The Kulturpalast has not been available for the festival for several years due to its renovation since 2013 - but again from 2018. In 2017, 237 musicians played at the festival.

Numerous events are also held by other organizers as part of the festival. In 2007, the first Lindy Hop workshop took place parallel to the Dixieland Festival in cooperation between KIG eV and Dresden-Hepcats eV . Since then, the festival has been an attraction for Lindy-Hop and Balboa dancers.

Web links

Commons : Internationales Dixieland Festival Dresden  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Wolfgang Grösel & Joachim Schlese & Klaus Wilk: 40 years of the International Dixieland Festival Dresden. The Elbe city swings and shines, is bluesy and popular . Edition Sächsische Zeitung, Dresden 2010, ISBN 978-3-938325-73-5

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Wolfram Knauer "Play yourself, man!" The history of jazz in Germany. Reclam, Stuttgart 2019, p. 339
  2. ↑ See Internationales Dixieland Festival Dresden 74 (Amiga 1974). Both Die Dresdner Dixieland-Geschichte (mdr) and Knauer ( "Play yourself, man!" The history of jazz in Germany. P. 339) name 1975 as the first year with West German bands.
  3. ↑ The "JUNGE GARDE" - a traditional venue in the Great Garden. Internationales Dixieland Festival Dresden - Venues. In: dixieland.de. Archived from the original on February 10, 2013 ; Retrieved August 26, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Anniversary in Dresden - Dixieland Festival expects half a million guests. MDR , April 21, 2010, archived from the original on April 25, 2010 ; accessed on October 6, 2016 .
  5. ^ Karlheinz Drechsel History of a festival: For 40 years: Dixiefieber in Dresden
  6. ↑ Example: Thomas Plate: Queue blues , Blog Zeit der Leser , Zeit Online , September 22, 2014.
  7. ↑ Dixieland Festival for the last time in the Kulturpalast. In: Dresdner Latest News . April 25, 2012. Retrieved April 12, 2017 .
  8. ↑ https://www.dnn.de/Nachrichten/Kultur/Regional/Das-Dresdner-Dixieland-Festival-ist-zurueck-im-Kulturpalast
  9. ↑ Dixieland Festival promotes dance and culture ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )