Small party in the big garden

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The Small Festival in the Great Garden is a summer oriented, several weeks a year cabaret - Festival in the Great Garden of Herrenhausen . More than 100 artists from numerous nations play dozens of stages from the early evening hours or present themselves as so-called walking acts to the audience in the centuries-old baroque setting of the former Electoral Hanoverian Great Garden. The trademark of the small festival is a chapeau claque , with the " the man with the top hat ”welcomes the visitors and symbolizes the cooperation of all the artists playing together.

history

The idea and concept for the small festival in the Great Garden was developed by Harald Böhlmann , head of the Hanover Department of Culture and later head of the Lower Saxony state capital, in the mid-1980s. The decisive idea was "to use the extraordinary baroque garden [von Herrenhausen] and to make it tangible in a special way with artistic activities". Events such as the music and theater program in Herrenhausen , which has been offered since 1956, should be supplemented with clowning, acrobatics and the like offered by national and international performers from cabaret.

While only ten stages with just a few artists and performers were used for a few hundred visitors at the first small festival in the Great Garden, the festival has developed over the decades "into the most successful event of its kind in Germany". The tickets for the popular cabaret festival have been awarded annually by lottery since 1999. According to the organizers, around 304,000 advance orders were received for the 53,000 tickets for the 16 dates in 2017. For 2019, 63,000 tickets were available for 16 dates.

Hundreds of ensembles and individual artists took part in the small festival. They had been discovered at other national or international festivals, trade fairs or "culture exchanges" or had sent their blind applications from all over the world to Harald Böhlmann, who made the selection and designed the program. In addition, cooperation with international festivals and the GOP Varieté-Theater Hannover was agreed.

While most of the artists performed for a maximum of two years in a row, the little clown Frans is an exception and regularly gives the small festival in the large garden a face.

Some theater groups appeared regularly, but with changing productions, such as the Scharniertheater Hannover or the Dutch-Italian Teatro Pavana . Its future director Judith Melief started her artistic activity in Herrenhausen as a player in the Mang mask theater, which her mother directed .

Other ensembles and artists who became known and popular after a successful start in Herrenhausen are the Wall Street Theater , comedians like Sascha Grammel or the actor Sascha Korf or the puppeteer Detlef Wutschik, who then appeared regularly on television, with his fictional character “Herr Momsen”.

The small festival always acted as a market, fair and artist exchange, in which agents, producers and organizers followed the performances of the artists live in order to be able to commit them to other commitments. For the artists, the festival always served as a kind of collecting basin for creativity, where discussions and joint training took place, tricks and new ideas or even new productions were developed. The “Elephant Walk” of the street theater PasParTout , for example, was based on the Small Festival in the Great Garden .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ghita Cleri: In the beginning was the garden ... , in Karl Johaentges (photos), Harald Böhlmann, Ghita Cleri (collaborators): Kleines Fest und Großer Garten , 1st edition, Rostock: Hinstorff Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-356-01477-8 , pp. 7f.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g The man with the top hat: Small festival in the large garden , in Karl Johaentges (photos), Harald Böhlmann, Ghita Cleri (collaborators): Small festival and large garden ..., 2012, p. 126f.
  3. ^ A b Hugo Thielen : Herrenhausen - Events. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 290f.
  4. ↑ Juliane Kaune: Kleinkunstfestival: Small festival in the large garden ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Hannoversche Allgemeine , January 22, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.haz.de
  5. ^ "Kleines Fest", even more popular this year , NDR.de , May 9, 2017
  6. ↑ Small festival in the Great Garden. Retrieved August 13, 2019 .