Cultural arena
The KulturArena has been a six-week international open-air festival in the center of Jena since 1992 with a focus on music , theater and film . It takes place in July and August. One intention of the festival is to offer non-commercially oriented artists a forum as well as to create a cultural meeting point in the inner city of Jena.
The initially small festival is one of East Germany's largest open-air events with around 70,000 visitors annually.
prehistory
In 1987 the auditorium of the old city theater, designed by Walter Gropius , was demolished. A pompous "Friedrich Schiller Theater" was to be created. This was never realized. In 1991, on the initiative of the first head of the cultural department, Klaus Hattenbach († 2010), a theater team began to work in the ruins again. This was the nucleus of the Jena Theater , which still exists today .
In 1991, Hattenbach, together with the new head of the cultural office, Norbert Reif († 2000) and other heads of cultural affairs, developed the idea of an urban, international music festival .
The Kulturarena is the smaller parallel event to the " Kulturzelt " which has been taking place in Kassel since 1987 . The Kassel music manager Lutz Engelhardt has been involved as artistic director from the start.
festival
The Kulturarena Jena is a mix of concerts, theater, cinema and children's events. The musical spectrum ranges from classical jazz to pop, electronic music, ska, funk, hip-hop and rock as well as African and South American music.
The festival starts on two evenings in June with an overture played by the Jena Philharmonic in Jena’s new Lobeda-West district .
In July, the Kulturarena begins with a theater spectacle, followed by films, concerts and a children's program on Sundays.
In addition to its main domicile on the theater forecourt and in Lobeda-West, the festival presents itself with alternative club concerts in the "Kassablanca" at the Westbahnhof, as well as with acoustic performances in the Jenaer Volksbad .
Artist
The spectrum of artists ranges from unknown or not yet known artists to musicians like Max Herre or Rainald Grebe. Previous headliners at the KulturArena have included:
- Patti Smith
- We are Heroes
- Buena Vista Social Club
- Jan Josef Liefers
- 2 room apartment
- Suzanne Vega
- Sophie hungry
- Maceo Parker
- AnnenMayKantereit
- Yann Tiersen
- Bosses
- Milow
- Element of Crime
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Home - Kulturarena 2016 (July 6 - August 21, 2016 on the theater forecourt in Jena). In: www.kulturarena.de. Retrieved January 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Archive 1992-2016 - Kulturarena 2016 (July 6 - August 21, 2016 on the theater forecourt in Jena). (No longer available online.) In: www.kulturarena.de. Archived from the original on January 16, 2017 ; accessed on January 16, 2017 . 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.
- ↑ kassa jena - Google search. In: www.google.de. Retrieved January 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Visiting Jena - Kulturarena 2016 (July 6 - August 21, 2016 on the theater forecourt in Jena). In: www.kulturarena.de. Retrieved January 16, 2017 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 32 " N , 11 ° 35 ′ 1" E