Cultural summer in Central Hesse

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The Mittelhessen cultural summer is a cultural festival in central Hesse . It has been held annually since 1992 from mid-June to mid-September. Every season, up to 18,000 people interested in culture visit over 130 events at up to 50 venues. The events are resonating across the region. The festival was brought into being by the regional council of Gießen . Kultursommer Mittelhessen eV is responsible for organizing the festival . In addition to the Mittelhessen cultural summer, the Mittelhessischer Kinderkultursommer has been running at the same time since 2007 .

tasks and goals

The Central Hesse cultural summer should

  • enable and promote artistic encounters (regional, national, international),
  • Support projects that otherwise could not take place for financial reasons,
  • Promote joint projects (e.g. through collaboration between different artists or different organizers),
  • are held at unusual venues,
  • address all artistic fields and
  • upgrade the Central Hesse location.

organization

Organizers of the Mittelhessen Kultursommer can apply to participate in the festival until October 31 of each year. A jury selects the events. The venue must be in the five central Hesse districts of Lahn-Dill , Vogelsberg , Limburg-Weilburg , Marburg-Biedenkopf , Gießen or the Wetteraukreis . The festival is organized and made known in cooperation with the organizers. This is coordinated in the office of the sponsoring association Kultursommer Mittelhessen eV The Kultursommer 2019 will open on June 16 at Gleiberg Castle.

Sponsor

Like the other cultural summers in North and South Hesse and Main-Kinzig , the Central Hesse cultural summer is funded by the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art and the Sparkassen Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen . In Central Hesse, the cities of Marburg , Gießen , Wetzlar and the six cultural summer districts, as well as other sponsors, are also involved.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christiane Kowollik: Cultural Summer of Central Hesse celebrates its 20th anniversary . In: Gießener Zeitung , April 19, 2012
  2. ↑ uhg: “Really cheeky” culture is coming into the area ( memento of the original from June 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Oberhessische Zeitung , April 11, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oberhessische-zeitung.de
  3. ↑ Landesdienst der dpa: Kultursommer in Mittelhessen shows “really cheeky” pieces ( memento of the original from April 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Mittelhessen.de, April 10, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.taunus-zeitung.de
  4. ↑ Hotzenplotz meets Jim Knopf. Children's cultural summer events are devoted to great children's literature . In: Newspaper group Lahn-Dill / Mittelhessen.de, May 1, 2014
  5. ↑ Gießener Anzeiger Verlags GmbH & Co KG: Central Hesse cultural summer begins on June 16 at Gleiberg Castle - Central Hesse. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
  6. ^ Hessian Ministry of Science and Art: 125,000 euros for the 22nd cultural summer in Central Hesse . Press release, March 10, 2014, accessed January 12, 2015