MaerzMusik

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The MaerzMusik -Festival for Time Issues is an event of the Berliner Festspiele and has been held annually in March since 2002 in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele and other venues. It is the successor festival to the Berlin Music Biennale and is considered one of the most important festivals for new music in Germany . The artistic director of MaerzMusik is Berno Odo Polzer.

Music Biennale Berlin

MaerzMusik is the successor festival to the Berlin Music Biennale. The International Festival for Contemporary Music, founded in East Berlin in 1967, was organized as a biennale in February by the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR and the Ministry of Culture until 1989 . From 1991 to 2001 they were continued by the Berliner Festspiele under the direction of Heike Hoffmann . Numerous well-known composers were premiered during the festival, including Günter Kochan , Georg Katzer , Johannes Quint , Ruth Zechlin , Friedrich Goldmann , Johannes Kalitzke and Siegfried Matthus .

MaerzMusik

In March 2002 the festival took place for the first time on around ten days under the new name “MaerzMusik - Festival for Current Music” and presented itself with a new programmatic orientation under the new artistic director Matthias Osterwold . In addition to new music in its current developments as well as in works of historical importance, there was a new “presentation of experimental, conceptual, interdisciplinary and media-art-oriented positions.” The work of other disciplines such as the performing ( music theater , performance ) or visual arts should be considered ( Sound art , installations ) should be included. Another focus was placed on the non-European developments in music.

The program ranged from established positions in new music such as John Cage , Karl-Heinz Stockhausen , Wolfgang Rihm or Sofia Gubaidulina to younger composers such as Beat Furrer or Enno Poppe and visual artists such as Rebecca Horn to musicians from the field of electronica such as Ryoji Ikeda or Aphex Twin . The concept was very successful, the 2014 March Music saw around 15,000 visitors.

In autumn 2014 the Austrian musicologist and freelance curator Berno Odo Polzer took over the artistic direction of the festival as the successor to Matthias Osterwold. He redesigned MaerzMusik as a “Festival for Time Issues” on positions about our handling of time. Developed from the perspective of hearing, the festival sees itself as a space in which "life, art and theory, experience and reflection can converge."

Venues

The festival venues were, among others, the Yellow MUSIC , the Museum für Gegenwart in Hamburger Bahnhof , the Hebbel am Ufer , the Institut français , the Jewish Museum Berlin , the Arsenal cinema , the chamber music hall of the Berlin Philharmonic , the Radialsystem V , the silent green Kulturquartier and the Berghain Club .

Discography

  • 2000: Berlin Music Biennale. World premieres 1969–1995. ( Red Seal )

literature

Web links

  • MaerzMusik , website of the festival
  • Maerzmusik Archive: Review from 2004 as well as 2002 and 2003 . Programs and more on the archive server of the Berliner Festspiele.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae of Heike Hoffmann ( memento from May 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the Salzburg Biennale website
  2. ↑ Introduction to the program of the first MaerzMusik 2002 , accessed on October 22, 2012
  3. ↑ a b Archive MaerzMusik: MaerzMusik - Festival for Current Music 2014 , website of the Berliner Festspiele (accessed on January 5, 2016)
  4. ↑ cf. Announcement in the Berliner Zeitung on July 8, 2013 (accessed on July 11, 2013)
  5. ↑ About the festival: MaerzMusik - Festival for Time Issues. Berliner Festspiele website (accessed January 5, 2016)