Music Festival Potsdam Sanssouci
The Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival is a festival with music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods in historically informed performance practice with excursions and bridges to other genres such as jazz, pop, electronics, folk music, world music and new music . They take place annually for almost three weeks in June with around 80 events in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens of Potsdam & Berlin as well as in the historical center of Potsdam and its surroundings. Every year one to three opera productions, palace concerts , open-air concerts , a bicycle concert , guided tours and lectures, innovative music-cultural listening and children's projects are performed - most of them are self-produced or specially themed for the festival. At least one new event format is developed every year.
Today's Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival is a successor to the Sanssouci Park Festival, which took place in 1954. They were re-established shortly after the reunification of the two German states and took place for the first time in 1991. The operating company is the Sanssouci Music Festival and Nikolaisaal Potsdam gGmbH, a company of the state capital Potsdam. The recorder player and conductor Dorothee Oberlinger has been the artistic director of the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival since 2018, and Heike Bohmann took over the management of the gGmbH in the same year. The festival is sponsored by the state capital Potsdam and the state of Brandenburg and organized in cooperation with the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg .
The former managing director and artistic director Andrea Palent was responsible for the concept and its implementation from 1991 to 2018.
The topics so far have been:
- 1991 Mozart
- 1992 music at European courts
- 1993 1000 years of Potsdam
- 1994 Sanssouci - Versailles . Prussia
- 1995 Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
- 1996 The Prussian royal house and Europe
- 1997 Friedrich Wilhelm II. And the fine arts
- 1998 Prussia - War - Peace
- 1999 Knobelsdorff - Italy - Antiquity
- 2000 relationship with Bach
- 2001 Nature as a model
- 2002 On the sound of images
- 2003 European bridges. Utrecht - Potsdam - St. Petersburg
- 2004 50 years of the festival in Sanssouci
- 2005 woman musica. Artist, muse, patron - women and music
- 2006 Paths to Mozart
- 2007 Musica Britannica
- 2008 Venice - musica serenissima
- 2009 Haydn's World
- 2010 Longing for the distance
- 2011 Dresden - Saxony's glory meets Prussia's glory
- 2012 stir! Frederick the Great , Music and Europe
- 2013 Scandinavia
- 2014 Mediterranean
- 2015 Music and Gardens
- 2016 Bonjour France!
- 2017 Earth | Fire | Water | air
- 2018 Europe
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Profile of the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival. Retrieved January 21, 2019 .
- ^ Christian Schmidt: Glow worms and international understanding. The Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival is turning 60 and celebrating the Mediterranean. concerti. The concert and opera magazine, May 2014, p. 28 f. , accessed on September 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Klaus Büstrin: The international career of a festival . Ed .: In Potsdam. May - June 2014, p. 4th f .