Children's cultural festival

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A children's cultural festival is a larger children's festival with a cultural focus as a public event. Children's cultural festivals are organized to familiarize children with cultural offers at an early age and to encourage their creativity. A program suitable for children is supplemented by games and workshops. Organizers are usually clubs, associations or regional authorities.

Lower Austrian children's summer games in Herzogenburg

The NÖKISS - Lower Austrian Children's Summer Games are the largest festival for children's culture in Austria .

In its current form, the NÖKISS take place six days a year. On the last two weekends of the summer holidays, from Friday to Sunday, more than 1,000 employees try to attract a good 16,000 guests. The last statistical survey in 2005 found that people from 30 different countries could enjoy more than 40 theater and dance performances and a choice of more than 20 international dishes. In addition, the NÖKISS offer a stage for young artists from the region and with sales in the six-figure euro range are also an important economic factor for the city of Herzogenburg and the Traisental-Donauland region . In addition to the Traisental-Donauland region, the catchment area includes the entire eastern region of Austria , especially Vienna .

In 2014, the Lower Austrian Children's Summer Games will take place for the 43rd time in the Herzogenburg Abbey , in a unique setting of baroque gardens, halls and courtyards. In these 43 years, numerous children's culture initiatives such as children's theater, puppeteers, songwriters etc. have grown together with NÖKISS and have further developed the children's culture concept.

Recent issues and topics:

  • 2009 “ Asia - From the Roof of the World to the Land of Smiles ” took place.
  • 2010: " Australia - Kangaroo and Didgeridoo"
  • 2011: 40th anniversary under the motto "Time travel. Forward. Backward. Precisely."
  • In 2012 two children's parties were celebrated, one of them in Bethlehem . For Childrens Festival 2012 Bethlehem on 22 and 23 June 2012 traveled about 250 Herzogenburger, including 100 children and adolescents, according to Palestine so as provost Maximilian Fürnsinn "to bring children in Bethlehem joy and hope" to.
    The festival in Herzogenburg referred to the Children's Festival Bethlehem, the motto was "Bethlehem - crib, child, comet tail"
  • In 2013 the focus was on the "elements of experience - earth, fire, water and air ". This year, for the first time in many years, the festival area was redesigned and a new occupancy plan was drawn up with a better distribution of the flow of visitors. The program booklet has also been revised, greatly expanded and now offers a better insight into the diversity of the festival.
  • In 2014 the motto will be "1, 2, a thousand, many. From simplicity to eternity ". The background is the 1000th anniversary of the Herzogenburg parish .

history

The NÖKISS started in 1972 as a children's folk festival. They were initiated by Bertl Rumpler, the leader of the youth group "Wakaiuk Apaches". Originally, the sports festival, which took place in the first week of the school year, was intended to finance the purchase of tents for the summer camp. Together with the two young chaplains Mr. Maximilian and Mr. Wolfgang, representatives of the schools and with parents of the Jungschark children, Bertl Rumpler organizes the first party. Among the 80-100 employees from the very beginning there are also some parish councilors and of course many, many children. Right from the start, the work of all employees is free of charge and is only rewarded with a “pemikan” payment in the form of a grilled sausage and a drink. Towards the end of the 1970s, the six-day festival was postponed to the last two holiday weekends and children's culture was slowly becoming the focus. In 1979, NÖKISS finally experienced its birth in its current form, when it was included as a children's culture focus in the Lower Austrian theater summer. As a result, the program is greatly expanded and the number of employees increases to around three to four hundred. From 1980 onwards, responsibilities were divided up, as is still largely the case today: a businessman, the former owner of the savings store in Herzogenburg, takes care of the finances, provost Maximilian establishes and maintains contact with the sponsors and the secretaries or subsequently in the Rumpler office, all threads come together and the actual structures of the organization are anchored. The now almost 500 employees also increasingly include diocesan employees. After the 25th NÖKISS, which Bertl Rumpler was still actively involved in shaping, there was a turning point in 1997 when he was unable to attend due to illness and the central structures up to now were divided between several people. When he dies that same year, a management team is set up on the day of his death to continue the festival. The people who are now primarily responsible create smaller, more manageable areas of responsibility that independently recruit employees. The number of employees grew to 700 - 800 by the end of the 1990s. As a result of these developments, the NÖKISS have assumed a scope that can no longer be managed with the simple "meet us and moch ma wos" philosophy of the first days. The NÖKISS are now one of the largest children's cultural festival in Austria have cultural and economic importance for the region Traisen valley and have almost become a trademark for Herzogenburg.

White pen from Herzogenburg

The White Feather of Herzogenburg is awarded as part of the NÖKISS for special services for the benefit of children . The white feather can therefore be obtained by anyone who does something for children, who invents something, who helps children, who protects children from danger. The award is given to children, young people, adults, clubs, institutions or companies. The jury selects three winners each year, who receive a leather amulet and a small financial support as recognition.

More than half of the jury members are children and young people . Every year, together with representatives of the Herzogenburg Abbey , the parish and the city of Herzogenburg, they vote for the "Sensation of the Good".

Previous winners

Mühlviertel Children's Games (MÜKIS) in Perg (Upper Austria)

The MÜKIS - Mühlviertler Children's Games are a festival for children's culture in Upper Austria .

The MÜKIS annually on the first two summer holidays - weekends organized by the parish Perg. There were 3,000 to 4,000 visitors over the five days of the event. The focus is on families with children between the ages of 2 and 14. In addition to the city of Perg and the district of Perg , the catchment area includes, in particular, the federal state of Upper Austria and western Lower Austria . However, there are also regular visitors from Vienna , Salzburg , Tyrol and Styria . Most recently, contacts were made with the Bavarian town of Schrobenhausen , which has been Perg's twin town for many years.

history

The story of the "Mühlviertel Children's Games" (MÜKIS) began in 1976 as a children's afternoon (children's festival) of the Catholic youth group of the parish of Perg . The initiators were Werner Luegmayr and Franz Pfeiffer, who were guided by the Lower Austrian Children's Summer Games (NÖKISS) that had been launched a few years earlier (1973) in the Herzogenburg Abbey. The children's cultural festival was initially extended to a whole weekend and later to two weekends. The participation of the Perg theater group and the Perger Puppenbühne has a long tradition.

Artist

Hannes and Birgit Minichmayr from KISI - God's singing kids with Werner Luegmayr from the Mühlviertler Children's Games

With a stage program adapted to the target group with clowns , magicians , children's theater, puppet theater , show with children's program moderators from the ORF, as well as selected performances by regional groups, a clear distinction was created from the celebrations of adults. Visitors appreciate the opportunity to personally get to know artists who are otherwise only known from television in the local area.

Among the artists known throughout Austria who have made one or more guest appearances at MÜKIS are, for example

Again and again among the stage stars were artists from Austria's neighboring countries (Hungary, the Czech Republic, Germany). Return visits to the artists' home countries were also the beginning of the autumn trips for the volunteers and friends of the Mühlviertel Children's Games.

From the beginning there was a children's prater with booths that were looked after by children and young people, later on the establishment of a play park supervised by adults and young people began, which today largely consists of inflatable play equipment. Funny skill competitions as well as play opportunities for creative children are further areas of the event.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 45th anniversary: ​​Fun and games call in the NÖN from August 24, 2016, accessed on August 28, 2016.