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Georgette Dee as part of the Divas Gala, Summer Blood 2006

Sommerblut is a Cologne festival of multipolar culture. It took place for the first time in 2002. The program includes dance and theater performances , concerts, art exhibitions, films, cabaret and readings, with a mixture of in-house and third-party productions, national and international cultural workers, celebrities and up-and-coming artists. Sommerblut places a continuous focus on the inclusion and visibility of people with disabilities in the venues and performances .

development

Tim Fischer at the Divas Gala, Sommerblut 2006

In particular, artists from the German-speaking chanson and cabaret scene originally established the festival, including Georgette Dee , Tim Fischer , Désirée Nick and Rainer Bielfeldt , who all took part several times. Now the focus is more on dance, theater and performances.

The patronage has been the former Cologne District President and Cologne Mayor Jürgen Roters since 2002 .

The number of participating venues has grown over the years. In 2002 and 2003, Sommerblut was presented exclusively in the Theaterhaus and Limelight. a. the Philharmonie , the Kölner Schauspiel, the KEC Halle Köln-Arena II , the KulturKirche , the Gürzenich , the Bürgerhaus Stollwerck and the Comedia. In 2019 the festival took place at 24 venues throughout the city.

subjects

Sommerblut has a socio-political and emancipatory claim and sees itself as a particularly inclusive culture festival, whereby the term inclusion is deliberately broadly defined: It is about physical and cognitive characteristics, ways of life, value systems, traditions, beliefs - everything that defines the identity of every human being daily discourse in society.

Sommerblut addresses the situation of minorities and socially disadvantaged groups, such as women, homosexuals and transsexuals, the disabled, refugees, the chronically ill, people of different skin color or with religious and ideological views that differ from the majority. "Sommerblut brings the edge into the middle and brings the middle to the edge," says the festival website.

Sommerblut's main themes were “Body” (2018, including the play Antibodies ), “Rausch” (2017, including Planet Heimat ) and “Love” (including the play Mydentity ). In 2019, Sommerblut focused on “Faith”, u. a. with in-house productions such as City of Faith by Stefan Herrmann and Ensemble, the ÜberLebensPerformance Youtopia as well as Kraft und Beistand - a piece by and for people with chronic diseases. The new interpretation of The Merchant of Venice in the open-air stage of Odonia, the women's play Believe it - or not and the Cologne Festival of Religions , which is taking place for the first time, also took up the theme of faith.

Controversy about the participation of the "Pascha" (2007)

The owners of the Atelier-Theater protested with an open letter on April 2, 2007 against the first-time integration of the Pascha Nightclub in the Summer Blood Festival. The Pascha is Cologne's best-known brothel, which has also been hosting cultural events in its nightclub for several years. The letter said that the organizer Rolf Emmerich was only interested in the “crazy location”. The “solidarity with prostitutes” is just a pretext. For the "Pascha" operators, the alliance is an instrument for free image cultivation, it said.

Under pressure from the public and the cooperation partner WDR5, the organizer Rolf Emmerich moved the opening event Wilde Nights from the Pascha Nightclub to the Theaterhaus Cologne one week after the protest letter from the Atelier-Theater . Another four events (with Romy Haag, Lilo Wanders, Stella Ahangi , the Kutschallas ) took place as planned in the Pascha Nightclub. The Atelier-Theater was not satisfied with the postponement of the opening program, but still took part in the festival.

Awards

  • 2007: Cologne Dance Prize together with DIN A 13 dance company for the performance Sex Id
  • 2012: Cologne Innovation Prize for Disability Policy for the theater project on the topic of dementia in other countries
  • 2018: Nomination for the Cologne Theater Prize for the play with addicts Drugland
  • 2019: Nomination for the Cologne Theater Prize for the play with young people Youtopia

Previous dates and artists

June 16 - July 5, 2002

  • Events: 13, u. a. Tim Fischer, Commando Rothenberger, Janice Perry, Kordula Völker, Caspar & Bianca, Charles Ripley
  • Spectators: 2,000

June 26th - July 11th 2003

June 9 - July 17, 2004

  • Events: 25 u. a. Antony and the Johnsons , Désirée Nick, Tim Fischer, Georgette Dee, Lilo Wanders, Ursula West, Kommando Rothenberger
  • Spectators: 6,500

June 19 - July 10, 2005

May 18 - June 8, 2006

May 16 - June 11, 2007

2008

  • 120 events at 25 venues, 20,000 visitors

2009

  • 150 events at 40 venues, 23,000 visitors

2010

  • 150 events at 45 venues, 20,000 visitors.

2011

  • 120 events at 35 venues, 18,000 visitors.

2012

  • Focus on DEMENTIA (60 events at 25 venues, 12,000 visitors)

2013

  • Focus on FLIGHT (70 events at 40 venues, 11,000 visitors)

2014

  • Main topic TABU (80 events at 35 venues, 12,000 visitors)

2015

  • Focus on MONEY (80 events at 30 venues, 11,000 visitors)

2016

  • Focus on LOVE (80 events at 35 venues, 15,000 visitors)

2017

  • Main topic RAUSCH (38 events at 24 venues, 10,000 visitors)

2018

  • Main topic BODY (31 events at 24 venues, 6,000 visitors)

2019

  • Focus on FAITH (35 events at 24 venues, 13,500 visitors)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Atelier-Theater: Open letter from Sabine Heinrichs-Knab ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger: "Wild nights" not in the brothel

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