Stilt Festival near Reuth
The Stelzenfestspiele near Reuth is an international festival for music of different styles, especially for experimental forms of classical music , world music and jazz .
It has taken place annually since 1993 in the Thuringian community of Stelzen near the Saxon town of Reuth and goes back to a series of concerts by the Gewandhaus Orchestra . The initiator and artistic director is the Gewandhaus musician Henry Schneider .
Performance venues are a wooden stage in the forest, the barn on the slope, the village square, the church, the village restaurant "Zum Löwen", the meadow behind the church and the large festival barn built in 2007 with 1,200 seats. At the same time, it is a sound installation designed for expansion with various instruments made from everyday objects such as cuckoo clocks, commercially available metal sleeves struck with hammers and a manure organ made from an agricultural machine . A special feature of the festival is the strong participation of the villagers, u. a. at the ST 210 agricultural machine symphony , which is performed anew every year , an always new experimental piece with classical instruments, rock instruments, agricultural machines, video projections etc.
More than 120,000 visitors have been counted since 1993. The largest concert is the final concert on the Waldbühne with around 5,000 spectators. The main actor is the Gewandhausorchester , which functions as an unofficial Stelzenfestspielorchester . In addition, international artists and music ensembles from Germany (including the Thomanerchor and GewandhausChor ) take part.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 16.4 ″ N , 11 ° 57 ′ 6.7 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description on the website of the festival , photos of the construction here , access on November 20, 2019