Ultrasound Berlin

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Ultrasound Berlin is a festival for new music that has been taking place every year since 1999 in the second half of January at various venues in Berlin .

history

Ultrasound was founded as a joint event by two broadcasters - DeutschlandRadio Berlin , today Deutschlandfunk Kultur (DLF Kultur), and Sender Free Berlin , today Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb). When it started on January 30, 1999, under the direction of Rainer Pöllmann and Martin Demmler, the festival lasted two weeks and offered nine concerts with seven world premieres. In the years that followed, the offer was compressed in terms of time, but the scope was expanded; today the festival extends over five days with around 15 concerts. Three ensembles of the Rundfunk-Orchester und -Chöre gGmbH Berlin (roc) form the backbone of the festival: German Symphony Orchestra , Radio Symphony Orchestra and Radio Choir . Right from the start, it was managed by a dual team of editors from the two broadcasting corporations. Rainer Pöllmann is consistently in this management duo for today's DLF Kultur, for today's rbb followed Martin Demmler (1999-2005) Margarete Zander (until 2013) and since 2014 Andreas Göbel. An important trademark of the festival, as Rainer Pöllmann and Andreas Göbel write, is "the balance between world premieres and the lighting of works from the recent past in a changed, current context."

Venues

The festival venues include the large broadcasting hall of the rbb in the Haus des Rundfunks , Radialsystem V , Heimathafen Neukölln , but also Hebbel am Ufer , Berghain , the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin and the Pierre-Boulez-Saal .

literature

  • Christine Anderson: Precious Moments: Five Years of “Ultrasound. Festival for New Music ”in Berlin . In: MusikTexte . New Music Magazine . tape 96 , 2003, ISSN  0178-8884 .
  • Martin Demmler (ed.): Ultrasound, the festival for new music . Pfau, Saarbrücken 2005, ISBN 3-89727-282-2 .
  • Katja Heldt: Thus time goes by. The Ultrasound Festival Berlin . In: New magazine for music . tape 2 . Schott Music, 2018, ISSN  0170-8791 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data on ultrasound at the German Music Information Center
  2. ↑ Volker Straebel: Appearance. In: Der Tagesspiegel . January 31, 1999, accessed April 19, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Information from the ARD chronicle from 1999
  4. ↑ Ulrike Timm: Ultrasound Berlin. You have to have a thirst for adventure. Festival director Rainer Pöllmann. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur. January 22, 2014, accessed May 9, 2018 .
  5. ^ Karen Krüger: Mobbing with Goebbels. In: FAZ . January 11, 2006, accessed May 9, 2018 .
  6. ^ Ultrasound - Organizer 2006. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, January 19, 2006, accessed on May 9, 2018 .
  7. ^ Vita Margarete Zander at SWR
  8. ↑ Portrait of Göbel on Kulturradio ( Memento from April 17, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Program for the anniversary festival