Big ideas for the big stage: For the third edition of »Generation Zukunft Musik«  young people from Ludwigsburg and Markgröningen 2024 created an exciting concert in the Forum am Schlosspark.

Fazıl Say kicked off his residency at the Ludwigsburg Festival with the European premiere of his song cycle »Dünya Anne« (World Mother) and a late-night piano recital. Listen to both concerts (again) on SWR Kultur.

The first joint concert: On July 13, the two ensembles VOCES8 and Chanticleer met for a cappella summit meeting at the Ludwigsburg Festival. You can watch the concert on Deutschlandfunk Kultur , recorded in the sold-out Friedenskirche now (once again)!

With the «Danzón No. 2«, the festival orchestra under the direction of Alondra de la Parra will captivate the audience at the open-air concert! The video with the »Impossible Orchestra« puts us in the mood for the grand finale of the Ludwigsburg Festival on July 20!

On June 24 at 11:30 a.m., the concert »Wie klingt Heimat?« by and with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra took place at the Forum am Schlosspark. The concert included audio contributions and texts read by pupils from Ludwigsburg and the surrounding area, which were prepared in class beforehand. We would like to collect some contributions, photos and reports.

We are offering free workshops with dancers from Sasha Waltz & Guests on June 21, 22, and 23 in Ludwigsburg for all dance enthusiasts aged 12 and over. Over the course of three hours, you will gain basic insights into the choreography «In C« and are invited to get to know and try out the concept and the various movements in a playful way. The dancer and dance teacher Janna Kleinknecht gives an insight into the workshop offer in the video.

Diego Noguera über das elektronische Musikstück »Freiheit/Extasis« und die Begeisterung, für und mit Tanz zu komponieren.

 Q&A with the duo Wildstrings. In the interview, the two musicians Sebastian Caspar and Michael Riemer reveal what we can expect at the »Songs of Travel« concert in the Fürstensaal in Bad Imnau.

´Anja Bihlmaier about what it’s like to get to know a new orchestra orchestra, about exhilarating moments on the conductor’s podium and the special features of the program she will be performing on 23 June with violinist Renaud Capuçon and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra at the Forum in Ludwigsburg.

In our video interview with Andrea Haines and Barnaby Smith from the vocal ensemble VOCES8, we talk about the special features of a cappella music and the summit meeting with the singers of Chanticleer at the Ludwigsburg Festival. Take a look!

Get to know the painter Norbert Bisky in our video interview. Here, he reveals what it means to create a production with contemporary art in a historic theater.

Our residencies offer you the opportunity to experience selected artists on several evenings in Ludwigsburg. In 2024 you can be thrilled by the two ensembles VOCES8 and Mahler Chamber Orchestraas well as the pianist Fazıl Say several times.

What will it be: an open-air concert, chamber music with a small ensemble or a full orchestra? We have the right event in our program for every taste, to sing along and to discover. Our concert compass will help you find your way!

What's the sound of the 2024 Ludwigsburg Festival? Our playlist gives you a musical impression of the next festival season - listen now on YouTube and Spotify!

The crowning finale of each season is traditionally an impressive fireworks display together with the Festival Orchestra. In 2023, the sky will again shine in all colours at the »Monrepos Open Air«. Since 2010, Potsdamer Feuerwerk GmbH has had it in its hands – under the direction of Björn Wilhelm. Born in Berlin, he began his pyrotechnics career at Potsdamer Feuerwerk GmbH and, since 2005, has been the head of the company, which specializes in fireworks, laser and multimedia shows.

The mass as a genre of church music has a long development behind it: over the course of time, initially monophonic chants developed into increasingly complex musical works with the goal of an artistic aesthetic. The strict liturgical binding gave way to the establishment as an independent musical genre – a process that can be traced using the measurements of the three big Bs as an example.

A spherical dive begins as soon as the first note of trumpeter Marco Blaauw connects with the film »Moving Picture 946-3«.  The joint project of visual art, film, composition and live music, which can be experienced at Scala on June 24, is preceded by an exciting genesis.

Sasha Waltz is one of the most important choreographers of our time. Like hardly anyone else, she has managed to continue the historical heritage of expressive dance and modern dance, which is so strongly rooted in Germany, on the international stage, while at the same time questioning and renewing it through influences of postmodern dance. By taking a look at her creative history, we want to explore more closely with you the dialogue in which she allows the physical forms of dance and the spatial forms of architecture to enter.

It's that time again: once again this year, the cour d'honneur of the Ludwigsburg Palace forms the heart of the Ludwigsburg Festival and attracts visitors with its free offer to experience concerts live via audio transmission. Amidst a circle of loudspeakers – the d&b audio sound circle – you can let yourself be surrounded by sound from 5 May to 5 June. 

On the occasion of the 'Schlosserlebnistag', the Ludwigsburger Festival will deal with the topic of women. Kaan Bulak – composer, pianist and producer – who is presenting his commissioned composition »Transtemporal« this season will report on the composer Kassia for this occasion. Her hymns are the oldest documents that have come down to us from a female composer and also find their way into Bulak’s new composition.

The varied programme of this year’s Festival features a remarkable overlap: Gustav Mahler’s »Urlicht« – performed in the song recital »Anna Lucia Richter« as well as in the concert »Liebes Traum Gestalten«. Full of anticipation for the pre-recorded choral project with Yuval Weinberg and the SWR Vokalensemble, we would like to take a closer look at the Lied.

With a revival of the »Pixelsinfonie« and the ARTE event »Europa feiert Beethoven« the Ludwigsburg Festival starts the month of June with a Beethoven Weekend. On World Environment Day the video installation by Michael Rauter based on the »Pastorale« reminds us of the relationship between humans and nature in 32 individual films. In the performance of all symphonies from nine European countries, the channel ARTE will take up Beethoven’s message of international understanding on Sunday.

With a short film and a detailed discussion with the artists, the Ludwigsburg Festival will prepare the audience for the production of »The Day WTC«, which will be performed live in 2022. This will not only provide an insight into the work, but also into the personalities of the actors.

In the spirit of a »Festival of the Arts, Democracy and Sustainability« and also in the spirit of Joseph Beuys' proclamation »Everyone is an artist«, all Ludwigsburg residents were invited to join in. In this special year of distance, cohesion and the 100th anniversary of Beuys' birth, the Ludwigsburg Festival and Brad Hwang jointly recalled the transformative power of social sculpture.

Idolized by musicians, misused in dictatorships, re-adapted as the European anthem – Beethoven’s 9th symphony mirrors the society and shows the dimensions of human behaviour. We want to take a closer look at the work, which played a major role in the 2021 season, and its politicised performance history.

Mahler’s “Song of the Earth” gave new meaning to the poetry of Hans Bethge. Likewise, the photographs of J Henry Fair also open up a new dimension. With “Das Lied von der Erde for the 21st Century “ the photographer and environmental activist makes a clear statement: The earth is in danger!

For almost 40 years, Jean-Georges Noverre's birthday on 29 April has been the occasion for the International Dance Day, which celebrates dance in all its forms and its unifying power. Newly appointed ambassadors from all over the world stand for its global and transnational significance. Now we do not have to think far geographically, because in 2021 the Stuttgart ballet dancer Friedemann Vogel will be the ambassador. Dance is universal, dance is important - also at the Ludwigsburg Festival.

Although culture can also provide comfort in lockdown's dark times, there is little evidence of this in Germany at present. But art is education, there is humanity in art, for some people art is perhaps even a substitute religion. Particularly in times when Western democracies are in crisis, when many people have lost confidence, have become fact-resistant, or are conducting discussions with aggression instead of arguments, it can point to a better way.

The starting point of the Pixelsinfonie is Beethoven's 6th symphony - the »Pastorale«, to which the composer Michael Rauter has set against a composition of his own. The piece was originally planned as music theater for 30 hotel rooms in the Ludwigsburg NH. Since the Corona reality had overtaken his original idea, he had to start from scratch in terms of content.