Sit back, relax and enjoy an all-round successful festival evening!

Every concert at the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele is a special experience – but this season we want to spoil you not only with culturally, but also with culinary delights.

The Dachverband Tanz awards the German Dance Prize 2024 to choreographer, dancer and director Sasha Waltz. Waltz is recognized by the jury »for her international charisma, her commitment to the structures of the independent dance scene and, above all, for her artistically unique and genre-spanning body of work« with the most important German prize for dance.

For the 300th anniversary of the »Johannespassion«, we are looking forward to a version that invites you to sing along. Elina Albach's condensation into a solo Passion invites an intensive reflection on the Passion and its setting and makes it an interactive singing experience.

Enjoy the Ludwigsburg Festival in more ways than one: with our subscriptions and combination tickets at reduced prices!

Whether you are a dance fan, jazz lover, classical music lover or curious about unusual concert formats – we have the right subscription for you.

The Supervisory Board of the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele elected a new artistic director at its meeting on March 6. In future Lucas Reuter will take over responsibility. The 40-year-old has been artistic director of the artistic season at the Forum am Schlosspark Ludwigsburg, which he will continue to be responsible for the time being.

Look forward to 300 years of the »Johannespassion« in a very special format for tenor, percussion, organ and harpsichord!

The Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele are looking for support for promotional activities and the parking at the »Monrepos Open Air«.

Subscriptions and Comfort Package: we have some special offers for the 2024 festival season!

Enjoy an extraordinary festival evening: On request, our team will reserve a table in a restaurant within walking distance of the venue for selected events.

We invite you to get to know us, our Palais and our current program at our open day on February 24. and our current program.

On Monday, February 26, our advance ticket sales for all events of the 2024 festival season will start – and on Saturday, February 24 , you can already visit our Palais Grävenitz and choose tickets for the best seats and receive a discount of receive a 10 percent discount.

Ticket sales for the Ludwigsburg Palace Festival begin on February 26. Ludwigsburg Palace Festival 2024. This year, we are once again presenting outstanding artists outstanding artists and are looking forward to a diverse program.

Our ticket team is back from the summer break. From Monday to Friday our ticket office in Palais Grävenitz is open for you from 10-15 pm - we are looking forward to your visit!

In 2024, the internationally renowned Mahler Chamber Orchestra will will be our guest in Ludwigsburg and, among other things, present its exciting, participatory concert project »Welcome Home!« on June 24, 11:30 am.

On November 30, you can meet our team at the Ludwigsburg Christmas market with cookies, mulled wine, punch and music!

Our advance booking is up and running! Tickets and subscriptions are already available for eight outstanding program items of the 2024 season, which is dedicated to two major themes of our time, democracy and humanity.

We are looking for support in ticketing and customer management (CRM)! For our ticket office in the historic Palais Grävenitz we are looking for a person (m/f/d) who has the distribution of tickets under control and and develops new digital strategies with us and is available as a contact person for our audience.

As of 15. January 2024 we are looking for a Project Manager (m/f/d) for Artistic Planning & Production.

For eight outstanding program points of the 2024 season, the fall and Christmas presale begins on Thursday, November 9, where one-way tickets, attractive subscriptions and additional packages are already available. Give yourself or your loved ones the gift of a great preview of musical festival delights! Bookable at the ticket office from Mon to Fri, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. as well as online and at all Easyticket sales points. The 2024 season covers the period from June 1 to July 20, 2024.

Strengthening cultural life, networking with cultural practitioners and creating future perspectives. With these goals in mind, independent cultural institutions in Ludwigsburg formed an alliance this summer.

After the festival season, we collected all the broadcast dates to listen to our concerts (again).

In 2023, Ryan McAdams will take over the musical direction of the Ludwigsburg Festival’s »Monrepos Open Air«. Learn more about the concert and what the American conductor, who is conducting a concert with fireworks for the first time, is most looking forward to

Due to illness Carlo Vistoli unfortunately had to cancel. The evening with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin will be performed by Filippo Mineccia.

This year, the Schlossfestspiele will once again live up to its mission as the festival of the whole of Baden-Württemberg. Exceptional music awaits you in Wertheim, Bad Imnau and Bietigheim.

The soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan returns to the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele in 2023 in her dual artistic role. Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele in her dual artistic role. Get to know the Canadian artist exclusively on our Digital Stage.

 2023 we present Johann Sebastian Bach in all his facets. In the new video on the Digital Stage, our dramaturge Maria-Luisa Villena Ossa will tell you more about his life, the diversity of his works, and how the artists will perform his music on the stage of the Ludwigsburg Festival in five different concerts this year. stage of the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele.

We celebrate the 100th birthday of György Ligeti this week at the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele with two outstanding project!

Lear more about the concert of the SWR Vokalensemble under the Yuval Weinberg and how Elisabeth Schilling combines music and dance in «Hear Eyes Move« on our digital stage in the video by Hannah Duffek, dramaturge at the Ludwigsburg Festival.

We would like to get to know our audience better and invite you to participate online in our survey in cooperation with Heilbronn University!

The Tanztheater Wuppertal invites you to the public dress rehearsal of Pina Bausch’s »Vollmond«! The two performances at the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele were sold out so quickly that we are now opening the final rehearsal on June 8 at 8 pm for you.

With our kick-off event on May 5, all curious people are cordially invited to shake the marketplace with a joint »Dabke Community Dance«.

On April 22, we were present for the fourth time this year from 10 am to 4 pm at Modehaus Oberpaur. In addition to shopping and strolling in the department store, you could win tickets from us, purchase ticktes or simply get information about our program. These were successful afternoons and we would like to thank Modehaus Oberpaur for the great cooperation!

Join us on April 20 at the Stuttgart Music Library and get to know our managing director Gabriele Zerweck. The conversation with Lorenzo Petrocca and Beate Straka is, of course, all about music – and you can experience one of their favorite pieces live!

Before we start the new festival season on May 11 2023 with the »Fest Spiel Ouvertüre«, the overture of the past year closes our »nachgehört« series. In the Forum am Schlosspark Oksana Lyniv conducted the emotional opening concert under the motto »No More War« with Mozart’s Piano Concerto and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.

There are sure to be a few question marks before your visit to a concert. What do I want to listen to? What do I have to wear? And how do I behave during the event? Here you can read step by step what you need to know before visiting us – and where your worries may be completely unfounded.

Are you contributing to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and would like to inspire others to do the same? Then share your knowledge at the »17 Goals Camp« at Kunstzentrum Karlskaserne! Institutions and initiatives from business, science and culture, as well as citizens, can present their work, exchange ideas and develop new formats.

For his work as a Cultural initiator and manager Jochen Sandig, director of the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele, was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit) in January 2023.  Berlin’s Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey presented him with the Cross of Merit on ribbon on behalf of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

What is worth preserving? What is forward-looking and what should Ludwigsburg take with it into its future? With these questions, artists Thomas Rustemeyer, Bruno Jacoby and Julian Warner invite Ludwigsburg residents to collect objects, ideas, melodies or anecdotes for a »memory of the future« as part of the ÜBER:MORGEN festival. In the course of the exhibition, the urban society fills the memory with personal answers to questions about the future and creates a communal and walk-in show depot

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The Belarusian activists Maria Kalesnikava, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and Veronika Zepkala have been awarded this year’s International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen for their services to the unity of Europe. In her speech, Federal Foreign Minister Baerbock referred to the laureates as «the most courageous women in Europe«. As the «Festival of the Arts, Democracy and Sustainability« we are very happy about this news and welcome this important sign for freedom and democracy.

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In early May, Oksana Lyniv opened the 2021 season with the festival orchestra, and now the conductor, who was the first woman to take the podium at the Bayreuth Festival in the summer of 2021, will become music director of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in January 2022.

Over the course of a month, nine young people between the ages of 20 and 30 came together for six online workshops lasting several hours and dealt intensively with diverse gender identities and perceptions through writing tasks, movement sequences and free exchange. A filmic insight into the work can be seen on the Digital Stage.

In the film »Saz - The Key of Trust«, the instrumentalist Petra Nachtmanova follows the traces of the saz. Hardly represented in books, the history of this Persian or Ottoman-Turkish instrument is a mystery. At the »Saz Musik Fest« on 18 June, she will present her journey from Bosnia to Iran, recorded on film, and will play songs from there together with guests.

In a new scenic film project, the »Human Requiem« becomes an examination of the current consequences of Corona. Directed by Jochen Sandig and musically conducted by Gijs Leenaars, the Rundfunkchor Berlin offers hope and comfort in difficult times with Brahms' »Ein deutsches Requiem«. 

The founder of contemporary »African Dance« has been committed for decades to the deepening and spreading of African Dance. Since the 1960s, Germaine Acogny has been realizing and manifesting her vision, enriching the african - and eventually the international - dance world as a dancer, teacher and mentor. The Biennale Danza Festival now honours her life's work with the Golden Lion. In anticipation of this year's »Sacre« project, we congratulate her!

With »I can't breathe«, the dancer touched not only the visitors of the Ludwigsburg Festival. His renewed performance at the Romaeuropa Festival in September also convinced the jury of the Italian Danza&Danza Awards. We congratulate Edivaldo Ernesto for the award as best dancer 2020!

The 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were also launched by former German President Horst Köhler, among others. Since the 2020 season, he and his wife Eva Luise Köhler are the patrons of the Ludwigsburg Festival. Horst Köhler has shared his thoughts on this in a foreword.