Editorial
KAMPNAGEL - A TEMPLE FOR THE FINE ARTS
After extensive festival travels, peaceful holidays and an exciting Summer Festival, we’re opening the new season with a jam-packed programme, in which we examine our perception of other continents. The opening weekend is dedicated to Mexico. World Theatre. Director Claudio Valdés Kuri has come together with Gabriel Garrido to stage the opera MONTEZUMA and create a “bewitchingly beautiful” (NZZ) fusion of European baroque and energetic folk music from Latin America. The production, developed at Kampnagel, will be joyfully celebrated at its premiere at Theatre of the World. For friends of even more experimentation, Yolanda Gutiérrez is undertaking an unusual venture: wrestling meets contemporary dance. Art meets brutal entertainment. Excitement guaranteed! We start the second week of the season with the Festival Rue Princesse. Over the past year, artistic duo Gintersdorfer/Klaßen have initiated an exemplary project of artistic exchange between different cultures and at the same time have developed one of the most unusual festivals of recent years. The Rue Princesse, the legendary entertainment mile in Abidjan and melting pot of urban West Africa, provides the name for the festival, which brings the vitality and artistic productivity of this region to Kampnagel. The Hamburg Theatre Festival presents two productions by old friends at Kampnagel. Martin Wuttke with GRETCHEN’S FAUST and Barbara Sukowa and Jeroen Willems with QUARTET, in a version by Barbara Frey. Actor-driven theatre from the greats. There’s even more theatre in the form of the highly anticipated world premiere of LEA, directed by Ute Rauwald, who is engaged in an intensive exchange between Germany and Israel with Israeli choreographer Ronit Ziv. Kommando Himmelfahrt is staging Eric Satie’s chamber opera SOCRATE in a new version for pop singers and a band with Julia Hummer and the DUNKLEN MÄDCHEN. The Hamburger Netzwerk Basic Income invites a whole city to discuss ways out of the financial crisis with experts in GESPRÄCHE ÜBER MORGEN (CONVERSATIONS ABOUT TOMORROW). Fittingly, cult author Jonathan Franzen is reading from his latest book FREIHEIT (FREEDOM). As always, the next few months will also see an exciting music programme, including the talents of the new line-up of the Hamburg Jazztage with Matthew Herbert, Chilly Gonzales, John Scofield, etc etc
Here’s to summer days and stormy nights at Kampnagel!
Yours, Amelie Deuflhard
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After extensive festival travels, peaceful holidays and an exciting Summer Festival, we’re opening the new season with a jam-packed programme, in which we examine our perception of other continents. The opening weekend is dedicated to Mexico. World Theatre. Director Claudio Valdés Kuri has come together with Gabriel Garrido to stage the opera MONTEZUMA and create a “bewitchingly beautiful” (NZZ) fusion of European baroque and energetic folk music from Latin America. The production, developed at Kampnagel, will be joyfully celebrated at its premiere at Theatre of the World. For friends of even more experimentation, Yolanda Gutiérrez is undertaking an unusual venture: wrestling meets contemporary dance. Art meets brutal entertainment. Excitement guaranteed! We start the second week of the season with the Festival Rue Princesse. Over the past year, artistic duo Gintersdorfer/Klaßen have initiated an exemplary project of artistic exchange between different cultures and at the same time have developed one of the most unusual festivals of recent years. The Rue Princesse, the legendary entertainment mile in Abidjan and melting pot of urban West Africa, provides the name for the festival, which brings the vitality and artistic productivity of this region to Kampnagel. The Hamburg Theatre Festival presents two productions by old friends at Kampnagel. Martin Wuttke with GRETCHEN’S FAUST and Barbara Sukowa and Jeroen Willems with QUARTET, in a version by Barbara Frey. Actor-driven theatre from the greats. There’s even more theatre in the form of the highly anticipated world premiere of LEA, directed by Ute Rauwald, who is engaged in an intensive exchange between Germany and Israel with Israeli choreographer Ronit Ziv. Kommando Himmelfahrt is staging Eric Satie’s chamber opera SOCRATE in a new version for pop singers and a band with Julia Hummer and the DUNKLEN MÄDCHEN. The Hamburger Netzwerk Basic Income invites a whole city to discuss ways out of the financial crisis with experts in GESPRÄCHE ÜBER MORGEN (CONVERSATIONS ABOUT TOMORROW). Fittingly, cult author Jonathan Franzen is reading from his latest book FREIHEIT (FREEDOM). As always, the next few months will also see an exciting music programme, including the talents of the new line-up of the Hamburg Jazztage with Matthew Herbert, Chilly Gonzales, John Scofield, etc etc
Here’s to summer days and stormy nights at Kampnagel!
Yours, Amelie Deuflhard
