Donaufest flags (Ulm/Neu-Ulm) Realisation by the Donaufest collective Ralf Milde Idea and concept Jochen Kohlenberger Design Font and colours Anastasia Iltsou Artistic collaboration Let's not kid ourselves! Even 24 years after the first Danube Festival, not everyone in Ulm and Neu-Ulm and the thousands and thousands of visitors to past Danube Festivals realise just how many nations [...]
Exhibition by Amalie Mannheim, photographer Hyp Yerlikaya. The exhibition is dedicated to a social taboo topic: women in prostitution, women as commodities, women for sale. They are confronted daily with hiding their true identity and their feelings, fears, suffering and pain. In society, they hide their faces, dreaming "facelessly" of a different life. The [...]
The Danube is exciting, varied, relaxing and dreamy at the same time. Whether around Mengen or Ehingen, in the Swabian Danube Valley or around Ulm/Neu-Ulm - cycling is fun everywhere! Great tips for cycle tours, city tours and a competition with super prizes await you.
To the sound of the Danube Festival fanfare, performed by eight trumpeters from the Junge Bläserphilharmonie Ulm, the Lord Mayor and Lord Mayoress of the cities of Neu-Ulm and Ulm welcome guests from near and far from a box in the middle of the Danube. The ceremony will be artistically accompanied by the participants of the Danube Youth Camp. Afterwards, the Market of the [...]
At the last International Danube Festival, Lord Mayor Gunter Czisch and jazz musician Aleksandar Dujin, from Novi Sad in Serbia, gave the Ulm audience a taste of their musical skills on the Weindorfbühne stage. In an expanded constellation - Aleksandar Dujin on piano, Nevena Reljin on vocals, Gunter Czisch on drums, Ulrich Kuhn on bass and Berthold Fischer on [...]
There's something for young and old! Colouring tables, can throwing and a KINDERTOMBOLA with high-quality prizes and exciting adventure vouchers.
Panel discussion The topic of prostitution is often sold as wellness for men. But the reality for most women in prostitution is different: They are commodities, their bodies are sold. It is not a profession like any other. Women in prostitution experience violence, suffering and fear every day. Numerous countries in Europe are [...]
Founded in 1988, the IVECO Big Band has been delighting its guests at dance balls and concerts in Germany and abroad ever since. Ute Konrad-Uhl has been the musical director of the IVECO Big Band since 2005. The great atmosphere in the band and the fun between the musicians is reflected on stage. The repertoire of the 22-piece band now includes [...]
Presentation of the results of the Don@u-online project 2024 "Brave new world - How AI is changing Europe" Young people have to find their place in the world, find a position for themselves and others. Their counterparts are other young people. Where can young people meet, be among themselves and without supervision, be loud and discuss their issues? Young people need free spaces and meeting places [...]
This year, the Donaufest in Ulm is once again being expanded to include a cultural facet. Since 2016, the international music project called donau.pop.camp has become an integral part of the festival. Musicians from the Danube countries come together to rehearse, jam and be creative. The pop.camp not only provides an intensive [...]
Economic cooperation and hydrogen supply chains along the Danube Cooperation in the Danube region is a key factor in creating more resilient and diverse supply and value chains to promote economic and sustainable growth. The opportunities and challenges of economic cooperation between the countries along the Danube are the subject of the fourth edition of the event series "The Danube Region in Changing Times", [...].
Final presentation Danube Youth Camp 2024 In the final performance "Donauliebe - Und Dienstag küsse ich Dich mündlich", the young people present the results of their work in the youth camp workshops. The great treasure of the Danube region is the people who live in it, shape it, mould it, perhaps love it or hate it. And what would human life be without love? [...]
Lecture by Kerstin Neuhaus on the john study by Dr Melissa Farley in the Alberts Cafe of the vh ulm Accompanying programme to the exhibition: Faceless - Women in Prostitution Social worker Kerstin Neuhaus presents the results of the "john study": What makes men who pay for sex tick? What do they experience as "customers" in the prostitution milieu? And would they be deterred from their [...]
The student company at the Gustav-Schönleber-Schule in Bietigheim-Bissingen (SBBZ Lernen) has developed and realised its own board game about the Danube. The group won the Europe Prize at the Würth Education Prize (school competition) with their game and it is now even on sale in the museum shop of the Danube Swabian Central Museum in Ulm. The young people were supported by a graphic designer (graphic realisation of the [...]
In aid of "Ulm's little sparrows" Together with the Donaufest visitors, a wooden sculpture will be created during the festival under the guidance of wood artist Uwe Köhle (stand K 12), which will be auctioned off at the end of the festival in aid of Ulm's little sparrows.
Anyone who remembers Donaufest 2022 will know that the pandemic struck again with some artists. Schnokastich was not spared and they had to play the 2022 finale without a bassist and drummer. They had recorded a special Donaufest programme with the full band and this will now be played in 2024 [...].
