Ahoy! The Ulmer Schachtel is available to the little boat guests of the International Danube Festival on both weekends and on Thursday. Anyone who has always wanted to take a boat trip on the Danube can board at the wooden steps on the Ulm bank. Tickets are sold next to the Fischerplätzle information stand half an hour before departure. Only [...]
By chance or by design, most of the Ulmbach-Neupetsch musicians were reunited in the Göppingen area after leaving the Banat, where they founded the Original Banater Schwabenkapelle in 1983 under the direction of Horst Stromer. In September 2023 they celebrated their 40th anniversary. The Original Banater Schwabenkapelle not only plays for the [...]
UNESCO World Heritage Site "Caves and Ice Age Art of the Swabian Jura" Go on a journey back to the Ice Age to the Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in the Ach and Lone valleys near Ulm. Find out how our ancestors lived in the time of the great mammoths, what techniques they used to carve stone and ivory and what connections they had with other [...]
European History" theme tent Discover the cultural diversity of the Danube region! The Danube Swabian Central Museum and the Cultural Officer for the Danube Region offer a daily programme in the "European History" theme tent for you to join in, listen and enjoy, get to know and experience. Migration connects The International DZM Forum "Migration connects" introduces itself. The group presents the results of almost 10 years of co-operation [...]
Ahoy! The Ulmer Schachtel is available to the little boat guests of the International Danube Festival on both weekends and on Thursday. Anyone who has always wanted to take a boat trip on the Danube can board at the wooden steps on the Ulm bank. Tickets are sold next to the Fischerplätzle information stand half an hour before departure. Only [...]
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 [...]
Ahoy! The Ulmer Schachtel is available to the little boat guests of the International Danube Festival on both weekends and on Thursday. Anyone who has always wanted to take a boat trip on the Danube can board at the wooden steps on the Ulm bank. Tickets are sold next to the Fischerplätzle information stand half an hour before departure. Only [...]
Bosnian accordionist Almir Meskovic and Romanian-Serbian violinist Daniel Lazar, refugees from both sides of a war, met in Norway to develop a pan-Balkan music repertoire expanded with original compositions and Scandinavian influences and performed with breathtaking virtuosity! They each have more than 20 years of experience in both classical and traditional [...]
This year's arts and crafts workshops for adults are all about colours and the various artistic design options with different materials. In this painting workshop led by Ukrainian artist Tetiana Romanova, everything revolves around the fantasy bird, a central element in the works of so-called Petrykiwka painting. This art form has been declared an intangible cultural asset by UNESCO. [...]
FUNKorporation from Cluj have been whirling through the music scene in Romania and Hungary since 2011 with a cool mix of jazz, soul, blues, Balkan beats and plenty of positive vibes. Funky grooves, heavy bass, energetic vocals and snappy brass sections are the seven-piece funk band's trademark. Now that the band is one of the most successful live acts in their home country, [...]
The city of Osijek lies on the banks of the Drava in the east of Slavonia, around 20 kilometres before it flows into the Danube. The Hungarian state border is around 45 kilometres to the north and it is around 40 kilometres to Serbia. South of Osijek, after about 75 kilometres, you reach Bosnia and Herzegovina. And just like [...]
"Sensuality and eroticism, silence, sadness, brutality ..." - These are just some of the sides of life that you can hear and feel at a concert by the Piazzolleky Quintet from Slovenia - music full of Balkan temperament, passion and lifeblood for the tango: music that touches and moves in equal measure! The five excellent professional musicians of the Piazzolleky Quintet inspire [...]
Novel performance with Ilija Trojanow & the Wladigeroff brothers "History is what should have happened differently." GOG (the AI from One Thousand and One Nights) Ilija Trojanow takes the audience on a journey through time with his protagonist Cya. She is a 'chronaut' who travels from a utopian world into the past in order to adjust [...]
As if from another world, Anais opens up spaces of silence in which magical moments can unfold. In direct contact from person to person, Anais touches the soul and invites us to marvel: Coins penetrate solid matter and are transformed, the torn becomes whole, the lost is found and the invisible becomes visible. Anais enchants without words [...]
A musical world - traditional/acoustic/pagan. A stream of never-ending energy and stories. Tomáš Kočko & ORCHESTR offer powerful, acoustic music from a truly amazing region deep in the heart of Europe. You can feel it. Hailed as a Moravian Jethro Tull or Chieftain. The members of the group play acoustic instruments - guitars, violin, dulcimer and recorders as well as percussion [...]
