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The ukulele trail leads around Kapfenburg Castle and gives children an interactive insight into the history of the castle, the people of the region and music.

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based on the
Prelude in C major, The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Kapfenburg castle has been part of the lives of the people of the region for centuries, since 25 years it’s been the home of the Foundation Kapfenburg castle - and the home of music, art and culture. Every event, every concert and every guided tour of the castle is an invitation to preserve as a lively meeting place. With success - more than 333,000 guests have visited the cultural events since 1999. 

As a lasting symbol of the connection between the castle, the foundation and the people, the sound installation "fünfundzwanzig" (twenty-five) is being created to mark the anniversary. The musician Sebastian Bartmann will create it from hopefully numerous audio files of Johann Sebastian Bach's famous Prelude in C major - because everyone can take part, the more the merrier. It doesn't matter how well the piece can be played. Taking part is what counts!

How can I take part?
Play the Prelude in C major (or a few bars of it) on the piano or another instrument and record your performance. The piece can also be hummed.

Can I listen to the prelude somewhere beforehand?
You can find an example of what an audio recording could sound like here:
To the stream: Click
To the download: Click 

The whole prelude in C major is available here: Click

How do I get the sheet music?  
The sheet music can be downloaded free of charge here: Click

How can I record the audio file?
Most mobile phones have apps for voice memos, a recorder or a dictation machine installed as standard. If this is not the case, simply search for "free audio recorder" in the Play or App Store. The WhatsApp voice message function can also be used.  

Can I also send a video?
Unfortunately, videos are not possible.

What format does the audio file need?
The format doesn't matter. If you have professional equipment, you are welcome to send us the file as WAV (24 bit, 48khz).

Where do I send the audio file?
By WhatsApp to +49 1523 76 08 988
or
By email to festival@schloss-kapfenburg.de

Until when can I send in the audio file?
The deadline is Friday 17 May 2024.

What happens then?
Sebastian Bartmann will listen to all the audio files sent in. He will then use the sounds to create a touching and dazzling sound installation.

Participation is completely anonymous. All personal data such as mobile number/chat or e-mail address/mail will be deleted after the audio file has been saved.

Where can I listen to the finished sound installation?
The world premiere will be at the opening of the 25th Festival Schloss Kapfenburg during the performance "da!SEIN | fünfundzwanzig". The Junge Philharmonie Ostwürttemberg and the piano duo imPuls, Sebastian & Barbara Bartmann, will perform under the direction of Uwe Renz. The performance will be followed by a big anniversary fireworks display. Anyone who would like to be there live can order tickets in our shop: Click. 

The sound installation will also be an integral part of the small museum at Kapfenburg Castle and will be available on our YouTube channel, among other places.

We have been based in the former castle of the Teutonic order since October 1999. Erich W. Hacker turned the organisation, which initially had one employee, into an institution of national importance; Moritz von Woellwarth took over as Academy Director in April 2021 and successfully led the music school academy out of the coronavirus crisis. In our anniversary year, we are more than hopeful for a future with many exciting projects - both old and new. Innovation within old walls. Since 25 years.

All events: Click

The Education & Health department is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. With our educational work, we are pioneers in the areas of prevention and health for musicians in Germany.

Making music means much more than just mastering an instrument. It promotes and challenges the physiological, emotional and cognitive abilities of musicians in equal measure.  Therefore it's important to promote all three levels and keep them healthy. Only people who feel comfortable in their bodies can play or sing expressively - regardless of age.

This goal can be easily achieved with the right methods. For example, warm-up exercises and mental training can optimally prepare the body and mind for playing an instrument or singing. Integrating aspects like this into music practice is becoming increasingly important.

Since 2003, our "Education & Health" department has been committed to sensitising musicians to the topic and showing ways of prevention. Over the years, a holistic programme for the health of musicians has been developed - for all of them from an early to old age.

An overview of our educational work can be found here. 

Photo: Holger Bewersdorf

Soprano Katja Maderer and tenor Samuel Stopford are two young musicians with exceptional voices. They'll receive the 18th Trude Eipperle Rieger Prize for Vocal Talent and the associated prize money. The ceremony will take place on October 5th at Kapfenburg castle. 

Am Sonntag schlossen 8 Teilnehmende des Projekts „gesunde musikschule®“ erfolgreich ihre Ausbildung ab. Sie werden zukünftig als Mentor:innen für die Gesundheit von Musizierenden an ihren Musikschulen tätig sein und die Erkenntnisse der Musikermedizin und Musikphysiologie praxisnah in den Unterricht integrieren.

Musikschüler:innen in sieben weiteren Städten und Verbänden werden zukünftig im Unterricht vom Engagement ihrer Musikschulen im Bereich der Gesundheit von Musizierenden profitieren. Denn in den Musikschulen Spandau, Ehingen, Sömmerda, Markgräflerland, Igensdorf, Leer und Altensteig gibt es neue Gesundheitsmentor:innen. Zudem hat die bereits zertifizierte Musikschule Reutlingen eine neue Mentorin.

 Fit mit Musik, fit für Musik

Musizieren bedeutet viel mehr als nur ein Instrument zu beherrschen. Sei es physiologisch, emotional oder kognitiv – es fördert und fordert die Musizierenden gleichermaßen. Die Aufgabe der Mentor:innen ist es, die in der einjährigen Fortbildung erlernten Themen an ihren Musikschulen umzusetzen und die vielen Facetten des gesunden Musizierens sowohl an die Lehrkräfte als auch an die Lernenden zu vermitteln. So können die Schüler:innen „gesunder musikschulen®“ bis ins hohe Alter hinein mit Freude und Ausdauer musizieren.

 Bundesweit setzen bereits 73 Partnermusikschulen das Thema Gesundheit erfolgreich im Musikschulalltag um. Die nächste Weiterbildung beginnt im Dezember 2023 auf Schloss Kapfenburg. Interessierte Musikschulen können sich online anmelden, es sind noch Plätze frei.  

Weitere Informationen zu „gesunde musikschule®“ erhalten Sie hier. 

 Partner des Projekts sind der Landesverband der Musikschulen Baden-Württembergs e.V., die Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) und die Deutschen Rentenversicherung Baden-Württemberg (DRV).

Neue Partnermusikschulen / Mentor:innen
Musikschule Spandau - Irene Cortina González
Musikschule Ehingen - Katrin Schreck
Stadt- und Kreismusikschule Sömmerda "Wilhelm Buchbinder" - Ulrike Ewald-Schulz
Musikschule Markgräflerland e.V. - Mareike Kaiser
Sing- und Musikschule Igensdorf - Ute Eschmann
Kreismusikschule Leer - Thomas Stan Hemken
Städtische Musikschule Altensteig - Johannes Spyrka

Bereits zertifizierte Partnermusikschule / Mentor:innen
Musikschule Reutlingen - Birgit Aicheler

El Viaje. Bidaia. The Journey. This is the title of an extraordinary German-Basque project, a poetic-musical adventure written by Marcus Englert and Xabier Zeberio. The play not brings actors from both countries on stage and was developed by them. It is directed by Agurtzane Intxaurraga, Netflix star Itziar Ituño is one of the protagonists. The world premiere will take place on Friday, 21 July, at Kapfenburg Castle. One day later the production can be seen in Schwäbisch Gmünd. Performances in the Basque Country are also being planned.

El Viaje tells the story of a group of travellers who set out together into the unknown in a strange and exciting world. Rock merges with classical music, the music with poetry and the action on stage with a breathtaking light and video installation. The work is the result of months of intensive cultural and human exchange across language and national borders.

¿Cuántas maletas caben en una vida?
How many suitcases fit into one life?
Quotation from "El Viaje - The Journey"

Info
Friday, July 21st 2023, 08.00pm
da!SEIN – El Viaje | Die Reise
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Trailer
YouTube

El Viaje – the song:
Soundcloud
Spotify

The Schloss Kapfenburg 2023 Festival is funded by the Baden-Württemberg Foundation with 60,000 Euro. This ensures tthe festival will cover its costs in times of inflation and high production costs. Our application was initiated by Winfried Mack, member of the state parliament.

Fornax takes care of the IT environment on the extensive grounds of the castle and is also actively involved as a sponsor of our cultural work. For example, the GmbH has taken over the sponsorship of the Sauter piano in the Upper Yellow Corner Room, which will henceforth bear the name "Fornax".

Our "Education & Health" department presents "piccolino," a project funded by Techniker Krankenkasse, in which the topics of mental health prevention and health promotion are implemented in the elementary school setting. Following the evaluations of the first model phase in recent years and the conception phase (2022), "piccolino" is now entering the next state-wide model phase at two selected elementary schools in Baden-Württemberg. Two music schools are cooperating with us.

We have taken up the challenge.  Writng her master's thesis Lisa Jäger from Aalen University took a close look at our facility as part of her master's thesis, she was supervised by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Holzbaur.

A guide produced in parallel to the thesis not only shows that we are on the right track, it also gives other event organizers and visitors suggestions on what they can do themselves to actively promote sustainability.

The guide's in German, you can download it here.

Music students in seven cities and associations will benefit from the commitment of their music schools in the area of musician health. The non-profit music schools in Bamberg, Nordfriesland, Oberallgäu Süd, Reutlingen, Unteres Remstal, Wildberg and Hamm have trained mentors for musician health. In addition, the already certified district music school Kon.centus has a new mentor.

Since the start of the project in 2009, 66 music schools nationwide have trained mentors for music health and thus play a pioneering role in the current educational landscape. 

On Friday, October 07, works of artist Ulrich Brauchle can be seen at Kapfenburg Castle. The special highlight here: a stage set was created on the castle courtyard for the concert of the Tomasz Kowalczyk Trio with Markus Stockhausen. 

Information & tickets: Klick

Laura Braun (Soprano) and Runzhe Li (Tenor) will receive the award October 13th, 2022 at Kapfenburg Castle. 

The Trude Eipperle Rieger Prize has been awarded in cooperation with the Trude Eipperle Rieger Foundation since 2005. As an endowed legacy of the soprano Trude Eipperle Rieger (1908-1997), the prize supports young singers who achieve extraordinary vocal results in the field of classical and contemporary song. Previous prize winners include such internationally successful artists as the soprano Sophie Klußmann, Kateryna Kasper and the Calmus Ensemble. The prize winners are selected in cooperation with the International Hugo Wolf Academy Stuttgart.

The award ceremony takes place as part of the Encounters, where people from politics, business and culture meet for an open exchange at Kapfenburg Castle. Another highlight of the event are the annually changing guest speakers who share visions and experiences from their lives.p>

The Trude Eipperle Rieger Prize has been awarded in cooperation with the Trude Eipperle Rieger Foundation since 2005. As an endowed legacy of the soprano Trude Eipperle Rieger (1908-1997), the prize supports young singers who achieve extraordinary vocal results in the field of classical and contemporary song. Previous prize winners include such internationally successful artists as the soprano Sophie Klußmann, Kateryna Kasper and the Calmus Ensemble. The prize winners are selected in cooperation with the International Hugo Wolf Academy Stuttgart.

The award ceremony takes place as part of the Encounters, where people from politics, business and culture meet for an open exchange at Kapfenburg Castle. Another highlight of the event are the annually changing guest speakers who share visions and experiences from their lives.

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We are now a partner of bwegtPlus, the bwegt program on sustainability and climate in Baden-Württemberg.

All travelers in Baden-Württemberg who travel with a ticket on the bwtarif will be rewarded for their sustainable and climate-friendly journey and receive reduced admissionfor

• Guided astle tours
• Accelerando concerts
• Turnaround concerts

To use bwegtPlus, all you need is a current-day bwtarif ticket or a season ticket on the bwtarif.

All you have to do ist ti show your ticket at our castle tours or at the box office. If you order your tickets online, you can select the discount "Förderverein / bwegt Plus" and then show your ticket at the entrance on the day of the event.)

Concerts, guided tours, culture at the restaurant - you can look forward to many great events during fall.

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Pandemic, war in Europe, inflation. The last two years have been tough, there seems to be no end in sight. That's why LOTTE and we launched the campaign "2:1 LOTTE": each standing-room ticket for the concert on Sat, July 23, is valid for 2 people.

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i Live Group GmbH
Maschinenfabrik Seydelmann

Adventure time  - get your "Entdecker-Päckle" and discover the Ostalb district!

The "Entdeckerpass 2022" helps you to discover the most beautiful views of the Ostalb district. 25 Stamping station are waiting for you at the locations - Kapfenburg Castle is one of them.

If you collect at least 20 stamps you can win great prizes. 

All information is available here: www.deine-ostalb.de/Entdeckerpass. 

Have fun!

4 music acts have the chance to play at Kapfenburg Festival 2022 - it's up tot you to choose the winner. 

The video with the most likes will win.

Go vote

Pop up Gallery
In the presence of the head of department Anita Baier-Burth and the artists (TBA)  
Bandhaus, Kapfenburg Castle
Saturday, 07.05.2022, 3pm-6pm
Sunday, 08.05.2022, 11.00pm-3pm
Admission free

Vernissage
at the turnaround concert 
Tobias Becker Big Band
Friday, 06.05.2022, 7.00pm   
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Info about the artists on www.haus-lindenhof.de. 

Inclusion means giving everyone the space they need to participate or join in. Appearance, language or disability fade into the background and lose all significance.    

But due to the pandemic the topic has lost practice and presende, direct communication and open exchange stoppedt. Therefore we're placing a new focus on the topic. 

The benefit concert - music without borders
with Georg Wacker & Ulrich Herzog, Piano Ensemble
"Inklusiv-Exklusiv" of the municipal music school Ellwangen
Choir Workshop Rindelbach
Choir of the foundation Haus Lindenhof "Smiling-People
Sunday, April 24th, 2022, 11.00am
Admission free, registration required
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The Workshop - Music without Borders
with Hans Fickelscher
Saturday, May 7th, 2022, 10.00am
50,00 Euro incl. lunch, reduced 30,00 Euro  
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The Pop up Gallery - Art without Borders
Art Club Martinus School - Foundation House Lindenhof
Saturday, May 7th, 2022, 3pm-6pm
Sunday, May 8th, 2022, 11.00am-3pm
Admission free  
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With our partner XAVER, we're searching for an Opening act of LOTTE on Saturday, July 23rd. 

All informations about the contest can be found at www.xaver.de. 

The video of the finale of "in situ 22 - Talking Drums" is online.

Enjoy watching! 

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PAUL GROLL

We have new treasures in our wine cellar: the 2019 D'Aria Pop Song Sparkling Sauvignon Blanc, the 2019 D'Aria The SV Shiraz, and the 2019 D'Aria The Soprano Shiraz. 

Taste them during your next stay at the restaurant Fermata!

Enjoy good talks, drinks and snacks in the Bandhaus bistro or take seat at one of the bistro tables in the concert hall and enjoy the spontaneous creativity of good music.  

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