If you are interested in culture and like to travel, then 2019 might be your year. Prado-birthday in Madrid, ESC in Tel Aviv, Biennale of art in Venice. And 100 years of the Bauhaus ‘ is almost celebrated everywhere.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
January
The celebrations for the cultural capital of Europe start. Bulgaria invites you to Plovdiv and Italy to Matera (image). The on the rocky Cliffs past ancient cave settlements already belong to the world cultural heritage. “The Open Future” is the Motto of the capital of culture Matera. Will be looking for answers on how culture can help to lead Europe to a better future.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
February
150. Birthday of Else Lasker-schüler on the 11. February will remind, on stages all over Germany to the poet and artist, and at the same time, the outsider of Berlin’s early expressionist scene. In February, the Berlinale last launches under the direction of Dieter Kosslick. 2020 Carlo Chatrian, who has long headed the Locarno film festival.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
March
Leipzig is calling, and the book industry. 21. March present publishers of their new releases. The host country is Czech Republic. In the Ruhr area, the film scene is celebrating the 65. Short Film Days Oberhausen. They are considered to be the oldest film festival in the world. They became famous through the “Oberhausen Manifesto”. Directors such as Edgar Reitz and Alexander Kluge called for in 1962, a new beginning in the German film.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
April
Weimar gets a new Bauhaus Museum. In Weimar in 1919 was founded the world famous school for design and architecture. The Museum presents the early Work from the Bauhaus workshop. The exhibition explores the core question of how we want to live together – and how the Bauhaus artists and architects had on it.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
May
Even 500 years after his death on the 2. May 1452 brings Leonardo Da Vinci is still a Lot to Marvel at. Exhibitions in France and Italy remind us of the genius. In may, the Eurovision Song Contest is to take place, despite all the calls for Boycotts in Israel. “Dare to Dream” (dt. To dream dare) is the Motto. Germany is one of the “Big Five” and is guaranteed to be in the final.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
June
In June, the Festival season is in the hot Phase. “Rock am Ring” at Nürburgring and “Rock im Park” in Nürnberg are one of the largest Festivals and is held on the second weekend of June. Other well-known Festivals are the “Hurricane” in Scheeßel, and the “Southside” Festival in Neuhausen Ob Eck. In Denmark, the “Roskilde Festival”, and in Switzerland for the “Montreux Jazz Festival”starts.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
July
From Rock to classical music: the Salzburg festival, the on 20. July start, follow the Bayreuth festival, starting on the 25. July. In the Richard-Wagner-Festspielhaus, there is a new production of “Tannhäuser” directed by Tobias Kratzer and hear. Katharina Wagner, great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, staged for the last Time, “Tristan and Isolde” on the Green hill.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
August
50 years of the legendary Woodstock Festival. Supposedly there are plans for a new edition, which will focus on sustainability, activism, and social justice and the impetus to “save the world”. Spain celebrates another anniversary: 500 years Ago, the first world launched by Ferdinand Magellan’s circumnavigation of the sailing ship. Is honored with numerous exhibitions.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
September
So far, the Bauhaus was a collection with around 49,000 exhibits in the historic Bauhaus building. In the new Museum in Dessau, the on 8. September opened, will now be even more space for large exhibitions. In Berlin the opening of the Humboldt-forum in the rebuilt castle, just in time for the 250. Birthday of the world famous Explorer Alexander von Humboldt on 14. September.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
October
The Nobel prizes will be awarded in the first half of the month. Perhaps literature is once again Nobel prize. In the past year, the award was suspended because the husband of an Academy member, international blabbed and women to be sexually harassed. Sure awarded but the “German book price” and the “peace prize of the German book trade”.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
November
Throughout the year Madrid celebrates with numerous exhibitions, the 200. The anniversary of the Prado Museum. 19. November 1819 it was opened. In the cinema, a special Action Film: the 25. James Bond! It’s supposed to be a continuation of “Casino Royale”, and could be Daniel Craig’s last appearance as 007.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
December
Even if the 200. Birthday of the great author Theodor Fontane is located at the end of the year, is celebrated throughout the year. Discover you can play him in the may neurppiner Fontane. In December will be also awarded the European film award and the German language society selects your “word of the year”. More cultural Highlights can be found in our article below.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
January
The celebrations for the cultural capital of Europe start. Bulgaria invites you to Plovdiv and Italy to Matera (image). The on the rocky Cliffs past ancient cave settlements already belong to the world cultural heritage. “The Open Future” is the Motto of the capital of culture Matera. Will be looking for answers on how culture can help to lead Europe to a better future.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
February
150. Birthday of Else Lasker-schüler on the 11. February will remind, on stages all over Germany to the poet and artist, and at the same time, the outsider of Berlin’s early expressionist scene. In February, the Berlinale last launches under the direction of Dieter Kosslick. 2020 Carlo Chatrian, who has long headed the Locarno film festival.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
March
Leipzig is calling, and the book industry. 21. March present publishers of their new releases. The host country is Czech Republic. In the Ruhr area, the film scene is celebrating the 65. Short Film Days Oberhausen. They are considered to be the oldest film festival in the world. They became famous through the “Oberhausen Manifesto”. Directors such as Edgar Reitz and Alexander Kluge called for in 1962, a new beginning in the German film.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
April
Weimar gets a new Bauhaus Museum. In Weimar in 1919 was founded the world famous school for design and architecture. The Museum presents the early Work from the Bauhaus workshop. The exhibition explores the core question of how we want to live together – and how the Bauhaus artists and architects had on it.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
May
Even 500 years after his death on the 2. May 1452 brings Leonardo Da Vinci is still a Lot to Marvel at. Exhibitions in France and Italy remind us of the genius. In may, the Eurovision Song Contest is to take place, despite all the calls for Boycotts in Israel. “Dare to Dream” (dt. To dream dare) is the Motto. Germany is one of the “Big Five” and is guaranteed to be in the final.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
June
In June, the Festival season is in the hot Phase. “Rock am Ring” at Nürburgring and “Rock im Park” in Nürnberg are one of the largest Festivals and is held on the second weekend of June. Other well-known Festivals are the “Hurricane” in Scheeßel, and the “Southside” Festival in Neuhausen Ob Eck. In Denmark, the “Roskilde Festival”, and in Switzerland for the “Montreux Jazz Festival”starts.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
July
From Rock to classical music: the Salzburg festival, the on 20. July start, follow the Bayreuth festival, starting on the 25. July. In the Richard-Wagner-Festspielhaus, there is a new production of “Tannhäuser” directed by Tobias Kratzer and hear. Katharina Wagner, great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, staged for the last Time, “Tristan and Isolde” on the Green hill.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
August
50 years of the legendary Woodstock Festival. Supposedly there are plans for a new edition, which will focus on sustainability, activism, and social justice and the impetus to “save the world”. Spain celebrates another anniversary: 500 years Ago, the first world launched by Ferdinand Magellan’s circumnavigation of the sailing ship. Is honored with numerous exhibitions.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
September
So far, the Bauhaus was a collection with around 49,000 exhibits in the historic Bauhaus building. In the new Museum in Dessau, the on 8. September opened, will now be even more space for large exhibitions. In Berlin the opening of the Humboldt-forum in the rebuilt castle, just in time for the 250. Birthday of the world famous Explorer Alexander von Humboldt on 14. September.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
October
The Nobel prizes will be awarded in the first half of the month. Perhaps literature is once again Nobel prize. In the past year, the award was suspended because the husband of an Academy member, international blabbed and women to be sexually harassed. Sure awarded but the “German book price” and the “peace prize of the German book trade”.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
November
Throughout the year Madrid celebrates with numerous exhibitions, the 200. The anniversary of the Prado Museum. 19. November 1819 it was opened. In the cinema, a special Action Film: the 25. James Bond! It’s supposed to be a continuation of “Casino Royale”, and could be Daniel Craig’s last appearance as 007.
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Twelve months full of culture: Outlook to 2019
December
Even if the 200. Birthday of the great author Theodor Fontane is located at the end of the year, is celebrated throughout the year. Discover you can play him in the may neurppiner Fontane. In December will be also awarded the European film award and the German language society selects your “word of the year”. More cultural Highlights can be found in our article below.
The French painter, Edouard Manet wrote in 1865, after a visit to the Prado Museum in Madrid to a friend: “As I you were here miss and how big of [sic] their joy to see Velázquez, the worth alone the trip.”
This trip is worth it, even – and especially – 2019: The opening of the Prado’s anniversary on 19. November 2019 to 200. Time. Exhibitions in the famous national Museum in honor of artists such as Diego Velázquez, Francisco Zurbarán EN and, then, as now, Francisco de Goya.
But also many other objectives in 2019, are worth the trip.
German Anniversaries
In Germany there are to celebrate several major anniversaries. The largest commemorative fireworks solves the anniversary of the architecture and design of forge, the Bauhaus, which was founded 100 years ago. The opening festival from the 16th century. January, the start of the nationwide commemoration with more than 600 exhibitions. It starts with a track in search of the performative works, theories, and experiments of the Bauhaus artists like Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy. The venue is the Academy of arts in Berlin.
The Bauhaus is 100
In the capital, at the same time, the “Humboldt of the year is call”. Numerous exhibitions and events to celebrate the Explorer and adventurer Alexander von Humboldt, the on 14. September would have been 250 years old. Thus, the new Humboldt-Forum will open on the birthday of some rooms for visitors, and the virtual Exhibition “12 times Humboldt – A growing exhibition” shows in the Botanical garden from 1. May to 30. June, the Impact of the researcher “about twelve unusual plants stories”, it is said in an announcement.
Fontane and Lasker-schüler
This also includes the 150. Birthday of the poet and artist Else Lasker-schüler, as well as the 200. Birthday of the writer Theodor Fontane celebrated. Fontane was with novels such as “Effi Briest” and “der Stechlin”. His work presents the exhibition “fontane.200/author” from 30. March up to 30. December away in the “Fontane town” the town of Neuruppin, about 80 kilometres from Berlin. And in the whole of Brandenburg-events in honor of Theodor Fontane are held at this time.
The native Wuppertalerin Else Lasker-schüler is a tribute to the spectacle of Wuppertal with an eight-day theatre festival (starting date: 6. July), at the theatre in “IchundIch” the German-Jewish poetess.
A glance at the international dates:
Golden Globes, Grammys and Oscars
76. Ceremony of the Golden Globes will be held on 6. January in Los Angeles instead. The film awards are considered a Barometer for the Oscars, the on 24. February will be awarded in Hollywood.
Always in demand: the Oscar
The most coveted film prize for the first Time a Blockbuster category: The Oscar is awarded for “outstanding achievements in the popular Film”.
15. April will be announced the Pulitzer prizes in New York.
Venice and Cannes
The Motto of the 58. Art Biennale in Venice (11.05. – 24.11.2019) is “May You Live in Interesting Times”. The title refers to an alleged Chinese curse (which is not historically documented), the means according to the organizers, “interesting times” as a period of uncertainty, of crisis and turmoil.
The German pavilion by the artist Natascha Sadr Haghighian. The Bremen Professor to lay the Pseudonym “Natasha Süder Happel, man” and left the idea in the autumn of 2018 with a mask scan.
Probably the most important film festival in the world – the Festival de Cannes will take place from 14. to 25. The end of may. A month later, the art world gathers at Art Basel (13. to 16. June).
… and, again, Venice
At the end of August of the next red carpet is calling, then it attracts the movie stars in the lagoon city for the Venice film festival (28. August to 7. September).
The October in Frankfurt again in the characters of the books, if of 16. until 20.10. the Frankfurt book fair opens its doors. The guest of honor is Norway.
In November, the awarding of the Büchner prize (2. November), before the year of culture in 2019, gradually fades to silence.
Other cultural Highlights in 2019, we have summarized in our images gallery for you.