Mannheimer Sommer

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When was the last time you celebrated? Was it a while ago? - No wonder, because the world is constantly becoming more digital and faster. Personal encounters have become rare in many areas of life. What does that do to us? And what about the endangered form of government that was born in Athenian marketplaces, from physical interaction, from the theater: democracy? The Mannheim Summer takes a very practical approach to this question by making the "festival" the focus of the program in 2024. The festival has been a basic form of human behavior since time immemorial. Festivals help to overcome the conflicts and boundaries of everyday life. A moment of ecstasy, of supernatural experience, is inherent in the festival. It is the time-out of reason, the necessary counterpart to enlightenment, the utopia for one night. Is it too much to say that art also springs from the festival? We believe that every concert, every opera, every performance retains a trace element of this archaic origin.
The spirit of the festival between nature and culture is impressively immortalized in a palace complex like Schwetzingen. The main part of the Mannheim Summer will take place here in 2024 with its rich program from Mozart to the present day. Open-air concerts, performances, masked balls, international guest performances and the new production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" will set strong accents in the palace theater and park. But it will also be summer again in Mannheim. At the Studio Werkhaus, we will be presenting a program focusing on Albert Camus' fascinating novel "The Stranger". After two limited editions due to the pandemic, we want to dedicate the Mannheim Summer 2024 to life and art again without restrictions.
Let's celebrate!

You can find more information about the Mannheim Summer from the Nationaltheater Mannheim here.

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