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Bad Hersfeld. The 68th Bad Hersfeld Festival has opened. After a glamorous ceremony, celebrities were walking on the red carpet for Peer Gynt's premiere.
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– In the beginning, festival director Joern Hinkel said: Power of Thought. You can change lives. "
Closed Prelude: Intendant Joern Hinkel brought the entire festival team to the stage.A chorus of members of the ensemble sang" Stand by Me "- a moment of flesh
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The festival was inaugurated by its patron, Prime Minister Hesse Volker Bouffier: The festival is a particularly bright star in the triumph of cultural events, according to the father of the 39. He also mentioned the considerable financial support of the Land of Hesse and promised: "We will stay here."
Ceremony: The beginning of the 68th Bad Hersfeld Festival in pictures
The Federal Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz and Bad Hersfeld Mayor Thomas Fehling gave the opening speeches Scholz had already arrived by car from Berlin around 5:30 pm
In his speech, the Federal Minister of Finance gave a large citizen of Hersfeld, Konrad Duden, on the his the city and European financial policy towards Peer Gynt. Scholz has paid tribute to the cultural engagement of the citizens of Hersfeld since the founding of the festival until nowadays.
Held the Opening Speech: Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz
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Increasing Digitization Led the Minister of Finance to Advocate for the "Vital Factor" of the culture. "The art lives performance, live is the soul of the art," said Scholz. Between facts and fiction, Peer Gynt, the title character of the opening piece, also interpreted Scholz and described the character's selfishness. To dare to try this difficult material is impressive.
Scholz: The ruin of the abbey is the Elbphilharmonie Hessens – only much older
Scholz, of course, also went to the Stiftsruine place, which the Hamburger described as "l & # 39; Elbphilharmonie Hessens ". Only ruin is "much, much older – and fortunately not so expensive."
The Mayor of Bad Hersfeld, Thomas Fehling, had already mentioned in his reception the high added value of the Festival. A scientific study of the 2017 season reported the Umwegrentabilität to 6.5 million euros.
greeted the director – and received many applause: the mayor of Bad Hersfeld, Thomas Fehling.
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Fehling took the opportunity to once again promote the split of the theater business into a non-profit limited liability company to protect it from the risk of fluctuation of tax revenues. He announced that after the summer holidays, the city council will decide on a corresponding draft resolution.
Goosebumps are a moment of conjecture
But there were several times at the ceremony. From the beginning, when the young student Lorenz Rödiger played "Solveig's Song" on the saxophone without being impressed by the landscape and the audience.
"Solveig's Song" on saxophone: Student Lorenz Rödiger was not impressed by the audience and the landscape.
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And immediately after, the director Joern Hinkel welcomed all the guests of honor, as well as mom, dad and the handsome brothers. But he became very serious when he reported rehearsals with two Afghan actors. "We can criticize and think without fear for our lives," he described the difference to local artists. The walls of the ruins of the monastery should not be understood as a delimitation, but as a protection or hug.
And again the goosebumps, the director changed the piano and accompanied the chorus of the members of the set. The evergreen "Stand by Me", repeated by Christoph Wohlleben, represented the commonalities that festival players feel for each other. The members of the "Titanic" ensemble once again sang the "Magic Flute" to accompany the venue "In these halls".
Entry into the city's gold book: Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Hessen's father Volker Bouffier left his signature.
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And it also became solemn when the Federal Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz and the father of Hesse, Volker Bouffier, entered the city's gold book
It's full on the red carpet
It was then full on the red carpet: For the premiere of "Peer Gynt" by Henrik Ibsen came many honored guests, including Richy Müller, Frank Plasberg, Hélène Schneider, Petra Roth , Samuel Koch, Walter Plathe and boxing legend Henry Maske [19659030] Red carpet at the beginning of the Bad Hersfeld Festival
It is still this moment that makes it clear that it is still this period: film, radio and television celebrities, politics and culture head for the Stiftsruine red carpet
It was full on the edge of the red carpet, where not only did many Bad Hersfelder have Opportunity to "see and be seen" but also about 50 photographers at tol.
It's not just photographers who are blinking, but more than 500 spectators gathered at the edge of the red carpet to see the celebrity rendez-vous.
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