Expositions and festivals
Art Exhibition
Within the scope of the Whit Festival Week, Bad Kötzting town organizes an art exhibition in the "Realschule" This exhibition is a forum for artists from Eastern Bavaria, offering not only professional and academic artists organized in associations, but also committed and recognized selftaught artists the possibility of presenting their work.
This exhibition of paintings also includes sculptures; handicrafts not being represented. With almost 130 exhibits, this sales exhibition offers patrons of the arts an interesting cross-section through artistic creations in Eastern Bavaria.
Information provided Kurverwaltung Bad Kötzting, Tel.: 0049 9941/602150
Old Bavarian Folk Art Exhibition
Bad Kötzting artists will be presenting their exhibits of old Bavarian folk art in the Balkenzimmer of Haus des Gastes. The spectrum of the work will range from monastery work, by way of verre églomisé pictures, Holy Ghost spheres, votive pictures right up to small devotional pictures. This exhibition can be enjoyed while sitting comfortably and listening to local folk music.
Information provided by Ms Brigitte Ertl, Tel.: 0049 9941/8546
Whit Ride Museum
The Whit Ride Museum housed in the Kirchenburg providing information about the Whit ride opened its doors on Whit in 1996. Shown here are pictures, documents and old traditional costumes of this important rider pilgrimage.
Information provided by Ms Bachl,
Stadt Bad Kötzting, Tel.: 0049 9941/602123
The Art Gallery in Woferlhof
offers contemporary art - prints, paintings, sculptures - in the main house throughout the year and also in the barn in the summer months in changing and permanent exhibitions.
Artists exhibiting in this gallery include
Thomas Bindl, Ulrich Binegger, Hans Dumler, Irene Fastner, Manfred Feddersen, the estate of August Philipp Henneberger, Heiko Herrmann, Hubertus Hess, Manfred Hollmann, Renate and Peter Kobbe, Marita Kusch, Maria Maier, Josef G. Miller, Tomas Nittner, Jürgen Reipka, Elisabeth Schickling, Hannes Steinert, Stefan Zeiler.
Opening times:
Thursdays and Sundays: 10 a.m. to 16 p.m.
and on appointment by telephone
Galerie im Woferlhof, Achim Lerche,
Wettzeller Strasse 207, D-93444 Bad Kötzting-Wettzell
Tel.: 00499941/905315, Fax: 00499941/905316
e-mail: galerieimwoferlhof@t-online.de
Open Air Theatre in Bad Kötzting:
classical drama in the Bavarian language
For some time already, Bad Kötzting’s Open Air Theatre Festival has been the outstanding event in Eastern Bavaria offering amateur theatre at its best.
The underlying idea is to translate the texts of classics into the Bavarian language and then present them to a large public – a unique and successful concept.
In 2011, we will stage “Das Haus der Bernarda“ ( La Casa de Bernarda Alba )
Once again, Bad Kötzting’s theatre group tackle a world classic. Johannes Reitmeier, their art director, created the Bavarian version of a famous drama originally written by the Spanish author Federico García Lorca ( 1898-1936 ). The three act drama “La Casa de Bernarda Alba“, which came out in 1936, portrays the destiny of the women in a family living in a village in Andalusia.
It’s a haunting play that treats the role of women in a society determined by traditions and it has fascinated audiences all over the world. Rural Bavaria at the beginning of the 20th century seems to be the ideal backdrop for the Bavarian version that is to be performed at our Open Air Theatre.
Rural Bavaria around 1920 shows an absolutely rigid society. Each and everyone have his or her clearly defined place. All of them? Bernarda, the dominant land owner, has just lost her husband. In her haughty and cruel manner, she decides over anything going on in the house, in particular over the lives of her numerous unmarried daughters and of her elderly mother. Nothing escapes her imperious character, she wants no interference coming from the outside world and she has only got one thing on her mind: What do people say about her and about her family? Nonetheless, life in her house is an everyday subject in the gossip of hateful neighbours. But also within Bernarda’s house, the passions can’t be kept in check: Envy, jealousy, and sexuality run high in this closed world, spiralling into catastrophe at the end of the play.
Art director: ..... Johannes Reitmeier
Costumes: ........ Antje Adamson
Performances in 2011:
28. July (Premiere) / 29. / 31. July
03. / 04. / 05. / 07. / 10. / 11. / 12. August
Advance sale of tickets:
Tourist-Information Bad Kötzting, Tel.: 00499941/602153
Bad Kötzting’s open air theatre festival on the Internet:
please visit: www.waldfestspiele.de
Das Pfingstlspiel
Ancient traditions as laid down by Karl B. Krämer, in a revised version by Johannes Reitmeier
Ancient traditions come alive through this impressive street theatre play. The central character, called “Pfingstl”, is a truly strange guy in a green dress of fir branches, who symbolizes fertility and growth. But before he can take over, and spring time along with him, winter and its ghosts must be chased away. The latter, however, appear in their costumes, making people afraid with their noise and menacing movements.
But the people join forces, they use fire and piercing cries to get rid of this “cold lot”. At long last, the time has come to dance around the “Pfingstl” and to celebrate the beginning of spring time.
Street theatre beginning at 09.00 p.m. in front of the Town Hall of Bad Kötzting.
Admission free
Performances:
26. / 27. May 2012
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