Vocal and vocal-instrumental mixed settings of literature, overt and subtly political, are brought to life through recitations and moderations by Ralph DUTLI (*1954), a poet, biographer, and translator of MANDELSTAM who is based in the City of Literature Heidelberg. Works by Sergej NEWSKI (composition commission, world premiere), Steffen SCHLEIERMACHER, Franz SCHUBERT, Hanns EISLER, and Hermann SCHERCHEN, as well as anonymous musical settings of poems by Georg HERWEGH, Ferdinand FREILIGRATH, among others, will be performed by the SCHOLA HEIDELBERG and the ensemble aisthesis under the direction of Walter Nußbaum.

Copyright: Thilo Ross

Doors open: 2:30 PM

Schubert Quartet Movement in C minor D 703
Webern Piano Quintet for Piano, 2 Violins, Viola, and Cello
Janácek String Quartet No.2
Dvorák Piano Quintet No.2 in A major op.81

7:00 pm Introduction Doors open at 6:45 pm

Mad Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin Tribute

Admittance: 19:00

In this tasting, we offer more than just a tasting. You will learn from an excellent master distiller!

- Exciting details about the origin and history of spirits
- Basics of sensory perception - how to see, smell, and taste correctly
- Practical experience at the distillery - witness the production live
- Tasting of different rums

Firsthand information and spirits directly from the source make this experience unique. If you expect more than just the usual, you are in the right place!

Schedule:

- Welcome of participants and theory including sensory perception
- Practical part in the distillery
- Tasting at Cha da fö of 7 rums
- End of the tasting

We are happy to reserve a table for you in our restaurant afterward.

Number of Participants: 5-15
Duration: approx. 4 hours
Requirements: Minimum age of 18 years

Services:

- Samples during the tasting, mineral water, and bread for the tasting
- each participant will receive a 15% discount on the purchase of our own spirits on-site

Immerse yourself in the "Anatomy of Happiness"

Human happiness is closely linked to the body. The permanent exhibition BODY WORLDS in Heidelberg shows just how closely. It was here, at the University of Heidelberg, that anatomist Gunther von Hagens developed the process of plastination, a pioneering method of preserving bodies.

Today, BODY WORLDS is one of the most popular exhibitions in the world. Around the globe, inquisitive minds explore the secrets of the human condition. But the focus is not only on the anatomy of the body - rather, it is on raising awareness and understanding the importance of the body in relation to one´s own happiness. The exhibited plastinates create a new awareness for a responsible approach to one´s own body and a healthy lifestyle. What moves us? What drives us? And how does happiness work at all? All these questions and many more are answered in the "Anatomy of Happiness" and just as many are raised again. The human body never ceases to amaze and inspire us.

Let yourself be carried away into a fascinating world that gets under your skin!

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We (dis)guide you through the centuries of Durkheim city history. Celts and Romans, Salians and Leiningers, revolutionaries and spa guests. They have left traces that are thousands of years old and come to life on this city tour. Learn about Durkheim's white gold, a Roman quarry, one of the oldest foundations in Germany, churches and their secrets, a huge barrel, southern plants, one of the longest graduation towers in Germany, and much more. The route leads through the spa park and downtown with its squares, past fountains, monuments, and buildings, ending at the cultural center Haus Catoir with the city museum. Finish with a glass of sparkling wine or grape juice at the city museum.

Duration: approx. 1.5 hours
Meeting point: Tourist Information

2024 marks the 125th anniversary of Villa Meixner – undoubtedly Brühl's most beautiful building. And also Erich Kästner would celebrate his 125th birthday this year.

Reason enough to honor this double anniversary with a special highlight. SWR moderator Martin Seidler and keyboard virtuoso Peter Grabinger – also a combined age of 125 years! – will guide you through Kästner's poetic-musical cycle "The 13 Months."

But before this playful stroll through the year begins, we would like to invite you to a small champagne reception to toast to the birthday celebrants together in the garden of Villa Meixner.

The poetic-musical cycle "The 13 Months"
In the early 1950s, Erich Kästner was commissioned by a Swiss newspaper to write 12 poems that were to be published there in a monthly series. Later supplemented by a fictional "intercalary month," the poetic-musical cycle of the "13 Months" was created. Thirteen poems by a "city dweller for city dwellers," in which Kästner brings nature alive with humor and poetry, but also with a hint of melancholy, making visible the eternal cycle of seasons and life.

Martin Seidler, as the host of "Coffee or Tea?" and the moderator of Landesschau RP, is one of the most familiar faces of SWR television – and for a long time, he has counted "The 13 Months" among his favorite books. His idea to combine these poems with classical and newly composed music was realized with the brilliant Mannheimer pianist Peter Grabinger. Thus, in a congruous collaboration, 13 unique "sound images" were created.

Doors open: 18:00

Scherer, in the tone of a steam talker, masterfully presents his observations of human passions and weaknesses, disrespectful, biting, at times sarcastic, but always wonderfully funny.
Who would have thought around 20 years ago that one could conquer the cabaret and comedy stages of the country with "Scherereien" and perfect Hessian? In 1998, Johannes Scherer went on tour for the first time, back then alongside his congenial partner and radio colleague Robert Treutel (“Bodo Bach”). Four years later, Scherer’s first solo “Scherereien” followed, for which he was nominated directly for the prestigious cabaret award "Prix Pantheon." Over the years, five more successful solo programs by the TV and radio host followed.

Doors open at 18:30

Email to info@sapperlottheater.de

Spend an afternoon with friends in the Palatinate vineyard landscape: The interactive tour through the most scenic vineyards of Bad Dürkheim has a lot to offer: Cool winemaker types, sustainable ideas, and some extraordinary stories about the wines await you. A colorful mix of interesting facts, curiosities, and special features about wine culture, viticulture, the Palatinate & Palatines. And of course: With 5 wines from Bad Dürkheimer winemakers and homemade olive bread.
Dogs are allowed on a leash (leash requirement!).

Duration: approx. 3 hours
Distance: approx. 4 km
Meeting point: Wurstmarktplatz, in front of the Dürkheimer Riesenfass
Registration required

This date is fully booked.

Join us on a journey down to the wine cellar of the Vier Jahreszeiten Winzer eG and experience the over 120-year-old wine history in the heart of Bad Dürkheim. In the cellar, we will show you the various steps of wine production, from grape reception to fermentation to maturation in wooden barrels. At various stations, we will taste a total of 5 wines. You can also touch, smell, and try some of them yourself. Our former experienced cellar master will guide you through the premises and share anecdotes from the work in the cellar and secrets of the old buildings.

During the tour, you will also see the smallest wine barrel in Bad Dürkheim, from which traditionally the first glass is poured at the Dürkheimer Wurstmarkt every year, as well as the largest stainless steel tank in the Palatinate with a capacity of 196,000 liters.

In our cellars, a variety of fine wines are produced every year. The assortment includes not only the well-known Palatinate classics such as Riesling, Grau- and Spätburgunder but also international trend grape varieties like Sauvignon Blanc, Merlot, or Tempranillo, as well as future grape varieties Souvignier Gris and Muscaris. From daily "bread and butter wines" to wines for discerning connoisseurs, every wine and sparkling wine lover will find something here. We are particularly proud of the annual awards and wine prizes at various tastings, which reward our passion and confirm our winemakers in their daily work.

Duration: approx. 2 hours
Meeting point: Vier Jahreszeiten Winzer eG, Limburgstraße 8, 67098 Bad Dürkheim
Registration required

Michael Francis, Chief Conductor

Thomas Bloch, Ondes Martenot

David Kadouch, Piano



Doors open at 6:30 PM / Concert hall entry at 7 PM

Experience the autumn in the Palatinate at a moderate hiking pace! Our approximately 7.5 km long route takes us from the impressive Giant Barrel through the beautifully landscaped spa park, past the saline, through the autumnal vineyards with a magnificent view of the Palatinate Forest and the Rhine plain, into the tranquil winemaking village of Ungstein. After a small wine tasting with the winemaker, you will get to know the Roman "Villa Rustica" and discover for yourself why the Romans already enjoyed the Palatinate so much back then. - With interesting and amusing information about the locations and the Palatinate way of life.

Duration: approx. 4 hours
Meeting point: Dürkheimer Giant Barrel
Route: approx. 7.5 km
Number of participants: min. 6 to max. 20 people
Registration required by Thursday before the date.
The event may be canceled due to lack of participants.

Vocal and vocal-instrumental mixed settings, both overt and subtly political literature, are resonantly connected through recitations and moderations by the poet Ralph DUTLI (*1954), who is based in the City of Literature Heidelberg and is a biographer and translator of MANDELSTAM.
Works by Sergej NEWSKI (commissioned composition, world premiere), Steffen SCHLEIERMACHER, Franz SCHUBERT, Hanns EISLER, and Hermann SCHERCHEN, as well as anonymous settings of poems by Georg HERWEGH, Ferdinand FREILIGRATH, and others, will be performed by SCHOLA HEIDELBERG and the ensemble aisthesis under the direction of Walter Nußbaum.

Copyright: Thilo Ross

Admission: 16:30 Uhr

The Creation by Joseph Haydn as the closing concert of the 4th Speyer Music Autumn for the reopening of the covered foyer in the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer

Haydn was probably inspired to compose a large oratorio during his stays in England when he heard the oratorios of Georg Friedrich Handel performed with a large ensemble. The work on the oratorio lasted from October 1796 to April 1798. According to Haydn's own statement, the composition was an inspiring and fundamental religious experience for him. He expressed to his biographer: “I was never so devout as during the time I was working on The Creation; daily I fell to my knees and prayed to God to grant me the strength to successfully complete this work.”

PalatinaKlassik Vocal Ensemble
Philharmonic Choir at the Saar
PalatinaKlassik Chamber Philharmonic

Conducted by: Prof. Leo Kraemer

(c) PalatinaKlassik

Doors open: 15:30

The event is postponed. Further information will follow.

Composers, their works, their lives, their eras - seen up close. This is what you experience at Musical Sunday. In a relaxed conversation, the writer Marcus Imbsweiler and the composer Timo Jouko Herrmann shed light on a piece of music in detail. They talk about its creation, play music examples, explain scores, and also clarify some misconceptions - for example, whether Salieri really had something to do with Mozart's death. (He did not.) With great expertise, equal devotion to music, and always "con brio," Imbsweiler and Herrmann present works of various genres and eras. Therefore, Musical Sunday is a program of the DAI, with many "premieres"!

Timo Jouko Herrmann and Marcus Imbsweiler, two enthusiasts with their very own linguistic approach to music, take the stage. Imbsweiler has published novels and stories about composers from Haydn to Shostakovich. Herrmann is a guest conductor of the Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra; his rediscovery of the joyous song "Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia" composed by Salieri, Mozart, and Cornetti made him famous worldwide.

Ladies and gentlemen,

please take your seats, fasten your seatbelts, and put your seatbacks in the upright position. Because the next ride goes from 0 to 100. Be there when Greek passion meets Rhineland humor in the fast lane and it finally reads: PANAGIOTA PETRIDOU LIVE – WER BREMST, VERLIERT!

“Giving up is something you can do at the post office!” has always been the motto of this Greek powerhouse. And one thing is for sure: It was exactly this attitude that earned Panagiota Petridou the title of the best MINI new car saleswoman. The journey there was full of twists and sacrifices. With a lot of power, her unmistakable style, and a name that resembles an Italian dessert, she climbed from her parents' tavern to the car dealership and all the way to the red carpets of the biggest events.

And whether it's HU, AU, BMW, or ABS – Panagiota Petridou wears her heart ruthlessly on her sleeve. Come what may: Thanks to her razor-sharp wit, no potential prey has yet escaped the Solingen car hunter. With plenty of humor, charm, and all-season tires, she rushes along the hard shoulder and reliably reaches her goal!

Experience up close how a child of Greek immigrants became a spirited entertainer who, as a young mother, masterfully balances everyday life, family, TV, and celebrity status without being squeezed into a corset or a Corvette.

Doors open: 6:00 PM

Unfortunately, we have to cancel the show without replacement due to tour-related reasons

Derya Yildirim and Grup Simsek return with their third album Dost 2, the second part of a two-part series following the highly acclaimed Dost 1 from 2021. In the eight-track release, Turkish singer, baglama player, and multi-instrumentalist Derya Yildirim and her international band of brothers and sisters continue their psychedelic journey, meandering with their electrifying grooves through Anatolian folk music and poetry, while also exploring their own lives and personal experiences.
Formed in 2014, the group has earned an excellent reputation with two albums and an EP, showcasing their intoxicating blend of Anatolian folk, Turkish rock from the 1970s, psychedelia, pop, and jazz. On Dost 2, reinterpretations of Turkish classics and the band's original compositions are seamlessly woven together through imaginative arrangements and captivating grooves, where the past and present collide in a single song.

Doors open: 7 PM

19:00

Even Speyer and the Palatinate have the blues! That's why the Guitar Summer 2024 will be opened by local blues greats. Jürgen "Mojo" Schultz, Ringo Hirth, and Wolfgang "Blueswolf" Schuster are well-known well beyond the region and can be considered music veterans. They have just recorded a CD together where they skillfully and independently cover blues classics. A Palatine bluesman once said: Blues is when it sounds real! For this trio, that definitely holds true. Drummer Ringo Hirth, at home in many styles and known as a studio musician, has played with numerous jazz, rock, and blues luminaries like Wolfgang Dauner, Alexis Corner, Joy Fleming, Hubert Kah, and Anne Haigis. "Mojo" Schultz is a master of the slide guitar, lending his distinctive sound to the pieces. Wolfgang Schuster, the "Blueswolf," takes on the slightly unusual role of solid bassist in this lineup. Otherwise, he enjoys performing as a soloist with his guitar but also collaborates with other notable colleagues like Hans Reffert of Guru Guru or Timo Gross.

Doors open: 6:30 PM

Immerse yourself in the "Anatomy of Happiness"

Human happiness is closely linked to the body. The permanent exhibition BODY WORLDS in Heidelberg shows just how closely. It was here, at the University of Heidelberg, that anatomist Gunther von Hagens developed the process of plastination, a pioneering method of preserving bodies.

Today, BODY WORLDS is one of the most popular exhibitions in the world. Around the globe, inquisitive minds explore the secrets of the human condition. But the focus is not only on the anatomy of the body - rather, it is on raising awareness and understanding the importance of the body in relation to one´s own happiness. The exhibited plastinates create a new awareness for a responsible approach to one´s own body and a healthy lifestyle. What moves us? What drives us? And how does happiness work at all? All these questions and many more are answered in the "Anatomy of Happiness" and just as many are raised again. The human body never ceases to amaze and inspire us.

Let yourself be carried away into a fascinating world that gets under your skin!

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