Munich: Tollwood Winter Festival 2024 - Theresienwiese

 TOLLWOOD WINTER FESTIVAL - Alternative Christmas market and more...

The day before the festival starts: The Christmas tree lights up, the silver grape glitters and the big silver unicorn spins

Tollwood Winter Festival on the Theresienwiese in Munich from November 26th to December 23rd, 2024

Munich. The Christmas tree lights up, the silver grape glitters and the big silver unicorn spins. The Theresienwiese becomes a shining eye-catcher on the Oktoberfest meadow in Munich in the late afternoon. Here the Tollwood Winter Festival attracts visitors with the “alternative Christmas market” with international productions, street theater, organic gastronomy from all over the world and handicrafts. Here you can find great gift ideas and experience almost 90 percent of the events, such as theater, art, music, performances and a great children's program, free of charge. Entry to the festival grounds and to the Market of Ideas and so on is free of charge!

The lighting is tested in the late afternoon - one day before the start of the Tollwood Winter Festival on the Oktoberfest meadow - view from the Theresienwiese stop, photo: A. Waess  

This year there are glowing tent roofs for democracy and community - the motto this year is “We need you!” 

The last decorations are being put on the stands, because tomorrow, Tuesday at 2 p.m., the stands will be lit up and the Tollwood Winter Festival will illuminate its roofs in all its glory.

View from the base of the Bavaria: One day before the start of the Tollwood Winter Festival on the Oktoberfest meadow - Theresienwiese, photo: A. Waess

This year's motto for the Tollwood Winter Festival from November 26th to December 23rd is “We need you!”

Means "Democracy needs commitment and cohesion" and every single one.

As darkness falls, the tent roofs of the festival will turn into glowing canvases. An installation “A luminous manifesto in defense of our democracy,” according to the organizers. At 7 p.m. the audience will see the glowing “Love Story to Democracy” on the roofs of the tents. Then there are the “value benches” in the bazaar tent, which leave behind their own, very personal messages “about democracy and community”.

On the left at the entrance: ticket sales - one day before the start of the Tollwood Winter Festival on the Oktoberfest meadow - view from the Theresienwiese stop, photo: A. Waess

Another highlight is the breathtaking artistry at the Festival du Cirque

There will be a German premiere with “Deserance”. From Tuesday, November 26th to December 8th, the Italian company Circo Zoé will combine opera singing, electronic live music and incredible acrobatics into a poetic production. 

The Festival du Cirque will bring international productions to the Theresienwiese with “Humans 2.0” by “Circa” and “Duel Reality” by “The 7 Fingers”. There are still remaining tickets available at www.tollwood.de

Remaining tickets for the Festival du Cirque from 39 euros (reduced from 29 euros) 

• Munich ticket
• Eventim

One day before the start of the Tollwood Winter Festival on the Oktoberfest meadow - view from the Theresienwiese stop, photo: A. Waess

Tollwood Winter Festival 2024

Location: Theresienwiese, Munich

Period: 

• November 26th to December 23rd, 2024
• Festival du Cirque until December 22, 2024
• New Year's Eve party on December 31, 2024

Free entry to the festival grounds

The lighting is tested in the late afternoon - one day before the start of the Tollwood Winter Festival on the Oktoberfest meadow - view from the Theresienwiese stop, photo: A. Waess  

Festival du Cirque – program

Location: Grand Chapiteau, Tollwood Winter Festival

Circo Zoé: “Deserance”

• Period: November 26th to December 8th, 2024, 7:30 p.m. (no game: December 2nd)
• except: 1.12. and 8.12. – Show starts: 6 p.m

Circa: “Humans 2.0”

• Period: 10.12. to December 14, 2024, 7:30 p.m
• Additional show: December 14th, 4:30 p.m

The 7 Fingers: “Duel Reality”

• Period: December 17th until December 21, 2024, 7:30 p.m., 
• December 22nd, 6:00 p.m

One day before the start of the Tollwood Winter Festival on the Oktoberfest meadow - view from the Theresienwiese stop, foto: A. Waess

Munich is celebrating! Weekend 14th/15th September 2024

Cultural street festival in Munich

Corso Leopold. The cultural festival between Siegestor and Munich Freedom - and Zamanand Festival from Siegestor to Odeonsplatz

 

Car-free adventure mile on the 14th/15th September 2024 - from Munich city center to Schwabing

Munich. There is always something to celebrate in Munich! This weekend from Siegestor to Münchner Freiheit there is again Corso Leopold (corso-leopold.de). It is the colorful street festival where art, culture and politics are accessible to everyone. At the same time, the Zamanand Festival (zamanand.de) is celebrating between Siegestor and Odeonsplatz, so you just have to follow the stages and stands. The artists' adventure mile, performances, live music on many stages and physical well-being are also taken care of.

 

 

Feldherrnhalle between the Residenz (left) and the Theatinerkirche (right) and in front of it the music stage and beer garden on Odeonsplatz - press photo archive: Helga Waess

Event times

•     Saturday, 4:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. (program ends between 11:00 p.m. and 1:30 a.m.)
•     Sunday, 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m
•     "From Saturday morning, Leopoldstrasse and Ludwigstrasse in the area from Herzogstrasse via Siegestor to Feldherrnhalle will be closed to all types of vehicles (including bicycles and e-scooters)."
•     End of dismantling and road opening: Monday around 3:00 a.m

 

At Odeonsplatz you can celebrate well on the big stage, photo: Helga Waess (press photo archive)

 

Live music from international artists

•         A silent party with two DJs, together with Radio Charivari, at the Siegestor.
•         The Theater der Corsaren opens the stage for house, tech-house, techno, relaxed beats and rap, hip-hop and pop.
•         Dancing at the Vintage Club at Siegestor
•         The “Im Here and Now” stage awaits a colorful evening with music, cabaret and talk.
•         The “Dream City of Schwabing” stage will be used by, among others, André Hartmann, the new head of the Laughing and Shooting Society
•         The Schwabing cult stage “Heppel und Ettlich” offers both rock and exotic music
•         But what would a Boar festival be without the "Lederhosn Bühne" - Münchner Freiheit, which also presents new Bavarian folk music with Roland Hefter
•      The "Sing & Swing Stage" gives a SPACE to up-and-coming talent from jazz, funk or soul as well as new singer-songwriters - presented by Annette “Leo” Hartmann
•        And then there is the "Neue Kunstforum München" with the current winners of the "Seerosenkreis" - here the curators Martin Blumöhr and Tobias Krug serve up a feast for the ears of art and musical performances.

Museum Frieder Burda: What is the future?

 A discussion of the arts! MUSEUM FRIEDER BURDA - Friday, May 17, 2024, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m

 

What is future? The Frieder Burda Museum, as an art institution in discussion with the sciences

ON THE TRACES OF THE IMPOSSIBLE in the exhibition ImPOSSIBLE - an evening dedicated to art, science, music, literature and theater

BADEN-BADEN. On May 17th, extreme mountaineers, musicians, environmental scientists and social researchers will discuss questions about the individual, social and planetary boundaries in our time - our dimension. The question discussed is: If the future is today, then what is tomorrow? The concept for the evening was devised by Ingolf Baur, TV presenter, and Mattes Herre, actor at the Theater Baden-Baden.

MUSEUM FRIEDER BURDA in Baden-Baden (entrance), photo: Helga Waess

The event takes place within the current exhibition ImPOSSIBLE

 
"Spaceship Earth - a journey to the limits of humanity. How would the inhabitants of another planet look at the Earth? Humanity has already exceeded six of nine planetary boundaries. The biosphere is destabilized, at the same time the pressure of global processes continues to grow: life has become risky, is humanity facing a bottleneck in its development history? What impulses does it need to get back on track?
 
One thing is clear: the future of our civilization depends on precise knowledge of its limits: where are they, which can be moved, what is IMPOSSIBLE? A cross-genre walk through the exhibition in the Burda Museum maps the boundaries of human activity and its opportunities: Who are we? Who do we want to become? And to what limits are we prepared to go?" (Press release from May 8th - Museum Frieder Burda)

Take part in the discussion about the future

•     Prof. Dr. John-Dylan Haynes, neuroscientist, Charité Berlin
•     Helga Hennge, mountaineer
•     Walter von Lucadou, parapsychologist, Freiburg
•     Prof. Dr. Ueli Mäder, sociologist, University of Basel
•     Daniel Ruppert, architect, breathing and cold trainer
•     Prof. Angelika Zahrnt, economist, honorary chair of BUND
•     and other guests (not named)

 

MUSEUM FRIEDER BURDA in Baden-Baden (entrance), photo: Helga Waess

Museum Frieder Burda in cooperation with the Theater Baden-Baden

•     Friday May 17, 2024
•     7 – 9 p.m
•     Admission: 20 euros
•     ONLINE TICKETS

MUSEUM FRIEDER BURDA

Lichtentaler Allee 8 b, 76530 Baden-Baden

• Opening hours: Tue – Sun: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m