Düsseldorf Festival!

The Düsseldorf Festival is a colourful playground. It invites you to approach art in a playful way. It is an open place for newcomers and specialists alike. Above all, however, it is a place for the enjoyment of sensuality and the satisfaction of curiosity.

Düsseldorf Festival is a festival for performing arts in the fields of theatre, music, new circus and dance. The wide-ranging programme is primarily dedicated to the interdisciplinary and cross-style arts. Founded in the early 1990s as the "Altstadtherbst Kulturfestival", the festival saw itself as an alternative to the classic sectoral programme of public venues and classical concerts in the city.

To this day, the festival centre on Burgplatz, in the large theatre tent, hosts a top-class international programme that radiates far into the region. The New Circus in particular has established a firm place in the programme and is symptomatic of the artistic approach of the festival organisers. Early on, the organisers engaged outstanding nouveau-cirque companies from France, Canada, Australia, Sweden and Switzerland. They were joined by modern dance theatre, major music theatre productions and global pop concerts in collaboration with WDR Cosmo.

In addition to the large international stage in the theatre tent, every year the Düsseldorf Festival also extends far into the city and fills smaller spaces with music, some of which are inaccessible to the cultural sector. Exciting concert formats on the borderline of early music, classical music, jazz and pop music dominate here. Outstanding musicians from Germany and abroad play here far from the usual genres and provide new listening experiences. The intensive cooperation with the innovative festival PODIUM Esslingen deserves special mention here. (Source: Düsseldorf Festival gGmbH)