Pre-meeting trip to Augsburg, a city on the rise
Augsburg is not only the city of Brecht, Mozart and the Fugger family, but also home to a multifaceted and innovative theatre and arts scene. Together with local theatre practitioners, the participants of this pre-meeting trip will dig for the city‘s cultural roots and artistic debates, amble through city-life, and visit unusual theatre locations, like a gasometer or a techno club.
Online registration for the pre-meeting excursion is now closed. If you would like to join it, you can subscribe yourself at the meeting point. You will be able to settle the participation fee at the spot.
Price: € 25
Maximum: 19 participants
Programme |
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| 09:30 | Departure from Munich Gasteig by bus |
| 11:00 | Reception in the city hall (Golden Hall) |
| 11:30 | Guided tour through Augsburg to Brecht’s house (via the sociocultural centre Kresslesmühle) |
| 12:00 |
Artistic Tour in the Brechthaus, FaksTheater Augsburg |
| 13:00 |
Grandhotel Cosmopolis, lunch (vegetarian / vegan) |
| 14:00 |
Guided walk to the City Club (via the Cathedral and the State Theatre) |
| 14:30 |
City Club, theter ensemble |
| 15:15 | Guided tour to the water towers |
| 15:30 |
Visit of the water towers, BLUESPOTS PRODUCTIONS and open air stage Red Gate |
| 16:30 | Bus trip to the arts centre abraxas |
| 16:45 | Guided tour and artistic programme in the abraxas Preview of Befreit, besetzt, verheiratet (Freed, occupied, married), a civic theatre project by the Junges Theater Augsburg, arts centre abraxas and the initiative Mehr Musik Augsburg! The arts centre abraxas is a municipal institution showing guest productions of several independent companies and also the festival for media art lab30. It was built in 1937 by the National Socialists, then used by the US-Army for 50 years, and today it is a listed building for culture. |
| 18:00 | Campfire and dinner (Soup + Bread) in the storytellers‘ tent |
| 18:50 | Bus trip to the gas station Oberhausen |
| 19:00 |
Guided tour through the gas station and its surrounding area, introductory talk about the following theatrical event. |
| 19:30 |
Der Lechner-Edi schaut ins Paradies (Lechner Edi peeps into paradise), visit of the dress rehearsal of the State Theatre Augsburg, in the “cooling building”. |
| 21:30 | Departure |
| 22:30 | Arrival at Munich Gasteig |
Accessibility
Special wheelchair accessible buses will not be provided. Wheelchair users will be invited to join the regular buses, if possible, and take regular seats; their wheelchairs will be transported in the luggage compartments. Most of the places we are visiting are theatre off-spaces, old buildings, which are not barrier free, and have no wheelchair accessible toilets.
We are grateful for the support of: BLUESPOTS PRODUCTIONS, The Fairy Tale Tent, FaksTheater Augsburg, Grandhotel Cosmopolis, Junges Theater Augsburg, State Theatre Augsburg, theter ensemble
