The Tollwood Summer Festival

"Great Expectations" in the Olympic Park - The Tollwood Summer Festival
On 6/29/2012 begins one of the highlights of Munich's annual summer because the Tollwood Summer Festival opens at the Olympia Park South reopened its doors and offers "bright prospects". The cultural festival, which runs until 24.07. has opened (the only exception. at 19:07 Tollwood is closed), as always, is perfect for unusual music, art, theater and performance projects. Some of these projects we would like to introduce this blog entry. In the next few weeks we go to these events in a partially detailed previews.
Be it in the music arena Gehrlicher with top music acts, with the color and shape of a giant kaleidoscope, or play in the performance program with great clowns and dance installations - the motto here is its implementation in the proverbial sense. But no later than at the British Open-air performance of "As The World Tipped" who staged the climate change as artistic world theater, in the photo exhibition "fates of climate change" or "pantry" which focuses on a world between plenty and hunger, reveals the double of the Radical Festival motto: Those are "Great Expectations"!The theater program:As The World Tipped
The open-air production of "As The World Tipped" (05.07 -... 10.07, admission free, 08.07 backlash) shows artistic world theater on a giant, vertical video wall are impressive views of the dramatic consequences of climate change. Maggie Clarke, producer of the play to the theatrical realization of the climate change issue in "As The World Tipped": "We are not politicians, academics, environmentalists and scientists - we are artists, and we show climate change from the perspective of an artist."The music program in the Gehrlicher music arena:
The big music tent at the foot of Mount Olympia Stars take on the international music scene. At the press conference, the program was launched at this year's summer festivals Tollwood, gave comedian, musician and cabaret artist Rainald Grebe his song "Up" for the best. For his appearance at the Leeds Festival at 18.07. he jokingly announced: "The program we develop only on the way to Munich."
Furthermore, international stars like Lou Reed (01.07.) And Billy Idol (04.07.), The four Norwegian women of Katzenjammer (14.07.) And the pop icon of the 80s Kim Wilde (05.07.) Guest, as the German newcomer Tim Bendzko (16.07.), the Medieval rock band In Extremo (20.07.) or the British pop singer Katie Melua (11.07.).
Was another appearance at the press conference of the Boarischen Cuba. They connect their Cuban musical vitality with Bavarian folk music, and declared this particular concept as follows: "There are parallels between Cuba and Bavaria. The mentality for example, Bayer is comfortable and wants to be left alone - even the Cubans. Musically, the two countries are fundamentally similar: the first voice that sings the verses and the chorus, which join in just so. Only the rhythm that is difficult in Cuban music. "The Cuba Boarischen are at 12.07. at the Festival.
Seven billion people every day want to be sick in the first year of the UN Decade of Nutrition, a new place opened on the festival site, "The Pantry", a new perspective on a world of hunger and throw-away society. The walk-in chamber surrounded by a field informed visitors about global food security, consumerism and organic farming. Hard Rain by Angerer's cooking school ess-arterläutert: "You have to teach the end user that he may deviate from the ideal product: the product can still be recovered with a clear conscience, they are just not only look more perfect."


Visit also the Tollwood Summer Festival in the period from 29.06. until 07.24.2012 in the Olympic Park in southern Munich. The team from Munich Blog wishes much fun.