TALKS AND MUSIC AROUND THE TOPIC "VISIONS FOR FRANKFURT"
The Konzerthaus as a think tank and field of experimentation: As part of its new festival "Fratopia", the Alte Oper Frankfurt will be transformed for an afternoon into a creative space where questions about the future of the city of Frankfurt will be negotiated as well as visions concerning the future concert business. Not only experts from various fields will have their say, but also citizens, who can contribute their own ideas both in advance and on the day itself.
"Ideas Marathon" is accordingly the motto on Sunday, 26 September 2021. September 2021, the motto that stands over a diverse, freely combinable program.
Daniel Libeskind and Zoë Beck will open the afternoon
Opening at 2.00 with a keynote address by architect Daniel Libeskind and a conversation with writer Zoë Beck, who are collaborating to develop a "City of Imagination."
Following this, visitors* will have the choice between several rounds of talks, some taking place at the same time, some one after the other, on topics such as the possibilities and limits of the digital world, the future of the concert business, civic movements, participation or impulses from Frankfurt's university landscape.
In the Mendelssohn Salon, tubist and sound designer Jonas Urbat develops visionary soundscapes with pianist Felix Nagl. And the Albert Mangelsdorff Foyer will be transformed into a "World Café", an established workshop format in which visitors are brought into conversation together at tables to address specific questions.
Eleven individual events are on the four-hour programme, with luminaries in their field as well as active "players" from Frankfurt's urban society, observers, doers and citizens coming together to discuss issues relevant to the future from multiple perspectives.
Your own ideas wanted
The "Ideas Marathon" of the Alte Oper is also linked to the research project "Urban Xtopias - Your (T)Space for the Future" of the German Institute of Urban Affairs (difu) Berlin and the University of Kassel. Within this project, all interested parties are invited to actively participate in the science of urban research.
Those who would like to participate in the research project can submit ideas, wishes and free fantasies until September 20. Contributions in the form of texts, pictures, collages, etc. are requested that illustrate the idea of a very personal urban "play space". The ideas for the future submitted will be published on the website of the Alte Oper Frankfurt, and selected entrants will be given the opportunity to join in the discussion on the podium.
Further information on how to take part can be found at www.alteoper.de/idea-marathon
Program:
14.00 – 14.40 pm ▪ Mozart Saal
CITY OF THE IMAGINATION
DANIEL LIBESKIND IN TALK WITH ZOË BECK
WELCOME: MARKUS FEIN Intendant Alte Oper Frankfurt
14.45 – 17.45 Uhr ▪ Mendelssohn Salon
SOUNDWERK
By and with JONAS URBAT Tuba, Electronics
FELIX NAGL Prepared piano and electronics
15.00 - 16.40 ▪ Albert Mangelsdorff Foyer
WORLD CAFÉ: WHO NEEDS THE OLD OPERA IN THE CITY OF THE FUTURE?
We bring people together - to discuss, sketch and fantasize!
BENJAMIN PFEIFER Moderation
CONSTANZE PFEIFER Violin
JOHANNA ZERLIK piano
15.00 - 15.40 ▪ Mozart Saal
TRANSITION - HAS THE FUTURE IN FRANKFURT BEGUN SOON?
MEMBERS OF THE INITIATIVES COMMUNITY ECOLOGY RHEIN-MAIN E.V. AND TRANSITION TOWN FRANKFURT E.V.
LISA FERRARELLI Sustainability Practitioner Polytechnic Society Foundation
ULI HÖHMANN Moderation
15.00 – 15.40 ▪ Clara Schumann Foyer (Level 2)
DIGITOPOLIS
SMARTE FUTURE - NEED, CURRENT, DESIRE?
VERA KING Sigmund-Freud-Institute Frankfurt
CHRIS BOOS AI Frankfurt Rhein-Main e.V.
MARKUS PELLMANN-JANSSEN ioki GmbH
NICOLAS EBELING Digitechnician of the Polytechnic Society Foundation
JEANNE CHARLOTTE VOGT Moderation
16.00 - 16.40 ▪ Mozart Saal
CARE - IS ANYONE HERE (STILL)?
FREDERIK GOTTSCHLING Vision Office Frankfurt
GABY HAGMANS Social Policy Offensive/Caritas Frankfurt
PHILIPP JACKS Social Policy Offensive/DGB Frankfurt-Rhein-Main
ANIKA SCHMIDT Research Project Obsolete City University Kassel
ULI HÖHMANN Moderation
16.00 - 16.40 ▪ Clara Schumann Foyer, Level 2
WANDELBAR - WHY ARE THERE SO MANY STANDS AROUND HERE?
MELANIE WALD-FUHRMANN Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics Frankfurt
DUONI LIU Prize winner university competition d-bü
NICOLAI BERNSTEIN Kammerphilharmonie Frankfurt
PAUL HAUPTMEIER Center for Immersive Media Art, Music and Technology Leipzig
VANESSA BRUNCKHORST Club 35 of the Society of Friends of the Alte Oper Frankfurt
ULRIKE VOIDEL Moderation
17.00 – 17.40 Uhr ▪ Mozart Saal
Research - KNOWLEDGE CREATES CITY?
AXEL GREMMELSPACHER Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts
RAUL GSCHREY Urban Commons Lab at UAS Frankfurt
MARTIN RADITSCH Innovectis GmbH
FLORIAN D. SCHNEIDER Institute for Social-Ecological Research
FENJA BODESHEIMER Polytechnic Award Winner of the Polytechnic Society Foundation
ULI HÖHMANN Moderation
17.00 - 17.40 ▪ Clara Schumann Foyer, Level 2
XTOPIA - COMPLETELY LOOSED - BEYOND UTOPIA?
JASMIN JOSSIN German Institute of Urban Affairs Berlin
17.00 - 17.40 ▪ Albert Mangelsdorff Foyer
How does the utopian coffee house clatter?
ROLAND KAEHLBRANDT Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft
MARKUS FEIN Alte Oper Frankfurt
BENJAMIN PFEIFER Moderation
Main sponsor Fratopia: Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain
Project partner Fratopia: ART MENTOR FOUNDATION LUCERNE
Main sponsor: Gesellschaft der Freunde der Alten Oper
Main sponsor: Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft
€ 15,- (final price)
Ticket hotline: 069 / 13 40 400
