The cultural program is growing
More artists for the NORDEN Festival 2023 are fixed. Already for the fifth time we celebrate this year the northern European culture on the Königswiesen in Schleswig - the anticipation is rising. We can't wait to celebrate with you again soon on the Königswiesen - it's going to be fun! 2023 will be especially colorful, international and diverse.
Until then, we will continue to work diligently on the cultural program and maybe we even have a few surprises in store for the anniversary edition of our favorite festival? Stay tuned, the next cultural wave will follow in just a few weeks.
On the music stages, the first weekend of the festival (August 24 - 27, 2023) begins with multi-instrumentalist RYAN EDMOND. He has already traveled the world and the years of wandering have undoubtedly influenced his music. This can be clearly heard in his single Stockholm, an ode to his new home in Sweden. Visiting from the Netherlands are the musicians of FOLK ROAD SHOW - not a conventional band, but rather a traveling folk variety. They manage to make a living room feel like a theater and a theater feel like a living room.
(c) Valerie Hsu
The second festival weekend holds great newcomer:inside from Northern Germany. SOBI tells stories of encounters and relationships, beautiful and sad experiences, dark moments and positive turns in her songs. Hope can be the key to heal sadness and this is what the singer, guitarist and composer expresses in her songs. Always looking for the perfect groove, the tightest bass line or the most beautiful melody, the four guys of BUBE have only one goal: Finally make good music in German and bring it to the lady. Even the very small singers get on the big stage at the NORDEN Festival. TINY WOLVES - 60 voices of children aged 8 to 12, a guitar and a bunch of good songs. The idea: unforgettable songs, true lyrics, performed in the dynamic that friends develop when they come together at the right moment in the right place. A final highlight on the second weekend of the festival is the performance of Latvian ethno-pop band TAUTUMEITAS. They take melodies and lyrics from Latvian folk songs, create powerful harmonies and fuse them with modern beats and production to spread magic everywhere.
(c) Liene Petersone
The festival literature section also looks promising. On the first festival weekend, multi-award-winning author SVEN STRICKER will read his crime novel Sörensen sieht Land (Sörensen Sees Land), which will be published in a few days - the fourth part of the successful Sörensen ermittelt series.
On the second festival weekend, the illustrator HANNA HARMS shows in her graphic novel Milk without Honey in poetic pictures the many aspects of the situation up to the extinction of the insects. A future without bees? A gray dystopia that we absolutely must counteract! KATJA JOSTEIT presents with her book in a humorous way the subtleties of Danish etiquette and yet her protagonist:inside find out in the end: True hygge exists independently of candlelight and open fires - in the heart. The second weekend of the festival continues on an adventurous note. TIMM KRUSE tells of a very special journey - barefoot across the Nile, by SUP.
In the field of street theater it will be very crazy again on the first festival weekend. STENZEL & KIVITS take the world of opera for a ride and create amazement with extraordinary musical instruments. The falling piano, a dancing music stand and the actually impossible duet with Caruso are part of it. Also on the first weekend of the festival, the artists of OAKLEAF delight the audience with impressive costumes on high stilts.
On the music stages, the first weekend of the festival (August 24 - 27, 2023) begins with multi-instrumentalist RYAN EDMOND. He has already traveled the world and the years of wandering have undoubtedly influenced his music. This can be clearly heard in his single Stockholm, an ode to his new home in Sweden. Visiting from the Netherlands are the musicians of FOLK ROAD SHOW - not a conventional band, but rather a traveling folk variety. They manage to make a living room feel like a theater and a theater feel like a living room.
(c) Valerie HsuThe second festival weekend holds great newcomer:inside from Northern Germany. SOBI tells stories of encounters and relationships, beautiful and sad experiences, dark moments and positive turns in her songs. Hope can be the key to heal sadness and this is what the singer, guitarist and composer expresses in her songs. Always looking for the perfect groove, the tightest bass line or the most beautiful melody, the four guys of BUBE have only one goal: Finally make good music in German and bring it to the lady. Even the very small singers get on the big stage at the NORDEN Festival. TINY WOLVES - 60 voices of children aged 8 to 12, a guitar and a bunch of good songs. The idea: unforgettable songs, true lyrics, performed in the dynamic that friends develop when they come together at the right moment in the right place. A final highlight on the second weekend of the festival is the performance of Latvian ethno-pop band TAUTUMEITAS. They take melodies and lyrics from Latvian folk songs, create powerful harmonies and fuse them with modern beats and production to spread magic everywhere.
(c) Liene PetersoneThe festival literature section also looks promising. On the first festival weekend, multi-award-winning author SVEN STRICKER will read his crime novel Sörensen sieht Land (Sörensen Sees Land), which will be published in a few days - the fourth part of the successful Sörensen ermittelt series.
On the second festival weekend, the illustrator HANNA HARMS shows in her graphic novel Milk without Honey in poetic pictures the many aspects of the situation up to the extinction of the insects. A future without bees? A gray dystopia that we absolutely must counteract! KATJA JOSTEIT presents with her book in a humorous way the subtleties of Danish etiquette and yet her protagonist:inside find out in the end: True hygge exists independently of candlelight and open fires - in the heart. The second weekend of the festival continues on an adventurous note. TIMM KRUSE tells of a very special journey - barefoot across the Nile, by SUP.
In the field of street theater it will be very crazy again on the first festival weekend. STENZEL & KIVITS take the world of opera for a ride and create amazement with extraordinary musical instruments. The falling piano, a dancing music stand and the actually impossible duet with Caruso are part of it. Also on the first weekend of the festival, the artists of OAKLEAF delight the audience with impressive costumes on high stilts.
NORDEN Freundeskreis e. V. invites
The first special event of the NORDEN Freundeskreis e.V. is in the bag!
On Thursday, March 30, 2023, the Franconian folk band GANKINO CIRCUS will come to Schleswig. They will show their piece "Bei den Finnen". A musical road trip through the Finnish wasteland. Tickets are available exclusively at the bookstore Liesegang in Schleswig for 25 €. Also at the box office tickets will be available for 27.50 € . For Freundeskreis e. V. members:inside the entrance is free.
The cultural program is growing
More artists for the NORDEN Festival 2023 are fixed. Already for the fifth time we celebrate this year the northern European culture on the Königswiesen in Schleswig - the anticipation is rising. We can't wait to celebrate with you again soon on the Königswiesen - it's going to be fun! 2023 will be especially colorful, international and diverse.
Until then, we will continue to work diligently on the cultural program and maybe we even have a few surprises in store for the anniversary edition of our favorite festival? Stay tuned, the next cultural wave will follow in just a few weeks.
Angeliter Open Air X NORDEN Combiticket
Festival highlight at the turn of the year
The Angeliter Open Air and the NORDEN Festival make common cause!
The Angeliter Open Air and the NORDEN Festival make common cause!
The Angeliter Open Air and the NORDEN Festival now provide the extra portion of festival anticipation. With a diverse cultural program on the Dreiseitenhof in Taarstedt as well as the Schleswiger Königswiesen, festival lovers will get their money's worth in August and September.
NORDEN Festival 2023 // First artists
Only a few weeks until the turn of the year, but we are already in the late summer of 2023. 5 years NORDEN Festival, we will celebrate! We are very happy to present you the first artists for the anniversary edition today. As always with regional highlights and great surprises from the Northern European countries. You can look forward to it!
Tickets NORDEN 2023
From now on you can find a limited number of festival passes for all 12 festival days in Print @ Home format in the NORDEN online store. For the upcoming NORDEN we offer for the first time family festival passes in addition to the regular festival passes. These are exclusively available in the NORDEN online store. In addition, you can also get weekend tickets for individuals and families online. Day tickets will be available in spring 2023.
This was NORDEN 2022
Great concerts, enthusiastic visitors, exciting readings and completely new topics - and twelve days of almost nothing but good weather: The NORDEN Festival looks back on an all-around successful fourth edition on the Königswiesen! 35,000 visitors came to the idyllic festival site on the Schlei during the twelve days of the festival. Far more than in 2021.
Note weather situation 3rd festival weekend
After two great festival weekends with bright sunshine on the Königswiesen, we have to expect rain showers this Thursday. Therefore, the performances will be moved from the Manege im Park to other venues. This concerns Thursday. From Friday, all performances should be able to take place.
PRESALE START 07 SEPTEMBER
On Wednesday, September 07, 2022, you can buy 1,000 limited Early Bird tickets for the NORDEN - The Nordic Arts Festival 2023 exclusively at the bookstore Liesegang in Schleswig. In addition, 500 limited Early Bird tickets will be available for 89 € plus advance booking fees (reduced 79 € plus advance booking fees) in the NORDEN online store. A maximum of four tickets per person will be sold. Reservations are not possible.
Tickets at the regular price will be available in the online store after this year's NORDEN Festival.
Panel discussions at NORDEN
Last Sunday the first panel discussion in the context of NORDPOP22 took place. Frank Spilker (singer Die Sterne) talked with Nina Müller (singer WIM) and Frehn Havel (Konzertdirektion Karsten Jahnke) about the effects of the Corona Pandemic on the music industry and faced the question: What's next for the music industry?
On Thursday, September 01, another panel discussion around accessibility at festivals will follow at 6:15 pm in the Atrium. Moderated by Caro Schwarz (Musikspots), the accessibility officer of the NORDEN Festival, Philine Burmeister, will talk with Mirko and Lucas of the band Bitte Lächeln about the possibilities to make festivals and music events much more inclusive.
On Thursday, September 01, another panel discussion around accessibility at festivals will follow at 6:15 pm in the Atrium. Moderated by Caro Schwarz (Musikspots), the accessibility officer of the NORDEN Festival, Philine Burmeister, will talk with Mirko and Lucas of the band Bitte Lächeln about the possibilities to make festivals and music events much more inclusive.
Note ticket sales
At the Königswiesen we have a box office open for you every day, where you can purchase tickets for all event days. There are no tickets available in the NORDEN online store for the current event day.
