Wiesbaden-Mainz Arts & Culture Group

Let us enjoy a highlight of opera together in the beautiful coulisse of Wiesbaden´s Staatstheater: "Der Barbier von Sevilla".

We meet 30 minutes before the pre-event in the excellent rooms of Foyer of Staatstheater starts.

Everybody purchases tickets on his own. Please buy them timely: They are quickly and soon sold out.
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Check for events in April, and then, go on "Tickets".

Looking forward to this great music together with you.

Dear art friends,

The museum in Wiesbaden celebrates its 200th anniversary. Admission is therefore free on all Saturdays in April.

Let´s visit together, the new exhibition: "Honey Yellow — The Bee in Art
From the Renaissance to the Present"

"The bee is the popular figure of the 21st century. The major spring exhibition provides a comprehensive insight into the exciting history of the bee in art, from the Renaissance to the present day. For the first time, this story is being told in an exhibition using top-class works of art. Never before has it been possible to experience the wide variety of roles played by the bee as vividly as in our exhibition. Surprising stories, instructive tales, philosophical ideas and astonishing allegories can be marveled at around this insect. Many of the stories are still touching today, because the bee has always been the inspiration for the visualization of general human feelings and ideals."

The exhibition brings together more than Protected content from seven centuries: paintings, sculptures, drawings, graphic art, caricatures, arts and crafts as well as medals and illustrated books. Among them are treasures from leading European museums as well as treasures from private collections, including the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the British Museum in London, the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, the Musée du Louvre in Paris and the Musei Reali in Turin.

Looking forward to seeing you,

Dear art lover,

we are looking forward to this exhibition: "Helen Frankenthaler. Move and Make", which opens on 16 March Protected content . Let's meet at the RME in Wiesbaden.

Designed by the renowned Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, the museum's architecture features minimalist white cubic forms that contrast with the historic surroundings of Wilhelmstrasse.

"The exhibition at the Reinhard Ernst Museum honours the pioneering spirit of Helen Frankenthaler ( Protected content ) in a tour through four decades of her tireless commitment, and thus makes her dedication to the medium of painting visible."

Helen Frankenthaler was an influential American abstract expressionist painter known for her "Colour Field" painting style. Unlike the gestural, action-driven painting of Jackson Pollock, her work focused on subtle, organic shapes and atmospheric colour washes.

Looking forward to seeing you.

Helen Frankenthaler - Grotto Azura,1963
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Bon Voyage: A lecture about the south of France with Dr. Karsten Eichner, in German; includes 1 glass of wine.
In the beautiful "Villa Schnitzler", loctation of VHS who organises this lecutre:

Eine literarische Reise nach Südfrankreich Lesung mit Dr. Karsten Eichner

Der Süden Frankreichs hat schon immer Reisende aller Länder angezogen. Auch viele berühmte Schriftsteller machten sich via Lyon auf den Weg in Richtung Côte d‘Azur – auf der Suche nach Wärme, Licht und Meer. Und sie verfassten darüber enthusiastische Briefe, Essays und ganze Bücher. Dr. Karsten Eichner hat die schönsten Texte zusammengestellt – kluge Reisebeschreibungen ebenso wie witzige Schilderungen skurriler Begebenheiten. Eine literarische Genussreise zum Staunen, Schmunzeln und Träumen.

Lesung mit 1 Glas Französischem Wein.

Looking forward to meeting you there!

Marcella, Organiser
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Dear art lover,

we invite you to join us for a special event at the Dommuseum Mainz. After the opening hours of the museum, we are going to open exclusively for you for two special exhibitions. There will be two guided tours in English, with two different topics.

1. Topic: Medieval Choir Books
"The Whole World on Parchment: The Choir Books from the Mainz Carmelite Monastery. What do dragons have to do with singing monks?

A lot! Because in the nearly Protected content choir books from the Carmelite Monastery, it bristles with dragons! They squeeze into letters, lurk at the edges of pages, and inhabit the books alongside countless other animals, monsters, and humans.

2. Topic: Scarred by Bomb Warfare. Forgotten Fragments Tell History.

Wars are once again omnipresent today. The destruction of Mainz on 27 February Protected content what consequences they have. On the afternoon of this day, 80 percent of the city was destroyed and around Protected content lost their lives in the ensuing firestorm. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of this dreadful day, the Cathedral Museum has reviewed its depots and rediscovered numerous, now fragmented artworks that once adorned the city: fallen house Madonnas, demolished coat of arms stones, or melted goldsmith works.

We will offer both topics in 1 hour tour.

Looking forward to seeing you.
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Dear art lover,

the Mainz University Music Academie offers a lot for great concerts free of charge. This time, it will be "musica antiqua".

Chamber music by A. Corelli, G.P.Telemann, J.S.Bach and J.J.Quantz with students of the instrumental classes on historical instruments.

It starts, this time, a bit earlier...

Hope, you can do it.

Looking forward.

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Dear art lover,

the Landesmuseum Mainz offers again a creative workshops for adults.

Starting with a self-drawn motif, the workshop participants will dedicate themselves to the intaglio printing process and then colour the results with watercolours. Apart from that, we will also try out linocut.

Suitable for beginners and advanced students. Some works of art from the collection will be shown as an introduction.

My colleague Jenny Hessert leads the workshop and I can say from my own experience that the results are very nice. You can copy motifs from magazines, postcards or create your own drawing. Even abstract. The printer colour is black. Colouring is done with watercolours.

Experience with drawing or other techniques is not necessary.

Looking forward to seeing you

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Let´s laugh out lout in the "Late Night Cabaret Show" in German

in Wiesbaden´s beautiful Thalhaus Theater, a pearl of Modern Art (Jugendstil-Architektur), inside very beautiful.

Attention: in German, makes sense only for people understanding it properly.

Der einzige Mix-Kabarett-Abend in Wiesbaden, die „Late Night Kabarett Show“, geht wieder im thalhaus Theater auf die Bühne.
Wie immer moderiert der hessische Kabarettpreisträger Aydin Isik den Abend und freut sich, zwei Kabarettselbstläufer als Gäste begrüßen zu dürfen.

Auch bei dieser Ausgabe der „Late Night Kabarett Show“ wird Isik von seinem Super-Sidekick Kadir Zeyrek unterstützt, mit dem er humorvoll die politischen Geschehnisse der letzten Wochen analysiert.
Live-Musik: Küti, begleitet von Stefan an der Gitarre und am E-Klavier.

Freuen Sie sich auf einen hochkarätigen Kabarettabend mit den besten Kabarettisten des Landes und sichern Sie sich schon mal die Tickets, bevor wir ausverkauft sind.

We meet an hour before the cabaret begins in the beautiful café-bar inside the theater.

It might be sold out pretty soon.
So: get your tickets in time!

Dear art lover,

"Architecton is an epic, intimate, and poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction — and offer hope for survival and a way forward.

Through Kossakovsky’s lens, the grandeur and folly of humanity and its precarious relationship with nature posits two urgent questions: how do we build, and how can we build better, before it’s too late?"

This special documentary needs a big screen.

Looking forward to seeing you.

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Let´s meet on saturday lunch time for a concert for free in our Market Church of Wiesbaden. We meet 30 minutes before concert starts at the front door of the church and can later on have a drink together in cafe around the corner: Lumen

Entrance fee: 2,00 Euro

Programm of the concert:

Dietrich Buxtehude ( Protected content )
– Präludium und Fuge in e-Moll

Johann Sebastian Bach ( Protected content )
– Präludium und Fuge e-Moll BWV 548

Thomas Jörg Frank (* Protected content
– Carillon über den Glockenschlag der Marktkirche

Looking forward to meeting you there!
Marcella Götz, Host

Dear art lover,

the Mainz University Music Academie offers a lot of great concerts free of charge. Let´s join the concert with students of the singing class of our friend Andreas Karasiak!

This evening promises a lot of music of excellent quality, we will be thrilled.
I promise.

Looking forward to seeing you.

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Attention: tickets now sold out - hope you all bought your tickets in due time!

Let´s enjoy together a nice Chamber Concert (Neujahrs-Kammerkonzert) in our great Staatstheater Wiesbaden,
with musicians of the Hessisches Staats-Orchester plus Pianist Waldemar Martynel.
Programm: journey from Europe to Asia, traditional dances like Csardas and Persian dances, we will enjoy.
Motto: "Music exceeds frontiers."

Dear art lover,

the Mainz University Music Academie offers a lot for great concerts free of charge. Let´s join the concert with Mario Caroli. The concerts are taking place at the campus of the Mainz University.

The French-Italian flautist Mario Caroli was born in Italy, began studying the flute at the age of 14 and graduated at 19. At the age of 22, he won the Kranichstein Music Prize in Darmstadt (holiday courses for new music), which launched his very successful career as a solo flutist. Mario Caroli belongs to the small circle of artists who interpret classical compositions as well as the most modern contemporary pieces with the same vitality, stupendous virtuosity and astutely analytical mind.

On the programme this evening:

Ernö von Donhanyi ( Protected content ) « Aria » Protected content

Joachim Andersen ( Protected content ) « Morceaux de Salon » op. Protected content

Philippe Gaubert ( Protected content ) « Deuxième Sonate » Protected content

Maria Eugenia Luc ( Protected content ) « Figlia dell’aria » für Flöte alleine Protected content Mario Caroli gewidmet)

Alphonse Duvernoy ( Protected content ) « Concertino » Protected content

Mario Caroli will be accompanied on the piano by Polina Grishaeva.

Please let me know, if you need help with finding the way to the Mainz campus, I will take a bus from the Westbahnhof.

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