Highlights 2020 www.dresden.de/events Visit Dresden Advertisement Schloss Wackerbarth Highlights 2020 A strong fi gure in the history of Dresden ............................................................ 2 Former grandeur restored .................................................................................. 3 New setting for old masters ............................................................................... 4 5% discount for booking online Quartet of musical anniversaries .........................................................................5 Booking code: Highlight Dresden 20 Blue swords on white gold ..................................................................................6 Events 2020 .......................................................................................................8 Exhibitions 2020 ..............................................................................................35 Our services .....................................................................................................39 Map of the Dresden Elbland region ....................................................................40 starting at €268 per person in double room • 2 overnights including daily gourmet breakfast Legend • welcome gift, one bottle of mineral water, cosy bathrobes and slippers for the duration of your stay Music | Concert | Opera | Dance Sport • 1 relaxing back massage 20 min Theatre | Cabaret | Literature Elbland Region • timeless dwelling in the hotel’s own Aurora bath with sauna world Festival | Fest | Event Save with the Dresden Card Elbresidenz bonus: free admission to the bathing and sauna landscape of Toskana Therme Bad Schandau with Liquid Sound® and sauna world – only 200m away Dresden Card Your key to the city Immerse and experience: Enjoy attractive off ers from the city’s arts, culture Ph +49 35022 919700 | elbresidenz-bad-schandau.net and leisure sector with the free Dresden Card. Many local partners have signed up to the scheme. Further information and details about what is on off er can be found atwww.dresden.de/dresdencard Operating company: Hotel Elbresidenz an der Therme GmbH, Rudolf-Gröschner-Str. 11, 99518 Bad Sulza 1 A strong fi gure in the history of Dresden No need to bring along birthday gifts for this now long deceased celebrity. Shortly after his death, he was immortalised in the form of an equestrian statue – the Goldener Reiter (Golden Horseman). When Dresdeners commemorate the 350th anniversary of the birth of the most famous of all Saxon Prince Electors, they will rst and foremost be celebrating those gifts that Friedrich August I bestowed Festung Dresden on the city where he had his royal court. Because Augustus the Strong, who was also King of Poland, combined the self-assuredness of baroque rule with an enormous understanding of art and made Dresden a royal residence of European renown. He brought famous architects and Former grandeur restored artists to the city and personally oversaw the construction of many buildings that shape the image of the city to this day. His prowess as a collector is the basis for Dresdenʼs reputation as a city of art and culture. He did not succeed in all his endeavours, of course, but even Even if you think you already know Dresden, you are always going to though his ambition of synthesising gold came to naught, at least the nd surprises in this city. Modern structures are constantly springing rst European porcelain was produced during his reign. Also contributing up in and around the city centre, but many of its historic buildings to his historical fame are the various stories that surround his person. have been restored to their former splendour. One of the oldest of these is Festung Dresden (Dresden Fortress). Dating back to the All of next yearʼs events in Dresden Elbland can be found at middle of the 16th century, the fortress with its bastions named after www.dresden.de/events the planets was one of the rst built to defend a German city. In the www.dresden-elbland.de former defensive structure under Brühlʼs Terrace is a multimedia exhibition Feste. Dramen. Katastrophen. So nah wie nie (Festivities, In our online magazine www.dresden-magazin.com, dramas and disasters as youʼve never seen them before) which recreates you will nd up-to-date information and articles on various Dresdenʼs eventful history, staged as a spectacular sequence of graphic topics in Dresden Elbland. narrative and atmospherically charged spatial installations. The reconstruction of the Residenzschloss, like many of Dresdenʼs nest buildings a victim of the air raid in February 1945, continues apace. With the reopening of the Paradegemach (State Apartment) consisting of two antechambers, a panelled room and an audience room, as well as the bridal bedroom with its sumptuous four-poster bed, the Royal Palace has regained its centrepiece and been restored to Baroque opulence. In addition, 500 magni cent rearms from the possession of the Saxon electors are to be returned to the Langer Gang, the corridor that runs the length of the palace. The Zwinger is one of the most famous buildings in Dresden. The Kronen- tor (Crown Gate) became the landmark of the city. A new 3D interactive exhibition in Bogengalerie L will be dedicated to the history of the Zwinger since 1719. 2 3 New setting for old masters The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister: Goethe described the building that housed this art collection as “a sanctuary”. The poet and statesman was referring to the Johanneum, the converted royal stables, but around a hundred years later, the collection was transferred to a new gallery built by Gottfried Semper as part of the Zwinger complex. The Semper- Dixieland Festival bau has undergone several phases of restoration since 2013 and is due to be completely reopened at the beginning of 2020. A timely move as, only a few months later, celebrations will commence for the 350th anniversary of the birth of Augustus the Strong. The Prince Elector of Quartet of musical anniversaries Saxony and later King of Poland, and perhaps even more so his son August III, were responsible for expanding the collection of German and Dutch paintings already stored in the Kunstkammer (Chamber of Art). In the course of a few short decades, they acquired important Dresdenʼs music year in 2020 will be punctuated by several anniversaries masterpieces from all around Europe. These included Raphaelʼs Sistine and milestones. The rst major event on the calendar is the Interna- Madonna, Giorgioneʼs Slumbering Venus and Tizianʼs Zinsgroschen, tional Dixieland Festival, which has had the city tapping its toes for as well as important works by Flemish and Dutch, Spanish, French and half a century. The worldʼs biggest and oldest jazz festival is again set German masters. Also deser ving a special mention are Canalettoʼs for sell-out concerts, dancing in the streets and lots of emotion, fun panoramas of Baroque Dresden. and high spirits this May. An important element of the exhibition in the Semperbau is its collection Although younger by three decades, Jazztage Dresden has long of sculpture. In addition to works from antiquity to the Baroque, there since made it onto the A-list of Germanyʼs jazz festivals. Now into its is an extensive collection of plaster casts here, which painters used for 20th year, Dresden “Jazz Days” will again be showcasing di erent study purposes and which also served them as a source of inspiration. styles of the genre at various venues throughout the city. The line-up The court painter Anton Raphael Mengs in particular was a collector of outstanding artists from all over the world guarantees the highest of such casts, and after his death, these were brought to Dresden from standard of professional musicianship. Rome where the originals are still on display. The collection also includes several small-format bronze copies of famous works of art, for example The city boasts not one but two eminent classical orchestras: the the Laocoon Group, the original of which resides in the Vatican. Sächsische Staatskapelle and the Dresdner Philharmonie. The Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, which restricts itself to symphonic and con- cert music, was founded in November 1870 to coincide with the o cial opening of the Gewerbehaus concert hall. It soon established itself as one of the mainstays of the cityʼs cultural programme and in 1909 became the rst German orchestra to tour the USA. Today, it has a new permanent home in the concert hall of the refurbished Kulturpalast (Palace of Culture). The festival week celebrating the 150th anniversary of the orchestra will be led by its new chief conductor, Marek Janowski. The concert programme during the entire year will be dominated by another anniversary, namely the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. It will feature a semi-staged performance of his opera Fidelio as well as all ve of his piano concertos. 4 Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister 5 Advertisement Perfect tickets for a perfect day. Explore Dresden by public transport. Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen Blue swords on white gold Only a few kilometres away from Dresden lies the city of Meissen which traces its history back over a thousand years. With the Albrechtsburg towering high above the Elbe and the imposing cathedral, Meissen is considered to be the cradle of Saxony. The Albrechtsburg is not only the rst German castle constructed for residential purposes; it is also where European porcelain was invented, a product that is still made in the Meissner Manufaktur to this