www.germany.travel Event highlights 2016 © Dresdner Kreuzchor, M.s Krüger © Deutsche Zentrale für Tourismus e.V., T. Krüger © Thüringer Tourismus GmbH, R. Schübel German National Tourist Board (GNTB) Beethovenstrasse 69 60325 Frankfurt/M. Tel.: 069/ 9 74 64 262 Fax: 069/ 9 74 64 233 Email: [email protected] Last revised on: 05.11.2015 Event highlights Holidays in the heart of nature in 2016 2016 January 1 January 2016 New Year's swim in the North Sea, Föhr North Sea, Föhr www.foehr.de/veranstaltungen/events/ausblick-auf-2016 6 January 2016 Horn sledge race Partenkirchen www.hornschlitten.de April 16 April 2016 14th Spree Forest Marathon - Lübbenau biosphere reserve Lübbenau biosphere www.die-infoseiten.de/event2923-spreewaldmarathon.html reserve www.spreewaldmarathon.de/SM 16 April - 19th Brent Goose Festival Wadden Sea, Hallig islands www.wwf.de/themen- 8 May 2016 in Schleswig-Holstein projekte/projektregionen/wattenmeer/watt- erleben/veranstaltungen 22 April - 2016 Baden-Württemberg Regional Garden Show Öhringen 9 October 2016 www.laga2016.de 22 April - 2016 Bavaria Regional Garden Show Bayreuth www.landesgartenschau2016.de/index.php?id=98 9 October 2016 28 April - 2016 Schleswig-Holstein Regional Garden Show Eutin www.eutin-2016.de 3 October 2016 May 24 May 2016 Day of Parks Day of activities across www.kleiner-kalender.de/event/tag-der-parke/42562.html Europe 28 May - 16th Thuringian Summer of Walking Thuringia www.thueringen-tourismus.de/urlaub-hotel- 4 September 2016 reisen/wandersommer-120002.html June 8 June 2016 World Oceans Day worldwide www.kleiner-kalender.de/event/tag-des-meeres/43733.html 11-18 June 2016 15th EWE-Nordseelauf run North Sea islands of www.nordseelauf.de/home.html Norderney, Baltrum, Langeoog, Juist, Wangerooge, Spiekeroog, Borkum 20 June - Textile art walking trail Much www.patchworkgilde.de/Detailseite.66+M55f4d70a877.0.html 30 September 2016 (inaugural walk on the art trail 19 June 2016) 22-27 June 2016 116th German Walking Festival Sebnitz and Saxon www.deutscherwandertag-2016.de/startseite.html Switzerland 25-26 June 2016 '24 hours of Bavaria' Karwendel Alps: (8th edition of the popular hiking event) Mittenwald, Krün, Wallgau www.bayern.by/austragungsort-2016 July 1-3 July 2016 6th Berchtesgadener Land Hiking Festival Berchtesgaden 24h-trophy.com/5-berchtesgadener-wander-festival August 14 August 2016 113th Duhnen Mudflat Cuxhaven tourismus.cuxhaven.de/staticsite/staticsite.php?menuid=256&top Horse Races menu=138 20-21 August 2016 Hohenlohe 15th Kocher Valley Gourmet Tour Hohenlohe region, www.geniessertour.de (wine, walking, cuisine) between Künzelsau and Forchtenberg September September - October Wonders of nature - bird migration in Brandenburg at various locations in www.reiseland- (bird watching for cranes) Brandenburg brandenburg.de/themen/natur/details/vogelzug.html September 2016 Cattle drives In many villages across the www.almabtriebe.de alpine region (Bavaria, Allgäu) October 8 October 2016 39th Brocken Marathon Wernigerode www.harz-gebirgslauf.de provisionally October Darss Nature Film Festival Wieck / Darss www.darsser-naturfilmfestival.de 2016 1 Event highlights 800 years of the Dresden Kreuzchor boys' choir 2016 held regularly Saturdays: vespers with Kreuzchor boys' choir or guest choirs Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf January 9 January 2016 Opening event: Bach's Christmas Oratorio part II, concert by Kreuzchor boys' Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf choir February 13 February 2016 Memorial concert Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf 22-29 February 2016 Food and shelter week at the Kreuzkirche church Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf March 4 March 2016 Saxony State Opera: 'Celebrated around the world. At home in Dresden' Dresden www.sachsen- tourismus.de/service/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungsdetails/event/800- jahre-dresdner-kreuzchor 24-28 March 2016 Kreuzchor vespers on Easter Saturday, Easter matins, special Easter services, Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf St. Matthew Passion April 15-24 April 2016 Festival week Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf 15 April 2016 Opening ceremony in and around the Kreuzkirche Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf 16 April 2016 Kreuzchor vespers: Dresden's choirs help the Kreuzchor to celebrate its Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf anniversary 17 April 2016 Special service with the Bishop of Saxony and the Kreuzchor boys' choir, Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf concert by the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra incl. a premiere 18 April 2016 Kreuzkirche panel discussion 'Church for the city: During German Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf reunification and today' 19 April 2016 Kreuzgymnasium panel discussion 'Protestant schools now and in the future' Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf 20 April 2016 Organ recital with illuminations Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf 21 April 2016 Kreuzkirche panel discussion 'Still fighting for peace?' Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf 22 April 2016 Kreuzkirche panel discussion 'Ecumenism - what's next?' Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf 23 April 2016 Kreuzchor boys' choir concert - Beethoven: Missa solemnis Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf 24 April 2016 Ecumenical service with guests, concert with Gerhard Schöne Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf May 14-16 May 2016 Whitsun vespers, special Whitsun services Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf 24 May 2016 Gala concert with former members of the Kreuzchor boys' choir Dresden www.epd.de/zentralredaktion/epd-zentralredaktion/dresdner-kreuzkirche- kreuzchor-und-kreuzschule-feiern-2016-jub June 25 June - 6 August Summer organ recitals, all at 3pm Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf 2016 August 19 August 2016 Open-air concert with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra 'The sound of Dresden www.sachsen- Dresden' tourismus.de/service/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungsdetails/event/800- jahre-dresdner-kreuzchor 19-21 August 2016 Dresden Festival: 'Kreuzgang' procession, ecumenical service, traditional folk Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf singing, Theaterplatz square and elsewhere September 24 September 2016 Bach: Mass in B minor, Kreuzchor choir concert, opening event of the New Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf Bach Society's 91st Bach Festival November 15 November 2016 Night of Lights Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf 26 November - 26 Advent and Christmas at the Kreuzkirche Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf December 2016 December 16 December 2016 'This is Advent' - three churches, three choirs, one city Dresden www.sachsen- tourismus.de/service/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungsdetails/event/800- jahre-dresdner-kreuzchor 17-18 December 2016 Festive Christmas concerts with the Dresden Kreuzchor boys' choir Dresden www.sachsen- tourismus.de/service/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungsdetails/event/800- jahre-dresdner-kreuzchor/ 31 December 2016 New Year's Eve party with the Kreuzchor boys' choir, New Year's Eve organ Dresden www.evlks.de/doc/DR_Faltblatt800.pdf recital 2 Event highlights Anniversaries in 2016 2016 all year round 200 years of Rheinhessen Rheinhessen www.rheinhessen.de/200-jahre-rheinhessen 2014-2018 600th anniversary of the Council of Constance Constance www.konstanzer-konzil.de/en February 20-21 February 2016 125 years of skiing in the Black Forest Hinterzarten www.hochschwarzwald.de/Media/Veranstaltungen/125-Jahre-Skilauf- Grosses-Jubilaeums-Wochenende-125-Jahre-Skilauf-im- Schwarzwald?value=2016-02-20 60 years of the Stuttgart TV tower Stuttgart www.fernsehturmstuttgart.com 10 years of the Mercedes-Benz Museum Stuttgart www.mercedes-benz.com/de/mercedes-benz/classic/museum/neunter- geburtstag-im-museum 500 years of the German Beer Purity Law Bavaria 500jahre-reinheitsgebot.com/bier-in-bayern/reinheitsgebot 22-24 July 2016 Festival celebrating 500 years of the German Beer Purity Law Munich 225 years of the Rothaus State Brewery - 60 years of Tannenzäpfle beer Grafenhausen- www.rothaus.de/en Rothaus 50 years of the Upper Swabian Baroque Route Upper Swabia www.barockstrasse.org 26 February - 300 years of Duisburg river port Duisburg www.duisburger-akzente.de/de/index.php 13 March 2016 August 70 years of North Rhine-Westphalia – 70 years of Düsseldorf as state capital - Düsseldorf land.nrw/de/70-jahre-nrw-70-jahre-landeshauptstadt-duesseldorf-werden- 26-28 August 2016 ceremony with Minister President Kraft vom-26-bis-28-august-gefeiert September 9-13 and 600 years of the Wurstmarkt wine festival in Bad Dürkheim Bad Dürkheim www.bad-duerkheim.com/duerkheimer-wurstmarkt.html 16-19 September 2016 3 Event highlights Art exhibitions in 2016 2016 January 21 May 2015 - 22 Between Venus and Luther. Cranach's Media of Seduction Nuremberg www.gnm.de/en/exhibitions/current-and-upcoming/between-venus-and-luther- May 2016 cranach-s-media-of-seduction 30 May 2015 - 16 Chocolate! exhibition Koblenz landesmuseum-koblenz.de/index.php?id=42980 May 2016 11 October 2015 - Detectives, agents and spies Speyer www.museum.speyer.de/Deutsch/Sonderausstellungen/Vorschau/Detektive_Ag 31 July 2016 enten_amp_Spione.htm 12 October 2015 - I got rhythm – Art and jazz since 1920 Stuttgart www.kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de 6 March 2016 30 October 2015 - Storm Women. Women artists of the avant-garde in Berlin 1910-1932 Frankfurt am Main www.schirn.de/en/exhibitions/2015/sturm_frauen 7 February 2016 26 November Mainz – one glance, many views Mainz www.landesmuseum-mainz.de/en/ausstellungen/ausstellungsvorschau/mainz-