Artist Handbook Dear artists, dear guests, we would like to welcome you to HELLERAU and Dresden! We hope that you can make yourself at home in HELLERAU for the time of your stay - we will try our best to make it an unique experience for you. We are very happy to have you here with us and to be able to present your artistic work to our audience. One of our main aims is to develop HELLERAU as a place of exchanging ideas, to initiate encounters and meetings with other artists and with our audience. So we welcome you with all our hearts to become part of this interaction and hope that you will leave with new friends and experiences. This handbook tries to provide helpful information to make your stay as pleasant as possible. Do not hesitate to ask us anything, if you have any questions. Welcome to HELLERAU and see you either at rehearsal, at your performance or afterwards for a drink and talk – or all of the above. Warmest regards, Carena Schlewitt and her team 2 Welcome to our apartments! We are very happy to have you with us and hope that you can use your time here in the most beneficial and positive way. To make this stay as pleasant as possible, please consider the following small advises and requests from our side. 1. Please keep your Key always with you. Doors around here close easily and then you won‘t be able to re-enter. 2. The Time for depature is at 10:00 am. Please leave the apartment-key in the postbox on the 2. floor next to the kitchen. 3. Please take care of the room and common areas while you are here . 4. If you smoke, please do so outside - fire detectors are installed inside. 5. Please always lock the main door of the building from 7 pm onwards. 6. Be careful not to lose your key and the transponder. Replacing the lock is quite expensive. 7. Please close windows when leaving the apartment. 8. Please turn off all electronic devices, heating and lights whenever not needed. 9. No open fires in the apartment. Please never leave candles unattended. Welcome to Dresden-Hellerau! There is a LIDL Supermarket just one tram-stop away (tram no. 8, direction: Hellerau / stop: Brunnen- weg). Walking takes about 10 minutes. It provides you with all basic groceries from Monday to Saturday from 7 am - 9 pm. For other supermarkets you have to take the tram no. 8 (direction: Südvorstadt) to- wards the city center. Restaurants are also quite rare in these surroundings, but take the tram to the city and you‘ll find wha- tever your heart desires: Dresden Neustadt is the vibrant and hip part of town with many restaurants, take-away-places, bars and clubs. To get there, just take tram no. 8 (direction Südvorstadt) and get off at stop Louisenstraße. Then walk into Louisenstraße and explore. Dresden Altstadt is the historic part of town, there are many things to see such as galleries, museums and old historic buildings. Take tram no. 8 (direction Südvorstadt) to Albertplatz and follow down the "Hauptstraße" until you reach the famous golden horseman. Behind the statue, you need to cross the ri- ver Elbe over the bridge and then you will find yourself in front of the Semper Opera and all major sights are in its immediate vicinity. If you have any questions, problems or things you would like to share with us, just let us know! 3 Contacts HELLERAU Andreas Lorenz Dana Bondartschuk Head of Production Office Artistic Assistant Production Office T +49 351 264 62 12 T +49 351 264 62 39 [email protected] [email protected] Henryk Bastian Michael Lotz Artistic Assistant Production Office Production Office, IT Coordinator T +49 351 264 62 61 T +49 351 264 62 36 [email protected] [email protected] Rosa Müller - Artistic Administration, residence program T +49 351 264 62 34 [email protected] Informations The Pastamanufaktur the restaurant at HELLERAU usually opens daily from 12 to 2:30 pm. On days of performances the restaurant is open until 10 pm or later. Companies consisting of more than 10 artists who wish to have lunch or dinner in the restaurant, please order in advance. We are happy to make a reservation for you. Invitations The tourmanager or responsible person should hand in the complementary ticket reservation list to Simone Michel or Dana Bondartschuk on the day of the performance at 4:00 pm at the latest. After that we can not guarantee you the needed amount of tickets. Thank you for your help! Wireless Lan at HELLERAU Network: HGuest Password: hellerau1920 Travel Information Taxi Service: T+49 (0) 351 211 211 German Railway T+49 (0) 0800 150 70 90 Deutsche Bahn: www.bahn.de Dresden International Airport: T+49 (0) 351 881 0 www.dresden-airport.de Local Public Transport: T+49 (0) 351 857 10 11 www.dvb.de 4 In Case of Emergencies Emergency Services Police: 110 Fire Brigade: 112 Medical Emergency Service: T+49 (0) 351 192 92 Stand-By-For Chemistries: T+49 (0) 351 011 50 0 Hospitals Hospital Dresden-Friedrichstadt University Hospital Dresden Diakonissenhospital Dresden Haus C ground floor – Fetscherstrasße 74 Holzhofgasse 29 central emergency hospitalisation 01307 Dresden 01099 Dresden Friedrichstraße 41 T+49 (0) 351 458 0 T+49 (0) 351 8100 01067 Dresden T+49 (0) 351 480 15 52 Pharmacies Siegfried-Apotheke Sankt Pauli-Apotheke Schauburg-Apotheke Markt 9 Tannenstraße 17 Königsbrücker Straße 57 01109 Dresden-Hellerau 01097 Dresden 01097 Dresden T+49 (0) 351 890 50 34 T+49 (0) 351 804 44 81 T+49 (0) 351 8 02 42 20 How to reach us by car from Dresden centre - B 97 (Königsbrücker Straße) towards the airport → after approx. 4 km turn left onto Moritzburger Weg (Infineon company on the right) → take the next right onto Klotzscher Weg → follow the tram tracks via Am Hellerrand into Karl-Liebknecht- Straße → after approx. 500 m you will find the access road to the grounds of the Festspielhaus on the right-hand side from motorway A4 - exit Dresden-Hellerau → turn left onto Radeburger Straße (B170) in the direction of Dresden-Hellerau/Dresden-Klotzsche → after about 3.5 km turn right at the traffic lights onto Ludwig-Kossuth-Straße → follow the tram tracks via Moritzburger Weg into Karl-Liebknecht-Straße → after approx. 100 m you will find the entrance to the grounds of the Festspielhaus on the left-hand side Parking Free parking is available on the premises of the theatre. The number of spaces is limited. photo: Stephan Floss 5 Directions Arriving by public transport from Dresden Central Station option 1: - take tram line no. 8 towards Hellerau → get off at „Festspielhaus Hellerau“ option 2: - take tram line no. 7 towards Weixdorf → get off at „Moritzburger Weg“ → change to line no. 8 towards Hellerau → exit „Festspielhaus Hellerau“ from Dresden Neustadt train station option 1: - S-Bahn 2 towards the airport → get off at „S-Bf. Industriegelände“ → cross the pedestrial bridge to the tram stop (Königs- brücker Straße) „S-Bf. Industriegelände“ → take tram line no. 8 towards Hellerau → get off at „Festspielhaus Hellerau“ option 2: - 7 minutes on foot along Antonstraße to the tram stop “Albertplatz” (between two fountains) → tram line no. 8 towards Hellerau → Exit „Festspielhaus Hellerau“ from Dresden Airport option 1: - S-Bahn 2 towards Pirna Bahnhof → get off at „S-Bf. Industriegelände“ → cross the pedestrial bridge to the tram stop (Kö- nigsbrücker Straße) “S-Bf. Industriegelände" → tram line no. 8 towards Hellerau → get off at „Festspielhaus Hellerau“ option 2: - bus 80 towards Bhf. Klotzsche → get off at „Zur Neuen Brücke“ → change to bus 70 towards Gompitz → exit „Brunnenweg“ → change to tram line 8 towards Hellerau → get off at „Festspielhaus Hellerau“ with ALITA (call line taxi) If the last tram 8 at night is already gone, ALITA will help you and take you to the junction with line 7. The call line taxis only run as needed, so call and order on 0351/875 111 at least 20 minutes before the planned departure time. The normal dvb ticket conditions apply and tickets can also be bought in the taxi. ALITA8 Stop "Festspielhaus Hellerau" direction Infineon Nord 01:10/01:40/02:10/02:40/03:10/03:34 Connection 7 stop "Infineon Nord" in the direction of Pennrich 01:18/01:48/02:18/02:48/03:18/03:42 Travel time always around 30 minutes For timetable information, check the public transport website: www.dvb.de 6 Good to know Supermarkets Denns(Organic) Edeka LIDL (next to your apartment) Bischofsweg 11 Provianthofstraße 3 Ludwig-Kossuth-Straße 01099 Dresden 01099 Dresden 01109 Dresden Mon - Fri: 8 am - 8 pm Mon - Sat: 7 am - 8 pm Mon - Sat: 7 am - 9 pm Sat: 8 am - 6 pm stop: Heeresbäckerei stop: Brunnenweg stop: Bischofsweg (direction: Südvorstadt) (direction: Hellerau) (direction: Südvorstadt) All supermarkets are located along tramline no. 8 and are easy to reach. Restaurants + Bars In Gardencity Hellerau Die Pastamanufaktur daily Festspielhaus Hellerau 12 - 2:30 pm Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 56 12 - 10 pm and longer 01109 Dresden-Hellerau (on days of performances) T+49 (0) 351 26462 45 Different and very tasty homemade pasta, salads ravioli etc. They also offer special daily menues. Schmidt's Restaurant Mon - Fri: ellerau was founded in 1909 as the Moritzburger Weg 67 11:30 am - 2:30 pm + 5:30 - 11 pm Hfirst gardencity of Germany by the 01109 Dresden-Hellerau Sat: furniture manufactorer Karl Schmidt. T+49 (0) 351 804 48 83 5 pm - 11 pm As a passionate follower of the cont- Sun: emporary “back to nature”-Lebens- closed reform idea, he created the village as living space for his workers.