Associated with the Réseau Varèse since 2009

The Herrenhausen Arts Festival organised by the City of Hanover has its origin in the Festival Weeks that have been held in the baroque gardens for over 300 years.

The Royal Gardens of Herrenhausen are among the world’s most beautiful landscaped parks, attracting 400,000 visitors every year. The Orangerie, the Gallery and the Great Garden with its original baroque theatre serve as the venue for the Arts Festival. Taking its cue from the famous formal landscape, the Herrenhausen Arts Festival builds on the baroque tradition of garden parties and court festivals to develop a distinctive format that is unique in contemporary German cultural life.

In this spirit, the new Arts Festival will bring together opera, musical theatre, concerts, musical installations, philosophical discourse and art installations and endeavour to link them thematically.

The Arts Festival takes place every year in June.

Elisabeth Schweeger

Manager

Doctor in philosophy, professor in Vienna. Artistic director of the Martstall in München (1993) then of the Bayerischen Staatschauspiel (1999). Exhibition curator for Ars Electronica, Dokumenta Kassel, OK Linz, Museumsquartier Vienna. Curator of the Austrian Pavilion at the 49th Biennial of Venice. Manager of the Schauspielfrankfurt from 2001 to 2009. In 2009 she became manager of the Festwochen Herrenhausen in Hanover, and pursues her collaboration with the Réseau Varèse.

Elisabeth Schweeger is a founding member of the Réseau Varèse, she has been its secretary from 2002 to 2011.