Hannah Arendt – von der Menschlichkeit in finsteren Zeiten
Seminar
November 11, 18, 2025, December 2, 2025 (Tuesdays)
7:00–8:30 PM

On December 4, 1975, Hannah Arendt passed away in New York. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the great political philosopher's death, we will read excerpts from her texts and discuss the relevance of her thinking today. The text excerpts for the respective sessions will be provided upon registration.

Please register: hausamdom@bistumlimburg.de
20 €/10 € (for all three sessions)

From Ale to Pils, Wheat, Stout, and non-alcoholic: Beer is not just a drink. Beer is a cultural asset that has connected us for centuries. The bestselling author Jaroslav Rudiš, who hails from the beer paradise of Bohemia and even has a beer named after him in his birthplace, pays tribute to the golden barley juice, one of our absolute favorite drinks.

“Land Of The Midnight Sun” – the title song of their latest album, has become part of the quartet's program. Komi enriches classical jazz singing with themes, lyrics, and tones from her Nordic heritage. She tackles great pop anthems from Simply Red and Abba, with Carole King and Nina Simone also featured in the program.

A musical portrait by and with Volker Hein and H.P. Katzenburg

Born and raised on the "Schäl Sick," with a father from Westphalia and a mother originally from the Düsseldorf area. As a teenager, he was a fan of military bands. Not exactly the best conditions to become the most popular and well-known songwriter in Cologne and the Rhineland. We are talking about the legendary Willi Ostermann.
Story theater specialist Volker Hein portrays the life story of the composer in his "Willi-Ostermann-Story" as a humorous musical portrait. Ostermann's life stages from "Kinddäuf" to "Himmelspöözje" come alive in anecdotes and his unforgettable songs. The passionate Krätzchens singer Hein enthusiastically flips through Ostermann's song chronicle, accompanied by H.P. Katzenburg on the piano, who has brilliantly and excitingly arranged Ostermann's melodies.

Doors open at 7:30 PM

Dear friends of special musical experiences,

In the state capital Düsseldorf, a celebration is underway. The largest organ festival in Germany, known as IDO, opens its doors for the 20th time to the large and small concert churches of the city, to special places for film and music, and for the first time also to a Düsseldorf art gallery.

From September 26th to November 3rd, 2025, organ sounds of a special kind will enchant the visitors of the festival. In 47 events, 20 Düsseldorf organs will engage in dialogues with instruments and musical styles from around the world.

The specialist for unique musical experiences is the English organist Anna Lapwood. She will be a guest at the IDO festival for the first time on October 25th, 2025.

Other highlights of the anniversary edition include concerts with Dorothee Oberlinger, who will perform baroque music as well as one of the three world premieres of the festival, as well as the large-scale installation "Modular Organ" in the Philara Collection, an exhibition space for international contemporary art. A walkable sound space will be created there around the components of the organ during the festival.

During the opening weekend (September 26th to 28th), all elements of the festival will have their place: impressive organ music, programs for families, space for communal music-making, and space for meditation.

Join us in looking forward to the 20th edition of the International Düsseldorf Organ Festival IDO!

DAS SANDKORN presents in the Lukaskirche Karlsruhe

Die Monster-WG
by and with Bernd Kohlhepp
for children aged 5 years and up (preschool and elementary school)
Morning performances
For groups, please call for reservations!

In a castle ruin lives the grumpy old Baron Bartimäus. He has long since passed away, but his restless spirit rides in his dented armor and haunts the crumbling walls.
In the process, he meets various creatures of the night, for example, an owl with whom he always has interesting conversations. From time to time, he also has to scare away some overenthusiastic hiking groups that have set up camp in his castle ruin or a couple that would like to be alone… However, he prefers to be alone and doesn't want to know much about the world.
This could have gone on for several centuries - but one day everything changes!
By mail, he received an unlucky fellow. The cargo ship on which he was transported has sunk; the postman had a bicycle accident. The unlucky fellow wants to stay in the castle ruin because nobody likes to have him around. For he not only has bad luck himself but also brings misfortune to all those who have to do with him. Bartimäus is not particularly pleased and tries to get rid of the bird as quickly as possible. But the bird cannot be shaken off. Where else would he go?
Gradually, he now gets visits from other quirky beings who had to flee their homeland because monsters and half-beings are no longer welcome there. Two will-o'-the-wisps, a group of Celtic mining dwarves, a gnome with a speech impediment, a shy dragon, and a brute gradually arrive and create chaos in the castle ruin.
But when investors want to remodel the ruin and commission the ghost hunter Wassili with the "cleansing," the Monster-WG must stick together...

This piece is about the difficulties of cohabitation. How one must repeatedly find common ground and how tolerance and curiosity are fundamental conditions for being able to share the world peacefully. Here, customary rights do not always apply, and certainly not the law of the stronger. But when such an agreement succeeds, one can form a community of life in which everyone can contribute their skills for the benefit of all.

Duration of the piece: 60 min.

On stage: Bernd Kohlhepp / Oliver Fobe, Michelle Brubach, Chris Irslinger
Director: Bernd Kohlhepp, Susanne Wasmann

Cultural Bridge Cinema
Islamic and Christian Influenced Cultures in Conversation

»Harka – Aufruhr«
Tue, November 11, 2025, 6:30 PM
F/D/USA/Tun 2022
Director: Lotfy Nathan
84 minutes
Age rating: from 16

A decade after the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia, the hopes of many people for a better life have not been fulfilled. A young man struggles to get by with petty crimes until his father dies, and he must take care of his two sisters. As they face the threat of losing their home, he gets involved in risky jobs for a smuggling gang, but this also leads to no improvement. A factually filmed, detailed portrait of an increasingly desperate generation, which offers few glimmers of hope against its harsh realities through small humane gestures. The film's impact comes less from explicit accusations than from the compelling lead performance. (O.m.d.U.)

Registration: hausamdom@bistumlimburg.de

Free admission

Free admission. Registration: hausamdom@bistumlimburg.de

Barbara Sass
»Bez miło´sci«
Film with introduction, discussion
Tue, November 11, 2025, 19:00–22:00

Barbara Sass (1936–2015) was one of the most famous directors in Poland. However, she is hardly known to the audience here. The evening opens with the film "Historia niemoralna" (An immoral story) as a showcase of this extraordinary director.

· Dr. Andrzej Kaluza, DPI Darmstadt

Cooperation:
· Filmkollektiv Frankfurt e.V.
· Polish Institute Düsseldorf
· State Initiative Polish-Speaking
· Parents and Families Hessen e.V. (LPEF Hessen e.V.)
· Daj Znak Frankfurt

Admission free

Admission free. Registration not required

musical early education for children aged 3-5 years with their parents

In the Sola course, songs are sung together and musical games are played. The children accompany themselves with small musical instruments.

This card is valid for the following 10 dates:
September 10, 2025 | September 17, 2025 | September 24, 2025 | October 1, 2025 | October 8, 2025 | October 15, 2025 | November 5, 2025 | November 12, 2025 | November 19, 2025 | November 26, 2025.

No courses will take place during the autumn holidays.

If a session is canceled, it will be made up for in December if possible.

Course Sola | 3 - 5 years | Wednesdays 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM |

New name, same magic:
From "Magic Gregorian Voices" to MAGIC GREGORIAN NIGHT
The celebrated music production Magic Gregorian Voices will now tour under a new name: Magic Gregorian Night.

The audience can still expect an unforgettable evening full of mystique, musical depth, and sacred sound worlds, interpreted by one of the most renowned ensembles for Gregorian chant in Europe. The ensemble itself retains the name Magic Gregorian Voices.
The upcoming tour will commence in autumn 2025 under the new title. Already purchased tickets will of course remain valid.

Magic Gregorian Night
- Sound of the Monks -
The Concert

Eight exceptional Bulgarian singers with extraordinarily powerful and resonant passion will transport listeners into the cosmos of Christian medieval liturgical chants and the impressively mystical atmosphere of that time!
Gregorian chants have captivated people for many centuries with their meditative and timeless intensity. Under the skilled direction of renowned opera singer Georgi Pandurov, the singers of MAGIC GREGORIAN NIGHT, dressed in traditional monk robes, embody this profound musical experience with their great virtuosity. Firmly rooted in the tradition of Orthodox church music and the Gregorian chant of the Middle Ages, the ensemble (Magic Gregorian Voices) bridges spiritual songs from the Renaissance and Baroque up to classics of pop music such as Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence," and Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Amazing Grace."

This is how fascinating Gregorian music can sound today! Our vocal soloists captivate with powerful and energetic voices. Moving choral pieces and beautiful melodies combine with perfect a cappella vocal art.
The Middle Ages and the present meet in a unique concert experience! A symbiosis of the highest class!

In December:

Magic Gregorian Night
- Sound of the Monks -
Exclusively in December: The Christmas Concert

Familiar Christmas carols in atmospheric
a cappella style will ceremoniously round off the concert evening.
This is how fascinating Gregorian music can sound today! Our vocal soloists captivate with powerful and energetic voices. Moving choral pieces and beautiful melodies combine with perfect a cappella vocal art.
The Middle Ages and the present meet in a unique concert experience! A symbiosis of the highest class.

Doors open: 19:00 hours

After the great success, this successful theater comedy is back – and this time with a STAR CAST: Götz Valter!
“WEIHNACHTEN FÄLLT AUS – JOSEF GESTEHT ALLES”
Every year again the Christ child comes … and causes nothing but trouble. Quarreling families, burning Christmas trees, and stressed people rushing through city centers in the pre-Christmas season – in a desperate search for gifts. If we are honest, during Advent it feels like: Bethlehem was a branch of REWE.

And when everyone is exhausted from the shopping marathon, on Christmas Eve the family arrives: the single mother sister, the hard-of-hearing grandma, and the difficult godmother with her lap dog. Mom cooks like crazy, and Dad is totally annoyed – because the goose is not on the plate, but sitting next to him. Ideal conditions for a “raw feast” …

A mercilessly funny answer to the apocalyptic sides of the Christmas celebration – with only one goal:
That at least once during this time there is something to laugh about!

So out with the Christmas depression!
Let’s enjoy this feast again with winter idyll, Christmas tree, and snowflakes – as long as climate change still allows it.
Because in 50 years at the latest, Santa Claus will come with a surfboard!

Text: Stephan Bauer
Production: BS Showmanagement

The young Hans Castorp travels from Hamburg to Davos to visit his sick cousin in the tuberculosis sanatorium. He intends to stay for three weeks, but it turns into seven years.

"Castorp's story is the story of a simple hero. He becomes capable of moral, spiritual, and sensual adventures in the feverish hermeticism of the Magic Mountain, the likes of which he would never have dreamed of before." – Thomas Mann

Mann's characters on the Magic Mountain take a break from actual, real life. We experience people who voluntarily and sometimes even joyfully submit to the routine of sanatorium life.
And then, with a thunderclap, the First World War stands at the door – and that very society wonders how it could have come to this. And while they are still wondering, the war catapults them from the beautiful Magic Mountain into reality.
Thus, the war not only engulfs the protagonist Hans Castorp but also our entire era!

A divided society, existential fears, the specter of war… A hundred years after its first publication, The Magic Mountain is alarmingly relevant. Thomas Mann treats the serious themes of his novel with humor, his characteristic irony, and his unprecedented linguistic brilliance.

For children from 0 to 18 months with their parents

The focus of this course is on initial shared musical experiences with parents and child through voice, movement, and various instruments. An as international as possible repertoire of children’s music will be introduced here. The practical implementation of the Music Learning Theory according to Edwin E. Gordon is laid out here in its basic principles.

The discovery of one's own voice, the development of body awareness, and content babies are prioritized here. For parents, this course is a great opportunity to rediscover melodies from their own childhood.

1 Mo 08.09.2025
2 Mo 15.09.2025
3 Mo 22.09.2025
4 Mo 29.09.2025
5 Mo 06.10.2025
6 Mo 13.10.2025
7 Mo 03.11.2025
8 Mo 10.11.2025
9 Mo 17.11.2025
10 Mo 24.11.2025

For children aged 1.5 to 3 years with their parents

For this age group, the establishment or expansion of musical abilities and skills through voice, movement exercises, and instruments is the focus. In a playful manner, the Music Learning Theory continues to be established in practice.

Simple motor actions are practiced in dances, movement songs, and through the joint action of parents, children, and the group. This allows children to discover their own voice and body without expectations of performance.

1 Mon 08.09.2025
2 Mon 15.09.2025
3 Mon 22.09.2025
4 Mon 29.09.2025
5 Mon 06.10.2025
6 Mon 13.10.2025
7 Mon 03.11.2025
8 Mon 10.11.2025
9 Mon 17.11.2025
10 Mon 24.11.2025

For children aged 3 to 4.5 years with their parents

This course builds upon the first two courses, but this is not mandatory. The goal remains the same: Through voice, movement, and instrumentation, children get to know music from various cultures and eras and continue to have the opportunity to engage actively in music-making and improvisation with the Music Learning Theory by Edwin E. Gordon.

The children's experiential space expands, they become aware of the changing seasons, and they increasingly experience the yearly cycle consciously. This is integrated into the Sola sessions. Language and music are increasingly connected.

1 Mon 08.09.2025
2 Mon 15.09.2025
3 Mon 22.09.2025
4 Mon 29.09.2025
5 Mon 06.10.2025
6 Mon 13.10.2025
7 Mon 03.11.2025
8 Mon 10.11.2025
9 Mon 17.11.2025
10 Mon 24.11.2025

For children from 4.5 to 6 years

The course for the "really big little ones" is content-wise like all the others, but not necessarily building on the previous ones. At this age level, there is a greater emphasis on creativity and improvisation, with a focus on language, movement, and instrumentation. The Music Learning Theory of Edwin E. Gordon also plays a role in its practical implementation here.

Singing, experimenting with the voice, listening, and moving: The Sound Path is a concept developed from years of practice for making music with children. The sense of rhythmic patterns is strengthened. According to the child's needs, participation is possible with parental accompaniment.

1 Mon 08.09.2025
2 Mon 15.09.2025
3 Mon 22.09.2025
4 Mon 29.09.2025
5 Mon 06.10.2025
6 Mon 13.10.2025
7 Mon 03.11.2025
8 Mon 10.11.2025
9 Mon 17.11.2025
10 Mon 24.11.2025

Regular gymnastics improves endurance, strengthens the cardiovascular system, and promotes balance and reaction skills. This course is specifically tailored to the needs of seniors. Based on dance and in a relaxed and easygoing atmosphere, all muscles and joints are trained in the exercises.

1 Mo 03.11.2025
2 Mo 10.11.2025
3 Mo 17.11.2025
4 Mo 24.11.2025
5 Mo 01.12.2025
6 Mo 08.12.2025
7 Mo 15.12.2025

FOTO: foto charlotte 25

What is fact and what is fake? According to "Bild", a AI was recently seen at the gym, training its algorithms. What is meant by "occasional traffic"? Does it have to do with sex, or with taxis and rental cars? Questions upon questions that BELLA LIERE and ANDREAS ZIEGER address in their new program of the Potsdam cabaret. And they come to the following realization: If fakes, half-truths, and political lies were to shine, the Earth would be brighter than the sun. On a positive note, this would solve the energy problem! Come and think along, in the duo WG of Liere and Zieger there is still a place free for you!