New cultural festival for southern Lower Saxony

Southern Lower Saxony is getting a new cultural festival: on Friday, 19 March 2021, the 1st KULTURKRAFTTAGE will begin - a cultural event with music and literature, classical music and jazz. Up to and including Sunday, 21 March 2021, renowned artists and up-and-coming talent will present themselves in four events in the PS.Halle in the PS.SPEICHER, a listed former granary in the half-timbered town of Einbeck.
The opening event will feature: Ulrich Tukur & Die Rhythmus Boys ("Rhythmus in Dosen - Das Jubiläumsprogramm"), Martin Stadtfeld ("Händel - Brahms - Schubert"), Charles Brauer & Eliot-Quartett ("Texte von unter anderem Brecht, Benn, Dickinson und Shakespeare"), Julia Hansen and Heikko Deutschmann, Rhani Krija, Jörg Siebenhaar, Thomas Zander ("Lyrisches Intermezzo - Heine meets Jazz").

Part of the programme combining music and language will be moderated artist talks, which will show the live experience from the perspective of the performers and, despite the necessary distance at the moment, will convey a special closeness between the audience and the performers. The festival will be accompanied by a photo exhibition: Large-format photographs of well-known actors/actresses, musicians and dancers taken by Göttingen photographer Frank Stefan Kimmel over the past few years under the motto "Performance" will be presented in the PS.SPEICHER forum. Interview texts complement these photographs, which were taken immediately before and after the stage performance. The exhibition will be open to the public for a week after the festival.

"The PS.SPEICHER is a unique location with a lot of flair, ideal for a diverse cultural festival with artists of international standing that radiates far beyond southern Lower Saxony. The KULTURKRAFTTAGEN in Einbeck will now provide just that," says Julia Hansen. The Göttingen-based actress and singer came up with the idea for the event and is the driving force behind it as artistic director. Despite the numerous restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, she has built up a dedicated team over the past few months to courageously get the new festival off the ground.

The KULTURKRAFTTAGE is organised by the newly founded KULTURKRAFTTAGE e.V. The KULTURKRAFTTAGE is sponsored by (as of 18/11/20): AKB-Stiftung, Bajohr OptecMed, KWS SAAT, Sartorius, Stiftung Niedersachsen, PS.SPEICHER, Deutscher Musikrat.

Further details on the programme and background information can be found on the website of the new festival www.kulturkrafttage.de

Due to the restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, the advance ticket sales period is short and there are only a few places available. Free advance sales will begin on 4 January 2021 and will only be available via the reservix booking portal (www.reservix.de). Accommodation packages are also expected to be offered via Einbeck Tourismus (www.einbeck.de).

About Julia Hansen


The actress and singer Julia Hansen was born in South India and grew up in Somalia and Zambia. She came to Germany with her family at the age of 15 and has lived in Göttingen for many years. She studied acting, singing and dance at the renowned Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. In 1999, she joined the DeutscheTheater Göttingen as a permanent member of the ensemble. Since 2011, she has worked as a freelance actress on German stages, at literature festivals and in concert halls. She also performs on stage as a singer of jazz standards with her own German lyrics and has released several CDs. In 2013, she founded the nine-piece band "The Three Sisters". She has worked as a narrator for several years in readings with Christian Brückner, Charles Brauer, Denis Scheck and Heikko Deutschmann, among others, as well as for audio book and radio productions.

Julia Hansen



About the PS.Halle
The PS. hall is located in the PS.SPEICHER in Einbeck. It meets the latest standards and has excellent ventilation and air conditioning. The air is completely exchanged four times an hour. The seating options are flexible. A catering and hotel business is directly connected.

About the association

KULTURKRAFTTAGE e.V.
The KULTURKRAFTTAGE e.V. association was founded in July 2020 to promote art and culture in southern Lower Saxony. It achieves this in particular by organising concerts, readings and other musical and artistic events. The association is a non-profit organisation. The executive board consists of three people: Andreas J. Büchting (1st Chairperson), Gabriele Rehkopf-Adt (2nd Chairperson), Tim Schneider (Treasurer).

About the sponsors:



The AKB Foundation is a family foundation established by Carl-Ernst Büchting in 1998. It is primarily active regionally and art and culture are one of its key funding objectives. In this respect, the AKB Foundation is delighted to be able to provide significant support for the KULTURKRAFTTAGE in the PS.Halle.

Bajohr OPTECmed is Germany's leading ophthalmic optics company in the field of customisation of loupe glasses and lighting systems for professional use in medicine. The optics specialist from Einbeck is characterised by many years of experience and a high level of expertise in innovative developments in medical technology.

KWS SAAT as a family-run plant breeding company stands for down-to-earthness and reliability, but also for growth and openness to the world. As a company, it is particularly important to us to promote diversity, individuality and creativity. We are therefore delighted to be able to contribute to establishing the Kulturkrafttage in Einbeck.

Since 1987, the Lower Saxony Foundation has been committed to the arts, culture, science and education throughout the state. As a state cultural foundation, it strengthens the diversity of culture in Lower Saxony by supporting non-profit projects and helps to raise the profile of the cultural centre. In doing so, it attaches particular importance to analysing contemporary developments in art and culture. The foundation is providing start-up support for the KULTURKRAFTTAGE in Einbeck and hopes for a large audience from the whole of southern Lower Saxony.



Since its opening in summer 2014, the PS.SPEICHER Einbeck experience exhibition has attracted national attention and an unbroken stream of visitors. The exhibition is based on a collection of historic vehicles from the estate of businessman Karl-Heinz Rehkopf, which he donated to the non-profit Kornhaus Cultural Foundation and thus made accessible to the general public. The collection is one of the largest of its kind in the world.



With innovative tools and technologies for key steps in drug development and production, Sartorius enables biopharmaceutical research and industry to achieve relevant results faster, simplify the manufacture of medicines and increase the safety of production processes. With our more than 10,000 employees, we help to ensure that new scientific findings can be translated more quickly into better patient care and that more people have access to better medicine.



The German Music Competition (DMW), one of the thirteen long-term projects organised by the non-profit project company Deutscher Musikrat gGmbH, aims to promote young professional classical musicians. It offers its prizewinners comprehensive support by arranging concerts, individual career counselling and the production of a CD. The DMW is delighted about the performances of its prizewinners at the KULTURKRAFTTAGE and supports them.