Everyone talks about city and country - but what exactly do we mean by that? Who wants to get away from the big city and why? Haven't many of us already been living in suburbs and in-between cities, in mixed forms, for which we have to find a new language? And who is talking about city and country? Especially the city? In the Droste Festival 2022, we take a look at rural perspectives and devote ourselves to rurban realities.
Under the title Stadt/Land im Fluss (City/Country in Flux), we invite you to the Rüschhaus on the outskirts of Münster from June 16 to 19. Annette von Droste-Hülshoff wrote in this place about the seclusion of country life. And missed the sociability of the city. We transform the place into a festival site and celebrate the great poet with readings, film screenings, concerts, picnic performances, installations and walks. Welcome to the party!
There will be a rotating selection of finger foods and beverages on the festival grounds all days of the festival.
Childcare will be available from 1 to 6 p.m. on Saturday and from 3 to 6 p.m. on Sunday.
16. June 2022
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OPENING AND KEYNOTES
Lectures and talk
Mascha Jacobs, Jessica J. Lee, Uta Ruge
DE / EN
Haus Rüschhaus Garden Stage
We open the festival with keynotes by Uta Ruge and Jessica J. Lee. The opening speeches will focus on belonging and visibility in rural spaces and global urban-rural linkages. Journalist Uta Ruge explores the history of farmers (most recently: Farmers, Land. Geschichte meines Dorfs im Weltzusammenhang, Antje Kunstmann Verlag). Canadian author Jessica J. Lee is on the trail of postcolonial contexts in rural spaces (most recently: Two Trees Make a Forest, Matthes & Seitz).
7:30 p.m.
NEUBAU
Film screening and film talk
Johannes M. Schmit, filmclub münster
DE
Haus Rüschhaus Tenne
Markus is torn between the two: The love for his grannies in need of care keeps him in the Brandenburg province, in Berlin the queer family of choice calls. But living in the in-between isn't so bad ...
After the screening we talk to director Johannes Maria Schmit about queer country life and film production far away from big cities.
17. June 2022
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GARTENSTADT – STADTLEBEN IN GRÜN
Reading and Talk
Tobias Roth, Severin Halder, Jana Weber
DE
Campusgarten Grüne Beete, Eintritt: frei
In cooperation with Grüne Beete e.V. and the Kompost Festival Münster.
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As guests in the Campus Garden, we dedicate ourselves to the dream of the 'green' city: the poet and translator Tobias Roth reads texts from the anthology Gartenstadtbewegung (Verlag das Kulturelle Gedächtnis, 2019). He talks with urban gardening activist Severin Halder and oecotrophologist Jana Weber about urban gardening in the past and today and visions for the city of the future. After the reading, we will cycle together to the festival site.
ACCESSIBILITY:
This event is not suitable for wheelchair users. It mostly takes place on uneven terrain. A limited number of seats are available.
3:45 p.m.
COMMUNITY BIKE RIDE TO THE RÜSCHHAUS.
Start: Campusgarten Grüne Beete
4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
SURROUNDED ME HALF SOUND - DROSTE LECTURES.
Sound installation
Mirijam Streibl
DE
Haus Rüschhaus Garden Hall
Droste's handling of words shows a pronounced sense of hearing. Her poetry in particular is full of noises and sounds. Inspired by this, the sound researcher and sound artist Mirijam Streibl spans an auditory field in the Rüschhaus from the Garden Hall to the Italian Room. The result is an audible space of experience between proximity and distance, between rootedness and longing, between country and city - fluid.
4 to 8 p.m.
WORD. #7 - Country
Exhibition for the magazine
DE
Haus Rüschhaus Cashier's Office Front Building
City and country. Country and State. State and borders? WORD., the magazine of the CfL, deals in its latest issue with land. Land in the sense of city, village life and province. But it is also about land as a political concept - as a nation state, with borders, land as home. A photo exhibition provides insights into the new issue.
4:30 pm, 6:30 pm
INTO THE WOODS
Audio Walk
LIGNA
DE
Start: Haus Rüschhaus Info Booth
Into the Woods is a radio play that takes its audience into the forest. The voices from the headphones make the familiar strange, the distant very close. They tell of timber outrages, revolutionary machinations, and the global supply chains that link the place to many others on the planet.
ACCESSIBILITY:
The Audiowalk is not suitable for people in wheelchairs. It takes place mostly on uneven terrain and partly outside paved paths.
17 Uhr
SMART COUNTRYSIDES – LANDLEBEN DIGITAL
Round table discussion
Silke Eilers, Ulrich Harteisen, André Kückmann, Heidrun Wuttke
DE
Haus Rüschhaus Gartenbühne
Who is still talking about smart cities? The digital revolution has long been part of everyday life in rural regions. Four experts talk about digital agriculture and apps that keep village communities alive. A journey into the village of the future.
5:30 p.m.
MEGACITIES
Film screening
filmclub münster
DE
Haus Rüschhaus Tenne
In twelve chapters, documentary filmmaker Michael Glawogger portrays people living in the slums of four gigantic metropolises: New York City, Moscow, Mexico City and Mumbai. They live apart from society and have to fight for survival every day. But despite their precarious and poor living conditions, they have retained their optimism and resourcefulness.
8 p.m.
BIG IN MÜNSTERLAND
Talk and DJ set
Johannes S. Ismaiel-Wendt, Kathrin Wildner, Maurice Summen
DE
Haus Rüschhaus Tenne
An evening about growing up in the so-called province and the sound worlds of city and country. Musician and label founder Maurice Summen, music and cultural scientist Johannes S. Ismaiel-Wendt and urban ethnologist Kathrin Wildner have brought cassettes and sounds with them and will take us back to the Münsterland music scene of the late 80s and early 90s. Maurice Summen will play to round off the evening.
18. June 2022
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MUSICAL-LITERARY HIKE
Hülshoff Castle, Droste Landscape : Poetry Trail, Haus Rüschhaus, Hohe Mark Nature Park, Vischering Castle
Veronika Harcsa & Bálint Gyémánt, Yumi Ito & Szymon Mika, Kinga Tóth, Christoph Wenzel
DE
Start: 9.15 am, parking lot Burg Vischering / 10.30 am, parking lot Burg Hülshoff
Together with Burg Vischering we invite you to a full-day hike with a cultural program: In addition to the beauties of the Münsterland park landscape, there is a varied cultural program to discover - including our outdoor museum Droste-Landschaft: Lyrikweg. We stop at four stations between Hülshoff Castle and Vischering Castle to experience music and literature outdoors. Don't worry: the walking distance is about 15 km, the rest of the route is covered by bus.
NOTE:
Participation in the walking tour is not included in the festival day ticket. Tickets can be purchased online at Burg Vischering or at the ticket offices of Burg Vischering. Tickets: €45.
ACCESSIBILITY:
The event is not suitable for people in wheelchairs. It takes place mostly on uneven terrain and hiking trails. We recommend sturdy shoes or hiking boots. A good level of fitness is required. The organizer provides a basic stock of provisions. On the way there are several times the possibility to use a toilet.
1 pm to 9 pm
SURROUNDED ME HALF SOUND - DROSTE LECTURES.
Sound installation
Mirijam Streibl
DE
Haus Rüschhaus Gartensaal
Drostes' use of words shows a pronounced sense of hearing. Her poetry in particular is full of noises and sounds. Inspired by this, the sound researcher and sound artist Mirijam Streibl spans an auditory field from the Garden Room to the Italian Room. The result is an audible space of experience between proximity and distance, between rootedness and longing, between country and city - fluid.
1 to 9 p.m.
WORD. #7 - Country
Exhibition for the magazine
DE
Haus Rüschhaus Cashier's Office Front Building
City and country. Country and State. State and borders? WORD., the magazine of the CfL, deals in its latest issue with land. Land in the sense of city, village life and province. But it is also about land as a political concept - as a nation state, with borders, land as home. A photo exhibition provides insights into the new issue.
1:30 p.m.
YUMI ITO & SZYMON MIKA
Concert
Haus Rüschhaus Garden Stage
The Swiss singer and songwriter Yumi Ito is a guest in the Rüschhaus Garden. With Szymon Mika on guitar she presents an intoxicating combination of jazz, art-pop, electronica and neo-classical.
2:30 pm
DEAR ANNETTE, DEAR JANE.
Picnic performance
House of Blænk, students of the WWU Münster
DE
House Rüschhaus fruit tree meadow
What would Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and Jane Austen have had to say if they had met? Students of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster have written a fictional correspondence between the two famous 19th century authors, which House of Blænk will perform in matching costumes.
3 p.m.
VILLAGE STORIES
Readings and conversation
Yulia Marfutova, Kadir Özdemir, Christoph Peters
DE
House Rüschhaus Garden Stage
Yulia Marfutova, Kadir Özdemir and Christoph Peters read texts in which the ideal world of village life is coming apart at the seams. Their stories take us from the Russian Revolution to anti-nuclear protests in the seventies to the social filter bubbles of the present.
3 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m.
INTO THE WOODS
Audio Walk
LIGNA
DE
Start: Haus Rüschhaus information booth
Into the Woods is an audio play that takes its audience into the woods. The voices from the headphones make the familiar strange, the distant very close. They tell of timber outrages, revolutionary machinations and the global supply chains that link this place to many others on the planet.
ACCESSIBILITY:
The Audiowalk is not suitable for wheelchair users. It takes place mostly on uneven terrain and partly outside paved paths.
17.30
THE DEAD LADIES SHOW
Show format with presentations
Katy Derbyshire, Florian Duijsens, Simone Scharbert, Susan Stone u.a.
DE / EN
Haus Rüschhaus Garden Stage
The Dead Ladies Show is a live storytelling event that tells stories of great and forgotten women of the past who achieved incredible things. Because women's history concerns us all. Katy Derbyshire & Co introduce three fantastic ladies between town and country.
7pm
NOBODY'S WITH THE CALVES (FILM PROGRAM).
Film screening, reading and talk
Alina Herbing, Saskia Rosendahl, filmclub münster
DE
Haus Rüschhaus Tenne
Sabrina Sarabi's book adaptation tells the story of a young woman who is more than fed up with life on her boyfriend's dairy farm and is looking for a way out. Following the film screening, we will talk with the author Alina Herbing and the leading actress Saskia Rosendahl about country idyll and reality, women in the countryside and the path from film to book.
8.30 p.m.
MEMORIAL 6.0 - REQUIEM FOR A LOST ANIMAL & PLANT KINGDOM
Lecture and concert
Marvin Blamberg, Oona Kastner, Hartmut Kracht, Lucie Marsmann, Patrick Urban
DE
House Rüschhaus Garden Stage
Rural idyll or species extinction? Entomologist Patrick Urban introduces the topic. Oona Kastner unrolls dystopian, fantastic soundscapes in sound collages for voice, electric guitar, percussion and electronics. In addition, Lucie Marsmann shows her video work according to our time, including images from Angelika Höger's exhibition studio precario.
19. June 2022
Page section: 19. June 20223 pm to 7 pm
SURROUNDED ME HALF SOUND - DROSTE LECTURES.
Sound installation
Mirijam Streibl
DE
Haus Rüschhaus Garden Hall
Droste's handling of words shows a pronounced sense of hearing. Her poetry in particular is full of noises and sounds. Inspired by this, the sound researcher and sound artist Mirijam Streibl spans an auditory field in the Rüschhaus from the Garden Hall to the Italian Room. The result is an audible space of experience between proximity and distance, between rootedness and longing, between country and city - fluid.
3 to 7 p.m.
WORD. #7 - Country
Exhibition for the magazine
DE
Haus Rüschhaus Cashier's Office Front Building
City and country. Country and State. State and borders? WORD., the magazine of the CfL, deals in its latest issue with land. Land in the sense of city, village life and province. But it is also about land as a political concept - as a nation state, with borders, land as home. A photo exhibition provides insights into the new issue.
3 p.m., 5:30 p.m.
_WALK (NOT) THE LINE_
Interactive-performative walk
kollektiv flexen, House of Blænk
DE
Start: Haus Rüschhaus Kitchen
Flaneusen flexen - in the countryside. With the flaneuses of kollektiv flexen we go on a pseudo-ethnographic exploration of rural spaces. Walk (Not) the Line is an interactive-performative walk in the surroundings of the Rüschhaus. Together with the Drag Queens of House of Blænk, the artists invite us to perceive the feeling of being foreign that arises when moving in unfamiliar surroundings: whether as a city dweller in the countryside or as a country dweller in the city. In doing so, they take their cue from the Westphalian custom of the Schnadgang: before the days of online maps, the inhabitants of a locality would walk along its borders together in order to memorize them. What rituals mark the borders between the familiar and the unfamiliar today?
ACCESSIBILITY:
The events is only partially suitable for people in wheelchairs. It takes place mostly on uneven terrain and hiking trails. We recommend sturdy shoes.
15 Uhr, 17 Uhr
ICH HÖRE STIMMEN
Headphone reading of "Die Judenbuche" (The Jewish Book)
dorisdean (Miriam Michel, Rasmus Nordholt-Frieling, Patrizia Kubanek)
DE
Haus Rüschhaus Tenne
With sound recordings, videos and texts recited by the audience, we let the ghosts from Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's crime novella Die Judenbuche appear. We listen to village gossip and ask: Does justice feel like justice?
4 p.m.
SALON HURLY*BURLY
Paradeiser Productions
DE
Haus Rüschhaus Garden Stage
Actors present the radio play that was created in the context of the workshop Salon HurlyBurly: Æhm is a Hæxx in search of allies to save the future. And now Æhm has arrived at the Rüschhaus in Münster and wonders why this garden actually has this strange shape and why everyone talks about the house being a snail shell, even though Æhm hasn't seen any snails yet.
5 p.m.
INTO THE WOODS
Audio walk
LIGNA
DE
Start: Haus Rüschhaus Info Booth
Into the Woods is an audio play that takes its audience into the woods. The voices from the headphones make the familiar strange, the distant very close. They tell of timber outrages, revolutionary machinations and the global supply chains that link this place to many others on the planet.
ACCESSIBILITY:
The Audiowalk is not suitable for people in wheelchairs. It takes place mostly on uneven terrain and partly outside paved paths.
7 pm
AT THE EDGE OF THE HORIZON - AN EVENING FOR JOHN CLARE.
Reading and conversation
Esther Kinsky
DE
Haus Rüschhaus Garden Stage
Where does London begin and where does it end? A literary exploration of London's urban fringes - in the footsteps of the Romantic poet and country gentleman John Clare. Ester Kinsky presents her translation of Iain Sinclair's literary travelogue Am Rande des Horizonts and talks with literary scholar Mirjam Springer about connections in the lives and works of John Clare and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.
Note
For more info on the project and festival themes, visit the Droste Festival 2022 project page.
Clothing: Since most of the events will take place outside, we recommend weatherproof clothing. High heels are not allowed inside the Rüschhaus due to the delicate floorboards.
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The Annette von Droste zu Hülshoff Foundation is the sponsor of Hülshoff Castle, Haus Rüschhaus and the Center for Literature. The Foundation is supported by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
The Rüschhaus is a house of the NRW Foundation.
The Droste Festival 2022 is supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The patron of the festival is Claudia Roth, Minister of State for Culture and Media.
The Droste Festival is a cooperation with filmclub münster, Burg Vischering and the Westfälischer Heimatbund.
Presented by Münster! and taz, die Tageszeitung.