Stories

Stories of the Poster

Paris-Europe-Edition

The music metropolis of Paris provides the setting for the hidden object picture created by illustrator Alexandra Klobouk for the Musikfest Berlin 2025. She brings to life 27 personalities closely connected to this year’s festival. Among them are historical figures, but also composers, singers, instrumentalists, and conductors of our present day.
Klaus Mäkelä conducts the pigeons of Montmartre, Helmut Lachenmann converses with King Charles III, and Lisa Streich listens to the singing sculptures of the Stravinsky Fountain. 

Learn more about the many anecdotes hidden in the poster in this year’s story of Musikfest Berlin.

Searching for a New “We”

Music and Society

In the first of two Digital Guides to the 2022 Musikfest Berlin, we will take composers Florence Price, Liza Lim and Ludwig van Beethoven as examples to explore the manifold entanglements of music and society. How did Afro-American artists of the 1930s build networks? Are humans and the environment much more closely intertwined than is often assumed? And when did the separation of music and religion begin?

Bridges Made of Sound

Music and Rite

Our second Digital Guide to the 2022 Musikfest Berlin focuses on sacred music from Christian and Confucian contexts. What social relevance can ritual music have? How can the textual interpretation of religious scriptures be shaped musically? And can a work devoted to Mary also promote one’s career?

Discover Igor Stravinsky

In our our multimedia story you will learn more about the late work of the famous composer in text and images.