Inside Artists – Franziska Ritter & Christian Siegmund – programme department
Franziska Ritter & Christian Siegmund – 1:1 CONCERTS
1:1 CONCERTS as the smallest concert format and prototype of excellent hospitality
In a 1:1 CONCERT, a musician and a listener meet for a 10-minute concert in a musical blind date at surprising locations. With the smallest possible concert format, our Inside Artists Franziska Ritter and Christian Siegmund have a testing ground for exploring how concerts can create more resonance, encounters and experiential spaces and how good hospitality can succeed. The concept is multi-part: a host accompanies the listener individually at each concert. A musician engages with the listener and tries to guess which piece of music the listener needs in a silent prelude. After the concert, the listener and musician exchange personal letters.
6*-Experience of a concert visit and design of this year’s festival centre
As Inside Artists of Beethovenfest, Franziska Ritter and Christian Siegmund contribute their concept and interdisciplinary expertise from the fields of scenography, architecture and linguistics. With their know-how as hosts and designers, they advise the festival’s programme and education team. Together, they will develop an exemplary 6* experience for the Beethovenfest, i.e. an experience of a concert visit that goes beyond the usual – for the artists, the audience and the Beethovenfest team. Based on this model concept, the first prototypical implementations are to be developed in order to convey a welcome feeling to everyone involved in the festival that is characterised by good encounters and a high emotional connection. This will also result in exciting synergies with Saman Haddad, cultural mediator from Bonn and another inside artist of the programme and education team. The result is a model with concrete guidelines for action. Franziska Ritter and Christian Siegmund, as artistic directors of the non-profit organisation 1:1 CONCERTS e. V. (donations for freelance artists are collected on an ongoing basis through a donation cycle), will transfer their findings to other projects and structures that will then be established in various cities and with other institutions following successful testing.
The themes of this project will also be reflected in this year’s Beethovenfest Festival Centre, in the planning and design of which the two Inside Artists are actively involved. The focus will be on issues ranging from the inviting design of squares and spaces to a special adaptation of the 1:1 CONCERTS on the theme of democracy.
Participants:
- Clara Gölz - team programme/education Beethovenfest Bonn
- Lydia Kappesser - team programme/education Beethovenfest Bonn
- Marion Leuschner - team programme/education Beethovenfest Bonn
- Franziska Ritter - 1:1 CONCERTS, Berlin
- Annette Semrau - team programme Beethovenfest Bonn
- Christian Siegmund - 1:1 CONCERTS, Berlin
Vita Franziska Ritter
Franziska Ritter is a scenographer and studied architect and co-founder of the Stage Design & Scenic Space programme at TU Berlin. As a representative for digitality and new technologies at the German Theatre Technology Society, she led the project »Im/material Theatre Spaces – Augmented and Virtual Reality for Theatre«. Musically, she has over 10 years of experience as a flautist in orchestras and independent ensembles, including the Opus 45 ensemble, of which she was a founding member. Together with Christian Siegmund and Stephanie Winker, she founded 1:1 CONCERTS.
Vita Christian Siegmund
Christian Siegmund is a cultural mediator and Lufthansa cabin manager. He came into contact with classical music as a child and learnt the piano and cello. In March 2019, he worked at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt as an educator for the project »Listening differently« by and with Marina Abramović, which was one of the sources of inspiration for 1:1 CONCERTS. Siegmund studied linguistics, literature and literary translation in Vienna, Frankfurt, Florence and Munich. His many years of experience as a Lufthansa purser make him a professional when it comes to hospitality, which he incorporates into his work.
