EVERYTHING:ULTRA Ultra Edition at the Beethovenfest Bonn 2025 28.08. - 27.09.2025

After having been part of the Beethovenfest 2024 with the project GRUND:GESETZ, in keeping with last year's motto “Miteinander” (‘Together’), 1:1 CONCERTS are returning this year to the federal city of Bonn. We would like to invite you to a very special edition, the 1:1 ALLES ULTRA Edition, that reflects this year's motto ''Everything Ultra”!

„Alles ultra“ goes back to a quote from Goethe and describes the zeitgeist of the time as characterised by extreme tendencies and extravagance. We aim to capture the meaning of this quote with our smallest possible 1-to-1 format and, together with the Friends of the Beethovenfest, in other words the ultras of the festival's fan community, to illuminate, shape and transform it. The aim of this community project is to give around 200 individual concerts on selected days during the festival in September. The concerts are admission free, donations are appreciated.

What is the ULTRA Edition of the 1:1 CONCERTS?

• ULTRA hosts: The „Beethoven ULTRA Fans“ - members of the Freundeskreis e.V. - will take on the central role of hosts, accompanying listeners personally to their concerts and thus actively shaping the project.

• ULTRA venues: We are looking for new venues together, extreme locations in Bonn - from roof terraces to catacombs, from dentists' surgeries to funeral parlours, or a steamboat on the Rhine? We look forward to receiving offers and suggestions for exciting ULTRA venues!

• ULTRA musicians: Musicians from the Beethovenfest will be performing. The range of instruments will be as extreme and diverse as possible, from piccolo flute to contrabassoon, as well as kora, nyckel harp, oud and erhu.

In a series of workshops with 20 members of the Friends of the Beethovenfest, we are currently working on the concept and, as part of the community project, looking for the most unusual venues possible. From mid-July, we'll present the venues and artists on this website. The concerts can be booked here on this page starting in August.