GRUND:GESETZ Together at Beethovenfest Bonn 2024 11.09. - 15.09.2024

Let's celebrate our constitutional rights together! To mark the 75th anniversary of the German Basic Law, you can experience the sound of the first 19 articles of our constitution in musical encounters during the GRUND:GESETZ project at Beethovenfest Bonn, featuring selected festival musicians. At a 1:1 CONCERT - the smallest possible concert format - 1 musician and 1 listener meet for an exciting musical encounter at eye level… in tune with this year's festival motto “Miteinander” (‘Together’).

At the Festivalzentrale (festival headquarters) - the Beethovenfest’s ‘living room’ situated in front of the Kreuzkirche in Bonn - we are establishing a democratic forum that invites discourse. GRUND:GESETZ takes a very concrete look at rights, freedoms and duties - both in musical and socio-political terms.

Chance will determine which article is going to be the basis for your personal concert. So who plays, on which instrument and which works, it all comes as a surprise: What does the inviolable dignity of man (Article 1) sound like? How polyphonic is the equality of all before the law (Article 3)? Does the foreign sound remind us of the right to asylum (Article 16a)? Our local hosts are looking forward to an inquisitive and open dialogue with you.

The GRUND:GESETZ encounters will take place from 11 September 2024 in the stage container of the festival headquarters on the square in front of Bonn's Kreuzkirche with free admission. Tickets can be booked on this website from 1 September or reserved at the info counter at the festival headquarters.

Together with you, we want to engage in a discourse about the Basic Law on a very personal, sonic and interpersonal level. Come along and be part of these unique musical encounters and celebrate the Basic Law with us.