WORT:KLANG Festival of the Arts, Salem 2025 26.09. - 28.09.2025
From 26 to 28 September 2025, 1:1 CONCERTS e.V. and L WIE MATERIE – Meeting spaces for contemporary art in a rural setting – invite you to Salem for the interdisciplinary festival WORT:KLANG. The focus is on the unifying power of language: with music, visual arts, literature, film and science, we’ll transform surprising venues into experimental spaces. WORT:KLANG will bring interdisciplinary projects to stages large and small and offer a programme for all the senses. Artists from Germany and abroad, as well as pupils from the Leopold School, will shape the festival with their individual contributions. The Linzgau Shuttle will take people with limited mobility to the concerts free of charge (please book via email!) and ‘Mama Africa’ will cater for your physical well-being with her culinary skills.
FESTIVAL PROGRAM
Wednesday 24. till Saturday 27.9. there will be 1:1 ENCOUNTERS in the Linzgau region.
Friday, September 26, 2025
from 2:00 pm 1:1 ENCOUNTERS | Backhäuschen
6:00 pm Festival Opening & Exhibition KON:TEXT | L WIE MATERIE
8:00 pm Films to Watch Days Go By & DJ Set | Alte Säge
Saturday, September 27, 2025
11:00 am Guided Tour: Exhibition KON:TEXT | L WIE MATERIE
12:00–5:30 pm 1:1 ENCOUNTERS | Backhäuschen
2:00 pm Reading: Qamareen – Two Moons | Alte Säge
3:30 pm Guided Tour: Exhibition KON:TEXT | L WIE MATERIE
6:30 pm Literary Concert Performance: Goethe & Dante | Schloss Salem Library
9:30 pm DJ Set: Qamareen – Two Moons | Alte Säge
Sunday, September 28, 2025
10:30 am Lecture: Monkey Talk | Alte Säge
11:00 am–6:00 pm Audio Play Hut: I Am Where You Find Me | Garden
1:00 pm & 3:00 pm Guided Tour: Exhibition KON:TEXT | L WIE MATERIE
1:00–5:00 pm 11:1 ENCOUNTERS | Backhäuschen
5:00 pm Tuning out – End of the festival | Alte Säge
Our ticket sales are person-to-person: Our festival revolves around language and encounters! That’s why our colleague Rose Hunt is personally handling digital ticket sales via email, and we have also set up various advance ticket offices. Of course, there will also be a box office at the festival before the various events. In this way, we want to make the booking process as personal and human as possible.
Information about each programme item and the respective ticket prices can be found further down on this website. Ticket prices range from €0 to €25, depending on the event. Admission is free for children up to and including 14 years of age. Reduced tickets are available for young people up to and including 18 years, school pupils, students, trainees, people with a severe disability card (from 50% degree of disability), and accompanying persons.
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: For early bookers, we are offering 20 festival tickets (valid for all events) at a special price – for bookings up until July 10, 2025
€60 (instead of €70) for the regular festival ticket
€30 (instead of €39) for the reduced festival ticket
How it works:
You can easily order tickets by writing to Rose Hunt via email at wortklang@1to1festival.de. Once we have received your payment (via GLS-bank or PayPal), we will send you your personalized tickets. Starting in August, tickets will also be available at booking offices in Salem: L WIE MATERIE (Friday to Sunday, 2:00–6:00 pm) for all tickets, as well as for GOETHE & DANTE at the Salemer Kreiskulturamt (contact/phone number available on our website), and for the READING at Linzgau Bookstore (Mon–Fri 9:00 am–1:00 pm & 2:00–6:00 pm, Sat 9:00 am–1:00 pm).
We look forward to receiving your personal ticket request and to sharing a wonderful festival experience with you!
PROGRAMME: Everything revolves around language!
Art exhibition KON:TEXT
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Literary Music Performance GOETHE:DANTE
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LIPSPIL - The Art of Speaking
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1:1 ENCOUNTERS
#wort:klangSyrian-German reading QAMAREEN: Two Moons
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Films To Watch Days Go By
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Monkey Talk
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Mama Africa - Sara Mateus
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Audio Play Hut
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Organisers
Johanna Knöpfle is a visual artist. She frequently collaborates with musicians and other artists across genres. Matthias Schenkl is a photographer and forester. The two of them run the exhibition space L wie Materie - zeitgenössische Kunst in Salem. With their commitment and not least through the 1:1 CONCERTS, they promote culture in rural areas. post@l-wie-materie.de
Partners and Sponsors
The project organiser is the non-profit organisation 1:1 CONCERTS e.V., which is much more than a concert format: a movement, a platform, a network. Since 2019, special musical encounters have been created worldwide with over 20,000 live concerts. Over 2,500 participants and around 30 orchestra sponsorships form a global community in 60 cities that is committed to sustainable cultural preservation, quality encounters and mindfulness. The artistic directors are Franziska Ritter and Christian Siegmund, while the Salem local team is led by Johanna Knöpfle.
L WIE MATERIE is the regional cooperation partner - right next to Salem Castle. Since 2017, it has been a prominent address for contemporary art with international and regional positions. The exhibition spaces in the old forester's lodge are curated and run by Johanna Knöpfle & Matthias Schenkl. The venue is characterised by personal art mediation and the philosophy of a mobile presentation. L WIE MATERIE has been a close cooperation partner of 1:1 CONCERTS since 2020.
The margravial House of Baden provides various and otherwise inaccessible rooms around Salem Castle for this extraordinary project and contributes to the project volume with a grant.
