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Exhibitors & musicians
A magnificent start: the opening of Frank Teufel's exhibition “In die Leichtigkeit geführt” (Led into Lightness)
25th of September 2025
Guests responded enthusiastically to the invitation to the opening of the last exhibition in 2025 and were thrilled by the detailed stories and explanations provided by sculptor Frank Teufel from T...
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For the little ones: Children's concert in the Stadtstadel
18th of September 2025
Anyone who thinks that children only like songs by Schnabi Schnabel Gang or the Smurfs is very much mistaken. Larissa Richter, a pianist and composer from Munich, has impressively demonstrated with...
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Highly topical and yet from another world: "Modern Times" by Charlie Chaplin set to music by Murat Parlak
11th of September 2025
In a fascinating way and with the highest concentration, Murat Parlak set Charlie Chaplin's last silent film "Modern Times", which is classified as an important cultural asset, to music on the pian...
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"Summer" - Finissage of the exhibition "Echo of Thoughts" by Anja Nürnberg
8th of August 2025
In the middle of summer, enjoying the richness and warmth, the guests were inspired one last time by the beautiful memories that the works of Anja Nürnberg in her exhibition "Echo of Thoughts" tri...
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Astor Piazzolla - unheard tango arrangements
26th of June 2025
A musical highlight awaited the audience when the Luz y Sombra Trio from Berlin was a guest in the Stadtstadel. With great joy of playing, unusual creativity and absolute virtuosity, the three mus...
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The World of Chanson - Murat Parlak and Nicole Baumann at the Stadtstadel
22nd of May 2025
Who doesn't know them, the French chansons. Since the Middle Ages, French songs have been able to develop steadily before they became a byword in the music world in the 19th century and establishe...
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Opening of the exhibition "Gedankenecho" by Anja Nürnberg
8th of May 2025
How often do our own memories surprise us. They seem to come out of nowhere and connect us to the past, whether it was an outstanding, single event or something of everyday that we have experience...
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Back at the Stadtstadel Das Weite Theater from Berlin
15th of April 2025
This is the third anniversary of the visit of the Weite Theater from Berlin in Kempten. Adapted to the premises of the Stadtstadel, the actresses showed two spectacular performances with their lar...
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A feeling of foreignness - Finissage Christine Krämer
3rd of April 2025
The feeling of foreignness is a recurring element in all eras of art, in painting as well as in music. The exhibition “Der umgekehrte Blick” (“The inverted view”) by Christine Krämer shows works t...
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Musical theater in the Stadtstadel, March 2025
20th of March 2025
Maria, a ten-year-old girl, can retell films so vividly and dramatically that the whole village flocks to be enchanted by her. The musical theater “Die Filmerzählerin”, based on the novel of the s...
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Foto: Nathalie Dennenmoser
An outstanding musical experience
27th of February 2025
Three outstanding young talents, recipients of numerous international awards and with many performances under their belts, played together for the first time as a trio at the Stadtstadel. They came...
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Foto: Nathalie Dennenmoser
16th of January 2025
Christine Krämer opens the 2025 event year at Stadtstadel with her exhibition “The Inverted Gaze.” The headline of the accompanying article in Allgäuer Zeitung on January 18, “Every Painting is an...
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Foto: Nathalie Dennenmoser
Spain's passionate rhythms meet delicate French impressions and baroque artistry - End-of-year concert in the Stadtstadel on 19.12.2024
7th of December 2024
The artistic and cultural year 2024 ended with a very unusual concert by pianist and composer Larissa Richter. At the same time, it marked the end of the much acclaimed and versatile exhibition "T...
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The Magic of Persia - Music from Another World Yet Familiar
28 th of November 2024
Sometimes it’s chance that conjures up the extraordinary moments in life. Such was the case in the musical city of Vienna, where I received a recommendation for the concert. And thus, the Joolaee ...
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Wolfgang Muthspiel at the Stadtstadel
7th of November 2024
One of the great guitarists of our time, with performances around the world, presented his new solo program Études/Quietudes at the Stadtstadel in early November 2024. Enthusiastic listeners, seate...
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Creative improvisation – the art of the spontaneous idea
10st of October 2024
Even at events, despite the best planning and preparation, a salon evening can turn out very differently at the last moment. Instead of listening to chansons, the audience learned and experienced t...
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A Night for the Arts
21st of September 2024
This year, we also participated in the Art Night in Kempten. With the official title "Encounters," all eyes in the city were on the art, admiring the many meeting places between artists and the aud...
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The Vernissage of Many Stories
19th of September 2024
Bronze casting is a captivating process for creating sculptures of various types and sizes. As early as the 4th millennium BC, humanity used this form of metal casting and in the Bronze Age, it flo...
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Along the Silk Road
22nd of August 2024
On August 22, 2024, the enthusiastically received exhibition "Multi-layered as Life - Concretely Structured" by Uli Fischer came to an end with a brilliant conclusion. "Along the Silk Road" was the...
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Our Guests:
Fagotti Parlandi - the wonder of speaking bassoons
18th of July 2024
A very special concert evening awaited the guests on July 18 this year: an evening of bassoons getting to know each other. In the orchestra, they are always in the second row, right in the middle,...
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Minimalism in music and art - piano concert with Larissa Richter
20th of June 2024
"These pictorial objects resemble quiet music" - this was the headline of the newspaper article at the opening of the new exhibition "Complex as life - concretely structured." The exhibition could...
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Shangri-La - a dream of mankind
16th of May 2024
Who doesn't know the dream of peace, harmony and the fine arts, detached from the hustle and bustle of everyday life? The infinite freedom of immersion and enjoyment. The unique works of art by Uli...
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Foto: Nathalie Dennenmoser
Vernissage Uli Fischer "Uli Fischer, welcome to Kempten!"
7th of May 2024
With a carefully chosen selection of large-format works, the Berlin artist Uli Fischer travelled to Kempten to curate his solo exhibition at the Stadtstadel and to open it together with the Stadts...
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Foto: Birgit Kastner-Simon, Kai Siebdrath, Bernhard Simon
It was Time for Theatre - Theatre Days in the Stadtstadel, from 23.04. to 25.04.2024
23rd - 25th of April 2024
With two special plays in their luggage, the Weite Theater Berlin travelled to Kempten again to immerse the small stage of the Stadtstadel in the bright splendor of the theatre world. Christine Mü...
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The heyday of silent films - the special cinema evening in the Stadtstadel "Berlin - the symphony of the big city" by Walter Ruttmann 1927
18th of April 2024
Silent films transport us into a unique and flickering world: the world of the first film with images in black and white and actors with great gestures and strong facial expressions, but still sil...
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Finissage Mechthild Ehmann Exhibition "L'art et la France"
21st of March 2024
At some point, the last day comes and it's time to say goodbye. This is also the case with the wonderful exhibition "The fascination of form. Sculpture, Plastic, Drawing" by the artist Mechthild E...
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Fingerspiel - a captivating concert by Murat Parlak
29th of February 2024
His hands flew over the keyboard, his fingers barely touched the keys and yet the room was filled with the all-encompassing sound of his Fingerplay. What the ear took in could no longer be grasped ...
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The power of the voice - annual kick-off concert at the Stadtstadel
1sup>st of February 2024
The bass-baritone voice of opera singer Diego Villegas was powerful and brilliant in the concert lounge of the Stadtstadel, accompanied by Enzo Weber on the piano. The chosen pieces included a wide...
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A Somewhat Different Christmas Concert
14sup>th of December 2023
With a little twinkle in her eye, Nicole Baumann-Groß singing soprano and Murat Parlak on the grand piano stunned the guests at the Christmas concert at the Stadtstadel. Performing classic Americ...
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Foto: Ralph Lienert, Guido Weggenmann
Vernissage Mechthild Ehmann - In Triad
16th of November 2023
A glowing, warm room on a cold, wet November evening - this is how the Stadtstadel presented itself at the vernissage of the exhibition "The fascination of form. Sculpture, Plastic, Drawing." by M...
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Hand in Hand - Premiere at the Stadtstadel
2nd of November 2023
A musical project that was agreed upon 15 years ago has now become reality. Murat Parlak at the grand piano and Magnus Dauner on drums and percussion instruments performed together for the first t...
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Finissage Rüdiger Seidt Exhibition "In the beginning is the tetrahedron. Perfection in space."
19th of October 2023
What an apt description for an extraordinary finissage at the end of the exhibition "In the beginning is the tetrahedron. Perfection in space" by Rüdiger Seidt. The aesthetics and charisma of Rüd...
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Foto: Stefanie Gilio / Birgit Kastner-Simon
It's not a real cinema experience without emotions - what we always wanted to know about film music.
10th of August 2023
Everyone knows them, everyone enjoys them. Everyone remembers it. Sometimes even years later. Scenes of the film play in our minds as soon as we hear those first few notes. The music of a motion pi...
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Opening of the exhibition "In the beginning is the tetrahedron. The perfection in the room."
Steel sculptures and wall pieces by Rüdiger Seidt
21 of July 2023
As light, as velvety, and as fascinating as Rüdiger Seidt's steel sculptures, Larissa Richter created an interesting piano program of rarely performed pieces from the Scandinavian region. With Carl...
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Finissage "Austria, the land of mountains and music"
20th of June 2023
Many people associate mountains with our neighboring country Austria. A wonderful country to end the exhibition "Landscape around me - Pictures in me. Mountains 2020 to 2022" ending with a musical ...
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String to string - A concert of the very extraordinary kind.
5th of May 2023
String to string, Murat Parlak and his longtime friend Jann Michael Engel let piano and cello resound in the Stadtstadel. At times the piano came to the fore, at others the cello; together they tra...
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Foto: Birgit Kastner-Simon / Doreen Kauschmann
The Weite Theater Berlin as a guest in the Stadtstadel
25th & 28th of April 2023
A completely new flair could be felt in the Stadtstadel. The big world of theater on a very small stage. With Christine Müller and Martin Karl, co-founders of the theater, a very different, fresh v...
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Opening of the Horst Heilmann Art Exhibition
23rd of March 2023
With great interest, long-time connoisseurs and admirers of his works accepted the invitation to the vernissage on 23.03.2023 in the Stadtstadel. Horst Heilmann himself introduced the pictorial wor...
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Magnus Dauner Concert
February 2023
The exhibition "Formed or Already in Motion? The World Behind." by Guido Weggenmann invites us to make the unique pieces of steel and aluminum sound through music and to open up a whole new facet f...
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Foto: Birgit Kastner-Simon
Finissage of the Exhibition by Guido Weggenmann
25th of February 2023
The works of Guido Weggenmann in his exhibition "In Form or Already in Motion? The world behind" invite in their expressiveness, their lightness and their uniqueness a multidimensional form of inte...
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Concert "Between the years"
28th of December 2022
In the spirit of salon art Murat Parlak convinced his audience. With ease and a lot of emotion he led the enthusiastic audience through the most different epochs of music history and accompanied t...
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Verissage Guido Weggenmann exhibition
15th of December 2022
Guido Weggenmann, who has been influential in the Kempten art scene for many years, presents in his first solo exhibition in Kempten with works from 2019, 2021 and most importantly his latest work...
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Finissage, Beer tasting for the exhibition "The Kemptener holds its beer sacred"
November 2022
Medieval documents tell of a flourishing brewing industry in Kempten. The first brewery was built in 1417 by the Frauenwirt with the "Brauerei zur Gans" in Gerberstraße. In the following centuries,...
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