The premiere took place on Thursday at the Cinema in Düsseldorf's old town. Around 30 invited guests, journalists, employees and friends of the festival came to Schneider-Wibbel-Gasse in Düsseldorf to experience the premiere of the almost half-hour documentary "Behind the Curtain - How to Düsseldorf Festival" by the two Düsseldorf filmmakers Dimitri [...]

Even after 33 years, it is still exciting when the construction work begins on the Burgplatz. Our team and the tent builders have started to place containers on top of each other and the first tent struts of the large theatre tent are in position ready to be erected. We are all excited and looking [...]

Due to popular demand, we have decided to offer an additional performance of Urbanatix: Essence. On Sunday afternoon, 29 September at 4pm, we want to appeal to families with children in particular. Come in large numbers. Advance ticket sales have already started. Click here to go directly to the event.

We are delighted and happy: the piece Play Dead by the young company People Watching from Montreal has received a glowing review at the Montréal Complètement Cirque festival. The headline ceers: 'If there's only one show you have to see at "Montréal Complètement Cirque", this is it. This small troupe of Montreal artists, born out [...]

We are delighted to announce that our media partner ARTE has launched a competition on its website. From now until 16 August you can take part and win tickets for the Düsseldorf Festival! So, let's get there! Go to arte.tv/gewinnspiel.

For your information, we are now also offering gift vouchers for the festival in our online shop. Previously, gift vouchers were only available directly from our office. For all those who want to do something good for others and give away tickets for our programme, go ahead! The vouchers can be exchanged for tickets online, [...]

We are still looking for reinforcements for our team. There are still places available in the stage team! Every facet of event technology - stage, lighting and sound - is the focus here, as are video and camera technology, setting up and maintaining the infrastructure. The opportunity to try your hand at the technical sector [...]

For the first time at the Düsseldorf Festival we welcome Klangforum Wien, one of the top ensembles of contemporary music. The sensation at the last “Wien Modern” festival was the production “11,000 Strings”, which Georg Friedrich Haas composed for the ensemble and a monumental concert installation of 50 microtonally tuned pianos. The audience experiences never-before-heard [...]

We are excited and looking forward to the start of advance ticket sales for the first 11 international highlights in 2024. Things get underway from 26 April 2024 and, of course, all early birds can once again secure our early bird discount of 10% until 21 May. Under the motto Music, Theatre, New Circus, Dance, [...]

We are delighted to share a few impressions of our wonderful festival with you. It was lovely. We hope to see you again in 2024.