As of: January 31, 2024, 5:39 p.m
By: Tanja Brinkmann
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Celebrate celebrations as they please (top from left) Adrian Baer, Felix Krey, Sandra Nippraschk, Frida Baer, Christian Knirsch, (bottom from left) Lisa Faustmann, Nadja Wunderlich, Thomas Angele and Verena Krinninger.
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen stands for tradition and classics.
This is simply because Richard Strauss found his adopted home here.
But culture is much more than that, as the celebrations on offer show.
The newly founded association has set itself the goal of promoting cultural diversity in the town.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen – The name doesn’t necessarily say it all.
Because the members of the new club just want to celebrate, they don't want to celebrate.
Rather, their concern is to enrich the cultural program in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
They have been doing this since March 2018, when they organized the first “Tiny Concert” in the Waffle House on Marienplatz.
At that time it was still disorganized, as a group of friends.
They created a very special atmosphere there with carpets and old floor lamps.
After several years of organizing music events and other formats, they have now given themselves a solid structure.
“This means that all activities are now bundled under one roof,” says second chairwoman Verena Krinninger.
They quickly realized that they had hit a nerve.
“The idea of organizing living room concerts was so well received that it developed into a small but fine concert series over the years,” remembers Krinninger.
She stopped at various places and, according to her, thrilled the audience.
One of the highlights in their eyes was the performance of Loisach Marci with his alphorn techno in the time-honored Krönner coffee house.
If you want to generate more people, that's difficult.
Verena Krinninger
“Not only acoustic and soft tones, but also electronic sounds should find a home in the town,” says Krinninger.
This wish led to the creation of the electronic dance event “Tonabbesser”.
This series also quickly made a name for itself and gathered a fan base.
Cooperations with other cultural workers during the Corona period also led to new synergies.
With the team from the Puls youth center and the community youth care team, the festival celebration team launched a concert series.
It fits with the fact that “Felix Krey has been making event technology for Puls for a long time.”
Despite the restrictions that applied during the pandemic, culture was made possible within the framework of the legal requirements and many beautiful memories were created.
During this time, the “Tiny Concert” and the “Noise Club” became “Tiny Noise”.
This is one of the reasons why people have closely associated celebrations with the facility on Kankerweg for a while, and the association wants to break away from that.
“If you want to generate more people, it’s difficult,” says Krinninger.
She and her colleagues already got started with the newly founded club last year: She calls the offer a “complete success”, which includes a concert and a flea market at Cuatro Hombres on Promenadestraße, an atmospheric living room concert at Café Max and an electronic club night in the east curve of the ski stadium (we reported).
The association, which is also supported by the community's cultural sponsorship, has a lot planned for this year.
“Our program should not just be limited to concerts, but should cover as much as possible,” says Krinninger.
She can imagine inviting people to a cooking event.
“Something where people come together at a large table, cook, eat and listen to music.” A reading day is also possible.
They also want to be there at GAP.beinand – with an art installation, possibly in the empty showcases on Bahnhofstrasse.
The whole thing is definitely completed by a party and a concert.
What is crucial for Krinninger, chairman Thomas Angele and the other founding members is that they “cover and develop areas in which we have nothing yet.”
In this way, they definitely live up to their goal of enriching cultural life in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.