The State Opera in Stuttgart has a great reputation for high quality, innovative opera productions. I have seen quite a few operas in Stuttgart, including L’italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algeria) by Gioacchino Rossini, The Coronation of Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi, Die Walküre by Richard Wagner and Doktor Read More …
On the Schillerplatz in the center of Stuttgart there is an exhibition of historical musical instruments. While this collection is not as large as the ones in Brussels, Berlin, Nürnberg or Paris, it is still well worth seeing and has interesting explanations of why certain Baroque instruments went out of fashion, Read More …
In 2004 I posted a ‘tip’ on the now-defunct website VirtualTourist about the central railroad station in Stuttgart. Little did I know, at the time, that the fate of this station would later turn into one of the hottest political issues in Germany. My original ‘tip’ read as follows: In Read More …
In July 2011, I went down to Stuttgart by train (from Mannheim, where I had attended an opera premiere the night before) to take part in a large demonstration against “Stuttgart 21”. As you can see from the photos, the demonstrators came from all age groups, including lots of older Read More …
The German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born in this house on August 27, 1770. The house now contains a small museum about his life and work. The quotation on the banner in my photo reads: Alles was ist, ist vernünftig, which could be translated ‘Everything that is, is Read More …
Located next to the Liederhalle concert hall, the Literaturhaus is in a listed building (from a bygone century, the 20th) that was once the headquarters of the engineering and technology company Robert Bosch. After renovation, the Literature House was opened in 2001 as a meeting place, especially for those interested Read More …
Not far from the Hegel House is the cleverly-named Renitenztheater, a cabaret theater that was founded in 1961. To understand the name, you have to know that lots of German towns have something called a Residenztheater, meaning the former official court theater at the Residence of the local duke, prince, Read More …