Student Management

The first impulse to diversify the creative minds and idea generators behind the festival programme dates back 14 years: in 2009, the first student managers came to Beethovenfest Bonn. Since then, a group of young people has organised their own concert at Beethovenfest every year, from press work to marketing and artist support. Each student manager has a professional counterpart in the Beethovenfest team who provides advice and support – and at the same time learns from the young people. In this way, the project can continue to develop year after year. The creative collaboration on concert content and outreach concepts is constantly being expanded, giving rise to exciting and unusual concert formats that appeal to a broad and diverse audience according to the peer-to-peer principle.

Every year we are looking for ten new students for the student management project. The application period is in December/January. You will find all the information on our website.

In 2024, the student management team oversees the premiere of the staged concert Galatea Upload in the Kreuzkirche.

For their concert, the pupils will organise their own press conference, a concert introduction and school workshops for which classes from Years 9 to 13 can register.

Over the years, a large community of former student managers has developed, who not only support and advise their successors, but also continue to supervise concerts at Beethovenfest Bonn under the name »nextstop:classic«. 

In 2023, the former student managers are involved in the Open Stage concert »Sausen und Brausen«. Together with the Stegreif Orchester and this year’s student managers, they will organise a colourful afternoon with workshops, pop-up concerts and a brilliant party on the grounds of Basecamp Bonn.