Student Management

The application for the Student Management 2025 is open!

Are you between 15 and 20 years old and would you like to work as part of the student management team at Beethovenfest Bonn and organise your own concert? Then you’ve come to the right place, because we’re looking for the new student managers in 2025!

We want to get to know the artists with you and your future team colleagues in intensive project phases, find out what ideas you have for the realisation of the concert and tackle them together – your opinion counts! You can get involved in the team according to your interests in various areas of the festival organisation. Read more about this below.

The other project days are planned for the following periods – we will then determine the exact dates (2-3 days each) with you:

• 6.-9.3.2025
• 3.-6.4.2025
• 7.-11.5.2025
• 12.-15.6.2025
• 10.-13.7.2025

Other important dates that you can already put in your diary:

• First project weekend: 31.1-2.2.2025
• 30.8.2025 - »Clear the stage for Beethoven«
• 13.9.2025 - your student management concert at Beethovenfest 2025

If you have any questions, please contact Marion Leuschner directly:

m.leuschner@beethovenfest.de 
0228 - 2010 323

We look forward to you and your application!

The student managers have been an integral part of our festival family since 2009. Every year, a new group of young people comes together to contribute to the festival programme as creative minds and idea generators.  

As a student manager, you will learn everything about working in a music festival and take on the organisation of a concert together with the Beethovenfest mentors.

This includes...

... concert management, where you will be responsible for looking after the artists and the technical side of your concert, but also for planning your joint activities.

... the music education department, where you will get other young people excited about the music of your concert through creative workshops or an unusual concert introduction.

... the communications department, where you will carry out intensive press work and develop a professional marketing strategy. You can realise your ideas in print media, on social media or with merchandise.

... the artistic and commercial management department, where you will be responsible for leading your team, managing the budget and presenting the project at public appearances.

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.