How does the active examination with Telemann’s life and work look like in Eisenach?
Since 1982 the Eisenach Telemann Festival provides an important contribution to the general „Telemann Renaissance”. Hosted by the city of Eisenach until 1992, after merging with the Eisenach Telemann Society (main host until 2002) the Society of Chamber Music of the Wartburgstadt took over the funding body. Thus, the society saw the more responsibility to bring awareness of Telemann’s Thuringian workplace to the people of Eisenach and the Thuringian population and at the same time to convey and use his potential as cultural and touristic attraction. So the society can now look back at seven successfully completed festivals under its aegis. It was their effort the led to the renamimg of the upper part of the Eisenach market in Georg-Philipp-Telemann square in 2012 and an obelisk was erected.
Tirelessly, the society points out the fate and significance of Wilhelmsthal Castle as the only original premiere site of Telemann’s works with its events and thus, contributes to the revival of this place of remembrance of European standing.