11FREUNDE | KulturImZelt Braunschweig

In the organizer's words:

Festival KulturImZelt 2025

📍 Bürgerpark, Braunschweig

🗓 August 21 - September 21, 2025

- More than 50 shows from the fields of live concerts, readings, cabaret & comedy. -

Including:

The new live program from 11FREUNDE is here: Philipp Köster and Stephan Reich present "The other history of soccer" - a fast-paced ride from the wild boys in long pants to today's high-gloss frenzy, with daring tackles, curious goals, botched interviews and unleashed commentators. The two 11FREUNDE veterans Philipp Köster and Stephan Reich will guide you through the show with texts, films and anecdotes.

Philipp Köster is editor-in-chief of the soccer magazine 11FREUNDE. He has been on tour with live programs since 2005. He collects jerseys and stadium booklets, knows the Romanian champions of 1984 and can recite Borussia Dortmund's starting eleven in the 1986 relegation match against Fortuna Köln by heart. He is also the author of numerous soccer books, including one on the history of the Bundesliga. Above all, however, he is a fan of the glorious Arminia from Bielefeld. Philipp is really looking forward to the new tour: "We talk about soccer the way it should be: dirty, funny and close to the audience."

Stephan Reich is a long-standing 11FREUNDE author, journalist and writer. As an ardent fan of Frankfurt Eintracht, he has just published the collection of texts "Tage des Donners", while his debut novel "Wenn's brennt" was already a great success. Reich can also regularly be seen on the popular video podcast "Fußball 2000" - and is actually always involved in events relating to Eintracht. Stephan is looking forward to his debut season: "We want to turn the game around and get into good tackles! I certainly have a good feeling about it!"

"It's a humorous trip through the sport's cabinet of curiosities, which the audience accompanies with downright hilarious laughter. The 20 most unbelievable injuries, the most beautiful swallows, the ugliest fouls or the footballers with the most wonderful names - Kirschneck and Köster open a grab bag and let it rip without making a face."

- Yannick Richter, Osnabrücker Zeitung