IMAGINE! 2025 | Story Jam - Festivaleröffnung Leipzig

In the organizer's words:

As part of IMAGINE! 2025 2nd International Festival for Narrative Art in Chemnitz, Dresden & Leipzig

All good things come in threes! After Chemnitz and Dresden, this stand-up storytelling evening marks the official opening of the IMAGINE! festival 2025 in Leipzig. This is where artists Patrick Niegsch, Maria Carmela Marinelli, Elmar Kühn and Karin Tscholl come together to tell stories that have never been told. Stories that are created in the moment. Stories that connect, mix and multiply. Whether traditional stories, experiences, thoughts or memories - quiet, loud, vulnerable, powerful. They all get a stage at STORY JAM. The audience listens, thinks along, spins on. Because with one word, one theme, one sound or one idea, the evening can take an unexpected new turn.

Storytelling: Karin Tscholl (AT), Maria Carmela Marinelli (IT/DE), Patrick Niegsch (DE)

Music: Elmar Kühn (DE)

Tickets: €17 / €12 / €8 (solidarity pricing system - pay what you can!)

Please note:

• The event will be held in German spoken language.
• Additional fees apply for advance sales via TixforGigs.
• The Box Office opens one hour before the start of the event (no ticket payment possible).
• Information on the accessibility of the museum can be found at: https://grassi-voelkerkunde.skd.museum/besuch/barrierefreiheit/

Who is narrating?

Karin Tscholl, also known as Frau Wolle, has been a full-time fairy tale and storyteller for adults since 1995. She has published 8 books and 4 story event calendars and has performed in 14 countries to date.
Her passion is finding and sharing old folk tales that offer something surprising. Ms. Wolle relies on the power of the spoken word, painting rich pictures with a love of language. "Not a word too much and not a word too little " - this is what Karin Tscholl strives for and she only tells stories that are on the tip of her tongue.

Elmar Kühn is a beatboxer, loop station artist, choirmaster, music teacher and stand-up comedian. He studied jazz/rock/pop singing at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music and Theater in Leipzig. During his teacher training in music and French (grammar school), he specialized in voice training and choral conducting. He conducts four pop choirs with different stylistic focuses and levels, including the French choir "Le Petit Paris" and the Leipzig Youth Pop Jazz Choir. Since 2018, he has also been performing as a beatboxer and loop station artist under the name L-Moop, both on stage and in public spaces.

Patrick Niegsch is a storyteller and theater educator (M.A.) in a wide variety of contexts. When he is not telling stories about rushing rivers or brave foxes, he works in schools or theaters and spins the wildest dreams together with others. Together with Brit Magdon and Maria Carmela Marinelli, he is co-founder of the international storytelling festival "IMAGINE!".

Maria Carmela Marinelli studied translation at the University of Bologna and German studies abroad (DaF/DaZ) at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. She completed a master's degree in theater pedagogy at the Berlin University of the Arts, as well as the certificate course "Storytelling in Art and Education". She is a founding member of ERZÄHLRAUM e.V. and initiator of Die offene Erzählbühne Leipzig, as well as the international festival for narrative art "IMAGINE!".

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The festival is supported by: Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen | Landeshauptstadt Dresden - Amt für Kultur und Denkmalschutz | Kulturamt Stadt Leipzig | Märchenstiftung Walter-Kahn | Deutsch-Tschechischer Zukunftsfonds |GLS Bank |Chemnitz Kulturhauptstadt Europas 2025 |

A project by ERZÄHLRAUM e.V. in cooperation with Taupunkt e.V. Chemnitz, Societaetstheater Dresden, GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, Theater der Jungen Welt Leipzig, Budde-Haus Leipzig, Café Terra Leipzig, Kültür Kollektiv Leipzig e.V.

Price information:

Tickets: €17 / €12 / €8 (solidarity pricing system - pay what you can!)