Festival Opening 2023

For the overall experience of the opening evening, we recommend first watching the performance of The Making of Pinocchio at the Dampfzentrale at 19:00. Afterwards there is a free shuttle bus to the festival centre in the Grosse Halle, where this year's auawirleben will be officially opened.

In fact, this year's festival opening is like a big bang, a birth, a rite of passage! There will be a colour battle, aperitif and DJ (Pr1nc1p3ss4). And as you should know by now, we're all treating as VIPs, so: be there and get messy!

Pr1nc1p3ss4 writes about the Sound: «An evening filled with sounds of various genres; sometimes waking, sometimes dreamy - in any case always surprising. PrInc1p3ss4 brings technoid, electronic deconstructed beats in harmony with - accessible, dancey, cheeky sounds. princ1p3ss4 warms up the night for us.»

Listen to Pr1nc1p3ss4.

Other Sounds at the festival

FR 12.5. | 00:00–03:30 | Midnight bathing with sound by Tyra Wigg (Basel)
SA 13.5. | 23:30–03:30 | Birthday party splatz.space
MI 17.5. | 00:00–03:30 | Geplantes Nichtstun (Bern) & Seba Campos (Bern)
FR 19.5. | 00:00–03:30 | DJ lutra lutra (Bern) & 2girls1deck (Bern/Basel)
SA 20.5. | 23:00–03:30 | Queereeoké (Hamburg)