The theater quarter festival 2025 inspires on the first evening: « Augsburg will be happy »

It is not due to the prices or the cars that you can no longer be amazed at a amazement in a parking garage in a Augsburg parking garage. But also on the large salad leaf and the oversized spoon on one of the parking spaces. The theater quarter festival not only offers Urbane Art in the Ludwigstrasse parkhaus, but also a number of surprises and entertainment. When the street festival is opened early Friday evening when the weather is fine, many people flock to Ludwigstrasse and the neighboring Fronhof with the Hofgarten.

This festival is different. This alone confirms tenor Claudio Zazzaro, who smashes on stage in front of the State Theater construction site, how nice it is to be a kebab and wear an onion on his head. The audience laughs and applauds. The mood in Ludwigstrasse is magnificent. Young people, parents with children and seniors frolic on the colorful promenade with outer gastronomy and stalls, they sit on the beer banks in the Fronhof or relaxed on the grass areas. Visitors enjoy their drinks, chat, listen to the singer Pauli on the small stage in the arch of Swabia government. Like 34-year-old Hanna and the 41-year-old Ben. Hanna clearly says why this festival, which is now taking place for the second time, is good for Augsburg.

« Something like the theater district has been lacking for the past 15 years. I think it’s totally nice that the city does such things. Augsburg makes it more colorful, open and happier. » With this she indirectly praised the makers of the festival, namely the association « Theaterviertel now! ». In it, cultural workers, restaurateurs and citizens have teamed up with the aim of driving the development of the theater quarter. The festival, which had already attracted around 18,000 people last year last year, is again subsidized and accompanied by the city. State theater director André Bücker finds praise for this.

The women enjoy the hustle and bustle at the Augsburg Theater district 2025

« It is a great sign of the city that it adopts the idea of ​​the association, in addition to the theater building, to see the district as a urban development project. » At the theater district, Bücker primarily estimates that it is an event for all age groups. The 84-year-old Helga Köhle, who sits on a bench in the courtyard garden with her friends, sees that. The women enjoy the hustle and bustle. « There is a lot to observe. And the many little children here, it’s just nice, » says Köhle.

The theater district also takes place on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. The street festival does not cost admission.