AI makes it possible: Young Goethe as a fashion model
There are hardly any known portraits of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from his younger years. And yet he is currently presenting new fashion in photos at the Museum for Communication in Frankfurt. Jogging pants by Karl Lagerfeld are also on display, even though the fashion designer was known for his conviction that “Anyone who wears jogging pants has lost control of their life.” Goethe and Lagerfeld – created by artificial intelligence.
Kronberg Academy – Classical music as art and a common language for people
This year’s Kronberg Festival, which kicks off the Kronberg Academy’s 2025/2026 concert season on September 23, aims to generate “good vibrations.” For 32 years, the town in the Taunus region has been home to one of the world’s leading training centers for chamber music – financed almost exclusively by private, civic engagement.
Princely Garden Festival
In 2000, the Landgraves of Hesse organised a garden festival at Schloss Fasanerie for the first time. This year, the Princely Garden Festival will take place from 25 to 27 April at Hofgut Kranichstein near Darmstadt, then in May and August at Schloss Fasanerie near Fulda and in September at Schloss Wolfsgarten in Langen.
Media history(s) retold
The “Museum für Kommunikation” offers an interactive journey from the millennia-old cuneiform tablet to visionary data glasses. Without a fixed tour, you can surf through the exhibition like on the World Wide Web and experience communication in all its diversity with ground-breaking inventions, curious events and unusual fates.
Winter lights in the Palmengarten: imaginatively illuminated, mysteriously dark
The winter lights are back in Frankfurt’s Palmengarten. Vibrant colours contrast with mysterious darkness and invite young and old to stroll through the colourfully illuminated plant kingdom and send their imagination on a journey until 12 January 2025. The winter lights are a little break from everyday life.
