dialektig Mundart Festival Ingolstadt

Dialect as a Contemporary Statement

For a long time, dialect music was considered dusty – a folkloric genre aimed at an older audience. The dialektig Mundart Festival in the City of Ingolstadt proves anew each year that the opposite is true. In February, concert halls, cabaret stages, and cultural centers in the Bavarian Danube city transform into venues for an Alpine music culture that oscillates between Trend and Tradition.

Diversity of Genres

The festival is deliberately open to all genres: the main criterion is not the style, but the quality of the artists – as well as the use of dialect. Represented on stage are classical folk music, dialect rock, hip-hop in Bavarian dialect, Alpine reggae, singer-songwriters in Upper Bavarian, jazzy crossover projects, and experimental underground acts.

Organizer: Cultural Office of the City of Ingolstadt

The festival is organized by the Cultural Office of the City of Ingolstadt, located at Donaustraße 11. The festival is part of a municipal cultural policy that aims not to museumify the Alpine heritage, but to keep it alive and evolving. Program design, artist acquisition, and promotion are carried out in close cooperation with local organizers and stages in the city.

Venues in the Danube City

During the festival weeks, several venues in Ingolstadt are used: cabaret stages, smaller concert halls, cultural centers, and event spaces in the city. The exact program – with artists, stages, and times – will be published at the beginning of each year on the festival website kulturamt-ingolstadt.de/dialektig as well as through regional ticket outlets.

Ingolstadt in February

Ingolstadt is Bavaria's fifth-largest city, located on the Danube between Munich and Nuremberg, a district-free city and administrative seat of the Region 10 (Danube-Iller). With the dialektig Festival, the city clearly positions itself as a cultural metropolis for Upper Bavarian and Alpine identity – an image that fits well with the Audi city and university, and lends a cultural highlight to the grey February season.