Hermann Hesse Festival Calw 2026
2025
Edition 2025 — Finished
Edition 2025 — Hermann Hesse Festival
Hermann Hesse Festival 2025
The 2025 Hermann Hesse Festival continued the tradition established in recent years: the main evening in the Hirsau monastery ruins with the finalists of the Udo Lindenberg Foundation's Panikpreis. The medieval monastery ruin as an open-air stage, German-language songwriting as the musical focus of the evening — a combination that has attracted audiences from all over the southwest for years.
The festival is embedded in the Calw Monastery Summer, a concert series that organises concerts in the Hirsau monastery ruins every evening during the Baden-Württemberg summer holidays. Pop, jazz, classical music, literary-musical productions — the breadth of the programme reflects the diverse heritage of Hermann Hesse and the town of Calw.
Published by Valentin Contard, festival listings writer. Reviewed, corrected and approved by Christophe Contard, editor-in-chief. .