Uckermark Music Weeks — Concert Boitzenburger Land OT Jakobshagen

The Uckermark Music Weeks — A Brandenburg Festival with Profile

Since 1992, the Uckermark Music Weeks have been among the most artistically distinguished classical festivals in Brandenburg. The festival is deliberately not anchored in a large concert city but moves across the venues of the Uckermark — one of Germany's most sparsely populated districts, characterized by forests, lakes, and brick churches. This combination of high-caliber programming and rural atmosphere is the hallmark of the Music Weeks.

Jakobshagen Venue — Barn Instead of Concert Hall

Jakobshagen is a district of the municipality Boitzenburger Land in the Uckermark district. The municipality — formed from several villages around Boitzenburg Castle — is located in the Uckermark Lakes Nature Park. The concert venue on August 9, 2026, is a barn near Stumpf/Laspe in Jakobshagen — typical of the Music Weeks' concept, which uses precisely these rural spaces, often acoustically surprisingly good, as stages. An old Brandenburg fieldstone barn that becomes a concert hall for one evening.

"Inferno" with Musica Sequenza — Dante's Circles of Hell in Music

The concert on August 9 is titled "Inferno." The ensemble Musica Sequenza, an internationally active ensemble under Burak Özdemir, combines Baroque instruments with contemporary percussion in a programmatically ambitious work on Dante's themes from the Divine Comedy. These crossover programs — early music meets modern — are characteristic of the Uckermark Music Weeks, whose motto is "early music and more.".

Festival Character — Experience Rather Than Just Listen

The journey to Jakobshagen is part of the experience: narrow country roads, small villages, wide fields, forests. Those coming from Berlin drive 90 minutes — and arrive in a world of sound that no urban concert hall can replicate. The concept of the Music Weeks is clear: to think of music and landscape together, in a region that would not reach festival scale in any other context.