Name: Uckermark Music Weeks — Concert Altkünkendorf 2026
Start: 2026-08-23T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-08-23T00:00:00+00:00
Location: Dorfkirche Altkünkendorf

Music Weeks Altkünkendorf

About Music Weeks Altkünkendorf

On Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 4 p.m., the ensemble astrophil & stella will perform in the Altkünkendorf village church — one of the most atmospheric concert venues of the Uckermark Music Weeks 2026. On the program: „The Fallen Angels of Doctor Faustus" with Renaissance music after Johann Spies (1587) for soprano, tenor, viola da gamba, Gothic harps, and Renaissance transverse flutes. Tickets via Reservix.

Dates 23 Aug — 23 Aug 2026

Venue Angermünde (12073)

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Music Weeks Altkünkendorf — edition 2026

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Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 4:00 p.m.: Ensemble astrophil & stella in the Altkünkendorf village church with „The Fallen Angels of Doctor Faustus" — Renaissance music after Johann Spies (1587) with Charlotte Nachtsheim (soprano), Cyril Escoffier (tenor), Filipa Mota de Meneses (viola da gamba), Vincent Kibildis (Gothic harps, recitation), Johanna Bartz (Renaissance transverse flutes, recitation). Tickets via Reservix.

Work and Concept

The concert program „The Fallen Angels of Doctor Faustus" combines vocal and instrumental Renaissance music with spoken passages from the „Historia von D. Johann Fausten" (Johann Spies, Frankfurt 1587) — one of the earliest German-language Faust adaptations, long before Goethe. Ensemble astrophil & stella thus creates a chamber music drama lasting approximately 60–70 minutes.

Venue

The Altkünkendorf village church — a small 13th-century fieldstone church in the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve — with its medieval acoustics, is the ideal resonance space for the soundscape of gamba, harps, and transverse flutes.

Highlights Music Weeks Altkünkendorf 2026

Renaissance music from Johann Spies' Faust source (1587) in the acoustically ideal space of the Altkünkendorf fieldstone church; international Renaissance specialists in one of the Uckermark's most atmospheric venues.

Programme Music Weeks Altkünkendorf 2026

Program August 23, 2026, 4:00 p.m. (Altkünkendorf Village Church)

Ensemble astrophil & stella — „The Fallen Angels of Doctor Faustus" (Renaissance music after Johann Spies, Frankfurt 1587, with Faust recitation).

Performers

Charlotte Nachtsheim — Soprano
Cyril Escoffier — Tenor
Filipa Mota de Meneses — Viola da Gamba
Vincent Kibildis — Gothic harps, recitation
Johanna Bartz — Renaissance transverse flutes, recitation

Duration approx. 60–70 minutes without intermission. Tickets via uckermaerkische-musikwochen.de (Reservix).

Prices Music Weeks Altkünkendorf 2026

Ticket sales via Reservix, link on uckermaerkische-musikwochen.de. Limited seating in the village church — early booking recommended.

Practical information

Practical information — Music Weeks Altkünkendorf

Getting There

Train: RE 3 from Berlin to Angermünde, then bus 467 / taxi to Altkünkendorf (approx. 15 min).
Car: A 11 exit Angermünde, then B 198 towards Templin, turn off for Altkünkendorf.
Address: Dorfkirche Altkünkendorf, 16278 Angermünde OT Altkünkendorf.

Tickets

Via Reservix (link on the festival website uckermaerkische-musikwochen.de). Limited seating in the village church — book early.

Tip

The Uckermark in late summer ideally combines the concert experience with hikes in the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve or an overnight stay in the nature park.

Renaissance Music in the Uckermark

The Uckermark Music Weeks are one of the oldest and most renowned classical music festivals in northeastern Germany. For years, they have filled the small fieldstone churches, castles, and monastery ruins of the Uckermark — that vast, sparsely populated lake district in northern Brandenburg on the Polish border — every summer and early autumn. One of the venues in 2026 is the Altkünkendorf Village Church, a district of the town of Angermünde in the Uckermark district.

Ensemble astrophil & stella — Faustus Brought to Life

On Sunday, August 23, 2026, at 4:00 p.m., the ensemble astrophil & stella will present its program „The Fallen Angels of Doctor Faustus". The piece is based on the famous Historia von D. Johann Fausten, published in Frankfurt am Main in 1587 by Johann Spies — one of the earliest German-language adaptations of the Faust legend, long before Goethe. The ensemble combines vocal and instrumental Renaissance music with spoken passages from Faust to create a chamber music drama lasting approximately 60 to 70 minutes.

The Ensemble

The ensemble brings together soloists from the European early music scene:

Charlotte Nachtsheim — Soprano
Cyril Escoffier — Tenor
Filipa Mota de Meneses — Viola da Gamba
Vincent Kibildis — Gothic harps, recitation
Johanna Bartz — Renaissance transverse flutes, recitation

The combination of gamba, Gothic harps, and transverse flutes creates a soundscape rarely heard since the late Middle Ages — the Altkünkendorf village church, with its medieval acoustics, is an ideal resonance space.

Altkünkendorf and the Uckermark

Altkünkendorf is a tiny district of Angermünde, located in the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve in the Uckermark district of the state of Brandenburg. The small 13th-century fieldstone church is part of the classic concert circuit of the Uckermark Music Weeks — listening here offers not only the concert but also the rural tranquility of the North Brandenburg landscape, for which the Uckermark provides one of its most beautiful backdrops.

The Uckermark Music Weeks 2026

The concert in Altkünkendorf is one of dozens of concerts in the 2026 season — spread across churches and castles in Prenzlau, Templin, Angermünde, Lychen, Greiffenberg, Boitzenburg, and many other locations in the Uckermark. The full program will be published on the festival website.