Haldern Pop - Village with Festival

Haldern, somewhere in the Lower-Rhine region. 5000 inhabitants, 3 pubs, a train station, and an internationally acclaimed music festival.

“We were 14 altarboys and wanted our own party,” says Stefan Reichmann, artistic director of Haldern Pop. 35 years later, 400 people from the village of Haldern still set up the Haldern Pop Festival and take care of literally everything in order to present the best open-air-music-festival of the summer for 50 bands from all over the world and 7000 devoted visitors. Award-winning bookings and self-installed WiFi go hand in hand. And tickets are are hard to come by.

Whilst in the big cities an individual livestyle is what counts, life in Haldern is more focused on community. And the community has mostly to do with music here. It doesn’t necessarily have to be the festival, because brass music and choir singing are also practiced with love and enthusiasm. So the relationships to music are individually very different, as are the roles and tasks needed to keep village life alive. To find the right place in this cosmos - that is the real challenge.

Haldern Pop - Dorf mit Festival - Still 1

Haldern Pop - Village with Festival

Monika Pirch

  • Documentary
Production Country / Year
Germany 2020
Language
de., en. OF mit de. UT
Format
Color, 85min
1.78:1 (16:9), Discrete 5.1
Original Title
Haldern Pop - Dorf mit Festival

Director & Crew

Monika Pirch

Born in 1966 in Braunschweig. Studied Photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund and Media Art at the Chelsea College of Art in London. Active as a video artist and director.

Filmography

2014

  • 1HA 43A, Essayfilm

2020

  • HALDERN POP - DORF MIT FESTIVAL, Dokumentarfilm HOF2020
Director of Photography
Dieter Stürmer
Stefanie Gartmann
Editor
Oliver Held
Monika Pirch
Sound
Armin Siegwarth
Sound Designer
Tom Blankenberg
TV Commissioning Editor
Jutta Krug
Producer
Monika Pirch

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