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Press Conference 27 April 2023

At the annual press conference of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) in the Internationales Congress Centrum (ICC) on Thursday, 27 April 2023, Managing Director Dr. Thomas Schmidt-Ott, Head of Artistic Planning, Marlene Brüggen, as well as Johannes Watzel (violin) and Claudia Benker-Schreiber (cello), representatives of the DSO’s players’ committee, presented the projects of the 2023-24 season. Great artists, fascinating works, new formats, and exciting experiments await the audience.

“There is to be no concert this season without at least one work by a female composer” – this motto accompanies the DSO throughout its new season, and it promises encounters with female composers from the 12th century to the present. Currently, only two percent of all the works played in the concerts of professional German orchestras are by women. This motivated the DSO to proclaim a “feminist programme policy” from the 2023-24 season on in analogy to the “feminist foreign policy” of the current German government, which focuses on the rights, representation, and equipping with resources of women and marginalised groups and thereby affects all areas of the DSO’s activities.



Jahrespressekonferenz 27.04.2023
Marlene Brüggen, Head of Artistic Planning
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Pressekonferenz 27.04.2023
Marlene Brüggen, Head of Artistic Planning
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Pressekonferenz 27.04.2023
Marlene Brüggen, Head of Artistic Planning
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Pressekonferenz 27.04.2023
Dr. Thomas Schmidt-Ott, Managing Director
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Pressekonferenz 27.04.2023
Dr. Thomas Schmidt-Ott, Managing Director
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Pressekonferenz 27.04.2023
Dr. Thomas Schmidt-Ott, Managing Director
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Pressekonferenz 27.04.2023
Claudia Benker-Schreiber, Cellist and member of the orchestra board
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Pressekonferenz 27.04.2023
Johannes Watzel, Violinist and member of the orchestra board
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Pressekonferenz 27.04.2023
Sven Helbig, composer, musician and presenter
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Pressekonferenz 27.04.2023
Benjamin Dries, Head of Marketing and Communications
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Pressekonferenz 27.04.2023
Johannes Watzel, Claudia Benker-Schreiber, Marlene Brüggen, Dr. Thomas Schmidt-Ott (from left to right)
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Pressekonferenz 27.04.2023
Sven Helbig, Johannes Watzel, Claudia Benker-Schreiber, Marlene Brüggen, Dr. Thomas Schmidt-Ott (from left to right)
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Pressekonferenz 27.04.2023
Johannes Watzel, Claudia Benker-Schreiber, Marlene Brüggen, Dr. Thomas Schmidt-Ott (from left to right)
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