150th Anniversary of the Bayreuther Festspiele

This year, the Bayreuther Festspiele is celebrating its 150th anniversary. In the festival magazine published to mark this anniversary, I contributed a short personal story. 

Page 58, Festival Magazine Bayreuther Festspiele 2026 (Note: I am not a DJ or music producer. A DJ named Wouter de Moor does exist, but that is someone else.)

Festival Magazine Bayreuther Festspiele 2026

"After Götterdämmerung, after world's end, I walk from the green hill back to the city center with the woman I have met in the Festspielhaus. Besides Wagner, she is also into heavy metal and tango. At the empty, dark market square of Bayreuth we dance a tango. We dance in silence. A cab driver drives up and parks his car right next to us; he turns up the volume of his car radio. We dance along with the music. Afterwards he applauses. I thank him for being a DJ for us. Outside it's Sunday, tomorrow it's Monday, the beginning of a new week, the beginning of a new world."

- Wouter's diaries, 13 August 2017

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