africologneFESTIVAL 2023

The last africologneFESTIVAL took place in Cologne from June 1 to 11, 2023. The festival center in 2023 was once again the Alte Feuerwache in Cologne.

SHIELD FRIENDSHIP 2023 Claudia Roth, Minister of State for Culture and the Media
SHIELD FRIENDSHIP 2023 Aristide Tarnagda, Director Récréâtrales-Festival Ouagadougou

You can find the 2023 festival program here.

The author Marie Yan reported daily from the festival. Here is the link to our cooperation partner Plateforme, where you can read all the articles.

Festival trailer by the media artist Marie Köhler.

africologne is supported by

the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the City of Cologne, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the German Translators’ Fund/ NEUSTART KULTUR, the Federal Foreign Office, the Kunststiftung NRW, the RheinEnergieStiftung Kultur, the Sparkasse Köln-Bonn, the Kunstsalon Stiftung and private donors; supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETZ Guest Performance Fund for Theater, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, as well as the Ministries of Culture and the Arts of the federal states and with the kind support of the Institut français and the French Ministry of Culture.