Program
100 Years Planetarium Opening and Gala Event
21 October 2023
Simultaneously in Jena and Munich
Hosted by Dr. Suzanna Randall and Jens Pflüger
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16:00
Admission & Registration
Reception with Catering
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Event Part I
17:00
Welcome
Michael McConville (President International Planetarium Society, IPS)
Dr. Björn Voss (President Society of German-Speaking Planetariums e.V., GDP)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Heckl (General Director Deutsches Museum)
Christoph Matschie (Zeiss-Planetarium Jena, Chairman of the Board Ernst-Abbe-Stiftung)
17:25
Greetings
Bettina Stark-Watzinger (Federal Minister of Education and Research)
Bodo Ramelow (Minister-President of Thuringia)
Dr. Karl Lamprecht (President & CEO ZEISS Group)
International Planetarium Representatives
17: 50
Interview
Dr. Suzanna Randall (Astrophysicist and Astronaut Candidate)
18:00
Centennial Arts Contests
18:10
Quo Vadis, Planetarium
Tim F. Horn (President Stiftung Planetarium Berlin)
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18:20
Break
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Event Part II
18:50
Keynote Speech
Thomas Reiter (Former ESA Astronaut)
19:05
Ghosts among the Stars
Dan Tell
(Manager of Planetarium Engineering at the California Academy of Sciences;
President Great Lakes Planetarium Association)
19:30
Centennial Projects Presentation
IPS/GDP
19:45
Introduction to the New Centennial Fulldome Shows
Tobias Wiethoff (Zeiss Planetarium Bochum)
Dr. Peter Popp (Softmachine Immersive Productions GmbH)
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End of the live stream
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20:00
Break
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Event Part III
20:30
Fulldome Show Premiere
“100 Years Eternity”
Tobias Wiethoff
Supported by Zeiss Planetarium Bochum
Fulldome Show Premiere
“Kira”
Softmachine Immersive Productions GmbH
Commissioned by the Society of German-Speaking Planetariums (GDP)
Funded by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung
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Followed by
Buffet
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24:00
Event Closing
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The event language will be English.