Public facilities •
Schauspielhaus Bad Godesberg (Theater Bad Godesberg), the biggest theater of Bonn’s city stages • Kleines Theater im Park (Small Park Theater), venue for theater,
boulevard theater, and
musicals with few actors • Haus an der Redoute (House at the Redoute), previously an electoral theater, is nowadays a facility for changing/rotating art galleries • Piccolo Puppenspiele (Piccolo’s Puppet Show), puppet theater that also travels • Small
Beethoven hall as the headquarters of the Heimatbühne Muffendorf (Home stage of Muffendorf)
Bad Godesberg in literature A whole series of literary works take place in Bad Godesberg. The protagonists of
Juli Zeh’s novel "
Spieltrieb" (Gaming instinct) are students at the school Päda. Occurring locations in the novel are the school and the villa district.
Heinrich Böll’s novel "Frauen vor Flußlandschaft" is set in the villa district between Bonn and Bad Godesberg. On October 30 the documentary piece "
Zwei Welten" ("Two worlds") by
Ingrid Müller-Münch had its premiere as a chamber play. The author explains that it shows Bad Godesberg in the change of time. It is a city where the worlds of "rich German people" and migrants collide. Nine actors perform excerpts from a protocol of mostly young inhabitants of Bad Godesberg, that Müller Münch took record of. In the pre-report of the piece, the
Frankfurter Rundschau called it a "Bad-Godesberg-Phänomen" (Bad Godesberg phenomenon). According to Müller-Münch, these two worlds were closer in Bad Godesberg than they were anywhere else.
Recurring events •
Rhein in Flammen on the first Saturday of May: Large Fireworks and a Ship tour from the
Linz am Rhein along
Erpel,
Unkel,
Remagen,
Rheinbreitbach, Rhine island
Nonnenwerth at Rolandswerth/
Bad Honnef, Bad Godesberg,
Königswinter to the Rheinaue in
Bonn • FeenCon Over the course of each year, there are always many diverse events and festivals that are being organized by the Stadtmarketing Bad Godesberg e.V. (city marketing department of Bad Godesberg). Some of which are flea and antique markets, a French market, a kids’ rally ("Tag der Kleinen Bad Godesberger"/"Day of the small Bad Godesbergers"), a city party, a Christmas Market, and a street food festival. The 23rd German Fire department day took place in Bad Godesberg from June 21 until June 25, 1961. The first CTIF Games took place in Bad Godesberg, since then the International Association of Fire and Rescue Services CTIF organizes the event every four years in different cities.
Rhenish traditions Several
Carnival clubs have devoted themselves to the upkeep of Rhenish traditions, especially the Godesberger Stadtsoldatenkorps (city soldier corps), the Fidelen Burggrafen (merry burgraves) and the AKP (Allgemeine Karnevals Gesellschaft, General Carnival Society). The Coordination Committee of each Carnival Association is the FAGK (Festausschuss Godesberger Karneval, Festival Committee of Godesberger Carnival). In the carnival season, the clubs also organize a variety of meetings, and on the carnival Sunday a lavish parade. All clubs engage in
youth work. ==Education==