SUNRISE is a balloon-borne solar telescope with an aperture of 1m working in the UV VIS optical domain The main scientific goal of SUNRISE is to study the structure and dynamics of the magnetic field in the atmosphere of the Sun at high spatial resolution SUNRISE will provide diffraction-limited images of the photosphere and chromosphere with an unprecedented resolution down to 35km at wavelengths around 220nm Focal-plane instruments are a UV filter imager a Fabry-Perot filter magnetograph and a spectrograph polarimeter Stratospheric long-duration balloon flights of SUNRISE over the North Atlantic and or Antarctica are planned SUNRISE is a joint project of the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Sonnensystemforschung MPS Katlenburg-Lindau with the Kiepenheuer-Institut fuer Sonnenphysik KIS Freiburg the High-Altitude Observatory HAO Boulder the Lockheed-Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab LMSAL Palo Alto and the spanish IMaX consortium The presentation will give an overview about the mission and a description of the instrumentation now at the beginning of the hardware construction phase