Culture in Hamburg

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“The River” 1939
by Aristide Maillol , property of the Kunsthalle

The culture in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is largely due to the private initiative of its citizens and thrived in its liberal and patronage attitude.

In contrast to other cities of this size, Hamburg could not fall back on the cultural funding of a court in this city or a prince. Rather, the city's cultural life was dependent on the initiative of its citizens. In fact, the city did not pursue any active cultural policy until the 1930s. Existing and established institutions were only financially supported when citizens had made preliminary work and the usefulness was plausible.

Hamburger Kunsthalle
town hall

Art prizes and honors

Art awards

Artist honors

  • Johannes Brahms Medal : Awarded for outstanding achievements in the field of music, in particular the maintenance of Brahms' work
  • Medal for Art and Science : Award for outstanding achievements of lasting value for Hamburg in the fields of research, science or art
  • Senator Biermann Ratjen Medal : Award for services to Hamburg through artistic or other cultural achievements

media

theatre

On January 2, 1678, the city theater was inaugurated here as the largest civic baroque opera house, where Georg Friedrich Handel worked as a violinist in the opera orchestra in 1704 . Georg Philipp Telemann directs the opera from 1722 to 1737 . In 1765 the dilapidated opera house is torn down and the German National Theater built, where Lessing takes over the dramaturgical direction for three years on April 22, 1767. In the same year, his Minna von Barnhelm is premiered here.

Speaking platforms

In addition to the state theaters (Schauspielhaus, Staatsoper and Thalia) there are a number of private theaters with their own ensemble and pure guest performance.

  • The Fleetstreet in Neustadt is, among other things, a stage for young artists and avant-garde pieces.
  • The Istasyon Theater in Altona, founded in 1989 by the Turkish game association Türk Toplumu eV, offers mainly Turkish-language plays, but occasionally also German-language or textless performances.

Theater with different directions

Some stages offer a mixed program such as speech, dance or music theater, cabaret. A stage with different events is also the tent theater of the flying buildings

  • Kampnagel is a stage complex in a former factory, which was initially used by the theater, today numerous guest performances and festivals for contemporary performing arts take place here.

  • The St. Pauli Theater , formerly the Ernst Drucker Theater, founded in 1841 on Spielbudenplatz , is one of the oldest German private theaters and the longest-running (listed) stage in Hamburg.

  • The Schmidt Theater is a private theater founded by Corny Littmann in St. Pauli. It has two venues, the Schmidt Theater itself and Schmidts Tivoli, which is only a few steps away .

Cabaret and Variety Show

  • The ship was set up by Eberhard Möbius thirty years ago as a small stage on an inland motor ship and has its berth in Nikolaifleet when it is not on tour.

Children's theater

Opera, ballet, musical

Hamburg is known as the musical capital of Germany. Here is Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats played for the first time in Germany. In addition, in 2006 ran until January 22, Dance of the Vampires by Roman Polanski successfully in the theater Neue Flora. Current productions include The Lion King , Tarzan and I've never been to New York (musical) .

  • The Hamburg Angel Hall on Valentinskamp in Neustadt is a theater of the "light muse" (operettas, musicals, etc.) The only private theater with its own operetta repertoire and philharmonic and hit orchestras in a listed building that was used as a private theater as early as 1809.

movie theater

Movie theater in Streit's house
Abaton

See also: List of Hamburg cinemas .

Knopf's cinema on the Reeperbahn is one of the first permanent cinemas in Germany, and the first films were shown here around 1900. In the Deutschlandhaus near Gänsemarkt , built in 1929 by the architects Block & Hochfeld, the largest cinema in Europe at the time, the UFA-Palast , was designed by Walther Unruh with 2,667 seats . After the bankruptcy of the operating company and the sale of the property, the UFA Palace, built elsewhere, closed at the end of May 2006 and was demolished. The Passage Kino in Mönckebergstrasse is one of the oldest Hamburg cinemas that is still in operation at the old location. The Grindel in the quarter of the same name was the location of numerous European premieres between 1959 and 1970, thanks mainly to its outstanding technical equipment at the time. It was one of the few cinemas that could show films in the Cinerama format. In 1994 it became Hamburg's first multiplex cinema. After the last performance in March 2008, it was demolished in 2009.

After the closure of the UFA palace, the Cinemaxx Dammtor is the only multiplex cinema in the city center. Further Cinemaxx offshoots were created in Harburg and Wandsbek . Three UCI Kinowelt - multiplexes in Othmarschen , Wandsbek and the Mundsburg make the Cinemaxx cinema competition.

Many of the district cinemas closed their doors in the 1960s and 1970s. Because of the financial problems of the Ufa cinemas , several cinemas had to close in the late 1990s and early 2000s. There are still several art house cinemas where auteur films and English-language films are shown.

Arthouse cinemas

Film festivals

music

Orchestra and choirs

Venues for concerts

Laeiszhalle
Water light games in
Planten un Blomen

The Elbphilharmonie , a music hall that is due to open in 2017, is under construction .

The Star Club , one of the Beatles' venues alongside Kaiserkeller and Indra , no longer exists. A memorial stone commemorates him. The Ernst-Merck-Halle , formerly one of the few halls in Hamburg suitable for larger concerts, in which the Beatles , Rolling Stones , Who , Queen , AC / DC and many others played, was demolished as part of the renovation of the exhibition grounds.

Popular culture

Hamburg can not only advertise that the Beatles found their origin here. Even today, Hamburg has been known for its lively culture for decades. a. for trends such as the Hamburg School ( Die Sterne , Tocotronic and many more), punk rock ( Slime , Die Goldenen Zitronen ) and Hip Hop ( Beginner , Deichkind , Fettes Brot , Fünf Sterne deluxe , Samy Deluxe ). The political culture that arose from the squatting in Hafenstrasse and the left-wing alternative milieu in the Schanzenviertel district ( Rote Flora , Radio FSK ) since the early 1980s also often had a formative influence on cultural events .

Music festivals

Festivals

  • STAMP, The Street Arts Melting Pot, Hamburg's International Festival of Street Arts, has been celebrated every year since 2010 at the beginning of September around the Große Bergstrasse in Altona .
  • Private theater days of the Altona Theater to give an impression of the professionalism and diversity in the German private theater scene

literature

Writer in Hamburg

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

Quite a few living German writers have or had their place of residence in Hamburg, including: Ralph Giordano , Brigitte Kronauer , Siegfried Lenz and Peter Rühmkorf .

Wolfgang Borchert , Barthold Heinrich Brockes , Willi Bredel , Matthias Claudius , Richard Dehmel , Marion Countess Dönhoff , Hubert Fichte , Gorch Fock , Arno Schmidt , Friedrich von Hagedorn , Christian Friedrich Hebbel , Heinrich Heine , Hans Henny Jahnn , Rudolf were closely connected to Hamburg Kinau , Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , Hans Leip , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Detlev von Liliencron , Hans Erich Nossack , Carl von Ossietzky .

Honourings and prices

Libraries

The largest and oldest library in Hamburg is the State and University Library Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky . Today it serves as a general academic library and university library. Its origin was the council library from 1491.

The Commerzbibliothek of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1735 for the education and training of Hamburg merchants and today has a holdings of more than 170,000 volumes. She specializes in works on economics and business law.

Both libraries were housed in the building of the former Johanneum am Speersort from 1919 until they were bombed in 1943 . During the Second World War, the bombs destroyed large parts of the old stocks.

In many parts of the city there are public bookhouses , which were founded in 1899 by the Patriotic Society .

Visual arts

The roots of today's College of Fine Arts go back to the founding of a school for arts and crafts of the Patriotic Society in 1787. The learning program was geared towards the economic benefits for the production of goods, which today is called industrial design . The Hanseatic city got a training center for the "liberal arts" relatively late with the state art school in the Weimar Republic . Alfred Lichtwark , Hamburg's first art gallery director, complained at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries that numerous talents left their hometown and never came back because they could not find adequate training opportunities in Hamburg. Women could only take art lessons in expensive private lessons or attend the private art school Valeska Röver (since 1904 Gerda Koppel ). It was only after the First World War that the general situation for fine art began to change for the better. A small, fine collecting community for modern art developed . In 1919, avant-garde artists founded the Hamburg Secession , which in the 1920s was described as the liveliest group of artists in Germany. She saw herself as an "elite group" and as the successor to the expressionist artist group Die Brücke . Right at the beginning of the National Socialist era , the artist community dissolved voluntarily in order not to have to comply with the racist guidelines of the new rulers. A re-establishment after the Second World War failed. However, some of the secession artists were involved in the reconstruction of the then still called State Art School, the University of Fine Arts (HfbK). Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann , founding member of the Hamburg Secession, headed the reconstruction as director of the state art school. From the class of the former secessionist artist Karl Kluth about who went group Zebra forth. Numerous renowned artists have studied at the HfbK, including Adam Jankowski , who later opened his studio in St. Pauli.

Artist

Patrons, art historians

Ida Dehmel - Harald Falckenberg - Werner Hofmann - Kurt A. Körber - Emmi Ruben - Rosa Schapire - Gustav Schiefler - Luise Schiefler - Aby Warburg - Martin Warnke

Museums

See also: List of museums in Hamburg and the category Museum in Hamburg . Here follows a thematic order, which is not entirely accurate due to numerous overlaps:

History (regional), economy

Gatehouse of the Wellingsbüttel manor

technology

Control center of the miniature wonderland model railway system

Art, trade

The Wanderer Above the Sea
of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich in the Hamburger Kunsthalle

science

Further

District culture

The tin smelter of NYH - today Barmbeker cultural center on the premises of the Museum of Labor

Around 2 percent of the budget of the cultural authority goes to promoting urban culture. The Hamburg district culture associations and history workshops are united in the umbrella organization Stadtkultur Hamburg eV. Hamburg has the highest density of district cultural centers in Germany, of which there are more than 25 here. The most famous centers, town houses and history workshops in the city include:

  • Barmbeker Association for Culture and Work
  • Bramfeld culture shop
  • Town house in Barmbek
  • Wilhelmsburg community center
  • History workshop Barmbek
  • Goldbekhaus Winterhude
  • GWA St. Pauli with Kölibri
  • House three in Altona old town
  • Honey factory
  • Eppendorf cultural center
  • Culture shop St. Georg
  • Kulturpalast Billstedt
  • Harburg culture workshop
  • LOLA cultural center Bergedorf
  • Motte in Ottensen
  • City district archive Ottensen

Working without official funding among others:

Visitor organizations

Hamburg's largest visitor organization is the Hamburger Volksbühne e. V. It was founded as an association on January 4, 1919 and has over 22,000 members.

The TheaterGemeinde Hamburg was founded in 1984 and has 14,000 members.

Web links

Commons : Museums in Hamburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Theater in Hamburg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Kulturkarte.de cultural map of Hamburg with many cultural institutions and sights of the Hanseatic city.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.monsuntheater.de
  2. ^ Current - Hoftheater Ottensen - Children's and youth theater. In: www.hoftheater-ottensen.de. Retrieved August 6, 2016 .
  3. ↑ www.fundus-theater.de
  4. ↑ www.stamp-festival.eu