Malteserkeller

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The Malteserkeller was a music club in the basement of a residential building at Malteserstraße 14 in Aachen , which had been one of the most important and oldest jazz clubs in Germany since 1958 , but where rock musicians such as Herbert Grönemeyer and Wolfgang Niedecken also gave concerts. Numerous national and international jazz musicians such as Albert Mangelsdorff , Archie Shepp , Elvin Jones , Bill Ramsey , Chet Baker , Alexander von Schlippenbach and Klaus Doldinger performed in the Malteserkeller . At the end of 2011 the venue was closed because the lease agreements were not extended.

history

At the beginning of the 1950s, jazz enthusiasts gathered in Aachen in the three clubs Hotclub , Jazzclub and Bohème to listen to jazz music and to offer musicians a space to perform on stage. The jazz and Dixieland scene had a renowned reputation beyond the borders of Aachen, so that musicians from Liège and GI soldiers from Frankfurt regularly came to the Aachen clubs. On the rubble site - in Elisabethstrasse - and in 1958 in Malteserstrasse, basements that were buried mainly by students from the Technical University were excavated and a jazz cellar was installed on the initiative of the AStA - Kultur. The Malteserkeller developed close to the RWTH to one of the hippest music clubs in Aachen, specializing in jazz music. Initially a venue for local musicians, the early 1960s increasingly succeeded in attracting nationally and internationally known jazz musicians to the Malteserkeller.

The Malteserkeller eV has been supported with grants from the Technical University since the 1960s, as the small location with the avant-garde and jazz concerts was no longer financially viable. From the 1960s to the early 1970s, important jazz musicians such as Jacques Pelzer, Rene Thomas, Gunter Hampel and Alexander v. Performed in the Malteserkeller. Schlippenbach, Albert Mangeldorff, Gerd Dudek , Manfred Schoof , Archie Shepp, Elvin Jones, Dexter Gordon and Yosuke Yamashita . In 1981 the Malteserkeller initiated the 1st Aachen Jazz Festival , which, however, was a commercial failure and burdened the club's financial situation for years. In the mid-1980s, public interest in jazz music waned. Concerts with improvised music and jazz workshops were occasionally held in the Malteserkeller.

Since 1992 the Malteserkeller has hosted the International Meeting of Innovative Musicians in the Ludwig Forum for International Art . The festival brought together artists from the international avant-garde in the fields of art rock and improvised music . Musicians and groups such as Fred Frith , Elliott Sharp , Zeena Parkins , Anna Homler , David Moss , The Ex , Amy Denio , Mark Howell , Han Buhrs , Blech and Nick Didkovsky performed at this festival. Jazz music acts were regularly included in the program of the Aachen cultural summer in the 1990s on the initiative of the impresario Hermann Cremer and the Maltesterkeller .

In October 2007 the Malteserkeller celebrated its 50th anniversary with numerous concerts. In the last few years before it was closed, the Malteserkeller increasingly developed into a party location in the student city of Aachen. In addition to jazz performances , exhibitions, R&B and indie parties, funk , pop and rock concerts were held here. In recent years, after repeated difficulties with observing the night's sleep - the club was most recently in the basement of a residential building - the lease was not renewed in 2011 and the Malteserkeller was closed on December 31, 2011 after 54 years. In November 2015 it became known that the Malteserkeller eV at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule was in liquidation .

Trivia

In 1960, at the beginning of his cabaret career, Hanns-Dieter Hüsch appeared in the Malteserkeller. In 1977 the still largely unknown Herbert Grönemeyer performed here with the band Ocean at the time . A year later, Wolfgang Niedecken played one of his first concerts outside of Cologne in the Malteserkeller and met Klaus 'Major' Heuser , who lives in Aachen , with whom he then worked together in the Cologne band BAP from 1980 .

Artists in the Malteserkeller (selection)

literature

  • Siegbert Storch, Jan Werth: Malteserkeller Aachen 1958–1968 , MKEdition by Siegbert Storch, Aachen, 1. and 2nd edition, 224 pages, Aachen 2018/19, ISBN 978 - 3 - 00 - 060706 - 6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Malteserkeller, Aachen. In: www.jazz-radio.de. Retrieved July 22, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Holger A. Dux: Aachen from A to Z . Aschendorff, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-402-05465-5 , p. 273 .
  3. ↑ Axel Borrenkott: Exhibition: "Robert Wenseler Jazz Life" in the castle Frankenberg. Retrieved July 23, 2016 .
  4. ^ A b Lars Germann: Malteserkeller: Even after 50 years always up to date. Retrieved July 23, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Klaus Habetha : Science between technical and social challenge: the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen RWTH: 1970-1995 . Einhard, Aachen 1995, ISBN 978-3-930701-06-3 , pp. 84 .
  6. ↑ Maltese Cellar | Europe Jazz Network. In: www.europejazz.net. Retrieved July 24, 2016 .
  7. ^ City of Aachen (ed.): Chronicle of the City of Aachen - Notable Events in 2003 . Aachen 2004, p. 11 ( aachen.de [PDF]).
  8. ^ City of Aachen (ed.): Chronicle of the city of Aachen - notable events in 2007 . Aachen 2008, p. 137 ( aachen.de [PDF]).
  9. ↑ Tanja Thiemann. In: www.kunstnet.de. Retrieved July 23, 2016 .
  10. ↑ My Home is my anechoic room - de-urbanization baby! (No longer available online.) In: 2015.moviebeta.de. Archived from the original on July 24, 2016 ; accessed on July 24, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 2015.moviebeta.de
  11. ↑ Klenkes: The Malteserkeller closes permanently. Retrieved July 23, 2016 .
  12. ^ Daniel Gerhards: Memories to take away: Malteserkeller sells inventory. Retrieved July 23, 2016 .
  13. ^ District government Cologne (Ed.): Official journal for the administrative region Cologne . tape 195 , no. 45 . Cologne November 9, 2015, p. 396 .
  14. ↑ Resemarie Linckens & Hanns Bittmann (eds.): Aachen on the move - With the eyes and the camera by Sepp Linckens: The city in transition from 1950 to the 1960s . Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 2001, ISBN 3-89124-668-4 , p. 121 .
  15. ↑ Malteserkeller Flyer 1977. In: Aachener Untergrund Kultur. July 15, 2014, accessed July 23, 2016 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 48.7 "  N , 6 ° 4 ′ 41.3"  E