Batschkapp

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Batschkapp at a new location (2014)

The Kulturzentrum Batschkapp ( Frankfurt dialect name for the flat cap ), also simply called the Kapp in the jargon of the scene , is a rock club in Frankfurt am Main that has dedicated itself to the genre of alternative music .

New location

The original club was located on Maybachstraße at the Eschersheim S-Bahn station in the Eschersheim district . The culture center also included the independently operated pub / concert location Elfer Music Club in the same building, which has since moved to “Dribbdebach” ( Sachsenhausen ). Batschkapp also moved to Gwinnerstrasse 5 in the Seckbach district on December 10, 2013 .

In the new, much larger rooms (approved for up to 1500 compared to 400 people before), concerts that are in high demand can take place, which previously had to be relocated to other locations such as the Offenbach city hall or the Neu-Isenburg Huguenot hall . On the site of the former "Batschkapp", ABG Frankfurt Holding has built numerous apartments and a supermarket for 13 million euros.

history

Entrance of the former club building
The Batschkapp logo as graffiti artwork by Bomber One on the outside wall of the old building

The club was founded in 1976 to establish an “autonomous and left counterculture”. It was created as a cultural center connected to the “district center” of the workers' self-help (ASH) (located in the restaurant “Zum Elfmeter”). The district cinema Metropol-Lichtspiele with 450 seats was previously housed in the building at Maybachstrasse 24 and existed from around 1949 to 1965. In the beginning, the Batschkapp's regular visitors included Joschka Fischer , who is friends with Batschkapp owner Ralf Scheffler. Concerts, club nights and band competitions take place regularly in the Batschkapp. In the first few years after it was founded, theater performances and workshops were held there, for example on the subject of street theater .

On the last weekend in August 1994, on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the city of Frankfurt am Main, the two-day techno party Tunnel Rave - Tunnel of Love took place for the first time , organized by Batschkapp in cooperation with event organizer Matthias Grein from the Cooky's disco has been. Techno DJs such as Sven Väth , Marusha and Mark Spoon played for the premiere of the from now on annual rave Tunnel of Love , which took place in the specially closed Theatertunnel car underpass between Berliner Straße and Schauspiel Frankfurt .

To mark its 20th anniversary, Batschkapp published an illustrated jubilee chronicle in 1996 with a foreword by singer Campino from the Toten Hosen and benevolent guest contributions from politicians such as Joschka Fischer from the Greens and the then Mayor of Frankfurt Petra Roth (CDU). In addition, the booklet contained a removable fold-out poster (center fold) of the club staff at the time.

On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, the club released the double CD sampler 30 years of listening pleasure at EMI in 2006 , on which songs can be heard by groups that have performed at Batschkapp since it was founded. Due to its long history and its importance as a concert hall for artists such as Nirvana , Lenny Kravitz , Die Toten Hosen and REM , the Batschkapp is a well-known rock club that extends beyond the Rhine-Main metropolitan region . The former security chief of the Toten Hosen, Manfred Meyer († January 6, 2009) with his own company MM-Security , was also the doorman and responsible for the security service of the Batschkapp music club. Meyer, who was a member of the Hessian motorcycle club Black Devils MC , got to know the Düsseldorf punk rock band around 1988 through his job at Batschkapp .

media

  • In 1982 self-published a long-playing record with live recordings from February 1982 by the groups MC 2 , Vitamin , Bildstören , Strassenjungs , Stressaze and Flex-y-bell under the title Jugend forscht .
  • The video clip Here comes the sister of the singer Sabrina Setlur was filmed in 1995, at that time under her pseudonym Sister S. , in front of and in the Batschkapp.
  • In 2007 Anja Ehrhardt shot the 45-minute documentary A Music Club Will Grow Up on Batschkapp for Hessischer Rundfunk television . Many of the club's companions have their say in this film, including Joschka Fischer, Wolfgang Niedecken and Farin Urlaub . The documentary also shows live scenes from the two-day techno party Tunnel Rave - Tunnel of Love from August 1994.
  • Since February 1993 the Batschkapp management has been running a second, smaller music club called Nightlife at Konstablerwache in downtown Frankfurt.
Cider produced for the 40th anniversary of the music club (2016)

Awards

As part of the Frankfurt Music Fair, Batschkapp received the Live Entertainment Award for the best club of the year in March 2012 .

Web links

Commons : Batschkapp  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Batschkapp: Batschkapp is moving. Frankfurter Rundschau , October 10, 2013, accessed on December 19, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Legendary clubs: The Batschkapp has kept the alternative scene alive in Frankfurt. Vice , December 6, 2017, accessed December 19, 2017 .
  3. ^ Judith Dietermann: Eschersheim: New building with Rewe supermarket and apartments planned . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse from December 7, 2017.
  4. ↑ Article about the Batschkapp in Outback magazine
  5. ↑ website Allekinos.com . After: Herbert Stettner (Hrsg.): Kino in der Stadt. A Frankfurt Chronicle. , Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main, 1984 ISBN 3-8218-0804-7
  6. ↑ TAZ article: Where Joschka also went in and out, April 14, 2007
  7. ↑ Anniversary chronicle : Batschkapp - 20 years and not a bit quiet ... , 1996, chapter: Techno in der Straßenröhre , 40 pages. Idea & conception: Klaus Fischer and Thomas Hirschbiegel. Editorial address: Lenaustraße 91, Frankfurt / Main. Publisher: Frankfurter Kulturzentrum eV, pp. 31–35
  8. ↑ Anniversary chronicle : Batschkapp - 20 years and not a bit quiet ... , 1996, 40 pages. Idea & conception: Klaus Fischer and Thomas Hirschbiegel. Editorial address: Lenaustraße 91, Frankfurt / Main. Publisher: Frankfurter Kulturzentrum eV, pp. 3 + 6 + 8
  9. ↑ Culture Center Batschkapp Frankfurt . hrz.uni-giessen.de. Archived from the original on May 18, 2009. Retrieved June 2, 2012.
  10. ↑ Mourning for Manfred Meyer: Batschkapp's head of security, who protected the greats in the music business, is dead. On www.fr.de ( Frankfurter Rundschau ), January 12, 2009
  11. ↑ Photo book " Die Toten Hosen , photographs by Fryderyk Gabowicz / 1986-2006 / Live Backstage Studio" , with some stage and cloakroom photos, on which security chief Manfred Meyer can be seen with the Toten Hosen. Release: November 2006. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag GmbH, Berlin. In the chapters "03/17/1992 Neu-Ulm", "05/17/1992 Munich", "05/07/1994 Munich", "12/17/1996 Munich" and "09/06/2002 Loreley"
  12. ↑ Various interpreters: Jugend forscht. 2 days in the Batschkapp Ffm . Batsch Records No. 1401, Frankfurt 1982.
  13. ↑ Frankfurter Batschkapp is Club of the Year

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