Brunsviga (culture and communication center)

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Brunsviga cultural and communication center

The culture and communication center Brunsviga , just called Brunsviga for short , is a culture and communication center in the eastern ring area of Braunschweig .

history

In 1895 the Brunsviga canning factory was founded at Karlstrasse 35 , which was shut down in 1981. The former factory site was acquired by the city of Braunschweig. At the same time the "Association for the Establishment of a Communication Center in Braunschweig" was established, which campaigned for the conversion into a community center and the use as an "architecture workshop". First of all, on one floor of the former Brunsviga workforce building, this association ran a voluntary “citizens' meeting”, which was equipped with a cafeteria and a small cultural program.

The "Brunsviga" project soon had more than 200 mostly active members. Despite intensive use by the association and the great popularity, the future of the Brunsviga was not secured. At the end of May 1983 the city administration considered demolishing the factory buildings in order to build a day care center on the site. The association campaigned for their preservation and so a compromise solution was finally reached in November 1984; Part of the factory was to be preserved and expanded, the other buildings were demolished.

From 1985 the Brunsviga had a paid employee and offered a regular lunch menu in addition to the cafeteria in the former staff house. Furthermore, cabaret was shown on the weekends, there were daily open child labor, music lessons and courses and teaching events. In August 1988, the expansion and renovation of the old factory began. In 1991 the BRUNSVIGA sponsored the “Kinderhaus” (in addition to open child labor, all-day care for school children from this district) and the first group rooms for the Brunsviga cultural center. Since then there has also been a day-care center (under municipal management).

On September 17, 1994, the second construction phase saw the inauguration of the new cafeteria, as well as space for the music library of the public library , a larger event hall for 300 spectators, and a smaller event room for 150 people. Over time, the Brunsviga has developed into a larger socio-cultural center in Lower Saxony. Up to 120,000 visitors visited the cabaret and musical performances, concerts, celebrations, conferences, lectures, courses, workshops and music lessons every year.

Since November 2007 there is a studio of Radio Okerwelle in the Brunsviga, in the former rooms of the music archive of the city of Braunschweig . In 2011 the Brunsviga celebrated its 30th anniversary with the special performance "30 years of Brunsviga - a festival of hits".

Events

Stage and lectures

The Brunsviga cultural center offers events, often in cooperation with schools from Braunschweig and the surrounding area, such as the “Dance Concert”, at which children from the “Elementary School Heinrichstraße” (Braunschweig), the “Diakonie Treff Salzgitter”, the “Ballet School Hänsch-Chamin” ( Salzgitter), the “Braunschweig Dance Company”, the “World of Competitive Aerobics Group” with MTV Wolfenbüttel from the “Ballet School Salzgitter” or the second “Bundesliga Trouble Spot” from MTV Wolfenbüttel. There are also regular schools or the “Young Musical Braunschweig e. V. ”, partly with the“ Kindergarten der Lebenshilfe ”, staged musical performances and changing lectures and exhibitions for all age groups.

The Integrated Comprehensive School Franzsches Feld puts on a modern musical once a year in the Brunsviga, there were performances of "Weißes Rössl", "Going Baden", or "Shockheaded Peter" based on the German children's book Der Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffmann . 2013 Performance of the musical Scuderi , based on the detective novel Das Fräulein von Scuderi by ETA Hoffmann and the staging of the Schauburg in Munich in 2009. In 2014, the musical Zum Die Schön , which was realized by Marc Schubring and Wolfgang Adenberg and based on the film Grabgeflüster - Love moved coffins from 2002 based, listed. In 2015 the musical Alice in Wonderland ( Henry Mason and Thomas Zaufke ), which is based on the Alice novels by Lewis Carroll , and in 2016 the musical Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn , (music: Kurt Weill , texts: John von Düffel ), were based on the novel performed by Mark Twain .

Courses and workshops

The courses range from artistically creative and handicraft activities to musical dance, theater, instrumental and singing workshops to language courses, self-help groups and wellness or chess courses.

Children's home

The children's house looks after children from four to fourteen years of age. It houses an after-school care center with all-day care for the age group from six to twelve years, an open area in the afternoons for district children and young people as well as two branches in the primary school Comeniusstrasse and the primary school Heinrichstrasse, Braunschweig primary school. Around 40 children are looked after in the after-school care center. Around 20 in the after-school care center of the Comenius School.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 48 .
  2. ↑ Brunsviga - a brief historical outline. on brunsviga-kulturzentrum.de.
  3. ↑ Radio Okerwelle 104.6, history. on okerwelle.de.
  4. ↑ 30 years of Brunsviga. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung. Nov. 27, 2011, (chargeable).
  5. ^ Go to the musical Baden. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung. November 22, 2004, (fee required).
  6. ↑ Shockheaded Peter ( memento from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on Braunschweig.de.
  7. ↑ Anna Boos: A school book classic as a punk version. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung. February 9, 2013, (fee required).
  8. ↑ Dance the gravedigger! In: Braunschweiger Zeitung. February 9, 2014, (fee required).
  9. ↑ "Alice in Wonderland" to be seen as a musical. on szene38.de
  10. ^ Franzsches Feld: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn on brunsviga-kulturzentrum.de
  11. ↑ Courses & Workshops on brunsviga-kulturzentrum.de
  12. ↑ The children's home on brunsviga-kulturzentrum.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 29.7 "  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 39.8"  E