Federal Press Ball

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The Federal Press Ball is considered an important social event in the capital in Germany. Around 2,500 high-ranking guests from politics, business and culture are invited. The Federal Press Ball has been organized annually in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1951 by the Federal Press Conference (BPK), an association of journalists working in Berlin and Bonn . The opening dance traditionally belongs to the Federal President and the wife of the chairman of the Federal Press Conference.

On February 2, 1951, the ball took place for the first time as a “press and radio festival” in the Bundeshaus Bonn in the Bundestag restaurant there. From November 1951 to 1958 it was celebrated in the Kurhaus Bad Neuenahr , from 1959 to 1989 in the Beethoven Hall and from 1990 to 1998 in the Hotel Maritim in Bonn. The ball has been inviting people to Berlin since 1999. The ball took place here from 1999 to 2013 in the Hotel InterContinental and in 2014 in Berlin-Tempelhof Airport . The guests of the Federal Press Ball have been gathering at the Hotel Adlon since 2015 . In 2020 the federal press ball was canceled due to the corona pandemic . The 69th Federal Press Ball will now take place on November 26, 2021.

The federal press conference is hosted by the Bundespressekonferenz eV, an association of German parliamentary correspondents who report on federal politics from Berlin and Bonn ( dapd ). It is organized by the Bundespresseball GmbH, whose sole shareholder is the BPK. The event is financed in part through the sale of tickets and the support of sponsors.

The Federal Press Ball is often confused with the charity -oriented Press Ball Berlin of the non-profit and benevolent Press Ball Berlin Förderverein e. V. , Potsdam . In addition, there was an attempt by Presseball GmbH in Bonn from 2000 to establish an international business and press ball ; However, the organizing GmbH had to file for insolvency proceedings as early as 2007.

Web links

Wiktionary: Bundespresseball  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2500 guests celebrate the Federal Press Ball in Berlin , NWZ online from November 26, 2005, accessed on November 30, 2019
  2. ^ Federal press ball in the Berlin Hotel Adlon. (No longer available online.) Süddeutsche Zeitung, archived from the original on November 26, 2016 ; accessed on November 30, 2019 .
  3. ^ Press , Federal Press Ball website: Information and procedure, accessed on November 30, 2019
  4. ^ The 65th Federal Press Ball, press information from the Federal Press Conference (pdf). (No longer available online.) Bundespresseball GmbH, archived from the original on November 22, 2016 ; accessed on November 30, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Bodo-Michael Baumunk, Gerhard Brunn (Ed.): Capital: Centers, Residences, Metropolises in German History [an exhibition in Bonn, Kunsthalle am August-Macke-Platz, May 19 to August 20, 1989]. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-2364-6 , p. 464.
  6. ^ Federal Press Ball in Bad Neuenahr , film document: Neue Deutsche Wochenschau 462/1958, December 5, 1958, accessed on November 30, 2019
  7. ^ Federal Press Ball in Bonn , film document: UFA-Wochenschau 172/1959, November 10, 1959, accessed on November 30, 2019
  8. ↑ Fest: First ladies, first time , Focus Magazin , No. 47/1998 of November 16, 1998, accessed on November 30, 2019
  9. ↑ History , Federal Press Ball website: From "Bonnaparte" to "Bonn amour", 65 years of ball history (s), accessed on November 30, 2019
  10. ↑ The Federal Press Ball will be dancing for the first time in 2014 at Tempelhof Airport . Berliner Morgenpost. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
  11. ↑ The Federal Press Ball in Berlin is canceled. Der Tagesspiegel, June 5, 2020, accessed on June 11, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Settlement of tickets: At the Federal Press Ball, the state dances at its own expense , Der Tagesspiegel from January 4, 2018, accessed on November 30, 2019
  13. ^ Press Ball Berlin - Tradition since 1872. Accessed November 30, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Presseball GmbH has been sold and has filed for bankruptcy. ( Memento from July 31, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) in: Der General-Anzeiger , March 24, 2007