Bunker Ulmenwall
The Ulmenwall bunker has been a socio-cultural educational and music venue in Bielefeld since 1956 , which is also known nationwide for its “advanced concert program with improvised music ”. In April 2013, the cultural center was placed on the culture red list by the German Cultural Council and classified as endangered (category 2). The reason was the intended termination of the service contract between the city of Bielefeld and the Ulmenwall bunker. The hazard was lifted in February 2014 (Category 4).
As a socio-cultural center, its focus is on jazz and pop music youth work , which is also aimed at schools and institutions for child and youth work; for this he receives his funding from the city's social budget. With jazz and other concerts, the attempt is made to introduce young people to different genres of current music. The Globe Unity Orchestra , Barre Phillips , Elliott Sharp , Albert Mangelsdorff , Julia Hülsmann and Grace Kelly , for example , have performed here. a. by Joe Fonda , Jan Klare and Thomas Lehn . In the program, children and youth projects such as rookie sessions or music school live playing alternate with regular concerts, some of which are also recorded and broadcast by Westdeutscher Rundfunk .
history
The armored cellar was built in 1939 as a medical bunker at the foot of the Bielefeld Sparrenberg to prevent the threat of air raids. After the war, youth groups such as The Falcons , Scouts, and YMCA shared the building with the puppeteer Helmut Selje. From 1956 the Bielefeld jazz scene established itself in the basement rooms on Ulmenwall. Jazz band balls, which the youth welfare office organized here with the Bunker Jazzclub, were well received. In 1961 the bunker was reopened as a student club room combined with a jazz cellar and the puppet theater. The Ulmenwall Bunker was organized by the Bielefeld City Youth Welfare Office between 1956 and 1996 and then passed on to the Ulmenwall Bunker .
From 1962 to 1982 the bunker was the literary center of the city of Bielefeld. Led by the Bielefeld writers Wolfgang Hädecke (1962–1966) and Walter Neumann (! 966–1982) readings were held with more than 200 German and foreign authors. Two extensive anthologies: "Im Bunker 1", 1974, and "Im Bunker 2", 1979, document the literary era of Bielefeld.
Conflict over the continuation of the center
Since Bielefeld has to save in order not to come under the Budgetary Security Act and lose its financial autonomy, the municipal service contract with the sponsoring association has been up for discussion since the beginning of 2013. The work of the bunker Ulmenwall should possibly be limited to the organization of concerts; He would have to give up his music education concept and the status as a socio-cultural center. This is still recognized nationwide; until 2015, the bunker will receive funding from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for "promoting young talent in the field of jazz and youth culture."
Award
In 2013 the Ulmenwall bunker received an award for its program work and received the German venue award from Minister of State Bernd Neumann . He was awarded the WDR Jazz Prize 2018 in the Honor Prize category for special program projects. In 2019, the Ulmenwall bunker was awarded the city of Bielefeld's culture prize.
literature
- Wilfried Klei (Ed.): "These Walls Are Soaked with Music!": Bunker Ulmenwall Bielefeld - Stories from '56 to tomorrow . 1st edition. Tpk Regionalverlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-936359-54-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Reinhard Köchl / Martin Laurentius, The Art of Spagat: The Jazzthing Venue Report . Jazzthing 4/5 2013, pp. 42–46
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 3, 2014)
- ↑ Bielefeld bunker Ulmenwall threatens the end of New Westphalian , 19 February 2013
- ^ Minister of State for Culture Neumann presents 55 venues prizes , Mindener Tageblatt , September 27, 2013
- ↑ WDR Jazz Prize 2018
- ↑ Bielefeld City Press Office Bielefeld Culture Prize , accessed on November 9, 2019.
Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 57.7 " N , 8 ° 31 ′ 54.1" E