domicil

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Entrance of the new "domicil".

The domicil is a jazz club in Dortmund . The domicil is supported by a registered, non-profit association. The aim is to promote jazz , world music and avant-garde music projects. The association currently has around 130 active members. The renowned New York jazz magazine Down Beat chose domicil several times in the list of the hundred best jazz clubs in the world. Since 1971, the association has been organizing a jazz matinee every year on Boxing Day in the foyer of the Dortmund Opera House, which each attracts around 2,000 listeners.

The old domicil

On March 14, 1969, the jazz club domicil was opened in the basement of the day care center at Leopoldstrasse 60, Dortmund, in close cooperation with the city of Dortmund (then youth welfare office) . The domicil saw itself as the successor to the Hot Club Dortmund . In the first year of its existence, the jazz club was able to present musicians such as Alexis Korner , Jasper van't Hof and Albert Mangelsdorff to the public. In the course of 37 years of concert activity, international jazz musicians such as Betty Carter , Dexter Gordon , Joe Zawinul , Bill Frisell , John Abercrombie , Baden Powell de Aquino , Egberto Gismonti and Bobby Previte have performed there .

The new domicil

On October 21, 2005, after more than 4 years of planning and construction, the new domicil opened in Hansastraße. The starting signal for the renovation by the Dortmund architects Heiderich Hummert Klein Architekten and the Dortmund architects Andreas Hanke was given on May 14, 2004 with the sale of the former cinema seating. The entire construction project was supported by the Ministry of Urban Development, Housing, Culture and Sport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the funding program "Take initiative - citizens make the city" and the city of Dortmund, in particular the cultural office of the city of Dortmund. In addition, there was extensive personal work with around 15,000 voluntary hours of work by the members of the domicil association. In 1955, after the reconstruction, the rooms were used as the UfA studio cinema. After the great cinema death in the mid-90s until 2003, they were used as a boulevard theater ( Hansatheater ) and redesigned several times. Structurally, the rooms are part of the Westfalenhaus complex, which also has a high-rise tower and was built in 1922 as one of the first steel frame high-rise buildings in Germany by the Cologne architect and contractor Jakob Koerfer . In addition to various office uses, cultural and gastronomic facilities have a long tradition in the Westfalenhaus. These include the formerly largest West German movie theater for sound films, the "Emelka" film palace, and the later Capitol cinema - in the 1950s also a venue for live jazz - as well as numerous bars and cafés.
The venue in Hansastrasse has three parts: the gastronomy with a classic cocktail bar on the ground floor, the club (approx. 150 people) and the concert hall (max. 500 people) on the second floor. In addition to representatives of the regional scene, international jazz musicians, including Dave Holland , Nils Petter Molvær , Nguyên Lê , John Scofield , Richard Bona , Maceo Parker , Bill Frisell , Avishai Cohen , Bennie Wallace , Dave Douglas , Arve Henriksen , Ravi Coltrane , make regular guest appearances at domicil . Joshua Redman , Kamasi Washington, and many others. The club is also the home of the LMBN poetry slam reading stage, the Dortmund Song Slam and the Jazz Poetry Slam.

In 2014 domicil was able to look back on its 45th anniversary, in October 2015 the 10th anniversary of the venue in Hansastraße was celebrated as part of the International Jazz Days u. a. committed with a jazz band ball.

Awards

In 2005 the members of the sponsoring association domicil Dortmund eV received the honorary work award of the city of Dortmund for their voluntary work in the renovation of the venue. In 2010 domicil was nominated for the LEA Award (Live Entertainment Award) as one of the three best live clubs in Germany. Since 2011, the club has received the venue program award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia every year for the previous year's program, with special consideration given to the promotion of young talent and the presence of the local and regional scene in the program. The jazz magazine Down Beat (USA) regularly included the club in the list of the “100 best jazz venues world wide”. On September 25, 2013, Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann awarded domicil for the first time with the Federal Theater Program Prize, which has been awarded to music venues since this year for a “culturally particularly high-quality live music program”. The domicil was also honored with this award in the following years 2014 and 2015 (since then known as the “Applaus” Federal Music Prize).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.downbeat.com/digitaledition/2011/spcgjv/42-43.html
  2. ↑ Architectural office partnership Heiderich Hummert Klein Architects - Domicil Jazzclub Dortmund ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. . Retrieved December 31, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hummert-architekten.de
  3. ↑ Venue program award (JazzThing)

See also

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 56.2 ″  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 49.5 ″  E