Dortmund Hansa

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Dortmund Hansa-Brauerei GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1902
Seat Dortmund
management Thomas Schneider, Uwe Helmich
Branch Brewery of Radeberger Group
Website www.hansa-bier.de
Status: 2020

Beer wagon from the Hansa brewery in the Mecklenburg Carriage Museum in Kobrow
Share for 1200 RM of the Dortmund Hansa-Brauerei AG from October 1928

Dortmunder Hansa is a beer from Dortmund , which is brewed by the Dortmunder Actien-Brauerei on behalf of the Dortmunder Hansa-Brauerei GmbH . Hansa is available as Pils , Export and Alt . Before that there was also malt , Kölsch , Hefeweizen and ready-mixed as a shandy and cola mix . Hansa-Pils has been brewed since February 1, 1902, was  the cult beer of the punk rock movement in Germany in the 1980s because of its cheap price - along with the Karlsquell beer from Aldi - and was particularly popular with young people in the 1990s Popularity. The former Hansa brewery , formerly the Dortmund Borussia brewery founded around 1870 , is located in Dortmund's northern part of the city not far from Borsigplatz and today serves as the headquarters of the Dortmund Actien brewery, which was taken over by Dortmund Hansa in 1971. The Dortmund Brewery Museum is also located there. Until the beginning of the 20th century, the Borussia brewery was located in the same place , which is said to have given its name to the Dortmund football club of the same name and which later became part of the Hansa brewery.

There is also an offshoot in Swakopmund ( Namibia ), where the beer is brewed according to the German purity law due to the German colonial history .

brand

The brand is based on the original Hanseatic city of Dortmund and is one of the few brands that Hansa is allowed to use in its name.

Hansa-Pils on TV / cinema

Comedian Axel Stein can often be seen in his films with Hansa beer cans , which has further contributed to the popularity of beer.

Hansa beer cans often appear in films that are set in the Ruhr area , for example Doppelpack , Bang Boom Bang or What doesn't fit is made to fit .

The Hansa brand was also several times in the late-night talk show of Harald Schmidt satirizes, primarily in jokes of the moderator about the soldiers of the Bundeswehr , one, which is said to have great - if not the biggest - to its target group of the cheap brand Hansa.

Hansa-Pils in the punk scene

Hansa-Pils is very popular in the punk and skinhead scene. On the cover of punk rock - sampler "Long live the Punk 6", for example, multiple doses Hansa-Pils drunk, and on the cover of the debut album "Dirty Times" the band Daily Terror of 1982 a can of Hansa-Pils is shown . The cabaret punk rock band Heiter bis Wolkig also often referred to the popularity of this beer brand in the punk scene.

Get going with Hansa Pils

The composer and music producer Christian Bruhn dedicated a line to beer in his song Komm In Fahrt . The last line of the song is "Come on, with Hansa Pils".

Hansa Pils in pop culture of the 21st century

Old beer glass Dortmunder Hansa

In 2020, the Dortmund rock alternative band Tonkontrolle released the album Herbe , in which the Hansa Pils plays a major lyrical role. In the song Hansakartell in particular , the band addresses the subcultural influence of beer on the present day.

Advertising copy

Hans A .: The main thing is Hansa. Everything else is your beer. This text was written on the cans until the packaging design was revised.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Herbe. Retrieved March 20, 2020 .
  2. Hansakartel. Retrieved March 20, 2020 .