Three-City Gymnastics Berlin-Hamburg-Leipzig

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The three-city gymnastics Berlin-Hamburg-Leipzig was an important and traditional German city competition in apparatus gymnastics .

Entrance to the Scala, 1936
The Alberthalle Leipzig, one of the venues for the three-city gymnastics

History of the urban struggle

On October 24, 1920, the St. Pauli gym on Heiligengeistfeld in Hamburg was the first venue. Leipzig was not represented in the first two competitions, as well as in the 13th meeting. In this respect, it is worth mentioning that Leipzig was in the lead for the 40th city gymnastics in April 1941 with 18 wins, 13 for Hamburg and 8 for Berlin. The venues included the Hamburg Ufa-Palast and the Hanseatic Hall , in Leipzig the Krystallpalast and the large exhibition hall and the Berlin Scala , the large theater and the winter garden . In the early days, the town struggle took place twice a year

Even after the Second World War , the traditional three-city gymnastics continued. In April 1957, the 50th edition took place in Leipzig during the Cold War with an entire Berlin gymnastics team.

Newsreel

Literature (selection)

  • Wolfgang Pahncke (1983): Apparatus gymnastics then and now. Berlin: sports publisher.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b H. Spitzing: Berlin: Struggle for Unity and Reconstruction, 1948-1951 , page 491 [1]
  2. Festschrift for the 110th Foundation Festival. Hamburger Turnerschaft from 1816 , page 10 ( digitized by the State and University Library Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky ).
  3. Berlin Turner agree nd-archiv.de
  4. Program booklet 50th Urban Fighting in Artistic Gymnastics Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig
  5. Hans Joachim Teichler u. Wolfgang Meyer-Ticheloven: Films and radio reports as documents of German sports history from 1907 - 1945, directory of archived film and Sound documents and a filmography d. Sports in Germany - With studies on the relationship between film, sport and the like. Society / Hans Joachim Teichler u. Wolfgang Meyer-Ticheloven, Part II Film Documentation, Schorndorf 1981.