E-Werk (Erlangen)

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E-Werk Kulturzentrum GmbH

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legal form GmbH
Seat gain
management Berndt Urban
Number of employees 133 (2015; 54 full-time positions; 60 part-time positions)
sales 3 million
Branch Culture
Website www.e-werk.de
Status: 2015

The E-Werk is an event and cultural center in the center of the Middle Franconian city ​​of Erlangen . It was created in 1982 when two youth centers moved to the closed power station on Fuchsenwiese 1. The focus is on cultural work with concerts, theater performances and readings. There are also discussion events, various initiatives and groups and a wide range of opportunities to promote young talent.

The building has several large event and seminar rooms and has a total capacity of 2,500 visitors on over 2,500 square meters, which are spread over three floors. It also housed a cinema program and a bar with a restaurant.

Courtyard entrance (2017)

Events

In 2015 over a thousand events took place, including over 227 concerts (49,000 visitors), which attracted a total of more than 215,000 visitors. In the same year, 138 parties (97,000 visitors), 38 festivals and projects (15,000 visitors), 90 literary, theater and cabaret events (12,500 visitors) and 25 educational events (4,500) took place. There are also hundreds of other activities such as workshops, initiatives and groups, cinema, advisory services and public viewing , which attracted an additional 34,000 visitors.

Bands like the AnnenMayKantereit , Beatsteaks , Beginner , Blumentopf , Cro , Deichkind , Donots , Element of Crime , Einstürzende Neubauten , Fiddler's Green , Good Charlotte , Idles , Irie Revoltez , Madsen , NOFX , The Offspring , OneRepublic , Jan Delay , JBO , Sportfreunde Stiller , Slime , Tocotronic , Tomte and many others have already taken the stage here.

The E-Werk also acts as an organizer in external rooms. For example, in 2010 there were concerts ( Jan Delay ) in the Nuremberg Arena in cooperation with Argo , or in 2013 LaBrassBanda in the park of the Studio Franken des Bayerischen Rundfunks in Nuremberg with several thousand visitors. Concerts from the Across series take place regularly in the New Museum in Nuremberg . Events that arouse great interest are occasionally moved to the Heinrich-Lades-Halle Erlangen, if the time allows.

One of the largest regular projects is the Folk im Park Festival in Nuremberg. The one-day festival has been taking place in the Marienbergpark there since 2011 and now attracts over 1400 visitors.

Structure and finances

The cultural center is supported by a GmbH and an association and has no profit intentions. The main sponsor is the city of Erlangen, which provided 591,200 euros in institutional funds in 2016. For a cultural company, the E-Werk has a very low subsidy share of 18.7 percent of the total budget, which is over 3 million euros (as of 2016). The E-Werk employs 73 people (54 full-time positions), including two FSJ workers, as well as around 60 temporary workers in the catering business. The managing director is Bernd Urban, and program director Holger Watzka.

history

Garden stage (2017)

On June 5, 1893, it was decided to build a municipal power station in Erlangen, and construction began in May 1901. The building went into operation on January 28, 1902, and the total cost of the project, including the cable network, was 500,000 marks. Its east wing built over the moat of the baroque fortifications of the city of Erlangen, which is protected as a ground monument . At the beginning gas turbines were used, which operated direct current generators of 90 kW each. Due to the massively growing demand for electricity, the engine hall was expanded to the west in 1927 and the gas turbines were replaced by more powerful diesel engines, so that 4095 kW were already generated there. In 1967 the power generation was stopped there, until 1978 the hall served as a storage place for the Erlanger Stadtwerke AG.

The cultural center emerged from the move and merging of the Pupille jazz club and the Sesam youth club, which were previously housed in the Frankenhof leisure center. The Sesam youth club emerged from earlier school and student projects in the 1960s, such as Club 66, Alpha and Baff, and existed between the end of 1971 and 1982.

Between 1979 and 1982 the building was rebuilt and the first areas of the cultural center opened on July 24, 1982: the basement stage, dance factory and the multi-purpose area (today's club stage). In the following years, the group rooms, offices, the cinema and the hall were expanded. A general renovation of the building took place between 2001 and 2007 for a total of 3.5 million euros. In 2016, the new building for a youth club adjacent to the E-Werk began, as well as the redesign of the garden including the bar and a garden stage.

Web links

Commons : E-Werk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Das Frankenpop ABC: # A - F | BR.de . June 27, 2013 ( br.de [accessed January 2, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Annual report 2015 . In: issuu . ( issuu.com [accessed January 2, 2017]).
  3. ↑ nordbayern.de, Nuremberg, Germany: Culture as a crowd puller in the Erlangen E-Werk - Erlangen - nordbayern.de. In: www.nordbayern.de. Retrieved January 2, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Annual report 2015 . In: issuu . ( issuu.com [accessed January 2, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Event details . In: www.arena-nuernberg.de. Retrieved September 14, 2019 .
  6. ↑ nordbayern.de, Nuremberg, Germany: Heat battle with La Brass Banda - Nuremberg - nordbayern.de. In: www.nordbayern.de. Retrieved January 2, 2017 .
  7. ^ Concert series "Across" - New Museum Nuremberg. In: www.nmn.de. Retrieved January 2, 2017 .
  8. ^ Folk im Park 2016. In: www.folkimpark.com. Retrieved January 2, 2017 .
  9. ↑ About us. In: E-Werk Kulturzentrum Erlangen. Retrieved September 14, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Annual report 2015 . In: issuu . ( issuu.com [accessed January 2, 2017]).
  11. ↑ a b Electricity company. In: stadtarchiv-erlangen.iserver-online2.de electricity works. Retrieved September 14, 2019 .
  12. ↑ E-Werk. In: stadtarchiv-erlangen.iserver-online2.de. Retrieved September 14, 2019 .
  13. ↑ inner city development; Renovation of the E-Werk cultural center , on erlangen.de
  14. ↑ City of Erlangen: Other articles. In: www.erlangen.de. January 2, 2017, accessed January 2, 2017 .
  15. ↑ City of Erlangen: RathausReport from July 1, 2016. In: www.erlangen.de. January 2, 2017, accessed January 2, 2017 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 2.1 ″  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 6.3 ″  E