Beethoven Festival Hall

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The Beethoven Festspielhaus (also Beethoven Festspielhaus Bonn ) was a project in Ludwig van Beethoven's native city of Bonn . In April 2010, the Lord Mayor of Bonn and the three chairmen of the board of the Bonn-based sponsors Deutsche Telekom , Deutsche Post and Postbank announced that the project should “not be pursued further for the time being”. Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Postbank finally left the project in the course of the year. The City Council of Bonn made a new attempt on November 24, 2011 and decided to clarify the requirements for a new festival hall. After the last sponsor, Deutsche Post, left the project in 2015, the project was considered over.

history

Ludwig van Beethoven's birthday will be 250 years old in 2020. Seven years later, in 2027, it will be Beethoven's 200th anniversary of his death. Against this background, the three Bonn-based companies Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Post and Postbank announced their readiness to build a new festival hall in spring 2007.

On June 13, 2007, the city council passed a decision in principle to implement this project. The administration is instructed to “intensify the discussions and negotiations with those involved in the 'Festspielhaus Beethoven' project, to further develop the concept for the 'Festspielhaus Beethoven' and, on this basis, to prepare the construction of a top-class concert hall in Bonn." In point two of the fundamental decision: "Together with the companies involved, the council considers the area between the Beethovenhalle and the Rhine to be a suitable location for the 'Beethoven Festival Hall'." Under point four, the council decided on the "urban planning framework conditions attached as an annex for the Deutsche Post World Net, Deutsche Telekom AG and Postbank AG intended architect selection process ”. And regarding the costs it says under point seven: “The further planning is - u. a. through an optimal project structure - designed in such a way that the goal of not causing any additional burdens for the city budget is achieved as far as possible. "

Location

Beethovenhalle - night view

In the principle decision of the City Council of June 13, 2007, the area of ​​the current Beethoven Hall is preferred as the location for the planned house. The administration and the project advisory board were also asked to include alternative locations in addition to the favored area in the further process. The Museum Mile and the Gronau were named .

With regard to the Beethoven Hall, the annex to the resolution states: “The new 'Festspielhaus Beethoven' is to be built in the immediate vicinity of the existing Beethoven Hall. Planning solutions for the connection to the complex of the existing Beethoven Hall are to be proposed. The plot of land to the east on the banks of the Rhine between the streets Wachsbleiche in the north and Theaterstraße in the south is intended as a construction window. "

The Bonn city administration then examined eleven possible locations to determine whether they are suitable for the construction of the house. Three of these locations are described as suitable in the management's statement for the Festspielhaus project advisory board meeting on December 17, 2007. These are the Museum Mile (area south of the art and exhibition hall ) and two locations in the area of ​​the Beethoven Hall - one to the west and one to the southeast of the hall. A location south of the Beethovenhalle, where the Erzberger Ufer student dormitory is located, was described as having limited suitability. Before the Festspielhaus project advisory board, the mayor at the time, Bärbel Dieckmann , spoke out in favor of building the new concert hall in Ludwig van Beethoven's hometown on the area of ​​the Beethovenhalle.

In April 2008, Lord Mayor Dieckmann made a move: the Festspielhaus was not to be built next to the Beethoven Hall or at any other location. "That would not be possible with 75 million euros," she quoted the Bonner General-Anzeiger on 19/20. April 2008. She is now campaigning for an “integrative solution”. After that, the exterior view and roof of the hall were to be "largely retained", but the interior was to be completely rebuilt with two halls and the main entrance to the Rhine being relocated. The building owners would now also tend towards this concept.

Three months after the election of a new city council and a new mayor in September 2009, the Bonn city director Volker Kregel, who was also the city project manager for the festival hall project, announced that there was an alternative plan for the location. In consultation with Lord Mayor Jürgen Nimptsch , people think aloud about “giving up the decision to locate the location on the grounds of the Beethovenhalle”. As an alternative location, Kregel named a plot of land next to the Telekom headquarters, on which the state authorities , the former Bonn police headquarters, are currently located. In a statement from February 2010, the administration stated that there were “no plans to change location, but only a reference to other options”.

Two weeks later, on February 19, 2010, Mayor Nimptsch announced that “the project partners are now looking at alternatives” “that are located on the Rhine: at the Old Customs, in the park between Villa Hammerschmidt , Chancellor's Bungalow and Palais Schaumburg . And in the Rheinaue . ”In the“ Supplementary Site Assessment ”presented to the Project Advisory Board in March 2010, the administration for the Rheinauenpark / Rheinpavillon site came to the assessment of“ very limited suitability ”, the other three being unsuitable.

financing

The future Beethoven Festspielhaus Bonn was to rest on two pillars. The owner and builder should be one of the three companies that has yet to be founded. The property company would then have donated the Festspielhaus to a foundation that has yet to be established and which is to operate the concert hall.

building-costs

The supporting companies declared in 2007 that they wanted to assume the costs of building the festival hall in the amount of 75 million euros.

At the beginning of 2008, Spiegel Online reported that the realization of this commitment was “quite dubious” - at least from the perspective of Deutsche Telekom and its shareholders. “The plan for the million dollar gift”, Spiegel Online continues, “was by no means born in the Telekom board or in the marketing department. The expensive idea came from the chairman of the Telekom supervisory board, Klaus Zumwinkel, " Deutsche Post's CEO who resigned on February 15, 2008 .

In an interview with the Bonner Generalanzeiger, Zumwinkel's successor, Frank Appel , as CEO of Deutsche Post, confessed to the project: “Our commitments are in place, and our commitment will remain.” Karl-Gerhard Eick , until February 2009 deputy chairman of the Deutsche Telekom, made it clear in a letter to the mayor of September 2008 that his company had not yet made a decision on the financing of the festival hall. He makes a final decision dependent on a number of conditions. This included “guaranteed compliance with the financial framework”, “the financial security of sustainable operation of the festival hall at the highest level” and “the final elimination of any legal risks for the company”. This position was also represented by Eick's successor, Timotheus Höttges . "We have not yet made a decision in favor of the Festspielhaus in the board of directors," Höttges confirmed in an interview in May 2009. When asked what was still missing, Höttges named "a clear, sustainable cultural concept" for the city, and also asked the question of financing the ongoing operations of the festival hall and the question of financing the festival hall itself, "which must be within the budgeted framework". In Höttge's opinion, the Festspielhaus project needed “even more time to mature”.

The share that the city of Bonn could contribute to the project if a decision were to be made to demolish the Beethovenhalle would consist of the property and the superstructures of the Beethovenhalle. In a proposal for the city council, the city put its value including the event hall, administration building, extension of the Beethoven Hall and outdoor facilities at a total of € 14.4 million. In December 2008, the city council decided to waive a contractually fixed construction obligation in the event of a transfer of the Beethovenhallen property to the property company in a heritable building right agreement.

In an interview with the General-Anzeiger, the new mayor of Bonn, Jürgen Nimptsch, made it clear at the end of October 2009 that the companies are financing the construction themselves: "There is no municipal euro flowing into it."

operating cost

A foundation should be responsible for the ongoing artistic and technical operation of the Beethoven Festspielhaus. With the fundamental decision of the Bonn Council of 2007, the Bonn city ​​director Volker Kregel was commissioned to draw up a statute for this foundation. Participants in the foundation should be the federal government , the state of North Rhine- Westphalia, the city of Bonn, the Rhein-Sieg district , the Sparkasse KölnBonn , the Bonn Cultural Council and the three companies. The largest donor for the foundation's capital would have been the federal government, which wanted to bring in 39 million euros because it sees the maintenance of Beethoven's legacy as a national task. Sparkasse KölnBonn intended to contribute one million euros each to the foundation for five years. In addition, the Rhein-Sieg district declared that it would contribute three million euros to the foundation capital.

With the help of a business plan, the operating costs that would have been incurred by the foundation should be calculated. A business plan announced by Karsten Witt for October 2008 could not be presented at the scheduled time. As part of the division of labor between the sponsors, Witt was busy with content-related issues. As a justification, he stated that he had "completely underestimated the need for coordination during the creation" and the "current economic framework conditions" had meant that he "could no longer find any contact persons at the companies involved". Instead of a business plan, two months later, on December 15, 2008, Witt presented a “Concept for the Beethoven Festspielhaus in Bonn”. The estimate of income and expenditure for the planned festival theater made in this project was based on annual expenditure of € 13.1 million. The most important income items were named: card income (€ 3.69 million), rentals (€ 1.11 million), grants (the city of Bonn in the amount of € 3.8 million and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the amount of € 1 million . €) and income from the capital of the planned Festspielhaus Beethoven Foundation (€ 2 million). The business plan was ready at the beginning of 2010. In March 2010 it was presented to the municipal "Festspielhaus Project Advisory Board". The subsidy provided by the city would then have increased to a total of € 4.6 million, although not all costs that the city would have had to raise were still included. According to the business plan presented at the beginning of 2010, the annual operation of the festival theater should cost more than € 18 million. The most important difference to Karsten Witt's calculations from 2008 was the rent item, which Witt had not taken into account in the “Concept for the Beethoven Festspielhaus in Bonn”. The foundation was to raise € 6 million for the rent of the house built by the sponsors for 30 years.

As far as the city's grants were concerned, the decision of principle of the council of June 13, 2007 provided for the further planning of the Festspielhaus project so that “the goal of not causing any additional burdens on the city budget is achieved as far as possible.” This was to be seen against the background that the city of Bonn is highly indebted and threatened to slip into a budget security concept (HSK) or even into the emergency budget . The cost of the WCCB disaster could not yet be foreseen. The promotion of Bonn culture by the federal government ended in 2010. These circumstances have led to tough austerity measures in the field of culture in recent years.

Artistic concept

In December 2008, Karsten Witt suggested in his “Concept for the Beethoven Festspielhaus in Bonn” that the Festspielhaus program should be divided into two areas: concert series and festivals. With more than 20 concert series, “the basic musical supply is to be ensured by the Festspielhaus, so to speak”. Such series should include concerts by the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, international orchestras, concerts by string quartets and "great soloists". Half a dozen festivals are said to be of the same importance as the series. Witt calls the Beethovenfest , a "festival of ancient music on a specific topic" and a "popular festival on a specific topic".

This concept was a first draft; In the meantime - according to information from the sponsors - various concepts have been developed to financially calculate possible display variants. In a status report to the City Council of Bonn, the Lord Mayor announced in November 2009 that the administration “does not consider a“ full program, for example based on the model of the Cologne Philharmonic ”to be“ economically feasible ”. The administration goes "in the current draft of a business plan totaling approx. 250 events annually ”.

Architectural designs

Designed by Karl-Heinz Schommer

Design for a new festival theater by Karl-Heinz Schommer

The Bonn architect Karl-Heinz Schommer presented a first draft for a new house in 2004. Karin Hempel-Soos , initiator of the Festspielhaus project, asked the architect for a “location analysis”. Schommer connected the Beethovenhalle with a long walkway with the Festspielhaus, which is on a plateau on the Rhine. “The concert hall itself,” the architect describes his design, “is set up as an independent cube in a transparent building envelope. From the galleries between the inner structure and the outer shell of the building, one looks over the south bridge to the Siebengebirge . "

There is no better way of integrating Bonn's “ Genius Loci ”, the Rhine, says Schommer, but his plans soon disappeared into oblivion. He was then no longer invited to the architect selection process that the sponsors started in 2008. Schommer's draft became known to the public in 2011. It was on display at an exhibition of the architect's work at the Kameha Grand Bonn .

Architect selection process

The award procedure from 2008, based on private law, was not a proper, open architectural competition , as is required for public contracts. At the beginning of the selection process in mid-October 2008, Deutsche Post AG named 11 international architecture firms for the three companies that were commissioned to design the building. Three guidelines applied to them: The new house should have world-class architecture and acoustics, and the investment volume should not exceed 75 million euros. As an “option” on the part of the sponsors, the architects had to include or demolish the Beethoven Hall, whereby the sponsors ignored the “urban planning framework” decided by the council. The “urban development framework” is based on the juxtaposition of the old and the new hall, not demolition.

With the exception of Norman Foster , all architecture firms invited submitted contributions for the selection process. The sponsors paid € 50,000 for the contributions. The designs by Zaha Hadid , Hermann & Valentiny and Partners , Arata Isozaki , Richard Meier , Murphy / Jahn and Thomas van den Valentyn assume a new building in place of the Beethoven Hall . The designs by David Chipperfield , Allies and Morrison Architects , Antonio Citterio and Schuster Architects are based on the preservation of the Beethoven Hall and important elements. The 10 designs were on view from January 31, 2009 to February 15, 2009 in the Post Tower .

On January 31, 2009, the sponsors informed the public about the results of the previous selection of architects. You named four drafts that went into a second planning phase and should be further specified. These were the designs by Zaha Hadid, Hermann & Valentiny and Partners, Arata Isozaki and Richard Meier. Architects whose designs call for the Beethoven Hall to be demolished.

A convened expert committee accompanied the selection process. The committee consisted of around 80 members (federal government, state of North Rhine-Westphalia, city of Bonn, business, culture, architecture, acoustics, etc.). For the final consultation on the ten models, the committee was divided into two groups: architecture and acoustics. Both of them put together a list of their favorites, which differed on two points. The two groups then met again and the panel decided on a final list of four drafts for the next round. They all favor the demolition of the Beethoven Hall and a new building for the Festspielhaus.

The experts invited for the selection process had advisory functions. According to Andreas Rossmann in the FAZ on February 16, 2009, representatives of the city and the citizens were “onlookers” at the expert hearing. The decision as to which designs were selected was made solely by the sponsors. On February 16, 2009 the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reported that the four selected designs by the sponsors were not identical to four designs favored by the panel of experts. The newspaper refers to the state curator Udo Mainzer , who attended the hearing as an expert. For example, two designs by the sponsors, those by Schuster & Schuster and David Chipperfield "suddenly" were exchanged and replaced by the designs by Hermann & Valentiny and Arata Isozaki. The sponsors did not give any reasons for this decision. Also, no competition protocol was kept.

Winner of the architect selection process

On June 9, 2009, the Post announced that Zaha Hadid and Hermann & Valentiny were the winners of the architect selection process. Originally, the sponsors wanted to make the final decision about the model in spring 2010. After a decision by the Post Office on November 19, 2009, the decision should be made in autumn 2010. Until then, “all preparations would be put on hold”. The Post wants to wait for the result of a public survey on the Festspielhaus.

Support for the festival theater project

Several organizations joined forces in December 2009 to support the Festspielhaus project. They call themselves “Fest.Spiel.Haus.Freunde”. A resolution states: "We are convinced that the Festspielhaus will promote the unique selling point of the city of Bonn and carry Bonn's reputation nationally and internationally as Beethoven's birthplace and an up-and-coming festival city into the future".

Council citizens' decision, citizens' decision or citizens' survey?

In an application dated February 9, 2009, the Greens' parliamentary group called for a council decision on the construction of the festival hall and the "necessary financial participation" of the city in the construction and operation of the planned house. On March 25, 2009, the city council rejected this application by a majority.

Thereupon a citizens 'initiative "For a social city Bonn - against the building of a festival hall" announced the implementation of a citizens' initiative with the aim of forcing a referendum.

As part of a project “New Forms of Citizen Participation in the Federal City of Bonn”, the newly elected Lord Mayor Jürgen Nimptsch planned a “survey” on the “Festspielhaus Beethoven theme”. According to the mayor, this plan should "take place at the same time as the state elections on May 9, 2010". In January 2010, Nimptsch moved away from this schedule and announced a separate survey on the Festspielhaus before summer 2010, which did not take place.

In the coalition agreement between the CDU and the Greens agreed in December 2009, they welcomed “the Daxe's commitment to the expansion of the Beethoven city of Bonn and the construction of a festival hall”. For the decision for the federal city to participate in the operation of the festival hall, the Greens renewed their position in the contract that "the involvement of Bonn citizens in the form of a council decision is absolutely necessary".

The project is not to be pursued further for the time being

After a conversation on April 21, 2010, in which the chairmen of the board of the three sponsors and Lord Mayor Nimptsch and City Director Kregel took part, those involved declared that the “Beethoven Festival Hall project should not be pursued for the time being”. The decision was justified with the economic situation of the city of Bonn, which "currently requires other priorities", with risks such as monument protection and sustainable financing, which "cannot yet be conclusively assessed", with the examination of companies with regard to alternative funding projects for youth and education and with the planned development of a "holistic concept for the cultural location Bonn and the region".

Open questions

Important questions were open until April 2010, when sponsors and the city declared that the project should “not be pursued further for the time being”.

Time schedule

The original schedule was for the new house to open in 2011. After the decision of the Post Office on November 19, 2009 to “put all preparations on hold” and wait for the result of a “citizens 'survey”, Bonn's Lord Mayor Jürgen Nimptsch presented a new schedule at the end of November 2009: originally a “citizens' survey” was to be carried out in May 2010 become. If this - according to Nimptsch - were to turn out to be in favor of the Festspielhaus project, a decision would be made in summer 2010 on how the city of Bonn will provide funds for the project for the 2012 or 2013 budget. After the municipal committee for citizen participation had rejected the mayor's plans in February 2010 and approved its own plans for a citizens' survey, it was impossible to foresee the form in which Bonn citizens would participate in the decision on the festival hall. The timing was also unclear.

program

The content-related statements on the program for the planned festival hall after the fundamental decision of the council were a “concept for the Beethoven festival hall in Bonn” presented by Karsten Witt (see above chapter “artistic concept”). This concept does not represent more than a collection of ideas. The Bonn administration announced in March 2009 that “a working group“ Program and Budget ”is now being formed under the coordination of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, which will deal with the development of the cultural concept and a The business plan derived from this will be dealt with. ”There were no results of this working group that were also presented to the public.

financing

With regard to the financing, there were open questions regarding the foreseeable construction costs as well as the foreseeable operating costs. The original commitments totaled € 75 million. None of the three companies made a binding decision on the financing of the project. The implementation of the “winning” designs would have required a considerably higher amount than the € 75 million. How high the amount would be was not specified when the “winner” was chosen on June 9, 2009.

The Post AG had - according to the city in a communication template for the council - "started a selection process for general contractors to secure the cost estimates". At the end of November 2009, two of a group of well-known general contractors were to be selected and commissioned to work out a market-based cost estimate for the revised designs by Zaha Hadid and Hermann & Valentiny by the beginning of February 2010. According to the schedule issued by Swiss Post, “two optimized and detailed drafts with an external cost estimate based on four pillars should be available in February 2010”. Whether this cost estimate existed is unknown - none has been presented to the public.

The coverage of operating costs was also not clear. In Karsten Witt's concept, the grant from the city of Bonn was set at € 3.8 million annually. In its decision of principle, the city council decided that no additional burdens should arise for the city budget. The annual budget of € 3.8 million from the city's operating costs would have meant a four-fold increase in what the city pays for the Beethoven Hall.

Location

The Beethovenhalle has been a listed building since 1990 . However, the two designs still in the running were based on the demolition of the Beethoven Hall. As early as 2007, the sponsors wanted to “definitely know” in a confidential marketing study and an equally confidential project report from the then mayor Bärbel Dieckmann whether “the Beethoven Hall can be demolished, or at least whether the monument protection can be removed enough for the hall to be rebuilt and its external appearance can be changed ”.

In contrast to the mayor's statement that the builders were in favor of an “integrative solution”, they allowed the option of demolishing the Beethoven Hall in the architectural competition and selected those designs in the “pre-selection” that did not take into account the protection of historical monuments.

In an interview with the General-Anzeiger Bonn , state curator Professor Udo Mainzer spoke out against demolition, taking into account existing drafts that provide for the preservation of the Beethoven Hall. Regarding the necessary improvement in the functionality and acoustics of the hall, he said: “... All of this could be improved within the existing shell. Bonn can gladly get a festival theater, but not at the expense of the monument. "

At a colloquium at the University of Bonn on November 28, 2009, the former Lord Mayor of Bonn, Hans Daniels , pleaded “to look for alternative areas for the festival hall that are owned by the state or the federal government”. The staff assembly of the Theater Bonn suggests such an alternative location: they would like the new building to be built in place of the current opera building.

Exit of important donors

Deutsche Telekom announced its withdrawal from the project in September 2010. One could imagine supporting ongoing operations, explains Stephan Althoff, head of corporate sponsorship. "But the previous builder model is unrealistic from today's perspective."

On September 5, 2011, Postbank also announced its withdrawal, as the project could no longer be communicated to employees and shareholders. Telekom also confirmed its exit on this occasion, while the Post stated that it did not want to take over the stake held by the other companies.

New festival hall or "Plan B"

In the course of 2011 there were several attempts to save the Beethoven Festspielhaus project from its final end. Alternatively, there were increasing voices in the city in favor of a “Plan B” that provides for the modernization of the Beethoven Hall instead of a new building.

On October 20, 2011, the City Council of Bonn passed a resolution in which it underlined the political will to “build a concert hall in Bonn that meets the highest acoustic standards”. Both the proponents of a new building and the proponents of "Plan B" agreed to this decision. In the resolution, the administration was commissioned to answer the still outstanding questions about the financing and location of a new festival hall. Based on this, a schedule should then be established for upcoming decisions.

On November 2, 2011, the administration submitted a draft resolution for the Council. In it, she suggested a location for a new building on the edge of the Rheinauenpark in the immediate vicinity of the Post Tower. With regard to the financing of the new building, there was only a promise from Post at that time to contribute € 30 million to the project. According to the proposal for a resolution, the gap of at least € 40–50 million should be closed by providing missing funds, in particular from companies and citizens from Bonn and the region. The draft resolution mentions 30 June 2012 as the deadline by which the financing issue should be clarified. Then the decision must be made as to whether a new concert hall can be built.

On November 24, 2011, the council decided on the condition that the post office promised the planned location in the Rheinaue and the financing of construction costs of € 30 million to commission the administration to develop a “concept for national and international Beethoven care ". Other components of the resolution are such that demolishing the Beethoven Hall is out of the question, the city will not contribute to the investment costs and the new house is to be built at the location in the immediate vicinity of the Post Tower. In addition, the administration was commissioned to prepare the establishment of the operator foundation, to limit the operation of the concert hall to "a responsible level, which is based on the framework of action specified by the medium-term financial planning and thus does not generate any additional burden on the budget" and to unite with the client Negotiating a contract for the land owned by the city. Furthermore, the administration should “determine the renovation costs that have to be used to keep the Beethovenhalle a. as a multifunctional hall / b. to operate as a high-quality concert hall ". As the deadline for clarifying whether the “investment and operating costs of a new concert hall can be financed in a binding and adequate manner”, the resolution named June 30, 2012 in accordance with the resolution proposed by the administration.

A group of supporters, the Freundeskreis "Grießl and friends", initiated by the President of the Bonn Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK), Wolfgang Grießl, started a campaign in autumn 2011 to secure part of the financing of the festival hall through civic and entrepreneurial commitment. The Freundeskreis wants to attract 5,000 entrepreneurs and citizens who will donate 1,000 euros a year for the new building over the next five years.

In a press conference on June 29, 2012, Mayor Jürgen Nimptsch presented the results of the work that the council had commissioned him to do together with representatives from the city of Bonn. The results are summarized in a communication template for the City Council of Bonn. In summary, the city headlined on its homepage: “The Beethoven Festival Hall is affordable”.

New start in 2014: Second architectural competition

On June 23, 2014, the City Council of Bonn cleared the way for the realization of the Beethoven Festspielhaus and provided a building site next to the old Beethoven Hall. At the same time, a (second) architectural competition financed by Deutsche Post DHL began, the results of which should be available at the end of October 2014.

End of the project

After Deutsche Telekom announced its withdrawal from the project in September 2010 and Postbank in September 2011 (see withdrawal of important donors ), the remaining sponsor, Deutsche Post, announced its withdrawal from the project in June 2015. Frank Appel , CEO of Deutsche Post AG, justified the decision by stating that the “necessary solidarity, especially in the city, failed to materialize”. The project has no future and is not sufficiently attractive for sponsors either. The project was therefore considered to be over. Bonn's Lord Mayor Jürgen Nimptsch regretted the Post's decision "extremely". Stephan Eisel , chairman of the Bonn cultural association “Citizens for Beethoven”, spoke of “a huge embarrassment for the Bonn mayor, his head of cultural affairs and local politics as a whole”.

Web links

City and sponsors

Resolution

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Principle decision of the Council of June 13, 2007.
  2. ↑ Festspielhaus Beethoven - Urban planning framework and objectives (PDF; 42 kB).
  3. ↑ a b Bernd Leyendecker: Lord Mayor pushes the pace at the Bonner Festspielhaus, in: General-Anzeiger, 19./20. April 2008.
  4. ↑ Bernhard Hartmann: Will the Festspielhaus come next to the Telekom headquarters ?, in: General-Anzeiger, December 12, 2009.
  5. ^ Statement of the administration dated February 4, 2010
  6. ↑ I believe in the convention center. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. February 19, 2010.
  7. ↑ Millions for Beethoven, in: Spiegel Online, February 2, 2008.
  8. ↑ Frank Appel: "Our commitments are," Frank Appel Interview with the General Anzeiger 16th August, 2008.
  9. ↑ Timotheus Höttges: Every German needs a DSL connection, in: General-Anzeiger, May 26, 2009.
  10. ↑ bonn.de: City prepares for the transfer of land in front of the Festspielhaus, December 19, 2008.
  11. ↑ homepage Karsten Witt music management
  12. ^ Letter from Karsten Witt to the City of Bonn on October 28, 2008.
  13. ↑ a b Die Post and the Festspielhaus Beethoven - A bad game, ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2010 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. www.rheinraum-online.de, March 17, 2010.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rheinraum-online.de
  14. ↑ Rolf Kleinfeld: City of Bonn is slipping ever deeper into the red, in: General-Anzeiger, March 21, 2009.
  15. ↑ a b Concept for the Beethoven Festspielhaus in Bonn, December 15, 2008.
  16. ↑ a b c template: Festspielhaus Beethoven - current status, November 12, 2009.
  17. ↑ Exhibition 30th anniversary Office by Karl-Heinz Schommer in the Kameha Grand Bonn.
  18. ↑ a b c Andreas Rossmann : World architecture at half price, in: FAZ, February 16, 2009.
  19. ↑ current competition: Beethoven Festspielhaus (Bonn)
  20. ↑ Competitions from March 23, 2009.
  21. ^ Zaha Hadid Architects - Beethoven Concert Hall
  22. ↑ Bernhard Hartmann: Question mark at the Festspielhaus, ( memento of the original from November 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: General-Anzeiger, November 20, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de
  23. ↑ "Explanation of the 'Fest.Spiel.Haus.Freunde'"
  24. ^ Application of Alliance 90 / Greens to the Festspielhaus dated February 9, 2009.
  25. ↑ General-Anzeiger, April 1, 2009.
  26. ↑ Coalition Agreement CDU - B90 / The Greens 2009–2014 ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2014 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. (PDF; 462 kB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gruene-bonn.de
  27. ^ All quotations - City of Bonn: The Beethoven Festspielhaus project is not to be pursued any further for the time being, April 21, 2010.
  28. ↑ General-Anzeiger (October 11, 2007): Beethoven-Festspielhaus: The opening concert is to take place on March 26, 2011. ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2009 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de
  29. ^ Festspielhaus Bonn: Statement by the administration, March 23, 2009.
  30. ↑ Thomas Agthe: Festspielhaus with question marks, in: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, November 27, 2007.
  31. ↑ General-Anzeiger Bonn, February 13, 2009, p. 10: Interview with state curator Udo Mainzer: The throw-away mentality is increasing . Also online: Bonn's Beethoven Hall - just to be thrown away? Interview with Udo Mainzer.
  32. ↑ Mathias Nofze: focus Beethovenhalle: preservation or demolition ?, in: General-Anzeiger, November 30, 2009.
  33. ↑ Festspielhaus: Telekom goes at a distance, in: General-Anzeiger, September 30, 2010.
  34. ↑ Postbank exits as an investor, General-Anzeiger, September 6, 2011
  35. ↑ Festspielhaus: Post does not want to pay alone, in: General-Anzeiger, 7 September 2011.
  36. ↑ DS 1113009EB56
  37. ^ City of Bonn - The Lord Mayor - DS 1113316.
  38. ^ Federal City of Bonn, amendment - printed matter no. 1113316AA2.
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