Friends of Hanover

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Freundeskreis Hannover e. V.
FKH Logo.png
legal form Nonprofit organization
founding Dec. 7, 1988
Seat Goseriede 15, 30159 Hanover
main emphasis History and culture of Hanover and the Hanover region
method Development and coordination of events
Chair Matthias Görn (Chair), Klaus E. Goehrmann (Honorary Chair)
Managing directors Katharina Sterzer
Members around 1500 (2016)
Website Freundeskreis-hannover.de

The Freundeskreis Hannover e. V. is a non-profit association for active citizen participation , which has set itself the goal of promoting art and culture in the city and region of Hanover .

history

The association was founded in 1988 as a forum for active citizen participation in preparation for the 750th anniversary of the city's foundation.

The Freundeskreis Hannover is with approx. 1,500 members of the largest civic association in the country. As an independent and non-profit citizens 'association, it is committed to a lively urban society with the aim of strengthening the citizens' identification with their city, supporting cultural initiatives, developing new ideas for the benefit of the city and its residents and promoting dialogue between citizens, business, Promote politics, science, cultures and religions.

To the activities of the Freundeskreis Hannover e. V. count z. B. Lectures and discussions on topics relevant to the city, support and advice for the cultural scene, visits to companies, institutions, authorities and facilities typical of Hanover, strengthening the regional concept by visiting the regional communities and, last but not least, communication and networking among the members.

Since 1995 the Freundeskreis Hannover e. V. the city culture prize endowed with € 5,000 annually.

For the Expo 2000 the Friends of Hanover organized the initiative We invite the world's youth to Germany . This should "enable young people from all over the world [...] to visit Germany and the world exhibition". The association arranged several thousand (often free) overnight accommodations for young people at the Expo and published the bilingual city guide Hanover - more than Expo / more than Expo , which was primarily aimed at young people with texts in scene jargon.

Change in management, (from left): Roger Cericius , Erwin Schütterle and Gil Maria Koebberling in 2013

In 2001 the Freundeskreis initiated the International A cappella week in Hanover, which has been held annually since then .

At the turn of the year 2011/2012, the former Hanover Tourism Service merged with the Friends of Hanover, which almost doubled its membership to 1,100.

In 2013, Managing Director Erwin Schütterle retired after years of service and handed over the management to Gil Maria Koebberling.

Awarding of the City Culture Prize 1995 (from left): Erwin Schütterle, Jot Claus, Dagmar Brand, Ute Blohm, Klaus E. Goehrmann

For the 775th anniversary of the city in 2016, the Freundeskreis Hannover e. V. organized the large citizens' festival with 20,000 visitors together with the state capital Hanover and designed the largest chalk image of Hanover on the Kröpcke for the municipal elections.

In the spring of 2017, long-time CEO Roger Cericius resigned from his position. His successor was his previous deputy Matthias Görn. Change also in the office: the new managing director is Katharina Sterzer.

City Culture Prize

View from the stage in the orangery of the Herrenhausen Gardens shortly before the award of the City Culture Prize 2016

The Freundeskreis Hannover is the initiator and holder of the City Culture Prize, which is awarded annually. The prize, at the time endowed with 10,000 DM , later with 5,000 euros, was awarded for the first time in 1995, and since 2012 a special prize has been awarded for outstanding civic engagement.

Fonts

  • Project group 750-year-celebration, office Freundeskreis Hannover (Red.): Preview of the year 750th city anniversary Hannover. Festival program 1991 , ed. from the state capital Hanover, the Oberstadtdirektor, Hanover: Hahn-Druckerei (printing), 1990
  • Dietmar Elger : Exterior downtown. An exhibition of the Sprengel Museum Hannover together with the Freundeskreis Hannover e. V., October 1991 , Hanover, 1991, ISBN 3-89169-064-9
  • Heide N. Rohloff: Royal-Great Britain-Hanoverian reminiscences. The royal seat in the early 19th century (= series of publications by the English Department of the University of Hanover ), accompanying volume for the exhibition, for the Hannoversch-Britische Gesellschaft e. V. and the Freundeskreis Hannover e. V., English Seminar of the University of Hanover, Hanover 1991, ISBN 3-923522-02-9
  • Sonja Brandt (Red.), Kerstin Günther, Susanne Kummer, Sabine Matthes (collaborator): Views on Hanover. The most beautiful works from Hanover schools for the 750th anniversary of the city , publisher: Freundeskreis Hannover e. V., Colorset, Hanover [1991]
  • Dorothée Beckhoff: United Nations of Hanover. A contribution to multicultural city life; City anniversary 1991 , ed. from the Freundeskreis Hannover e. V., Postskriptum-Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-922382-63-0 and ISBN 978-3-922382-63-8
  • Gabriele Hausmann, Dirk Bethge, Hassan Mahramzadeh: Hanover: Seasons of a City , ed. in cooperation with the Freundeskreis Hannover e. V., Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1993, ISBN 3-87706-368-3 and ISBN 978-3-87706-368-2
  • Renate Baumgart, Wolfgang Schatz: What a theater! The independent theater scene in Hanover. Published by the Freundeskreis Hannover, Hannover: Freundeskreis Hannover [Röselerstraße 2, Legal Office], 1994
  • Hans Werner Dannowski , Gisela Jansen (Ed.), Julia Otto (Red.): An art museum "In the middle of traffic". The sculpture mile of Hanover [75,000 cars a day or how the sculpture mile reinvents streets and urban space] , ed. from the Freundeskreis Hannover, with the collaboration of Michael Stoeber , Lothar Romain , Timm Ulrichs and Robert Simon , Hannover: Freundeskreis Hannover, 2010, ISBN 3-00-031380-X and ISBN 978-3-00-031380-6 ; contents
  • Julia Förster, Sandra de Loo, Jobst Wolter (Red.): H-town presente. Young City Guide Hannover , guide to the Expo 2000 in German and English, 192 pages plus removable city and Uestraplan , 200,000 copies, published by the Freundeskreis Hannover e. V., Hanover: Friends of Hanover, May 2000
  • Freundeskreis Hannover Magazin , ed. from the Freundeskreis Hannover e. V., from October 2006 in three episodes published twice a year magazine, IDN: 104611137X, ZDB-ID: 2749593-0

literature

  • Jens Bielke, Jens-C. Schulze: Our claim: A city worth living in , Interview with Roger Cericius , Chairman of the Freundeskreis Hannover, from March 16, 2010, in: magaScene , Edition 4 of 2000, pp. 7-13.
  • Simone Niemann: in conversation: the citoyen. In: Stadtkind , issue 2 from 2011.
  • Klaus Mlynek : Freundeskreis Hannover e. V .. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 191; limited preview in Google Book search
  • Jens Bielke, Stephanie Ristig-Bresser (Red.): 25 years of the Freundeskreis Hannover e. V. We congratulate Hannover's emotional center , special issue of the magazine Hannover Live , Hannover: Stroetmann Verlag, December 2013

Web links

Commons : Freundeskreis Hannover  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jens Bielke, Cora Beckmann, Hauns-Ulrich Meißner, Reinhard Stroetmann, Karsten Wende (Red.): City talk , in this: Hannover live , April 2017 edition, p. 8f .; here: p. 8
  2. ↑ a b N.N. : Freundeskreis Hannover - At the start, the club lets it pop. In: HAZ of December 1, 2008, p. 6 f.
  3. ↑ a b c Klaus Mlynek: Freundeskreis Hannover e. V. (see literature)
  4. ↑ jk: Expo guests / insurance company sets up youth office. In: HAZ of February 4, 1999.
  5. ↑ NN: Expo News. Beds for young Expo visitors. In: Hello on Sunday of August 22, 1999
  6. ^ NN: More than Expo. In: ran . The young magazine of the trade unions , No. G 1394 from 07/2000 [newspaper clipping in the archive of the Freundeskreis, without handwritten page numbering]
  7. ↑ NN: P 105 EXPO 2000: City Guide for Young People In: Travel News. Press and market information service of the German National Tourist Board , issue No. 7, July / August 2000, p. 3
  8. ↑ Compare this information in the imprint for the brochure A Cappella ...
  9. ↑ Heike Schmidt: Merger is successful / Freundeskreis Hannover is now independent , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of March 6, 2012, accessed on April 29, 2012
  10. ↑ Sonja Fröhlich: Sincere words to say goodbye / Erwin Schütterle is retiring, successor wants to better network the Freundeskreis. In: HAZ of March 6, 2013
  11. ↑ 775 years Hanover: "Today we are all birthday children" , HAZ, June 26, 2016
  12. ^ Conrad von Meding: This is the largest chalk picture in the city , HAZ, September 9, 2016
  13. ^ Conrad von Meding: Change of Head in the Circle of Friends , HAZ, March 1, 2017
  14. ↑ Circle of Friends fights for an open society , HAZ, March 9, 2017
  15. ↑ Stadtkulturpreis , list of winners with photos and laudation
  16. ↑ 25 years of the Freundeskreis Hannover e. V. (No longer available online.) In: Jubilee brochure, p. 9. Archived from the original on March 12, 2015 ; accessed on January 26, 2019 . 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.freundeskreis-hannover.de
  17. ↑ Michael Krische : City Culture Prize for the art campaign "Wintergärten" in Güntherstrasse. In: Neue Presse of March 4, 1995, p. 6.
  18. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : 1996. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 59.
  19. ^ Winner of the City Culture Prize 2015 , hannover.de , December 3, 2015, accessed on December 3, 2017.
  20. ↑ Stadtkulturpreis 2016 goes to Prof. Siegfried Neuenhausen , hannover.de , December 6, 2016
  21. ↑ Stadtkulturpreis 2017 goes to Felix Landerer , hannover.de , November 28, 2017
  22. ^ Orangery: City Culture Prize for choreographer Felix Landerer , HAZ, November 28, 2017
  23. ↑ Fertmann awarded city culture prize , NDR.de , December 3, 2018
  24. ↑ [1] , haz.de , December 3, 2019

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 41 ″  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 52.6 ″  E