Hammoniale
The Hammoniale - Festival of Women was an international biennial of women artists in Hamburg, which took place for the first time from mid-August to mid-September 1986 and then every two years until 1999.
The Hammoniale was initiated by Eva Mattes and Irmgard Schleier ; the co-initiators included Ida Ehre , Donata Höffer , Angelika Thomas , Hélène Vida-Liebermann , Angela Winkler and Hanna Schwarz . They had come together in the association “Festival of Women”. Eva Mattes took over the chairmanship, the festival director Irmgard Schleier, from 1994 Isabella Vértes-Schütter . The main theme of the festival was the motto of the World Conference on Women in Nairobi in 1985: For Equality - Against Hunger and Poverty - For Peace.
The first woman Festival in 1986 with theater, dance, music and art exhibitions was the prelude to thirteen Hamburg artists Biennale, as Hammoniale the name of the patron goddess of Hamburg Hammonia wore and the only cross-genre artists festival in Europe encouragement heard far beyond Hamburg. Every two years the festival offered a diverse, international program that offered “women artists as producers” a special forum and in which “the presence of women in art was emphasized”. The festival took place mainly on Kampnagel .
According to Der Spiegel, the Hammoniale 1992 was a “surprising mixture of folklore and avant-garde”. Singers from South Africa and Zaire, Pakistan, Kurdistan, Mauritania and Mongolia took part with the Azerbaijani jazz pianist Aziza Mustafa Zadeh and the Scottish solo drummer Evelyn Glennie . One focus was Finland in literary and musical terms, and another on dance theater with six young groups from France, Spain, Italy and again Finland. The guest of honor was the then 79-year-old photographer Gisèle Freund , who celebrated the festival with an exhibition.
After a controversial decision by the Hamburg cultural authority, savings in the cultural sector meant that the Hammoniale was held for the last time in 1999.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hammoniale - Festival of Women , website by Eva Mattes
- ↑ Der Spiegel 21/1992
- ↑ Gisèle Freund, the woman with the camera . Photographs 1929 - 1988. An exhibition of the Hammoniale - Festival of Women 1992, Schirmer- Mosel ( Worldcat )
- ↑ Journal for Cultural Exchange, Volume 49/1999, Institute for Foreign Relations, p. 97
- ^ Rolf Hosfeld: Kulturverführer Hamburg 2006, Helmut Metz Verlag, p. 216