Kaiserkeller
The Kaiserkeller is a music club in Hamburg in the St. Pauli district . It is part of the music club Große Freiheit 36 and is located in its basement.
Bruno Koschmider (1926–2000), a former trapeze artist, opened the small strip club Indra on the Große Freiheit in Hamburg in 1950 . In October 1959 he opened the much larger Kaiserkeller at Grosse Freiheit 36, with space for 700 guests.
At that time there was only rock music from the British soldier broadcaster BFBS and Chris Howland with his Saturday Club on WDR . The Kaiserkeller was the first club in Germany to regularly bring rock music live to the stage. The first group was Tony Sheridan with his group The Jets . Allan Williams from Liverpool brokered English bands for Koschmider at low prices. So later groups like Rory Storm & the Hurricanes , Howie Casey and Derry Wilkie & the Seniors and the Beatles came to the Kaiserkeller. But German bands also performed, such as Cisco and his Dynamites . In the beginning it was bands who played foreign hits.
Web links
- Great Freedom Website 36
- 4. Germany Calling of the book Twist And Shout - Merseybeat, The Cavern, The Star-Club and the Beatles (English)
- Hamburg: Beatle Clubs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hunter Davis: The Beatles Book , Random House, 2016 ( preview on googlebooks )
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '4.3 " N , 9 ° 57' 28.6" E