Kampnagel

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Factory hall, theater entrance, November 2012
The halls of the cultural center on the Kampnagel site
Factory premises
Kampnagel AG (formerly Nagel & Kaemp) share of RM 100 from December 1941

Kampnagel is a former machine factory in Hamburg-Winterhude , founded in 1865 , which has been used as an event location for contemporary performing arts since 1982 . Since 2007 the Kulturfabrik has been managed by director Amelie Deuflhard . In addition to international guest performances, the performance scene and free groups such as She She Pop , Gob Squad , Showcase Beat Le Mot and others find a stage here. The Kampnagel program has included various festivals since 1985, the International Summer Theater Festival (until 2001), the Hammoniale women's festival (1986–1999), the international dance theater festival (1987), the LAOKOON summer festival (2001–2006) and the Hamburg International Summer Festival. The Hamburg International Summer Festival has been held annually since 2008; it was directed by Matthias von Hartz until 2012, and András Siebold took over the artistic direction in 2013.

history

Machine factory

Nagel & Kaemp, civil engineers, was founded in 1865 . The founders were August Christian Nagel (1836–1912) and Reinhold Hermann Kaemp (1837–1899). Nagel was considered an inventor, Kaemp the agile businessman. In 1875 the company set up its own machine factory in Winterhude on the navigable lower reaches of the Osterbek . At the beginning of 1889 the company was converted into a stock corporation and operated under the name Eisenwerk (formerly Nagel & Kaemp) AG .

After rice mills were first manufactured, from 1890 the company made a name for itself primarily as a manufacturer of ship and harbor cranes. In competition with the stationary cranes customary up to that time, the company built mobile lifting vehicles. Nagel & Kaemp is the model for the machine factory N. & K. in Willi Bredel 's first novel of the same name (there also: Negel & Kopp). Bredel, who worked as a lathe operator at Nagel & Kaemp in the 1920s, spoke from the perspective of the communist organized worker of the labor struggles between factory and workers and of the conflicts between social democrats and communists .

In 1934 the company name (company) was changed to Kampnagel AG (formerly Nagel & Kaemp) . From 1939 to 1945 Kampnagel, like many other machine factories, was used to produce armaments.

After the end of the Second World War, the production of the original products, loading technology for ships, was resumed. The company was internationally successful: cranes with the Kampnagel logo on the back can still be found in many ports around the world. With the advent of container shipping in international goods traffic, the demand for the general cargo cranes manufactured by Kampnagel sank drastically in the 1960s . In 1968 the company was sold to the later Mannesmann risen Demag AG sold. After the sale, forklift trucks were produced until 1981. Two crane construction companies already belonged to DEMAG, and one had a production program very similar to that of Kampnagel. What at first looked like a rounding off could later give the impression of an elimination tactic. DEMAG commissioned McKinsey to conduct a market analysis. It found that very soon cranes were being built in a number of other countries whose development was making rapid progress. The sales opportunities for German cranes would therefore decline, and DEMAG would do better to close one of the two factories. The DEMAG management followed the advice and announced the end for Kampnagel in 1981.

Cultural center

Alabama Cinema on Kampnagel

After the machine factory was closed in 1981, the site fell to the City of Hamburg. The original plan was to demolish the halls and build residential buildings. However, the demolition was initially postponed because the Deutsches Schauspielhaus needed alternative quarters for large parts of its operations in its parent house during construction.

From October 5, 1982 on, the five-day festival cast rehearsal took place on the Kampnagel site , organized by independent Hamburg theater groups.

After the Schauspielhaus returned to its parent company in 1984, the city responded to the request of the independent theater groups to keep Kampnagel available to them as a venue. However, the planned demolition was still only suspended, and the decision only applied to six of the halls and “as long as [the performances] are accepted by the public”. From 1985 regular theater operations took place under the artistic direction of a committee chosen by the independent groups working on Kampnagel, which Hannah Hurtzig and Mücke Quinckhardt appointed as organizers. Dieter Jaenicke organized the first International Summer Dance Theater Festival.

In 1990 a sponsoring association was founded, which was converted into Kampnagel Internationale Kulturfabrik GmbH in 1993 . Although Kampnagel was now largely independent, the cultural authority of the city of Hamburg , which had been responsible for the cultural business from the start , retained control over the activities by appointing the Senator for Culture as chairwoman of the supervisory board. In 1997 the city sold part of the property and had the buildings on it demolished. The promise to make six art halls available, however, was kept. Extensive renovation work was carried out on these six halls by 1998.

Since October 21, 1993 is located in the former factory building Helga the cinema Alabama .

In 2007 the lease with the municipal Sprinkenhof AG was extended to 2030 Template: future / in 5 years. The German Dance Platform took place there in 2014 .

Kampnagel belongs to the alliance of international production houses .

literature

  • Carl Naske: 60 years of Nagel & Kaemp, a contribution to the history of the machine industry in Hamburg, Hamburg 1924
  • Dieter Thiele, Reinhard Saloch: From meadow ground to industrial belt, canal trips through past and present, VSA: Hamburg, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-87975-865-4

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Article in the Hamburger Morgenpost from August 15, 2006
  2. ↑ History at http://www.kampnagel.de
  3. ↑ Sven Bardua: Kampnagel - a Hamburg machine factory, in Industriekultur 2.20, Essen 2020, pp. 10-13
  4. ↑ Sven Bardua: Kampnagel - a Hamburg machine factory, in Industriekultur 2.20, Essen 2020, pp. 10-13
  5. ↑ a b Article on Kampnagel on the official city portal for the Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Hamburg.de, accessed on March 14, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Dieter Thiele / Reinhard Saloch (history workshop Hamburg-Barmbek): From Wiesengrund to the industrial belt , VSA: Verlag, Hamburg 2002, pp. 116–117, ISBN 3-87975-865-4 .
  7. ↑ Alabama. In: Hamburg Film and Television Museum. Retrieved December 15, 2019 .
  8. ^ Theater Kampnagel Hamburg: History - Kampnagel. In: www.kampnagel.de. Retrieved August 25, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Melanie Suchy: The women's trio dribbles like a disco. In: The world . March 6, 2014, accessed June 19, 2016 .
  10. ^ Esther Slevogt: Alliance of International Production Houses and International Dance Center planned. Retrieved September 28, 2018 (German).

Web links

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Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 59 ″  N , 10 ° 1 ′ 15 ″  E