Culture in Frankfurt am Main

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The Alte Oper on Opernplatz in Frankfurt am Main

The range of culture in Frankfurt am Main is diverse and varied. Around 20 stages , 30 independent theater groups and over 60 museums as well as exhibition houses compete for audiences not only in the city but also far beyond.

Liberal citizenship instead of courtly splendor

The Städel Art Museum bears the name of its founder, Johann Friedrich Städel .

From the Middle Ages to the 19th century, Frankfurt was a bourgeois city ​​republic , never a royal seat . While ruling princes in cities of comparable importance expanded their capital into a cultural center, the Frankfurters had to build their own cultural sites. This initial situation promoted a bourgeois public spirit, which was reflected in numerous foundations and a lively patronage .

Many of the city's cultural institutions are owed to this civic spirit of earlier generations, for example the Museum Society , the Polytechnic Society or the Städel . The Kronberg painters 'colony founded in 1858 also had no courtly support and was based on private initiative; it was one of the earliest painters' colonies in Germany. Gustave Courbet's stay in the middle of the 19th century was also based on the fact that there was an important group of buyers for art in Frankfurt society. The fact that art and culture in Frankfurt had no courtly patrons also contributed to an exodus of artists. The painter August Weber left Frankfurt, followed in 1858 by Jakob Maurer and Anton Burger to Düsseldorf.

Numerous donors, including many Jewish citizens of Frankfurt, created collections and institutions that still exist today. In 1925 the large-scale urban development program Neues Frankfurt was initiated, which included architecture and design as well as the entire cultural and educational sector.

The time of National Socialism and the destruction of the Second World War also marked a deep turning point for Frankfurt's cultural life. Jewish cultural workers and patrons were murdered or left the country. Painting and exhibition bans for artists defamed as degenerate caused lasting damage to the art scene. While the theaters flourished again shortly after the end of the war, the galleries and art took much longer to build.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Frankfurt was considered the capital of the economic miracle , but not yet a national cultural center. It was not until the 1970s that Frankfurt was expanded into a cultural city again. Symbols for this were the reconstruction of the old opera, which was destroyed in the war, and the expansion of the Sachsenhausen bank of the Main (Schaumainkai) into a museum bank . In the absence of solvent patrons, this expansion was primarily promoted with public funds; In the 1980s, Frankfurt had the highest cultural budget of all major German cities .

Since the 1990s, mass cultural events in particular have developed, such as the annual Museumsuferfest or the Sound of Frankfurt open-air festival . Concerts are also occasionally held in the Commerzbank Arena in summer . Numerous summer street and cultural festivals take place in the city ​​center and the districts. The most important of them is the Höchst Castle Festival .

Frankfurt's cultural life also includes the trade fairs , in particular the Frankfurt Book Fair , the Music Fair and the fine art fair frankfurt , which took place from 1989 to 2005 under the name Art Frankfurt .

Media in Frankfurt am Main

The old trade fair and trading city is a traditional hub for news. The “free urban air” of the imperial city made it possible to publish publications that would have fallen victim to censorship in monarchies . The first newspapers appeared here early, such as the Frankfurter Postzeitung (1615–1866) or the Frankfurter Journal (1639–1903). The Frankfurter Latern , published by Friedrich Stoltze from 1860 to 1891 , was one of the most important satirical sheets of the 19th century. Until the beginning of National Socialism, Leopold Sonnemann 's Frankfurter Zeitung, founded in 1856, was one of the leaders in Germany. Today two of the four most important quality newspapers in the republic appear here: the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau . With its well-known feature section , the former is one of the most important voices in the German cultural landscape.

But Frankfurt is also a broadcasting location rich in tradition. After Berlin and Leipzig , the Südwestdeutsche Rundfunkdienst on the Zeil opened in 1924 as the third radio broadcaster in Germany. One of the co-founders was Fritz von Opel .

The most important electronic media in the region today are the Hessischer Rundfunk with a television and five radio programs, its own radio symphony orchestra and its own radio big band , as well as the ZDF , which originated in Frankfurt but is now based in nearby Mainz . With the literary quartet with Marcel Reich-Ranicki, the ZDF broadcast one of the most important cultural programs on German television.

theatre

Spoken theater

The Comoedienhaus was Frankfurt's city theater from 1782 to 1902
The old theater on Theaterplatz, opened in 1902 and partially destroyed in the Second World War

In 1592 the visit of an English comedian troupe to the autumn fair in Frankfurt is attested for the first time . In the following centuries traveling groups of actors played again and again , mostly at masses or the coronations of the emperors . In 1736 the famous Caroline Neuber troupe made a guest appearance in Frankfurt. There was no permanent venue, instead the traveling groups of actors erected stage tents for their guest performances or played in pubs. For a long time, mostly antics and impromptu comedies were performed. Towards the end of the 18th century, the first idealistic dramas emerged during the storm and stress . The desire for a permanent theater building also arose in the citizens of Frankfurt. Against the resistance of the Lutheran clergy , who considered the comedy to be sinful and contrary to the Word of God and the Holy Baptism Covenant, the council pushed through the construction.

On September 3, 1782, the curtain of the newly built Comoedienhaus on the north side of what was then Theaterplatz (today Rathenauplatz ) in the Neustadt was raised. The classicist building by city architect Johann Andreas Liebhardt aroused great admiration when it opened. Gustav Friedrich Großmann became the first theater director . 1784 was the spectacle in the new building Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich Schiller premiered. The most famous Frankfurt actor of the 19th century was Samuel Friedrich Hassel , important Frankfurt playwrights were Carl Malß and Adolf Stoltze .

The old city theater was closed in 1902, laid down in 1911 and replaced by a splendid commercial building. On November 1, 1902, the new theater opened , a monumental Art Nouveau building at the Gallustor (since then Theaterplatz , today Willy-Brandt-Platz ), which under the long-time director Emil Claar (director from 1879 to 1912) and his successors has become one of the most important theaters of the country developed.

In 1933, the synchronization of the theater after the National Socialist seizure of power caused a turning point . Numerous authors were banned, Jewish actors were dismissed or expelled. Only the Römerberg Festival , summer open-air productions against the backdrop of the Römer , provided international splendor until 1939.

In 1945, all Frankfurt theaters were in ruins due to the air raids on Frankfurt am Main . Shortly after the end of the war, the Städtische Bühnen began operating again in the few undamaged halls of Frankfurt, in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the former Reichsender Frankfurt on Eschersheimer Landstrasse . Carl Luley and his partners Anny Hannewald and Else Knott were among the most popular actors of the time . From 1949 to 1951 the theater, which was damaged in the war, was restored and then mainly used for the opera. However, it soon turned out to be too small, so that it was rebuilt again in 1959–1963. A new building ( Small House ) was built for the theater , while the hall of the former theater was used as the Large House by the Frankfurt Opera in the future . The old Art Nouveau facade was torn down and replaced by a 120 meter long glass facade.

In the fifties and sixties, the Schauspiel Frankfurt built on earlier successes under the artistic director Harry Buckwitz . Peter Palitzsch , director from 1972 to 1980, introduced the participation model in the theater. Various productions caused political scandals during this time, for example Medea by Euripides ( staged in 1975 by Hans Neuenfels ) and Days of the Commune by Bertolt Brecht (1977 in the German autumn by Palitzsch). After an interim period under Wilfried Minks and Johannes Schaaf , Adolf Dresen (1981–1985), Günther Rühle (1985–1990), Hans Peter Doll (1990/91), Peter Eschberg (1991–2001), Elisabeth Schweeger (2001–2009 ) took over successively ) and since then Oliver Reese has been running the house, which however has not been able to build on the reputation of earlier times.

The Bockenheimer depot near the university : formerly the depot of the Frankfurt tram , today the municipal stage

While the Kammerspiel had already been closed as an independent division of the city theaters in the 1980s, there were two more theaters under its roof until it was closed in 2004: The Theater am Turm (TAT) was the Rhein-Main regional stage of the Frankfurter Bund für Volksbildung in 1953 was founded. It played in the former Volksbildungsheim am Eschenheimer Tor until 1995 , since 1963 under the name Theater am Turm . In 1966 the legendary public abuse by Peter Handke was premiered here under the direction of Claus Peymann (Artistic Director 1965–1969) . In the 1970s, Rainer Werner Fassbinder became director of the TAT for a short time. The performance of his 1974 play Der Müll, die Stadt und die Tod about the Frankfurt urban warfare was canceled after protests because the figure of the rich Jew used in it served anti-Semitic stereotypes. Fassbinder left the theater. After a temporary closure in 1978/79, the TAT was until 1986 a venue for free experimental groups and international artists such as Vivienne Newport's dance company . After that, numerous international guest productions were created.

With the conversion of the Volksbildungsheim into the Metropolis cinema , the venue was relocated to the Bockenheimer Depot , a former depot of the Frankfurt tram , in 1995 . At the same time, the TAT was incorporated into the municipal theaters as a division. It escaped closure several times in the following years. The subsidies were continuously cut until the end of May 2004 the curtain finally fell for the last time.

In addition to the municipal theaters, there are a number of private theaters in Frankfurt, some of which are funded by public and some by private funds and whose productions are usually well attended:

  • The Volkstheater Frankfurt , founded by the well-known popular actress Liesel Christ , played from 1971 to 2013 in the Cantate Hall next to the Goethe House . In addition to dialectical pieces and classical entertainment pieces, the repertoire also included arrangements of classical dramas, contemporary pieces and rediscoveries of older stage literature. At the end of the 2012/13 season, the Volkstheater was closed because the theater building was being demolished.
  • In 1950 a small boulevard theater opened on Roßmarkt under the direction of Helmut Kollek. Since the repertoire mainly comprised comedies , the theater was also called this after moving to Neue Mainzer Strasse in 1963: Die Komödie . In 1972 Claus Helmer took over the management of the theater, which has been playing in a new building in the same location since 1999.
The Fritz Rémond Theater in the zoo
  • In 1947 , Fritz Rémond (1902–1976) from Cologne founded the Small Theater in the Zoo, which is located in the Zoo Society House . Mainly classical and modern dramas were played in this theater. Rémond succeeded time and again in bringing prominent actors to his small theater, including Curd Jürgens , Karlheinz Böhm , Martin Held , Inge Meysel and Heinz Rühmann . The actors Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff and Boy Gobert began their stage careers in the Kleiner Theater im Zoo . After the death of his patron, the theater was continued by Lothar Baumgarten and later by his son Egon Baumgarten under the name Fritz Rémond Theater . In 1995 it ran into economic difficulties. It was taken over by Claus Helmers, who is also the director of the theater Die Komödie . Game operations continued at the old location.
  • The catacomb was founded in 1960 by a team of directors as Frankfurt's cellar theater . The ensemble has been playing in a former cinema on Pfingstweidstrasse since 1982. The repertoire includes political reviews , dramatizations of literary material (e.g. Effi Briest ) and pieces for children and young people .
  • The Freie Theaterhaus Frankfurt stages drama and puppet theater, European classics and contemporary authors for a young audience from 3 years of age, organizes performances for schools and children's institutions, readings with breakfast for the whole family, good night theater for children, late night and midnight performances for adult fans .
  • The Gallus Theater was created in 1983 from the teatro siciliano di gallus , a district theater founded in 1978 by Italian youngsters. Since 1998 it has been playing in the rooms of the former Adlerwerke , an industrial site in Gallus that was closed in 1992 .
  • The theater in Schützenstrasse has been the venue for various independent theater groups since 1991. Since 2003 it has concentrated entirely on productions for children and young people. The shareholders of the theater house include the children's and youth theater TheaterGrueneSosse , which has been in existence for over 20 years , the Klappmaul Theater and the theater Die Traumtänzer .

Cabaret and Variety Show

Cabaret artist Matthias Beltz

The city's best-known variety theater was the Albert Schumann Theater at the main train station . The building, which opened in 1905 as Circus Schumann , offered space for 5,000 visitors under its 28 meter high dome. The monumental building with its two corner towers, damaged in the air war , was demolished in 1961 and replaced by a modern office building.

Today's top address in the vaudeville theater is the Tigerpalast, founded in 1988 by Johnny Klinke and Margareta Dillinger . The success of the Tigerpalast sparked a renaissance of variety in Germany. The New Theater Höchst has been playing in a former cinema in the Höchst district since 1987 . The TiTS-Theater ( theater in the dance school ) founded in 1994 by the travesty artist Thomas Bäppler is a small private theater.

Musical theater

The opera and theater on Willy-Brandt-Platz

The Frankfurt Opera is the most important music theater in Frankfurt . It was named Opera House of the Year in 1995 and 2003 by Opernwelt magazine .

In 1700 a French opera company made a guest appearance in Frankfurt for the first time , mainly performing pieces by Jean-Baptiste Lully . Later on, there were repeated guest performances, for example in 1745 by the Italian troupe of Petrus Mingotti, whose Kapellmeister also included Christoph Willibald Gluck . After the Comoedienhaus was built in 1782, operas were also performed here. From 1817 to 1819 Louis Spohr was Kapellmeister at the Frankfurt Theater, whose operas Faust and Zemire and Azor were premiered here.

In 1880 the new opera house , built by Richard Lucae , was opened at the former Bockenheimer Tor , which has been called Opernplatz ever since . Today the building is known nationwide under the name Alte Oper . The opera was built at a very high cost of 6 million marks for the time and was directed by Artistic Director Emil Claar until 1900 . The first Kapellmeister was Felix Otto Dessoff from 1880 to 1892 , followed by Ludwig Rottenberg from 1892 to 1924 . Numerous contemporary works by Hans Pfitzner , Claude Debussy , Richard Strauss , Leoš Janáček , Béla Bartók and Paul Hindemith have been performed under his long-standing leadership .

From 1916 to 1924 Paul Hindemith was concertmaster of the Frankfurt Opera House and Museum Orchestra. From 1924 to 1929 Clemens Krauss was general music director. His successor was Hans Wilhelm Steinberg , who was expelled from office by the National Socialists in 1933. Well-known ensemble members during the Weimar Republic were the tenor Franz Völker and the contralto Magda Spiegel , who was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.

Numerous works by modern composers were premiered at the Frankfurt Opera, including four operas by Franz Schreker and in 1937 the Carmina Burana by Carl Orff .

In 1944 the opera was destroyed in the bombing war. After more than 30 years as the most beautiful ruin in Germany , the reconstruction, completed in 1981, began in 1976. It was supported by a citizens' initiative, the Alte Oper Action Group , but was mainly financed from tax revenues. The old opera now serves as a concert hall and congress center.

The first opera director after the Second World War was Bruno Vondenhoff . In 1951 the opera was able to move into its new venue in the former theater. Under the general music director Georg Solti (1952–1961), the opera quickly moved back up among the top houses in Europe . The ensemble has been invited to numerous guest performances abroad. From 1960 to 1962, the Frankfurt Opera received seven first prizes at the Paris Festival Theater des Nations . During the nine years under Solti, the Frankfurt Opera experienced 35 premieres, staged by directors such as Arno Assmann , Harry Buckwitz and Leopold Lindtberg . Well-known singers in the Frankfurt ensemble were the bass-baritone Theo Adam and the soprano Anny Schlemm .

Under Solti's successor, Lovro von Matačić (1961–1966), the Frankfurt Opera was able to maintain its level. The repertoire in the sixties comprised around 30 productions, most of which came from well-known directors such as Walter Felsenstein , Bohumil Herlischka , Otto Schenk and Wieland Wagner .

After a two-year interregnum under Theodore Bloomfield , from 1968 the new general music director Christoph von Dohnányi led the opera back to internationally recognized successes. The ensemble has been rejuvenated. Soloists such as June Card , Anja Silja , William Cochran and Manfred Schenk shaped the new productions. After Dohnányi's departure, Michael Gielen took over the management of the opera from 1977 to 1987 . His bold, aesthetically and politically provocative productions, which were created in conjunction with the dramaturge Klaus Zehelein and directors such as Ruth Berghaus and Hans Neuenfels , met with critical acclaim, but at times divided the Frankfurt audience and even the ensemble. At the end of the Gielen era, however, recognition prevailed: for the first time after the war, a complete Ring des Nibelungen was staged under Gielen's direction in Frankfurt . The Gielen era saw the German premiere of Luigi Nono's Al gran sole carico d'amore and the premiere of Hans Zender's Stephen Climax .

Gielen's successor was Gary Bertini in 1987 . Shortly after taking office on November 12, 1987, the Frankfurt Opera was completely burned down by arson . Although the reconstruction began immediately, the house could only be reopened on April 6, 1991. Bertini left Frankfurt again in 1991, so that almost his entire term of office was characterized by temporary arrangements. At that time the opera was played in the theater, while the theater moved to the Bockenheimer depot . Nevertheless, there was also a world premiere under Bertini in Frankfurt, namely John Cage's Europeras 1 & 2 .

From 1992 to 1997 Sylvain Cambreling was general music director of the Frankfurt Opera. During this time there were numerous important productions by directors such as Peter Mussbach ( Wozzeck , Don Giovanni , Le nozze di Figaro ), Herbert Wernicke ( The Ring of the Nibelung ) and Christoph Marthaler ( Fidelio ). Under his leadership, the Frankfurt Opera was voted Opera House of the Year for the first time in 1995. Nevertheless, a decline also falls during this period, which is expressed in declining performance and audience numbers.

Paolo Carignani has been General Music Director in Frankfurt since 1999 . With numerous new productions, including seldom performed works, the Frankfurt Opera was able to maintain its high level despite annual budget reductions. In the 2002/2003 season, the opera, which has been directed by Artistic Director Bernd Loebe since 2002 , was named “Opera House of the Year” for the second time. Carignani's successor was Sebastian Weigle at the beginning of the 2008/2009 season .

The Frankfurt Chamber Opera, founded by Rainer Pudenz in 1982, is a small music theater that has meanwhile realized around 50 productions at constantly changing venues. The productions include rarely performed works such as Mozart's Drama Director or Pergolesi's La serva padrona , but also classic buffa operas by Rossini and Donizetti . During the summer holidays, the chamber opera plays every year on an open-air stage in the orchestra shell in the palm garden .

There are three more opera houses in the Rhine-Main area, namely the state theaters in Wiesbaden , Mainz and Darmstadt .

Dance theater

The Frankfurt Ballet was closed in 2004. The previous director, William Forsythe , has been continuing his program with The Forsythe Company since April 2005 . The venues are the Festspielhaus Hellerau in Dresden and the Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt.

Cross-disciplinary theater

Theater in the Naxoshalle : The Seagull ( teAtrum VII , 2007)

Since 1988 the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm has resided in a building of the old Mouson soap factory in Waldschmidtstraße in the Ostend district , whose program covers a wide spectrum: from dance to theater, music, performance , visual arts, media art, literature, film, radio drama and even "Club type". The founding director was Dieter Buroch . The house is part of an informal network of institutionalized and internationally oriented independent theaters in Germany, including kampnagel in Hamburg, the Sophiensäle and Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin.

Very close to the Mousonturm is the Naxos-Halle , a listed former factory hall at Wittelsbacherallee 29. It has been used by the city for cultural events since 1999 and has been the venue for the Willy Praml Theater since 2000 and the teAtrum experimental stage since 2007 VII . But it is also available for guest performances by other artists.

music

Concert halls

The large broadcasting hall of the Hessischer Rundfunk am Dornbusch
The Centennial Hall in Unterliederbach

The most important concert hall is the Alte Oper , which reopened in 1981 . The large hall offers space for around 2,450 visitors, the Mozart hall , which is mainly used for chamber music and cabaret, around 720. Numerous series of concerts are offered, some of which are organized by the Alte Oper itself, but the majority with partners. The events cover a wide spectrum, from symphony and chamber concerts, song recitals to concerts with old and new music, but also jazz, rock and pop, light muse and cabaret. In the summer or during the Christmas season, en suite events , some of which last several weeks , take place with dance, musicals and children's programs.

The festival hall in the exhibition grounds in Westend was built in 1907–1909 as a multi-purpose hall. Depending on the seating, it offers space for up to 10,000 visitors. The festival hall mainly hosts concerts by well-known international artists, but also sports and shows.

The large broadcasting hall of the Hessischer Rundfunk is part of the broadcasting house on Dornbusch . The listed rotunda was planned when Frankfurt was hoping to become the federal capital ; it was designed as a plenary hall for the German Bundestag . Until the old opera was rebuilt, the Hessischer Rundfunk symphony concerts took place here. Today it is used for youth concerts, matinées and radio productions, among other things .

The construction of the Jahrhunderthalle Frankfurt in Frankfurt-Unterliederbach began in 1963 on the centenary of the Hoechst paint factory. The multi-purpose hall was opened in 1965 . It quickly acquired an important place in Frankfurt's cultural life. For many years until the old opera was rebuilt, it was the largest concert hall in Frankfurt with its 2,400 seats. In addition to concerts, congresses and general meetings take place here.

Orchestra and choirs

The hall of the museum society, the site of many premieres, destroyed in 1944

Frankfurt am Main is the seat of several important symphony orchestras and choirs. In 1808 Frankfurt citizens founded the museum , a society for the “care of the muses” and for the promotion of the fine arts: literature, visual arts and music. Among the founders of the museum were the librarian of the prince Carl Theodor von Dalberg , Nikolaus Vogt , the senior building officer Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray and the city master builder Johann Friedrich Christian Hess . The association's statutes limited the number of members to 150. In 1808 the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra was founded. Frankfurt's musical life took off after the Napoleonic Wars . In 1817 Louis Spohr took over the management of the orchestra, and in the same year the pastor and historian Anton Kirchner became chairman of the museum society .

In later years the museum society focused entirely on music. In 1824 the Städel took over the important painting collections. At the end of the 19th century, the company became a concert organizer, and the orchestra was merged with that of the opera to form the Municipal Opera House and Museum Orchestra . Since 1887, Richard Strauss has often conducted museum concerts . His symphonic poems Also sprach Zarathustra (1896) and Ein Heldenleben (1899) premiered here, and he conducted the Sinfonia domestica here in 1904 at its European premiere.

The museum orchestra experienced a heyday between 1907 and 1933, when conductors Willem Mengelberg (1907–1920), Wilhelm Furtwängler (1920–1922), Hermann Scherchen (1920–1924), Clemens Krauss (1924–1929) and Hans succeeded Wilhelm Steinberg (1929–1933) held its leadership. On March 28, 1933 Steinberg was dismissed as a Jew, Opera and Museum Orchestra brought into line . The direction of the museum concerts was taken over by Hans Rosbaud , who had been the first Kapellmeister at Frankfurter Rundfunk since 1927.

From 1861 until its destruction in the Second World War during the air raids on Frankfurt am Main in 1944, the museum concerts were played in the hall building on Junghofstrasse , which is famous for its acoustics . The hall was built in a similar way to the Great Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, which opened a few years later, and had over 2,000 seats. After the war, the museum concerts first took place in the stock exchange hall, and from 1950 in the Great House of the Frankfurt Opera. Since its reopening in 1981, the concerts have found a permanent place in the Alte Oper. Since the war, artistic direction has been the responsibility of the respective general music director of the opera.

In 1929, the Radio Frankfurt station founded a symphony orchestra from which today's Frankfurt Radio Symphony emerged . The first chief conductor was Hans Rosbaud (until 1937). After the war, Otto Matzerath (1955–1961), Dean Dixon (1961–1974), Eliahu Inbal (1974–1990), Dmitri Kitajenko (1990–1996) and Hugh Wolff (1996–2006) were chief conductors. Paavo Järvi took over the direction of the orchestra from the 2006/2007 season .

The Cecilia Choir , also known as the Choir of the Cecilia Society , was founded in 1818. The first choirmaster was Johann Nepomuk Schelble until 1837 . From 1829 the choir made a significant contribution to making these works popular again with a broad audience through its performances of the oratorios and the mass by Johann Sebastian Bach . From 1832 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy often conducted the Cecilia Choir, to which he dedicated his oratorio Paulus . In 1937 the choir sang the world premiere of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana at the Frankfurt Opera.

The Frankfurter Kantorei was founded in July 1945 by Kurt Thomas , who directed it until 1969. His successor was Helmuth Rilling (1969–1982), and since then Wolfgang Schäfer (1982–1997) and Winfried Toll (since 1997) have led the choir. The focus of his repertoire is on contemporary works.

The Frankfurter Singakademie was founded in 1922 and is not only committed to the classical repertoire. With him, works by Hans Werner Henze , Paul Hindemith and Carl Orff were premiered . It is one of the last great concert choirs in Germany and offers a large repertoire of romantic music .

The Ensemble Modern is a chamber orchestra founded in 1980. It mainly plays 20th century music .

The Johann Strauss Orchestra Frankfurt was founded in 1986 and consists of members of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and the opera houses of the Rhine-Main area.

The Philharmonic Association of Sinti and Roma Frankfurt am Main was founded in 2001.

Church music

The Rieger organ in the Katharinenkirche
The main organ ( Klais 1957/1994/2008) in the south transept of the cathedral
Church steeple of the Center for Christian Meditation and Spirituality Church

The cultivation of church music is one of the oldest musical traditions in Frankfurt. In 1625 , Laurentius Erhardi (1598–1669) , who came from Hagenau , was appointed the first director of music at the Katharinenkirche , which then received its first organ . Erhardi was also the cantor of the municipal grammar school , whose choir had to initiate and accompany the parish singing at St. Katharinen. At that time there was already a small instrumental band of four musicians.

From 1712 to 1721 Georg Philipp Telemann was the city's music director in Frankfurt am Main. Telemann's successor was his friend Johann Balthasar König , who did this until his death in 1758. His successor was Johann Andreas Bismann.

At that time it was customary for the municipal conductor to work as a music teacher in the wealthy houses of Frankfurt, including in the Goethe house, as can be read in the first part of Poetry and Truth . Bismann led the church music at the Katharinenkirche into old age: he only retired in 1797 at the age of 82. Nikolaus Woralek was his successor as the last church musician with a salary in the city. When Woralek died in 1825, church music had long since ceased to play an important role in urban musical life. With the endowment contract of 1830, the municipal tax authorities withdrew from financing church music.

Since then, the church music in Frankfurt is the church choirs and organist of the church communities in the parishes of the city taken. Important centers of church music today are:

  • The Katharinenkirche at the Hauptwache with the annual concert cycle Musik an St. Katharinen and the program of 30 minutes of organ music , which takes place twice a week. Martin Lücker has been the organist at St. Katharinen since 1983 . In 1998, the regional church music director Michael Graf Münster took over the St. Katharinen Choir, which has been performing the Bach Vespers ten times a year on Saturday evenings since 2003 .
  • The Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew is the largest and historically most important church in Frankfurt. The Klais organ of the Cathedral from 1957 (restored in 1994) with 115 registers and 8801 pipes one of the largest instruments in Germany.

There are also lively centers of church music in the districts :

jazz

As the “capital” of the American zone of occupation , Frankfurt was one of the German cities with the strongest US cultural influence after the Second World War. The city was also the seat of the American Forces Network (AFN) radio station , which not only contributed to the spread of rock 'n' roll , but also to that of jazz in Germany. The nightlife in Frankfurt, which was heavily frequented by US soldiers in the post-war decades, developed into one of the leading jazz locations in Germany.

The jazz cellar founded by Carlo Bohländer in 1952 in Kleine Bockenheimer Strasse is still the most important address in the scene . The most famous Frankfurt musicians who performed here included the saxophonist Emil Mangelsdorff (* 1925), his brother, the trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff (1928–2005), the composer and drummer Ralf Hübner (* 1936), the clarinetist Reimer von Essen ( * 1940) and the blues singer and pianist Anne Bärenz (1950–2005). But above all, performances by many greats of international jazz, such as Chet Baker and Dizzy Gillespie , made the club known far beyond Frankfurt.

The series of events Jazz in the Palmengarten has been held since 1959 . The Sinkkasten , one of the most famous Frankfurt clubs, was also founded in 1971 as a jazz club.

“ Jazz for the Third ” is the name of an annual event on the national holiday, October 3rd, on the Römerberg. Since 2003, the event has always taken place in the afternoon after the public ceremony on the public holiday in Frankfurt's Paulskirche and is organized by the City of Frankfurt am Main.

Techno

Alongside Berlin, Frankfurt is considered the birthplace of techno in Germany. The music style, which was successful worldwide in the 90s, developed in the late 80s from roots such as Aggrepo , New Beat and Acid House . DJs and producers Sven Väth , Torsten Fenslau and Talla 2XLC were among the most important protagonists of the local scene . Style-defining clubs were the Dorian Gray in the airport (1978–2000), the semi-nomadic techno club (since 1984), the Omen (Junghofstrasse, downtown, 1988–1998) and the XS. The congregation, which has shrunk considerably since the turn of the millennium, found a new home in Väth's Cocoon Club in 2004 .

Hip hop

In the 1990s, Frankfurt not only produced techno, but also hip-hop . The most active label was Pelham Power Productions , the best known band was the short-lived Rödelheim Hartreim project that produced there .

Others

Museums and exhibition houses

Frankfurt has numerous large museums. The Senckenberg Nature Museum , the Städel Art Museum , the Museum of Modern Art and the German Architecture Museum are of international importance. Technology museums such as the Frankfurt am Main Transport Museum have special features, such as the oldest surviving electric tram - railcar from 1884. A large number of technology museums , technical monuments and technical collections in Frankfurt were developed as part of the Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main project .

Museumsufer

Liebieghaus Am Museumsufer : Sculpture Collection
Historic DAAG post bus from 1925 belonging to the Museum for Communication

The inner-city left bank of the Main, the Schaumainkai, was expanded into the museum bank from around 1980 . The Museumsufer is the most important museum location in Germany , along with the Museum Island in Berlin and Maxvorstadt in Munich . The following museums are located here from west to east:

  • The Museum Giersch of the Goethe University , which opened in 2000, shows changing exhibitions on the art and cultural history of the Rhine-Main area with the aim of exploring the cultural identity of the region. As a pure exhibition space, the Giersch Museum presents loans from public and private collections. The spectrum of exhibitions covers all areas from painting, photography, sculpture and graphics to architecture and applied arts.
  • The Liebieghaus Municipal Gallery (1907) shows Greek and Roman sculptures from ancient Europe and also includes exhibits from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Classicism as well as works from East Asia.
  • The Städelsche Kunstinstitut is one of the most renowned art museums in Germany. It owns 2,700 paintings (600 of which are on display), a graphic collection with 100,000 drawings and prints, and 600 sculptures. The museum has around 4,000 m² of exhibition space and a reference library with around 100,000 books . There is also a large art bookshop in the museum. The Städel was founded in 1816. It was donated by a citizen, the Frankfurt banker and trader Johann Friedrich Städel as a public gallery and art school, the state art college known today as the Städelschule .
  • The Museum for Communication , the former German Post Museum, offers a comprehensive insight into the history of communication. In 1990 the museum was given a new building by Günter Behnisch, which has won several awards . A fully restored DAAG - Postbus type ACO from 1925 is part of the museum's inventory. The bus was the only vehicle of its type to survive. All other vehicles of this type were scrapped after their planned service ended.
  • The German Architecture Museum is the only one of its kind in Germany. The house, which opened in 1984, resides in a bourgeois villa that was converted by Oswald Mathias Ungers and that is itself the first exhibit. The museum is less known for its permanent exhibition than for its internationally acclaimed special exhibitions.
  • The German Film Museum is the largest museum in Germany that is exclusively dedicated to the subject of film . The permanent exhibition of the museum, which opened in 1984, presents exhibits from film history as well as the tools and steps involved in film production . In addition, there are four special exhibitions a year that are dedicated to special areas of cinematography and individual film genres as well as social issues and their processing in film. The museum also houses the Municipal Cinema, founded in 1971 as one of the first of its kind .
  • The Weltkulturen Museum , the former Museum of Ethnology, was founded in 1904. From 1908 until its destruction in 1944, the museum was located in the Palais Thurn und Taxis on Grosse Eschenheimer Strasse, and in 1973 it moved into the citizen's villa on Schaumainkai, which is still in use today. The collections include around 65,000 objects from Oceania , Australia , Southeast Asia , America , Africa and Europe . In the gallery 37 exhibitions of contemporary works by Indian , African, Oceanic and Indonesian artists take place.
  • The Museum of Applied Art , the former Museum of crafts, shows since its reopening in April 2013 and under the direction of the Director Matthias Wagner K thematic exhibitions whose focus is on the perception of social trends and developments, with an emphasis on design, fashion and Performatives.
  • In the Deutschordenshaus in Sachsenhausen there is the Icon Museum which shows sacred art from Orthodox Christianity and also deals with the question of imagery in general.

The following museums are not far from the museum bank:

  • The Bibelhaus Erlebnismuseum shows the historical, cultural and religious significance of the Bible. In addition to the experience-oriented permanent exhibition, there are always special exhibitions on individual topics.
  • The Hindemith Institute Frankfurt taught in Kuhhirtenturm the Hindemith Cabinet in Kuhhirtenturm one that an exhibition on the life and work of composer Paul Hindemith houses.
  • Temporary exhibitions of contemporary art can be seen in Portikus Frankfurt am Main . The exhibition hall on the Maininsel shows current works by well-known artists and new, international productions by young artists. The portico is part of the University of Fine Arts - Städelschule . Therefore, he maintains an intensive exchange between invited artists and the students of the university.

Old town

Historical garden in front of the cathedral : foundations of the former imperial palace
Treuner's old town model in the Historical Museum

The second major museum location in Frankfurt is the old town on the right bank of the Main. As the historic city center, it has a high density of architectural sights , which in many cases are used as museums. Colloquially, some of the museums located here are counted on the Museumsufer due to their proximity to the Main. However, this is not correct, since the classic museum bank is only the expanded Schaumainkai on the left side of the Main.

The following museums and exhibition houses are located in the old town :

  • In the heart of the old town in the Staufer Kaiserpfalz Saalhof with the oldest building in town, the Saalhof Chapel from the 12th century, is the Historical Museum . Since it was founded in 1878, it has been used to research and present the history of Frankfurt . Before the Second World War, the historical museum was located in the canvas house at the cathedral. The part built in 1972 was demolished in 2011 and replaced by a new building by 2017; the renovated old building was reopened in 2012. One of the most famous exhibits is Treuner's old town model , which shows the city center before it was destroyed.
  • The neighboring Kunsthalle Schirn is one of the most important exhibition halls in Germany. The Schirn, which opened in 1986, does not have a permanent collection, but only houses touring or special exhibitions. The artists and subjects shown come not only from the traditional field of fine arts (painting, graphics), but also from overarching areas such as film, video, photography and music.
  • The Schirn forms the southern boundary of the Archaeological Garden , the freely accessible foundations of the Carolingian royal palace of Frankfurt , the nucleus of the city , since 1974 . The foundation walls of the royal court are overlaid by those of a Roman military camp and remnants of medieval cellar walls.
  • The Museum of Modern Art (MMK) was founded in 1989 on the initiative of the art critic Peter Iden . The striking new building, designed by Hans Hollein , opened in 1991. The defining director of the MMK was Jean-Christophe Ammann in 1989 (until 2002) . The museum developed into the center of an art and gallery district around Braubachstrasse, Fahrgasse and the cathedral. In order to distinguish the MMK from its two branches, its main location is also called MMK 1.
  • The MMK 3 is an external exhibition space of the MMK in the former main customs office of the city of Frankfurt am Main and is located directly opposite the museum. Since 2007, after a thorough renovation of the building, younger or “lesser known” artistic positions have been regularly presented.
  • The delegates of the Frankfurt National Assembly met in the Paulskirche from 1848 to 1849 . It is the first freely elected parliament of the German state. For this reason, the permanent exhibition in the Paulskirche shows “The Paulskirche. Symbol of democratic freedom and national unity “the development of German unity and democracy in its varied stations.
  • The Institute of the History belongs with his back to the early Middle Ages, reaching back to tradition, the most important municipal archives in Germany. It not only collects important documents on the history of the city, but also regularly shares its treasures through special exhibitions and lectures. In the cloister and refectory of the former Carmelite monastery in which the institute is housed, several wall paintings by Jörg Ratgeb can be admired. Since the institute was repeatedly asked to explain the pictures in more detail to the viewer, a permanent presentation was developed where the paintings and the history of the Carmelite monastery are presented on a total of 21 information desks and several boards.
  • The Stoltze Museum of the Frankfurter Sparkasse is housed in a listed Renaissance stair tower in Töngesgasse and is dedicated to the Frankfurt dialect poet, journalist and satirist Friedrich Stoltze . Since August 2014, the museum has been closed at the usual location for about 2 years and has moved into its alternative quarters in the gallery in the customer center of Frankfurter Sparkasse, Neue Mainzer Straße.
  • The Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF) is a center that exhibits photography of the highest quality and promotes the importance of the medium as a universal visual language. Since it was founded in 1984, the FFF has presented the numerous aspects of photography and is a platform for critical dialogue. A wide-ranging program consisting of exhibitions, publications, workshops, lectures and symposia highlights the continuously developing and classic interpretations of the photographic medium. The focus is also placed on offering photographic works by international or national creators, solo exhibitions of historical and contemporary icons to group exhibitions of internationally rising talents.
  • Frankfurter Sparkasse has been running its gallery, the 1822 Forum , in the old town since 1970 in order to offer the current Frankfurt art scene a presentation forum .

Other museums and exhibition halls

The dinosaur hall in the Senckenberg Museum
Feldbahn -Loks 99 3351 and O&K Mallet of the Feldbahnmuseum
Steam locomotive " BR 01 118" of the historical railway Frankfurt at the "Hafenfest 2009", for the 150th anniversary of the municipal connecting railway
C- , D- and F - railcars in the West Hall of the Transport Museum in Schwanheim
One of the oldest registered cars in Germany, a miner from 1901 in the Hochhut Technical Collection

Bahnhofsviertel

  • The Hammermuseum Frankfurt on the first floor of the Lenz shoemaker's shop houses hammers from all eras and for all conceivable uses. Also on display are specimens whose function nobody has yet been able to explain.

Bergen-Enkheim

Bockenheim

  • The Experiminta - ScienceCenter FrankfurtRheinMain is a science center and comprises about 120 interactive test stations, which are assigned to nine subject areas, e.g. B. “Fast and slow” (movement), “Strong and weak” (strength) or “Economical and wasteful” (energy and environment). Unlike in most museums, trying out and touching is expressly encouraged. It is operated by the association of the same name .
  • Largest Frankfurter art museum is the Feldbahnmuseum on vine with a collection operable field railway vehicles of the track width mm 600th
  • The money museum of the Deutsche Bundesbank is the only money museum in Germany and has been closed since August 30, 2014 due to renovations until the end of 2016. It provides information about the history and workings of money. There is also an important coin collection and an important paper money collection.

Bonames

  • The Frankfurt Fire Brigade Museum gives an insight into the tradition and historical development of the fire brigade. On the site of the old airfield in Bonames, exhibits relating to fire fighting are on display in a building. Vehicles, hand pressure and portable pumps, trailers and model cars of all sizes are maintained and restored there with great effort. In addition to the wagon, helmets, caps, uniforms, sleeve badges, medals and badges of honor, as well as fire extinguishers and breathing apparatus are on display.

Bornheim

  • The museum shop in Bernem is a small museum at Turmstrasse 11 that organizes exhibitions on the history of Bornheim .

Eschersheim

  • The Chaplin Archive is a private museum whose holdings have been made available to the public. On two floors, the extensive permanent exhibition shows exhibits with direct and indirect reference to Charlie Chaplin . The collection comprises around 6,000 individual items (books and magazines, film posters and photos as well as sheet music, advertising material, kitsch and art) and provides a comprehensive picture of the artist, the person and the myth of Charlie Chaplin.

Gallus

Heddernheim

  • In the Römerstadt housing estate, a row house from the 1920s designed under the direction of Ernst May was renovated as an Ernst May House by the Ernst May Society and restored to its original state with objects from the New Frankfurt . It is open to the public as a museum and illustrates the achievements of the New Frankfurt .
  • In Heddernheimer Schloss there is a small local museum , in which, among other things, finds from Roman times are exhibited. The museum is also called the district museum .

Maximum

  • In the Kronberger Haus , the Höchst Porcelain Museum, as a branch of the Frankfurt Historical Museum, has been presenting around 1,800 Höchst faiences and porcelain since 1994, primarily from the Rococo and Classicism periods. The oldest reproductions in Passau porcelain are exhibited in the Bolongaropalast .

Downtown

  • In the Goethe House on the Großer Hirschgraben on the edge of the old town , in addition to Goethe's former living quarters, which can be viewed, the Goethe Museum , a gallery with paintings and exhibits from the Goethe era. In future, it is to be integrated into the German Romantic Museum , which will be built on the neighboring property by 2018. In the Romantic Museum, the extensive collection of manuscripts, letters and paintings of German Romanticism , which the Free German Hochstift has compiled since 1911, is to be made accessible to the public.
  • The Frankfurt Children's Museum has been affiliated to the Historical Museum since 1972 , and it prepares urban and art history topics especially for children. It is located on the mezzanine floor of the Hauptwache S-Bahn and U-Bahn station . The Mini Museum is a separate area for children aged two to five . A lot can and can be tried out for yourself in the entire exhibition.
  • In October 2014, the Museum of Modern Art (MMK) opened a branch in the Taunusturm , the MMK 2 . The current works of the collection and new productions are shown there in alternation.
  • The Nebbiensche garden house in the Bockenheimer Anlage belongs to the Frankfurter Künstlerclub e. V. He regularly organizes art exhibitions, matinees, poetry readings and concerts here
  • The German Museum for Culinary Art and Table Culture, which opened in November 2015, is located in a building between the Zeil and Holzgraben. The museum sees itself as the successor to the culinary art museum , which existed from 1909 to 1937.

Nied

  • About the history Nieds informing local museum Nied .

Niederrad

  • The Niederrad Local History Museum provides information about the history of Niederrad.
  • In the permanent exhibition of the German Orthopedic History and Research Museum , the history of orthopedics and adjacent areas as well as the care of the disabled is presented in a vivid way. At the center of the museum is the library, which with more than 6,000 volumes is the largest publicly accessible collection on the history of orthopedics in Germany. Other areas of focus are the collection of body replacement parts, endoprostheses, implants and orthopedic instruments. The concept of the museum is probably unique: The exhibition rooms are integrated into the building of the Orthopedic University Clinic Foundation Friedrichsheim and are equally accessible to patients and visitors from outside.

Northrend

  • The Explora is a museum for optical and other illusions. Many anaglyph images , stereo image pairs , SIRDs , holograms and other forms of optical perception can be tried out there.
  • The crime museum in the police headquarters in Frankfurt am Main mainly comprises images and exhibits from well-known Frankfurt criminal cases after 1945 on a floor area of ​​around 200 square meters. In addition, the exhibition offers an interesting look at special exhibits from the areas of counterfeiting utensils and smuggling containers and explains the history of the Frankfurters Police.
  • Probably the most extensive steatite collection in the world (steatite is popularly known as "soapstone") was put together by the Frankfurt auctioneer Karl Heinz Arnold over more than 60 years and can be viewed in the private art museum in steatite .

Upper wheel

  • The Oberrad Local History Museum provides information about the history of Oberrad .

Ostend

  • The exhibition Dialog in the Dark in the DialogMuseum consists of six absolutely lightless rooms through which smaller groups are led by a blind guide.

Rödelheim

Sachsenhausen

Schwanheim

Seckbach

West end

  • In the multimedia and interactive permanent exhibition Anne Frank, which has existed since 2003 . A girl from Germany in the Anne Frank educational facility gives young people and adults the opportunity to explore Anne Frank's biography and the history of National Socialism for themselves according to their own interests . Further main topics are the history of the Frank family and Jewish life in Frankfurt am Main.
  • The Art Foyer of the DZ BANK art collection was created in 2006 as an exhibition space. As part of the renovation of Cityhaus I , one of the three office towers of the DZ Bank headquarters, a 300 square meter exhibition hall opened at the beginning of 2009. From the rich holdings of the DZ BANK art collection, four exhibitions are curated annually, which are either brought together thematically or are dedicated to a specific artist.
  • The Senckenberg Natural History Museum is the largest natural history museum in Germany. A special treasure is the original of a fossilized dinosaur with preserved, flaky skin. The museum also houses the world's largest and most diverse collection of stuffed birds with around 1,000 specimens . In 2004 almost 400,000 visitors were registered. The Senckenbergische Gesellschaft was founded in 1817 by Frankfurt citizens. In addition to the well-known skeletons of dinosaurs, the museum is particularly important as an exhibition center for the finds from the nearby Messel Pit , a World Heritage Site .
  • The Steinhausen House has housed the Wilhelm Steinhausen Museum since 1987 with numerous works, preparatory work, sketches, draft drawings, letters, secondary literature as well as the originally preserved studio and a fresco by the painter Wilhelm Steinhausen .
  • The Struwwelpeter Museum shows interesting facts about the important Frankfurt neurologist Heinrich Hoffmann and his most famous work, Struwwelpeter . Here children can relive the story of the "bad boy" Struwwelpeter and adults can find out about the life and work of the author, who was a reformer of psychiatry . The museum includes the holdings of the previous two museums: the Struwwelpeter Museum at Bendergasse 1 and the Heinrich Hoffmann Museum at Schubertstraße 20.
  • The permanent exhibition in the German Albert Schweitzer Center is dedicated to the life of the doctor, theologian and musician Albert Schweitzer . In addition, there is a large Schweitzer archive and an important Schweitzer research facility in the center.

Zeilsheim

  • The Heimatmuseum Zeilsheim in the former syringe house provides information about the history of Zeilsheim .

Museum railway

Cultural and Scientific Associations

Observatory of the physical association

In Frankfurt there are a number of associations and institutions whose purpose is to promote culture and science.

  • The Polytechnic Society was founded in 1816 as the Frankfurt Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts and their auxiliary sciences by Frankfurt citizens, including Heinrich Friedrich Karl Freiherr vom Stein . The polytechnic society has about 300 members. Over time, a number of Frankfurt institutions have emerged from her work:
    • The Sparkasse from 1822, now known as Frankfurter Sparkasse, one of the largest savings banks in Germany.
    • The Foundation for the Blind from 1837, an institution to enable blind and visually impaired people to actively participate in social life.
    • The Wöhler Foundation for the training of young people for trade and commerce (1845), a forerunner organization of today's vocational schools .
    • The Mitteldeutsche Kunstgewerbeverein in Frankfurt e. V. (1877), from which the Museum of Arts and Crafts emerged in 1935 , today the Museum of Applied Arts .
    • The Institute for Apiculture (1937) in Oberursel , affiliated to the Department of Biology at the University of Frankfurt .
    • The Kuratorium Kulturelles Frankfurt e. V. (1957) for the promotion of cultural life in Frankfurt, with the aim of enabling the documentation of Frankfurt cultural assets, maintaining the relationship between citizens and the cultural tradition of their city, supporting Frankfurt's cultural institutions and promoting artists and art exhibitions.
    • The Association for the Maintenance of Chamber Music and for the Promotion of Young Musicians e. V. (1959) organizes a series of concerts in Frankfurt am Main and awards grants to young musicians.
  • In 1859, on Schiller's 100th birthday , 30 Frankfurt citizens founded the “Free German High Foundation for Science, Art and General Education” on the initiative of Otto Volger . In 1863, the association acquired the Goethe House and converted it into a museum. After the foundation of the Frankfurt University , the Free German Hochstift shifted to the publication of historical-critical editions in addition to the museum and archive work.
  • The city of Frankfurt am Main has been awarding the Goethe Prize since 1927 to "personalities who have already come to the fore with their work and whose creative work is worthy of an honor dedicated to the memory of Goethe". The prize was awarded annually until 1949, and every three years since then. It is currently endowed with 50,000 euros .
  • In 1950 the German Book Trade Association awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for the first time . Since then, the award has been given annually on the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair in the Paulskirche to personalities "who have made outstanding contributions to the realization of the idea of ​​peace through literary, scientific and artistic work."
  • The Nebbiensche garden house is a classicistic pavilion in the Bockenheim complex , built in 1810 by Nicolas Alexandre Salins de Montfort . It has belonged to the Frankfurter Künstlerclub e. V. , who regularly organizes art exhibitions, matinees, poetry readings and concerts here.
  • Since 1974, the former city of Frankfurt-Bergen-Enkheim , which was incorporated into Frankfurt in 1976 , has been awarding the Bergen-Enkheim City Writer Literature Prize together with the Bergen-Enkheim Cultural Society .
  • Since 1978 the Association of Friends of Frankfurt to Maintain the Frankfurter Tradition e. Every two years, the Friedrich Stoltze Prize for Culture goes to people who have made a special contribution to maintaining the city's cultural heritage.
  • A specialty among the Frankfurt literature prizes is the Kalbach rattlesnake . The undoped prize has been awarded annually since 1988 by a jury made up of children and adolescents aged 8 to 13 years.
  • The Literaturhaus Frankfurt was founded in 1989 by Frankfurt citizens. It has been located in the Old City Library since October 2005 . Readings by authors, literary events and exhibitions take place here on a regular basis. From 2001 to 2004, the association awarded a literary prize annually , the Blauer Salon Preis, endowed with 15,000 euros .
  • The Ernst May Society is dedicated to the legacy of the Neues Frankfurt project , the avant-garde housing development and design project of the 1920s.
  • The association culture for ALL e. V. has been issuing a culture pass since 2008, which enables needy Frankfurters to participate in culture again. He is negotiating with organizers so that these culture pass holders can grant admission to one euro (children half).

Scientific associations

The Physikalische Verein has existed since 1824. It was founded at the suggestion of Johann Wolfgang Goethe , “that one in Frankfurt should deal with physics and chemistry in order to promote social and economic progress”. The association set up its first observatory on the tower of the Paulskirche and in the 19th century was responsible for the correct time determination of all public Frankfurt clocks . In 1862, Philipp Reis presented the world's first telephone in the building of the Physical Society on the Eschenheim facility . In 1908 the association moved into its current building on Robert Mayer-Strasse in the Westend . When the Frankfurt University was founded, the association brought eight natural science institutes into the foundation university. Until 2005, several institutes of the physics department were housed in the club building. Today the association, with around 1,100 members, focuses on popular science lectures and operates a public observatory .

Others

Regular events

The following list is intended to give a rough overview. It is not a complete list. Useful additions are welcome.

spring

summer

  • The Sound of Frankfurt music festival took place every summer from 1994 to 2004. Due to a lack of sponsors, it was canceled in 2005 and 2006.
  • Frankfurt Christopher Street Day
  • Frankfurt Main Festival
  • Frankfurt Wine Festival
  • The Höchst Castle Festival has been celebrated annually in June and July in the old town of Höchst since 1957 . The numerous events within the scope of the castle festival also include open-air concerts and the Höchst Organ Summer , a series of concerts in the Justinuskirche .
  • The Museumsuferfest has been a cultural event that has taken place on the last weekend in August every year since 1987 and is now far beyond Frankfurt. In 2005 around 3 million people attended this largest festival in the Rhine-Main area.
  • The Frankfurt Company Run (official name JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge , also called Chase Run for short ) has been held annually in June since 1993. With over 62,000 participants (as of 2006), according to the organizer, it is the largest running sport event in the world.
  • The Ironman Germany will be held in Frankfurt and the surrounding area since of 2002.
  • The Sachsenhausen fountain festival was first mentioned in 1490. It was celebrated following the annual cleaning of the wells . Although Sachsenhausen was now also connected to the municipal water supply, the tradition was revived in 1953 by the Well and Notch Society . Since then, the fountain festival, which also includes the election of a fountain queen , has been held every year in August.
  • The Berger Markt is a large folk festival held at the beginning of September together with the Stadtschreiber -Fest in the Bergen district .
  • The children's cultural events Main Games and Opera Games have been taking place every year during the summer holidays since 1994

autumn and winter

Additional information

literature

  • Rolf Hosfeld (Ed.), Frankfurt am Main and the surrounding area. Kultur (ver) Führer 2004 . Helmut Metz Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-937742-04-2 .
  • Andreas Hansert: Citizenship Culture and Cultural Policy in Frankfurt am Main. A historical-sociological reconstruction, with an introduction by Ulrich Oevermann (Studies on Frankfurt History Volume 33), Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-7829-0426-5 .
  • Alice Selinger: Frankfurt am Main. City guide history culture. Verlag Waldemar Kramer / Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-86539-683-9 .

Wikipedia

Web links

Commons : Category: Culture of Frankfurt am Main  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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