Faust Cultural Center

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Entrance to the FAUST site and the Linden Nord ecological industrial estate
View from the Leine onto the former factory building

The Cultural Center of thumb , also briefly FAUST ( FA brik U mnutzung and ST adtteilkultur), is a socio-cultural center in the district Linden-Nord in Hannover . The supporting association FAUST eV was founded in December 1991 from a citizens' initiative to promote district culture, intercultural communication and district life by converting a disused factory site.

terrain

The FAUST site around 1910, then Werner & Ehlers bed spring factory
The FAUST site from above today
Former radio flora studio building on the site
Inner courtyard of the site

The founding goal of the association was to realize the concept of a socio-cultural district center. The association and the center are based on the site of the former bed spring factory Werner & Ehlers , which went bankrupt in August 1990 . Various associations and groups (including artists, migrants and politically active groups), but also smaller commercial and business enterprises, are housed in the factory premises.

history

After the company went bankrupt, various individuals and some small businesses joined forces to form the Werner & Ehlers interest group. In January 1991 the non-profit sponsoring association "FAUST" was founded. In the spring of the same year, the city of Hanover passed plans to renovate the site. Since the financing of the renovation was not yet secured at this point in time, in December 1991, with the help of a pastor from the Hannover-Linden church district, an interim use of the area for around ten associations was made possible through the administrator. In April 1992 the 60s hall and the interest hall were rented. Extensive repair and renovation work was carried out in-house, and the event area began its work. The “Ökologische Gewerbehof Linden” (formerly: “interested trade”), on which “ radio flora ” could also be found, developed a joint usage concept together with the association in autumn 1992.

As a result of a three-stage rent increase from December 1992, there was a dispute with the owner and the termination of the rental contracts on July 31, 1993. The city and the World Association for the Protection of Life (WSL) negotiated with the Faust association and discussed mediation from mid-1993 of the State of Lower Saxony different usage, purchase and carrier variants. An independent expert financed by the state of Lower Saxony came to the conclusion that the association would be able to operate economically in the long term after purchasing the site. The Berlin Redistribution Foundation then made a financial contribution; a bank loan and a grant from the state made the project possible at the end of 1993.

An eviction action at the end of 1994 did not change the decision of the user associations to remain on the rented space. The eviction did not take place because the city of Hanover was able to secure a purchase at a later date with the funds from the state of Lower Saxony.

The association was able to buy up the east axis of the former bed spring factory in the spring of 1995 and thus temporarily secure the location for around 25 users. In March the property was sold by the owner August Werner Frucht for 3.2 million DM including ancillary costs to the partners Stiftung Umverteilen and FAUST eV; as a result, the association pays the lease to the foundation. A discount of 500,000 DM for the removal of asbestos from the boiler house was a prerequisite for the purchase. Another state grant and a bank loan enable the building to be purchased.

In March 2005 the association filed for bankruptcy and the entire board resigned. The city appointed an insolvency administrator, a new catering contract was negotiated, a foundation was established and a new controlling system was introduced. After more than five years, the insolvency proceedings were successfully concluded. Today, alongside the pavilion, Faust is the city's largest cultural center.

From 2008 to 2011 the music festival BootBooHook took place on the FAUST site with numerous national and international artists in front of up to 5000 spectators. In 2012 the festival moved to the Expo Park Hannover , but FAUST eV remained active as a co-organizer.

Events

Regular events

Flea market on the FAUST site

Regular concerts and disco evenings, flea markets and record fairs. The following venues are located on the site:

  • "60s hall" (concerts)
  • "Goods receipt" (theater) with event bar
  • Mephisto lounge and club bar
  • "Café Siesta"
  • Beer garden "Gretchen"
  • Kunsthalle Faust

Kunsthalle Faust

The Kunsthalle Faust is a part and venue of the association, which enables an intra-German and international exchange of contemporary art within the framework of up to five exhibitions per year . In addition to art exhibitions, there are also music, literature and theater events. Nationally or internationally known artists as well as up-and-coming artists from the Hanover region can present themselves.

literature

  • The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover, 1954 , Hanover 1954: Adolf Sponholtz Verlag, p. 146f.
  • Werner & Ehlers. Entrepreneurs in four generations , 1961
  • Albert Lefèvre: 100 years of Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry. [1866 - 1966.] Order and fulfillment , Wiesbaden: Verlag für Wirtschaftspublizistik Bartels, 1966, p. 273
  • Albert Lefèvre: The contribution of the Hanoverian industry to technical progress ; in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Volume 24 (1970), pp. 63–72
  • Holger Horstmann, Wulf Kunisch, Karljosef Kreter : Werner & Ehlers. Photo history of a factory , Hanover 1994
  • August Werner: Faust. Buntes Linden-Buch , brochure (82 pages), Hanover: self-published, 1995
  • Jonny Peter, Dieter Kist, Hans-Michael Krüger, Rainer-Jörg Grube: F + Ö. Presentation of FAUST eV and Ökologisches Gewerbehof Linden GmbH. An interim balance of the conversion of the former bed spring factory Werner & Ehlers , ed. von Faust eV and Ökologischer Gewerbehof Linden, Hanover 1998
  • Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Factory Wilhelm-Bluhm-Straße 12. In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 2, vol. 10.2 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 145, as well as Linden-Nord in the appendix list of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 21f.
  • Hugo Thielen : FAUST - Kulturzentrum F .. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 174.
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : WERNER, (1) August. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 385.
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Werner, (1) August. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 672.
  • Torsten Bachmann: Linden: Forays through history , page 98 ff., Sutton Verlag GmbH, 2012
  • Walter Engel (Red.): The last witness. The boiler house of the former bed spring factory Werner & Ehlers. Action to save the last industrial monument in Linden-Nord . 1st edition, publisher: Neue Fast-Kesselhaus-Initiative / Faust-Stiftung, Hannover: 2014

Web links

Commons : Kulturzentrum Faust (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Torsten Bachmann: Linden: Streifzüge durch die Geschichte , page 98 ff., Sutton Verlag GmbH, 2012, page 99
  2. ^ A b Jan Sedelies : Faust in Hanover celebrates its 20th anniversary. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , March 1, 2011
  3. Kunsthalle Faust. In: hannover.de. Retrieved March 3, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 35 ″  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 36 ″  E