Melkweg
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '53.2 " N , 4 ° 52' 52.8" E
The Melkweg in Amsterdam ( The Netherlands ) is a multimedia -Zentrum for rock - jazz - blues -music and for theater , film , gallery and dance .
history
In the 18th century , a sugar refinery was housed in what is now the Melkweg ("Milky Way") , which was closed on September 16, 1920. After that, a “Consensual Association of Cattle Farmers for the Sale of Pure Cow's Milk ” ( Onderlinge Vereniging van Veehouders tot verkoop van zuivere Koemelk, OVvV) took over the factory. In April 1969 the "milk factory" was also closed.
In 1970 a Dutch theater group was looking for a suitable building for summer performances. With start-up capital of 25,000 guilders , she renovated the “old milk factory” and named it Melkweg . A youth center was set up with, among other things, a restaurant, a tea room and a hall for music and theater. The municipality of Amsterdam subsidized the youth center with 10,000 guilders and the Dutch Ministry of Culture invested 15,000 guilders. The Amsterdam Youth Welfare Office monitored the construction of the center. As the conversion and renovation work cost a lot of money and there was only makeshift lighting and no heating, the project was stopped again in the same year. In 1971 the Melkweg was successfully reopened with film and video presentations as well as light shows and, as initially planned, a theater. The initial success had its downsides. There were again problems with the fire department due to inadequate safety precautions and drug dealers . A new start came about in 1972. After long negotiations with the municipality of Amsterdam (“Art” department), the organizers were given 50,000 guilders. A private donor transferred 30,000 guilders to Melkweg.
The development of the Melkweg was a permanent process from a youth center to a multimedia center. The center was now out of the financial crisis and always open. In the 1970s there were around 175,000 visitors annually and in the 1980s (at the preliminary high point) around 275,000 visitors from Germany and abroad. Melkweg has also been organizing festivals since 1977, such as the International Women's Festival, the One World Poetry Festival and the Festival of Fools . A gallery was opened in 1984. In the 1990s, the annual number of visitors was around 160,000. In 2009 there were already 450,000 visitors. The music hall was expanded in 1995 for 1,500 visitors and was named "The Max".
In 2009 the neighboring Stadsschouwburg was connected to the Melkweg by the "Rabozaal". Since the Rabobank participated, the hall was named after the bank. The Rabozaal, a multifunctional theater hall, is operated in cooperation with the Toneelgroep Amsterdam ("Theater Group Amsterdam"), the Stadsschouwburg and the Melkweg. The café-restaurant Eat @ Jo's on Melkweg offers a different international daily menu.
The organization of today's Melkweg consists of a general director, a financial director, nine program designers and ten departments. The income comes from the entrance fee and less than 10 percent is a subsidy from the municipality. The main entrance from Melkweg is on the Lijnbaansgracht . The entrances for the café-restaurant and the gallery in the Marnixstraat. Walk about one to two minutes from the Leidseplein .
International bands , artists and musicians have performed in Melkweg such as Arctic Monkeys , Bad Religion , Beastie Boys , Black Rebel Motorcycle Club , Brett Anderson , Bring Me the Horizon , Coldplay , Dir en gray , Foo Fighters , Fun Lovin 'Criminals , Hiro Yamamoto , Jakob Dylan , Jango Edwards , Jeff Mills , Lady Gaga , Lostprophets , N * E * R * D , NOFX , Prince , Queens of the Stone Age , Robbie Williams , The Darkness , The Rasmus , U2 , Willie Nelson , Querbeat , Yonderboi , Zorch and many others.
Archives
- Jan van der Hoef: Archive Melkweg. 1970 to 1993 (1997). At the IISG , Amsterdam. "Annual reports, minutes, internal organization, press reports".
literature
- G. Kaubisch: Melkweg. Multi-media center in Amsterdam . In: J. Gehret (Ed.): Counter culture today. The alternative movement from Woodstock to Tunix . Verlag Azid Presse, Amsterdam 1979, ISBN 90-70215-03-9 , pages 144-149.
- Catharina Th. Bakker: Suiker, melk en popmusiek . Melkweg Foundation, Amsterdam 1995.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Author: Johanneke Helmers ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . From July 16, 2003. Typical Amsterdam - De Melkweg . Dutch, accessed September 28, 2012.
- ^ History of the Melkweg. Under: Geschiedenis ("history"). Dutch, accessed June 17, 2010.
- ↑ G. Kaubisch: Melkweg. Multi-media center in Amsterdam . Pages 144 to 149.
- ↑ G. Kaubisch: Melkweg. Multi-media center in Amsterdam . Page 147.
- ^ History of the Melkweg . Under: Algemeen ("General"). Dutch, accessed June 17, 2010.
