Cultural center pavilion

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View of the cultural center pavilion and the Weissekreuzplatz , 1984

The pavilion in Hanover's Oststadt is a culture and communication center operated by the non-profit supporting association Bürgerinitiative Raschplatz eV . The event center, also known as the Raschplatz pavilion , is located on Weissekreuzplatz at the beginning of the Lister Meile near Raschplatz and the main train station .

General

Newly renovated main entrance to the "Kulturzentrum Pavillon" and the Hanover Theater Workshop , 2014

Around 350 public cultural events have been held in the pavilion every year since 1977. It is an open house of different cultures and organizes, for example, concerts, theater, cabaret and comedy events, readings, projects, political debates, exhibitions, congresses, discos, parties, dance, films, seminars, bazaars and lectures.

In recent years, the pavilion has become known beyond the city for the renowned, annual world music festival MASALA . It developed from the Third World Days (1981) and the African Nights (1985) and took place for the first time in 1995.

The solar pavilion was built in 2000 for the EXPO 2000 : a solar power system with an area of ​​400 m² that can be seen from afar was installed on the roof .

Facilities

The pavilion with Café Mezzo , solar power system on the roof

The following facilities are located in the pavilion:

  • workshop hannover eV - Center for creative design (founded in 1971)
  • Oststadtbibliothek (branch of the Hanover City Library ) with a focus on foreign language literature , etc. a. Health and family education
  • theaterwerkstatt hannover (founded by graduates of the Hanover University of Music and Theater in 1976)
  • Children's group Freche Rübe (founded in 1981)
  • Café Mezzo (since the mid-1990s, successor to Café Palaver )

Affiliations

In 1979 the pavilion founded the Federal Association of Socio-Cultural Centers together with other alternative centers . In 1985 the pavilion joined the State Working Group on Socioculture Lower Saxony (LAGS).

history

The team from the cultural center at the 2014 spring reception

The building was erected in the early 1970s as an alternative quarter for what was then DeFaKa (Deutsches Familien-Kaufhaus GmbH) in order to continue sales during the construction of the underground and the new building in the city center (zur Horten AG ).

Originally, the 5000 m² temporary space was supposed to be demolished afterwards. The flat roof construction in Hanover was soon referred to simply as a “pavilion”. The Hanoverian citizens wanted to use the later unused space for cultural and educational tasks and founded the citizens' initiative Raschplatz eV in 1975 .

On October 1, 1977, City Director Rudolf Koldewey left the building to the citizens' initiative with a one-year usage contract that was regularly extended and now ran until the end of 2010. Afterwards, a three-year rental and subsidy contract was concluded for an annual amount of 936,000 euros.

The pavilion remained closed in 2013 due to renovation work. The renovation was completed at the end of January 2014.

Gerd Kespohl , who also founded the MASALA Festival, was the program director for the concerts for almost 25 years until his retirement in 2018 . In 2019 Heiner Schlote became the new 1st chairman of the Raschplatz eV citizens' initiative . elected. He succeeds Helga Christensen, who was in office for almost 15 years.

Others

Memorial stone opposite the pavilion, erected for the Gorleben trek in 1979

The Gorleben-Stein has been located directly opposite the pavilion on the Weissekreuzplatz since 1979 . He recalls the Gorleben trek of the 100,000 to Hanover, which is said to have moved the then Prime Minister Ernst Albrecht (CDU) to the statement "Gorleben is not enforceable" .

Fonts (selection)

  • Barbara Wurzel (ed.), Susanne Lenger, Wilfried Pellmann, Bettina Weitzel (collaborators): Pavilion. The first ten years. Ed .: Citizens' Initiative Raschplatz eV, Hanover: Linden-Druck, [o. D., 1987]

literature

  • Michael Quasthoff: A Question of Identity , taz , October 28, 2009, accessed on January 22, 2013
  • Hugo Thielen : Pavilion, culture u. Communication center at Raschplatz. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 497.
  • Jens Bielke (Red.): 40 years of the Hanover Pavilion. A cultural center writes city history. 1977–2017 , special issue as a supplement in the October issues of the city magazine magaScene and in the magazine hannover LIFE , Hanover: Stroetmann Verlag und Agentur, 2017

Web links

Commons : Raschplatz-Pavillon (Hannover)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Complete renovation of the pavilion on Raschplatz , Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , December 28, 2011
  2. ↑ Michael Quasthoff: A Question of Identity , Taz, October 28, 2009
  3. ↑ Juliane Kaune: After a year of renovation: The pavilion is back! , HAZ, January 20, 2014


Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 50 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 44 ″  E