Thürmer Hall
The Thürmer-Saal was a chamber music hall with 450 seats in the Ehrenfeld district of Bochum 's Wiemelhausen district .
history
He was owned by the Ferd. Thürmer Pianofortefabrik , Jan Thürmer, opened on June 17, 1988, after the factory moved from Herne to Bochum that same year . With around 50 concerts a year, the Thürmer-Saal was one of the most important venues for the Ruhr Piano Festival . In 1995 the concert hall was the focus of a scandal over artist fees for the piano festival.
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Lothar G. Possinke (Düsseldorf) and Werner Quarg (Essen) designed the white rotunda building. In the opening year it received an award in the design competition of the municipal association Ruhrgebiet . The architecture is based on Le Corbusier's buildings , together with the design of the forecourt and the lighting on the white, light-flooded buildings by Richard Meier and the basic geometric shapes on designs by Oswald Mathias Ungers . The building forms the southern end of a building complex laid out in a north-south direction, which also housed a piano museum, administrative areas and the company's production facilities with workshops and storage rooms. In addition to the actual hall, it also housed practice rooms and artist apartments .
use
In 2009, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia bought the Thürmer-Saal together with the adjacent buildings and, after a renovation, concentrated the acting training of the Folkwang University of the Arts at this location from 2014.
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- ↑ Phantom in the Jungle Der Spiegel, edition 14/1995
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 15 ″ N , 7 ° 13 ′ 31 ″ E