Experience culture. Poetry Slam in Hamburg

A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire

Abenteuer Archäologie

The Hamburg Archaeological Museum presents the "Adventure of Archaeology" in an unusual world of experience, offering fascinating insights into the prehistory and early history of Northern Germany. By connecting past and present, history comes alive and becomes tangible for visitors of all ages. From the Ice Age to the modern era, the museum showcases 40,000 years of human history.

Please check the website for exact opening hours, including on public holidays.

Abfallgeschichten. Ein Stadtspaziergang rund ums Thema Müll (für Kinder von 5 - 10 Jahren)

Collect rubbish, but also learn something about it? On this somewhat different city tour through Altona, we look down rather than up. Between the train station and the town hall, we are surprised by the amount of rubbish we find on the footpath and in the park - and, let's just say, we don't find nothing!

You will also learn all sorts of interesting things about the topic of waste, for example, who came up with the idea of the ice cream stick (and how it was probably packaged), how long it takes for a paper tissue to decompose and what thirst-quencher cartons are made of.

At the end we looked behind the scenes of the waste disposal and probably collected a bag full of garbage!

A walk with Susan Rößner, environmental educator from Ottensen.

Sign-up mandatory via phone (0049-1573-0304178) or email (susan@susan-roessner.de).

AI in music / Panel discussion

Art and music are said to be profoundly human, being imaginatively creative as perhaps the most human trait of all. What happens to this creativity in the age of artificial intelligence? The use of AI raises many questions which three artists discuss on the platform of the Hamburg International Music Festival.

In keeping with the theme, if you ask an AI tool, in this case ChatGPT, for a list of questions regarding its use in art and music, it answers immediately. It is about authenticity, ethics, copyright and the relationship between the creator and assistance – who creates what here, who owns the output and what new genres might emerge here?

Please note: the panel discussion is only open to ticket holders of the following events:

Brigitta Muntendorf: »Orbit – A War Series«, 17 May 2025

Zubin Kanga: »Cyborg Pianist«, 16 May 2025

Alexander Schubert & Decoder Ensemble: »Future Recognition«, 18 May 2025

PERFORMERS

Brigitta Muntendorf talk

Alexander Schubert talk

Barbara Lebitsch moderation

Leopold Hurt talk

PROGRAM

Komponist:innen und Künstler:innen des Musikfests diskutieren über Chancen und Risiken von KI in der Musik

Alster Radtour Kleine Stadtflucht

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These very relaxed Alster tour takes us around the Alster through the city rush Rotherbaum, Pöseldorf, Winterhude, Uhlenhorst and St. Georg. We cycle past consulates, magnificent villas and residences of enchanted water land and hidden ponds.
We walk in the footsteps of Jil Sander and Wolfgang Joop, discover a village within the city, behold, the Blue Mosque and get a wonderful view of the skyline of Hamburg's old and new towns.

In St. Georg district we find kunterbuntes & wuseliges Allerlei. It expect Hans Albers and the Lange Reihe, the Hansa square and stone dam with his language confusion.

This guided Alster bike ride takes about three hours and is very relaxing to drive. It is filled with many stops, where you expect a lot of stories, facts and good humor.

Duration approx 3.0 hours
Distance about 12 km
Price 24 / incl. Bike and possibly helmet

Registration by mail or phone required!
Phone: +49 (0) 40 - 36 09 19 69
Email: moin@hamburg-auskenner.de

Altona - Theresienstadt. Die Lebenswege von Leon Daniel Cohen und Käthe Starke-Goldschmidt

An exhibition in cooperation with the Friends of Yad Vashem

In January 2023, the exhibition “Sixteen Objects - Seventy Years of Yad Vashem” was shown in the German Bundestag. The history of these objects from the collection of the International Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem can be traced back to one of the 16 German federal states. The Hamburg object on display was a Torah shrine (Aron Hakodesh) made by Leon Daniel Cohen from Altona, which he took with him to the Theresienstadt concentration camp when he was deported in 1942. In 1944, Leon Daniel Cohen and his family were murdered in Auschwitz. The Torah shrine became part of the Yad Vashem collection.

Now the Torah shrine is temporarily returning to Altona on loan for the exhibition, which was developed in cooperation with the Friends of Yad Vashem. The object forms the starting point for a search for the memories that Leon Daniel Cohen and his family left behind in Hamburg-Altona. Where did they live and work? What can be found out about the family's history? The story of Käthe Starke-Goldschmidt, who was deported from Altona to Theresienstadt in 1943 but fortunately survived the camp, is also examined. When she returned to Hamburg, she brought with her the "Theresienstadt collection" of drawings and documents secretly collected there: thanks to these sources, important conclusions can be drawn about the situation of the Cohen family.

The exhibition makes clear the gap left by the persecution, deportation and murder of Altona residents of Jewish descent. Places such as the Altona synagogues or the Cohen family's homes have been destroyed, and their property was scattered and destroyed during the deportation. Nevertheless, it has been possible to make some of the traces of the lives of Leon Daniel Cohen and Käthe Starke-Goldschmidt visible again and to supplement research into Altona's history during the Nazi era.

The accompanying program for the exhibition is being developed in cooperation with the State Center for Political Education and the Hamburg Memorials and Learning Sites Foundation.