Experience culture. Poetry Slam in Hamburg

Drinnies – it can happen anywhere, anytime.

The best news since the last podcast episode: Giulia and Chris are going on tour again! After the success of their first live shows, the Drinnies are back. True to the new tour motto »It can happen anywhere, anytime«, they are once again leaving their natural habitat and taking their attic to the country’s most impressive concert halls. Whether philharmonic hall or opera house, what remains is the promise: no recording, no stream, no archive. This is Los Angeles, this is Hollywood.

PERFORMERS

Giulia Becker host

Chris Sommer host

Echt mein Recht!

The traveling exhibition on self-determination and protection from sexual violence is back in Hamburg. Here, people with learning disabilities learn everything about love, the body, and sexuality—both the positive and the dangerous aspects.

The exhibition offers a lot to see, hear, and try out. Visitors playfully learn about the topics themselves, as well as their own perspectives on them. They also learn to better assess certain situations in the areas of living, work, and leisure.

At all stations, people with disabilities share their experiences. The legal background is also explained at all stations. All texts are written in simple language. The texts can be read aloud using a pen.

Clients of the sponsors will guide you through the exhibition. The exhibition opens on November 5th at 4 p.m. and will be open from then on during the following times:
Mon. – Fri.

10am-1pm

2-5 p.m.

For groups of 6 or more, please register at: EchtmeinRecht2024@mail.de

"REALLY MY RIGHT!" is now being shown for the fourth time in the Hanseatic city. The initiative is being organized by a Hamburg alliance of social institutions consisting of the Evangelische Stiftung Alsterdorf, the Elbe-Werkstätten, Life with Disabilities Hamburg, the Rauhes Haus, and the Sozialkontor.

The concept for "REALLY MY RIGHT!" originated from the PETZE Institute for Violence Prevention. PETZE is committed to raising awareness about sexual violence and sexual abuse through educational programs.

Foyer of the Mitte District Office

Caffamacher series 1-3

20355 Hamburg

November 4 – 28, 2025

Monday to Friday

10:00 – 13:00

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Ein Rosenkavalier & GLITZERSUITE The 5th Friday - Underground Rock, Pop & Indie Nacht

After "Ein Rosenkavalier" politely declined the request to represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest with the words, "We must remain losers," he now devotes himself to the proletariat and its entertainment. His evergreens range from pop anthems, where even model hipsters bust out their disco fox, to 80s electro hits that invite affirmative nods. A constant up and down, get in, but don't forget your seatbelt.

GLITZERSUITE is made up of Josie Kaos, Coco Del Taco, and Jean Coppong from Hamburg's St. Pauli district. In early 2020, they founded the GLITZERSUITE experiment out of pure love and passion for music. GLITZERSUITE breathes the neon lights, the concrete, and the life of St. Pauli. This spirit can be heard, smelled, and even felt in their music and lyrics.

This project is funded by the Altona District Office based on a resolution passed by the District Assembly.

Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte nach Charles Dickens

in a version by Cornelius Henne and Felix Bachmann with music by Dominik Dittrich

With lots of live music!

"Merry Christmas? – Pah, humbug, nonsense!" For Ebenezer Scrooge, human emotions and warmth are a complete waste of time. He is only interested in his business and the wealth he has accumulated, and is also a decidedly unfriendly person. A case for the three spirits of Christmas: On Christmas Eve, they take Scrooge on a journey through time, from the past to the future. They lead him back to his childhood and youth – what a grump he was even then. They show him how happily the people around him celebrate Christmas and how they can forget their worries for a change, and they look with him into his future, which will be sad and bleak if he continues to live so greedily and mercilessly. It would be a laugh if the spirits failed to warm the cold heart of the old miser with this journey. So will Ebenezer Scrooge become a different person and will he celebrate a merry Christmas after all?

For many years, Felix Bachmann and his team have been responsible for the Christmas plays at the St. Pauli Theater. Following "The Jungle Book," "Robin Hood," and most recently "Peter Pan," among others, the program now features another classic of world literature, Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" – not at all dark, but full of humor, colorful imagery, and plenty of live music.

For children ages 5 and up!

With: Julika Frieß, Benjamin Leibbrand, Ilka Mahrholz, Florian Miro, Peter Neutzling, Nabil Pöhls

Director: Felix Bachmann | Stage Design: Anna Myga Kasten | Costume Design: Martina Müller | Musical Director: Florian Miro

Elijah - Close the app do the ting

Sonic Lab, Shutters, and Pudel present:

Elijah—Close the app, do the ting

In times of club decline, Elijah is essentially the Rick Rubin of club culture. Empowering grassroots—started as a yellow tile, now turned book.

On November 9, he will be at Pudel with his talk “Close the App – to the Ting,” followed by DJ sets by him, Cho Room, and Bandulera.

The initial spark for Hamburg. Or at least a celebration of a UK grin and subculture icon.

So Sunday is perfect. At Pudel.

Come early.

Ensemble Resonanz / Ellen Ugelvik / Riccardo Minasi

When conductor Riccardo Minasi takes to the podium, a search for music-historical traces, rousing energy and boldness merge into a unique artistic vision. As Principal Guest Conductor & Partner in Crime, he leads the Hamburg-based Ensemble Resonanz through Beethoven’s 6th Symphony, the »Pastorale« – a fully composed dream image of a rural idyll. Interspersed with the symphonic movements are excerpts from Kristine Tjøgersen’s ‘Piano Concerto’, which traces the sounds of Norwegian forests. Pianist Ellen Ugelvik makes miniature trees grow in the grand piano.

Go to digital programme booklet (German only)

In the concert hall, nature is a paradox, a fantasy, a memory, an artistic recreation of the outside inside. A moment of reflection.

Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ creates such a natural world: the murmur of a brook, the cheerful bustle of the countryside, the approaching thunderstorm. An idyll, almost sacred in its beauty, which even in Beethoven’s time was more a place of longing than a reality – a romantic image that today shifts even more into the realm of the fantastic. A quick selfie with Beethoven in the greenery!

Kristine Tjøgersen, on the other hand, opens the ear to the inaudible: insects, birds, leaves and water are moulded into notes, her music gives voice to the hidden world. Memory and construction intermingle, the sound of nature becomes a deliberately staged, artificial image - acoustically condensed, decorated with miniature trees made of plastic. The Norwegian composer, who was recently awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation’s Composition Prize, creates a powerful plea for our ecosystems – beyond the sentimental romanticism of nature.

How intact is the intact world? And what responsibility do we bear for ensuring that it does not disappear outside?

PERFORMERS

Ensemble Resonanz chamber orchestra

Ellen Ugelvik piano

Riccardo Minasi conductor

Clemens K. Thomas dramaturgy, concept, video pre-production

Evelina Dembacke video, lights

Letycia Rossi video pre-production

PROGRAM

Kristine Tjøgersen
Piano Concerto

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 »Pastoral Symphony«