Experience culture. Poetry Slam in Hamburg

Albert Schweitzer Jugendorchester

This concert combines three very different works: Claude Debussy’s »Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune«, which ushered in musical impressionism with its floating sounds and flowing harmonies, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Suite No. 1 with its courtly dances, which were originally heard in Leipzig’s coffee house concerts, and Sergei Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 2, a large-scale work full of melodies that was composed after his creative crisis. Bach presents French dance forms with German precision, Debussy creates soundscapes and Rachmaninov spans great melodic arcs between melancholy and energy. Three works, three epochs, three approaches to thinking sound and form.

PERFORMERS

Albert Schweitzer Jugendorchester orchestra

Sebastian Beckedorf conductor

PROGRAM

Claude Debussy
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune

Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestersuite Nr. 1 C-Dur BWV 1066

Sergej Rachmaninow
Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

Alice/Wunderland - Kellertheater

"You can grow in your wonderland - if you don't lose yourself in it."
(The man )

Alice dreams the same dream every night. And forget him immediately. Again and again she is the heroine of a world that she creates for herself and yet never remembers. What does she really want to forget? Itself? But she doesn't know who she is. In search of an answer, she fights her way through a bizarre dream world full of anarchy, absurdities and bizarre dream creatures every night. She slowly realizes that the strange journey through Wonderland is actually a journey to what was lost in her memories: the journey down the rabbit hole leads her into a world that she already has hidden deep inside. What will happen when gets to their lost memories?

Lewis Carroll published his two novels "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass" as children's books. This is how they were perceived by the public during his lifetime. In the late 20th century, the stories about Alice regained popularity and were given new interpretations. Alice's journey can not only be read as an adventure in an absurd fairytale world, but also as a journey deep into the layers of the human subconscious, as an abysmal psychological self-discovery. The ALICE/WUNDERLAND production team also dares to try this.

Note: Recommended age from 16 years.
The staging addresses, among other things, child abuse. Please assess for yourself whether a visit is suitable for you.

Alle Jahre wieder - Weihnachten am Gänsemarkt

During Advent, a fairytale village stands on Gänsemarkt square around the Lessing Monument. The cottages offer handicrafts, high-quality natural cosmetics, and organic goods.

December 6: Santa Claus arrives.

Open daily; food and beverages until 11:00 PM.

Closed on November 23, 2025.

Almir Mavignier

Karsten Müller im Gespräch mit Delmar Mavignier, Sohn des Künstlers, und der Kunsthistorikerin Miriam Schoofs

Always chasing a Bassline

Always Chasing a Bassline — by THE HOUSE COLLECTIVE

We celebrate house at its finest: carefully curated tracks, harmonically mixed and seamlessly blended —a flow that carries you from the very first minute. Between Disco House, House, and Tech House our Dus build tension arcs, work precisely with EQ, gain & long blends, and keep the bassline warm & punchy. No hard cuts, no jumps-just groove.

Music Policy & Sound

• Focus on quality: hand-picked edits, classics & fresh cuts

• Key mixing & long transitions for constant drive (120-128 BPM)

• Dynamics & headroom instead of the loudness war —clean, danceable sound

• Warm low-end, clear highs —the club system finely tuned

Facts

Upper HALO, Reeperbahn • Doors 22:30 - open end • 18+ • party respectfully

Amaryllis Quartett

Longing can mean giving a tangible sense of lack something like an undefined direction. No medium is as familiar with this phenomenon as music, where the audible sound always communicates to its listeners as a structure of tension, an urgency, or a palpable sense of calm. The Amaryllis Quartet explores the relationship between »music« and »longing« in a multi-layered program that begins by combining Antonín Dvořák’s famous miniature »Cypresses« with the contemporary work »Gesänge der Sehnsucht« (Songs of Longing) by David Philip Hefti. The key of longing par excellence, E-minor, then gives Ludwig van Beethoven the opportunity to point far ahead into the musical language of Romanticism through his string quartet, using the stylistic means of the Classical period.

PERFORMERS

Amaryllis Quartett string quartet

Gustav Frielinghaus violin

Lena Sandoz violin

Mareike Hefti viola

Yves Sandoz violoncello

PROGRAM

Antonín Dvořák
Zypressen für zwei Violinen, Viola und Violoncello B 152

David Philip Hefti
String Quartet No. 8 »Gesänge der Sehnsucht«

- Interval -

Ludwig van Beethoven
Streichquartett e-Moll op. 59/2