Laeiszhalle (Großer Saal)

For a long time, the Arctic was a distant, abstract concept: eternal ice, polar night, expeditions, myth. Today, it is at the centre of a new geopolitical reality. Where the ice is melting, trade…

For a long time, the Arctic was a distant, abstract concept: eternal ice, polar night, expeditions, myth. Today, it is at the centre of a new geopolitical reality. Where the ice is melting, trade…

George Crotty has forged his own exciting vocabulary pushing the boundaries of the cello. Versed in many styles, his inquisitive eclecticism draws on diverse influences within jazz and global music…

Chris Walden is something of a Roland Emmerich of the German music scene: originally from Hamburg, he now earns his living as a successful film composer in LA. To mark the 40th anniversary of the…

This year’s FLOW Festival centres on early Baroque music from Hamburg. The programme features works by Thomas Selle, Hamburg’s director of church music, and his contemporaries from Hamburg…

Annual visitors, standing ovations and a fan cult like rock stars: the duo Café del Mundo is Germany’s most successful guitar export. With their unique blend of flamenco, classical, jazz,…

Maria Kling loves writing about anything that’s fun: magical house-dwellers, strange little monsters and children who’d rather go on adventures and cause chaos than tidy their rooms like…

A call for a radical rethink in politics and society. The Collien Fernandes case has shaken Germany – and at the same time laid bare, in all its brutality, just how commonplace male violence…

Australian comedian, actor, and writer Jim Jefferies is one of the most popular and respected comedians of his generation, captivating audiences worldwide with his provocative, prejudice-challenging,…

Romanticism is not merely a bygone era; it is a fundamental longing within every human being. It is the search for emotion—that is, for meaning within the objective world. From this perspective,…