Experience culture. Poetry Slam in Hamburg

Kleiner LEGO-DUPLO-Nachmittag in der Bücherhalle

Every other Friday, you can build and experiment with us. On our play mat, young library visitors can create their own worlds with LEGO DUPLO and let their creativity run wild. We look forward to seeing your creations!

Komm aufs Schach-Deck

Monday is chess day on the foredeck of the Central Library. Are you already castling or do openings still seem like gibberish to you? Come aboard and meet other enthusiasts who want to learn the royal game or test themselves in an exciting match.

Registration is not required.

Media related to chess can be found here .

LAURA COX - Troubled Tour 2026

After LAURA COX with her cover versions of
Blues and rock classics cause a sensation on YouTube
Having caused a stir, she advanced to 500,000 YouTube subscribers.
subscribers and 105 million views
most-watched guitarist and singer of the
French and international rock scene.
LAURA COX impresses not only on the internet
or on their social media platforms (250,000
Followers on Facebook and 140,000 followers on
Instagram) with her powerful and versatile voice
and with her exceptional guitar playing. She
It is also gaining more and more fans and reputation through
their live shows.


Their "Southern Blues Rock" is a fresh alternative for
Blues & rock festivals such as Hellfest, Download Festival,
Guitare en Scène, Time To Rock Festival and many more
others that she has played in recent years.


This has placed Laura Cox herself in the ranking of the greatest
female guitarists catapulted, and is there seriously anything cooler than in a
Breathe with Nancy Wilson (Heart), Nita Strauss (Alice Cooper), The Runaways or Joan Jett
to be mentioned, just to name a few.
Laura Cox achieved the highest acclaim with her debut album "Hard Blues Shot" (2017).
within their fellow guitarists worldwide. The second album, "Burning Bright".
Released by Verycords/Warner in November 2019. Their third album, “Head Above Water”, was released.
Released by Earmusic in January 2023, it seamlessly follows its two predecessors. Released in October 2025.
Her new album “Trouble Coming” (Earmusic) is now being released.


LAURA COX is the driving force behind a generation of new rock guitarists!

Lenke Rothman: Quality of Life

From the 1950s until her death in 2008, Rothman developed a unique feminist œuvre, where aspects of the everyday are set against a biographical and historic backdrop. Characterised by the radical processing of a lived present after the Shoah, Rothman’s practice negotiates lines of temporality and transience through, amongst other things, the preservation ephemeral and forgotten materials in a body of work that moves from abstract painting in the 1950s into the vocabulary of post-conceptual feminist sculpture in the 1960s and 70s. By recurring gestures – sewing, mending and enveloping, carving texts into fabric or paper, and holding together torn or decaying fragments – Rothman gives form to impermanence and memory alike, emphasising clothing as a membrane between fragile bodies and the world that surrounds them. Here, Rothman’s gestural poetics understand repair as the materialisation of the perpetual guided by the question: ‘How can life be saved and preserved despite constant destruction?’

Lenke Rothman: Quality of Life

From the 1950s until her death in 2008, Rothman developed a unique feminist œuvre, where aspects of the everyday are set against a biographical and historic backdrop. Characterised by the radical processing of a lived present after the Shoah, Rothman’s practice negotiates lines of temporality and transience through, amongst other things, the preservation ephemeral and forgotten materials in a body of work that moves from abstract painting in the 1950s into the vocabulary of post-conceptual feminist sculpture in the 1960s and 70s. By recurring gestures – sewing, mending and enveloping, carving texts into fabric or paper, and holding together torn or decaying fragments – Rothman gives form to impermanence and memory alike, emphasising clothing as a membrane between fragile bodies and the world that surrounds them. Here, Rothman’s gestural poetics understand repair as the materialisation of the perpetual guided by the question: ‘How can life be saved and preserved despite constant destruction?’

Lenke Rothman: Quality of Life

From the 1950s until her death in 2008, Rothman developed a unique feminist œuvre, where aspects of the everyday are set against a biographical and historic backdrop. Characterised by the radical processing of a lived present after the Shoah, Rothman’s practice negotiates lines of temporality and transience through, amongst other things, the preservation ephemeral and forgotten materials in a body of work that moves from abstract painting in the 1950s into the vocabulary of post-conceptual feminist sculpture in the 1960s and 70s. By recurring gestures – sewing, mending and enveloping, carving texts into fabric or paper, and holding together torn or decaying fragments – Rothman gives form to impermanence and memory alike, emphasising clothing as a membrane between fragile bodies and the world that surrounds them. Here, Rothman’s gestural poetics understand repair as the materialisation of the perpetual guided by the question: ‘How can life be saved and preserved despite constant destruction?’