Experience culture. Poetry Slam in Hamburg

Eine Sommernacht - Kellertheater

A Summer Night - A play with music

A wine bar in Edinburgh. Helena, a successful divorce lawyer, is just being stood up again by her married lover; Bob, an inconspicuous petty criminal, is waiting for his next assignment. They're both in their mid-30s and it seems life and this night don't have much in store for them anymore - so they plunge into a drunken one night stand.

After the rather disappointing result, she sends him into the night. Actually end of story. If they didn't meet again by chance the next day An afternoon together turns into a long, weirdly magical Midsummer night in which they smash £15,000 on the head, drink, spill, hand out and dream gallons of alcohol on the streets of Edinburgh. And maybe it's also the beginning of a love story. Self-ironic, fast-paced and emotional.

Loud and quiet, a rollercoaster of emotions, full of humor and social differences.

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

Engel Maxi

Mrs. Claus has delivered all the presents, and heaven is empty. But one child has been forgotten! Angel Maxi secretly flies to Earth to deliver her beloved ukulele as a gift. Together with a Hamburg ship's rat, Maxi then discovers how to celebrate Christmas and what truly belongs to the festival of love.

Ensemble Masques & Olivier Fortin, Harpsichord

Ensemble Masques, led by harpsichordist Olivier Fortin, opens this season’s harpsichord spotlight at the Elbphilharmonie with French chamber music from the 18th century. The programme includes several solo concertos for harpsichord by Baroque master Jean-Philippe Rameau and his contemporaries.

PERFORMERS

Ensemble Masques chamber ensemble

Vicente Romero Carrilero Traversflöte

Sophie Gent baroque violin

Lucile Boulanger viola da gamba

Olivier Fortin harpsichord

PROGRAM

François Couperin
Concert Royal No. 1 in G major

Jean-Philippe Rameau
Pièces de clavecin en concert No. 1

Antoine Forqueray
Le Carillon de Passy

Antoine Forqueray
La Leclair in G major

Jean-Philippe Rameau
Pièces de clavecin en concert No. 5

- Interval -

François Couperin
Concert Royal No. 2 in D major

Michel Corrette
Sonata »Le Jardin des Hespérides« No. 3 in A major, Op. 25

Jean-Philippe Rameau
Pièces de clavecin en concert No. 3

Exhibition and opening >>Fidele Fauna

A crocodile on Altona beach or a wild herd of pigs as the fictional namesake of the Elbe island of Schweinesand – a large joint exhibition displays pictures of small, large, dangerous, cuddly or bizarre animals.

‘We believe that the diversity of the exhibition can provide great artistic enjoyment and pleasure for all generations, and we are very much looking forward to unleashing this artistic zoo on the public,’ says painter and graphic artist Miriam Diezmann, who has been responsible for the exhibitions in the gallery of the Elbschloss Residenz for two years.

The works approach the animal world in very different artistic styles and show the artistic range with which the subject can be dealt with.

Here: animals and humans in charming coexistence: a baby elephant that wants to read along. There: birds stealing the clothes of someone bathing in ice water.

Horses that sweep us away with their energy. Big, round eyes to fall in love with. Alert eyes that look at us critically.

The animal pictures evoke emotions in us. Are the motifs based on real events, or do they follow the stories that have been spread about them? Stories, or more precisely, poems with a wink, complement some of the pictures and complete the exhibition.

Fairplay im Fanshop: FC St. Pauli und der HSV legen vor

Merchandise in sports is not a niche business: the number of Bundesliga jersey sales in particular drives total revenues in the professional sector into the tens of millions.

But where and under what conditions are all these textiles actually produced? What about sporting values like fairness and respect when it comes to wages and production conditions in the Global South? And which German professional football clubs are actually living up to their social responsibility and paying attention to sustainability in their fan shops?

That's exactly what our online session on December 16, 2025 at 2:30 pm on Zoom is about: We will present what sustainable merchandising can look like – and show that smaller associations, public procurement officers and interested private individuals can also be inspired by it.

For good reason, we invited the merchandise managers of FC St. Pauli, Catharina Fricke, and HSV, Sascha Steinbrück, to this event – who, although separated by their colors as always, are surprisingly united in their purpose.

Another speaker you can look forward to is Lara Schröder, sustainability officer of cum ratione, who examined the fan shops of Bundesliga professionals in a study.

The event will be moderated by Anton Klischewski, who is involved in the nationwide campaign "Sport handelt fair" (Sport Trades Fairly), with which this event is being held in cooperation. He is also a consultant for sports and fair trade at the Fair Trade Berlin Action Alliance, as well as a board member and coordinator for sustainability and engagement at FC Internationale, a club that has achieved unique successes in this area.

90 minutes of exclusive insights you shouldn't miss!

You can register here: https://eveeno.com/287067965