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Cultures of our city – France

Unfortunately, we have to cancel the event.

Unfortunately, demand so far has been lower than we had hoped, which is why we have decided to cancel the event.

We would have loved to have spent the evening with you and therefore regret this decision all the more. Thank you very much for your understanding.

“WULEWU – The Cheese, Wine and Baguette Concert!” – Music & Comedy

We’re celebrating Billstedt’s diversity – 130 nations live in the area. Artists will showcase the culture of their home countries in the Kultur Palast Foundation’s new event format, “Cultures of Our City!” This time, the audience can look forward to a trip to France with the Ladies Ahoi – or rather: Les Deux Dames AHOIEUSES: Experience this lively duo live on stage. A journey through the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s and French classics – no prior knowledge required; Brigitte and Natalie, the “Ladies AHOI!”, have it all covered. The audience can look forward to chansons, classics and stories. The journey begins in a taxi to Paris (Felix de Luxe), to the unrepentant Edith Piaf (Non rien de rien), to a Sunday in Avignon (Mireille Mathieu), straight to the beautiful Nathalie (Gilbert Becaud), who is sensually adored to the sound of a deluxe accordion. Francophile, exuberant joie de vivre, like a spicy ratatouille: Adamo, La Boum, Alexandra, Dalida, Daliah Lavi, Zaz, Voulez-Vous (ABBA) and many more accompany us on this Bon Voyage with an unmistakable German accent, a breathtaking mix of French and German. From currywurst to cheeky, pop-style crêpes: delicious, thoroughly entertaining and a reunion with old and new hits from the land of the Eiffel Tower. Well then – Bienvenue!

An evening full of music, humour and stories that transcends boundaries – with plenty of soul, a touch of Paris and loads of deluxe accordion. The proverbial French art of living, ‘savoir vivre’, is also evident in the culinary delights: there’s authentic cheese, wine and baguette. 

With the project ‘Cultures of Our City – Diversity on Stage’, the Kultur Palast Foundation is presenting a twelve-part series of events in the Billstedt district. The aim is to introduce different communities, showcase their culture and create spaces for people to come together. The project showcases the individual communities in a stage show, provides information about their traditions and highlights their art and cuisine with a view to building a future worth living in an urban area home to people from 130 nations. The project aims to promote social cohesion and raise awareness of cultural diversity. Visitors will enjoy a convivial time together and experience the individual communities in all their diversity within the neighbourhood, learn more about one another and get to know each other. 

The project is funded by the Neighbourhood Fund of the Hamburg-Mitte district.

The Hamburg actress and singer Birgit Lünsmann joins forces with the Russian accordionist Natalie Böttcher – both over 50, both fully-fledged professionals, who have been performing with all their heart on stage as ‘Ladies AHOI!’ for the past 10 years. They tell stories, sing and play about life between the harbour edge and the Champs-Élysées, between Piaf and Low German, between depth and silliness. Both are an integral part of Hamburg’s cultural scene (Kammerspiele, Schmidt’s, Ohnsorg, accompanying Alfons (NDR), Jens Wawrzeck (Die Drei ???), Meiningen State Theatre, etc.) and are trained in accordion, singing and acting.

Photos by Julia Zenk 

Da ist Musik drin – Die musikalische Improshow

Music and improvisational theater – the mix is what makes it! Comedy, music, and theater in breathtaking succession. The audience challenges the performers with their suggestions, and presto: A musical on the Veddel? Let's go! A North German road movie? Done. A danced banana blues? Enjoy! Varied, fast-paced, and funny. In the Steife Brise musical improv show, the actors have exactly five seconds to turn the audience's suggestions into a scene. And off they go!

Das Kellertheater liest! (Ausschnitte zur Theaternacht)

The cellar theater reads: Highlights from our current and planned reading programs.

Das Luftschloss für alle (Offenes Format, ab 5 Jahre)

FUNDUS THEATER | Research Theatre is a children's theatre known for its innovations in participatory and research-oriented theatre and cultural education. A key focus is research with children, for which the Research Theatre received the Perspective Prize of the German States at the German Theatre Prize DER FAUST in 2023.

For our Theatre Night, we'll guide you through the theatre and behind the scenes in small groups. Discover the curiosities of our props department and take a look inside our workshop and wardrobe. You'll find that the theatre is more spacious than it appears and that a theatre operation involves many different areas of work. Of course, the technical team has also prepared a little theatrical magic for you.
We also invite you to the castle in the air outside on Children's Rights Square:

The Castle in the Air (Open format, ages 5 and up)

Air is always there, in us and around us, invisible, omnipresent, and indispensable. And yet we often consider it fleeting, almost unreal: A castle in the air – that's an impossible dream. A dreamer – that's a fool. Sometimes we forget about air altogether: A room filled with nothing but air appears empty to us.
The climate crisis is first and foremost a crisis of the air, and therefore perhaps also a consequence of having ignored the air for too long. It's time to build castles in the air and celebrate the air!
But how? Perhaps by saving CO2 and flying acrobatically through the air. Perhaps with wind and scent and clouds, or from the breath of trees. Or perhaps as augmented reality? In any case, with parachutes, inflatable rings, fog machines, and helium balloons. And what about the micro-creatures that live in the air?

The castle in the air was developed by a transdisciplinary group of children, artists and scientists: Sibylle Peters, Matthias Anton, Idgie Groffmann, Felix Jung, Nils Löfke, Ines Moreno, Julia Münz, Lydia Schultze-Heuling, Florian Tampe, Margaux Weiß, Christopher Weymann and children from the IVK classes 5-7 of the Louise-Weiss-Gymnasium.

The "castle in the air" emerged from the EU project SENSE.STEAM and was funded by the Edmund Siemers Foundation.

Der blaue Saphir (Ausschnitte zur Theaternacht)

A children's crime story from Hamburg

Two crooks and their fence are after a very valuable sapphire.

But they hadn't reckoned with the three kids from the gamer gang, who
bravely and cleverly plunge into the gangster milieu…

Der Markt der Møglichkeiten

The Market of Possibilities is a curated cultural bazaar in the railway hall in Hamburg's Oberhafen – initiated by the non-profit association WeField eV
With this market, we want to create a vibrant place for creativity, exchange and new ideas – right in the middle of a hall that would otherwise be empty.
Once a month, we bring DIY stalls, street food, music, art and community under one roof – and show how much is possible when you fill spaces together.

Mamø is more than just a market:
It is a place to participate, meet, and stay.