Experience culture. Poetry Slam in Hamburg

Musketeer - St. Pauli Kirche (A Very Musky Christmas)

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Musky Christmas is on again. This time again in the St. Pauli Kirche in Hamburg. Join the Aussie folk troubadour and friends for a beautiful evening of original music in the Church. Musketeer has lived and played in Hamburg for the past 9 years and this traditional end of year event proves to be his most intimate and spectacular of shows, showcasing years of work and friendships.

Doors 19:00

Pre-Sale Tickets Available.

(Price range: 15€-30€)

Support: Xintra

BIO

No stranger to a bustling street corner nor a grand stage, Musketeer has spent the better part of the last decade honing his storytelling skills and songwriting craft in some of Europe’s most beautiful cities.

Wind, hail or shine, this hardened Australian folk troubadour has blazed through it all with steadfast fervour, howling his way onto the stage, often consumed in some sort of biblical rapture.

In 2022, Musketeer undertook his most ambitious journey to date. A road trip from Oslo to Istanbul. The troubadour traveled across Europe with 7 other artists and played concerts, festivals and busked across 15 different countries. The trip was filmed and will be released as a 90 minute documentary along with an album of music recorded along the way.

In 2023 Musketeer began to release his most ambitious studio record thus far, a debut LP titled ‘Glorious Light.’ Working together again with his band from his home base of Hamburg, Germany, Musketeer produced the record with fellow Australian Singer-Songwriter Lucas Laufen in the Famous Gold Watch Studios in Berlin. The album explores themes of war and hope, explores Christianity, touches upon Roman and Germanic Mythology and steals lines from Dante, Dylan and Hemingway.

‘Glorious Light’ follows Musketeer’s previous two studio EP’s, ‘The North Sea’ (2021) and ‘Seven Long Years.’ (2017)

Nature Film Wednesday/European Nature Film Award: The Monk Vulture

With a wingspan of three meters, the monk vulture is the largest bird of prey circling the skies of Old Europe. It is also one of the largest birds on our entire planet.

This majestic creature, which was threatened with extinction in the 20th century, is no longer found on most of the European continent. A few individuals still live in Greece and on several Mediterranean islands, but most survivors have found refuge in the forested areas of the Iberian Peninsula's interior.

And here, in a remote part of wild Iberia, our story unfolds.

Our protagonists are two monk vultures who work tirelessly to ensure the survival of their only chick. But all the efforts of these two parents may not be enough. It is the forest and the laws of nature that will ultimately decide whether the little vulture lives or dies.

Let's accompany this unique family. Their story is anything but smooth, full of struggle, but also tenderness... They are surrounded by a unique natural landscape teeming with life, where all inhabitants fight for their own survival every day.

Is shown in

English

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This film is one of 50 productions selected for the European Wildlife Film Awards (EWFA) and is eligible for the Audience Award, which will be presented in February 2026. Cinema-goers will have the opportunity to rate the film on site.

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About the European Wildlife Film Awards (EWFA)

The EWFA is the first nature film competition to exclusively honor documentaries about European flora and fauna. Presented by the German Wildlife Foundation, there are a total of six award categories. A total of 245 films have already been submitted for the first competition in 2025. A jury of experts from the fields of nature conservation, media, science, and culture selected the winners in the categories of wildlife, biodiversity, nature conservation, and storytelling. But cinema-goers also have the opportunity to rate the films. They voted for the best short film and will decide on the audience award, which will be presented for the first time in 2026.

NDR Vokalensemble / Heide Müller

Jubilant choirs in high church halls, hardly anything reminds us more vividly of the deeper meaning of Christmas: the birth of a child and the promise of a happy future. And so the NDR Vokalensemble groups its Christmas concert around Johann Sebastian Bach’s motto »Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied«. Bach has two choirs compete with each other in the praise of God. And the magnificent final fugue »Alles was Odem hat, lobe den Herrn« with its virtuoso colouratura really hardly gives the singers a chance to catch their breath.



Under the direction of Heide Müller, an up-and-coming young conductor who has already conducted leading ensembles such as The Norwegian Soloistsʼ Choir and Cappella Amsterdam, the NDR Vokalensemble presents works by Bach as well as compositions by Francois Poulenc. Connoisseurs claim that it is not his operas but his sacred works that are the best that this devout Catholic ever wrote. After all, the French composer often modelled his rich harmonic modulations on Bach. Poulenc had studied Bach’s vocal works as a young man and emphasised: »This work made me passionate and had a decisive influence on me.«

PERFORMERS

NDR Vokalensemble choir

Sono Tokuda violin

Michael Stürzinger violin

Gabriel Uhde viola

Johannes Dworatzek violoncello

Volker Donandt double bass

Christian Schmitt organ

Heide Müller conductor

PROGRAM

Johann Sebastian Bach
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225

Adrianna Kubica-Cypek
L’hiver

Francis Poulenc
Un soir de neige FP 126

Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B minor, BWV 232

Francis Poulenc
O magnum mysterium

Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesus bleibet meine Freude

- Interval -

Johann Sebastian Bach
Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier

Michael Praetorius
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen

Gustaf Nordqvist (Text: Edvard Evers)
Jul, jul, strålande jul

Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck
Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman, Op. 90

Ørjan Matre
Eit barn er født i Betlehem

David Willcocks
The Infant King

Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in A major RV 159 for strings and basso continuo

Johann Sebastian Bach
Sicut locutus est

Johann Sebastian Bach
Magnificat in D major, BWV 243

John Francis Wade
Adeste fideles

Neugrabener Markt

On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays there is always fresh produce from the region in the Marktpassage.

Nordic Christmas

Christmas is a time to find peace and to listen. To hear what is important in life. Christmas is full of traditions that connect people across age boundaries and link the present with the past. Singer Helene Blum and violinist Harald Haugaard bring the special atmosphere of the Nordic winter into the concert hall. Their programme »Nordic Christmas« celebrates this auspicious time with authentic and lovingly selected pieces and stories. The Danish musicians and their changing guests skilfully tell of the little moments, and between the notes the audience sees the tracks in the snow, hears the goblins giggling and the reindeer rattling. Time seems to stand still – until the next drum roll sounds and a lively dance begins...

PERFORMERS

Helene Blum violin, vocals

Harald Haugaard violin

Tiril Eirunn Einarsdotter Hardanger fiddle, violin, vocals

Kristine Elise Pedersen violoncello

Oskar Reuter guitars

Sune Rahbek percussion

PROGRAM

»Nordic Christmas«

On the Origins of the 21st Century or the Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography

Through five curated sections, this cluster of exhibitions examines the role of intimacy, gender, and sexuality through visual cultures in the context of political regime changes in Europe from the 1980s until today. Artworks that engage with the Fall of the Berlin Wall and its consequences shed light on the emergence of a power vacuum, in a moment often referred to as the end of history, and the struggles emerging within new hegemonies informed by gender and sexuality. The title references Jean-Luc Godard’s f ilm Origins of the 21st Century, which anticipates developments in visual culture that synthesise violence and the erotic into an era of the “hardcore” at the turn of the millennium – a time when uncensored images increasingly begin to enable and establish new political spaces. The exhibition seeks the origins of this hardcore visual culture not in cinema, but in video and television media, locating them as the dominant tools of discourse and power in a then- accelerating postmodernity.

Curated by Angela Harutyunyan, Charles Teyssou und Pierre-Alexandre Mateos, Dina Akhmadeeva, Elisa R. Linn, Erika Balsom.

With works by:

Sona Abgaryan, Jürgen Baldiga, Annemirl Bauer, Maria Grazia Belmonti, Anna Mária

Beová, Bärbel Bohley, Günter Brus, Anna Carini, Michel Carrouges, Shu Lea

Cheang, Mahmoud Dabdoub, Lutz Dammbeck, Rony Daopoulo, Anna Dauíková, Paola De

Martiis, De-Zentralbild, Mark Dion, Peter Friedl, Nikolay Georgiev, Wiktor Grodecki, Diana

Hakobyan, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Jayne-Ann Igel, Libue Jarcovjáková, William E. Jones, David

Kareyan, Tigran Khachatryan, Pierre Klossowski, Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt, Raja Lubinetzki,

Materialien aus dem Archiv GrauZone, Paul McCarthy, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Bjarne

Melgaard, Annabella Miscuglio, Clara Mosch, Namenlos, Ladies Neid, Shz Numa, César

Olhagaray, Geraldo Paunde, Ulrich Polster, Núria Quevedo, Loredana Rotondo, Ronald M.

Schernikau, Sarah Schulman, Harout Simonian, Gabriele Stötzer, Sandra Teitge, Tsomak, Ralf-

Rainer Wasse, Jürgen Wittdorf, frau anders, Rosa von Praunheim

Organised by Milan Ther, with Christian Bätjer, Dr Martin Karcher, and Sarah Messerschmidt