Experience a poetry slam in Hamburg!

Experience culture. Poetry Slam in Hamburg

Hamburg stands for art and culture through and through. And over the years, poetry slams have gained a firm place in Hamburg's cultural programme. Those who want to see young lyrical talents have the opportunity to do so in Hamburg almost every week. The young poet scene meets here regularly on stage to compete and inspire the audience. And with the "artistic duels", the city even has its own unofficial championship. Here, you'll find an overview of current events and the most frequent venues.

Lips & Love

Lips & Love - the world is grey enough

MicArt63's pictures and objects are a beacon against the dreariness that is spreading in many places. The solo exhibition ‘Lips & Love’ is taking place at the popstreet.shop gallery in Hamburg's Karoviertel until 2 November.

The colours explode and, as with so many pop art works, the content is complex if the viewer takes a closer look. Be it the multi-layered colours of the ‘Lips & Love’ series, an octopus in fluroescent pink or the works on the theme of Heligoland, where the artist spent some time during the ‘Annas Art Affair’ exhibitions and which he presents as prints.

MicArt63 devotes himself entirely to pop art, which he captures on canvas and epoxy layers using street art techniques. The Hamburg-born artist is fascinated by artists such as Warhol, Lichtenstein, Ramos and Rosenquist, who used the restricted codes of advertising, mass consumption, the highways and the urban jungle for their messages and transforms the art form into the present. His work Anna's Bananas Blue Sky was included in the painting collection of the Rickmers Insulaner, Helgoland, where works by great artists from the 17th century to the present day are exhibited.

Lips & Love

Mariam Batsashvili / Piano Recital

Franz Liszt is a recurrent theme throughout Mariam Batsashvili’s life. For example, the Georgian pianist not only studied at the University of Music in Weimar named after Liszt, she also successfully took part in the International Franz Liszt Competition for Young Pianists there and won the Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht in 2024. And, besides Frédéric Chopin, her debut album from 2019 is also dedicated to the Austro-Hungarian composer. So, there is no question that she has now brought along several works by Liszt to kick off the »Pianomania« series in which this time everything revolves around the theme of »Transcriptions« – and with him probably one of the most ingenious arrangers in the history of music.

In her programme, Batsashvili reveals what kind of magnificent new music Liszt created from opera melodies by Handel, Mozart and Gounod. Also, the Austrian composer Sigismund Thalberg took a Bellini opera as a template when he wrote his virtuoso »Grande Caprice«. With a concerto in the style of Alessandro Marcello, Batsashvili also demonstrates that even a genius like Johann Sebastian Bach was not afraid of re-arranging works by others before he then became the template for numerous arrangements himself. One of the most famous works in this respect is surely the rendering of Bach’s Chaconne in D minor. Originally composed for solo violin, it was arranged for the piano by Ferruccio Busoni. Batsashvili also presents Busoni’s version in her concert.

PERFORMERS

Mariam Batsashvili piano

PROGRAM

Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto in D minor, BWV 974

Franz Liszt
Sarabande und Chaconne from Handel’s opera »Almira«, S.181

Sigismund Thalberg
Grande caprice based on themes from Bellini’s opera »La sonnambula«, Op. 46

Franz Liszt
Valse from Gounod’s opera »Faust«, S.407

- Interval -

Johann Sebastian Bach / Ferruccio Busoni
Chaconne

Franz Liszt
Fantasy based on themes from Mozart’s operas »Le nozze di Figaro« and »Don Giovanni«, S.697

Mariam Batsashvili / Piano Recital

Meet & Lied

Meet & Lied is a workshop format and is accompanied by Liedstadt artists. We open the doors to open classes for everyone who loves songs and would like to exchange ideas about their songs and music. This is an event within the framework of the Liedstadt Festival, which will take place in Hamburg from October 3rd to October 13th.

Meet & Lied

Mit allen Sinnen

Is there an echo in the Old Elbe Tunnel? Can you feel animal names? Do coffee and cocoa beans only smell when they are ground? Why do we need the nose to taste? Can you see through the water of the Elbe? Hamburg's special features and attractions are discovered with the five human senses. There are so many surprises...

Registration required at www.stadterlebnis.hamburg or 0157-50171259.

Mit allen Sinnen

Mural Walk

Guided urban art tour through the “Walls Can Dance” open space gallery in Harburg. Discover Northern Germany's largest open space gallery for urban art together with the initiators of Walls Can Dance. Walls Can Dance wants to build bridges: Hamburg's Harburg district has been facing a major challenge for years: how can the spatial separation of the two central districts “inner city” and “inland port” by a rail and car route be eliminated? With Walls Can Dance, artistic façade designs are being created on both sides of the route, thus symbolically creating a connection. Together with the initiators of Walls Can Dance, the tour follows the artworks from Harburg city center to the inland port. The initiators will provide background information and interesting facts about the individual artworks and artists.

Mural Walk