Experience culture. Poetry Slam in Hamburg

Highlight-Führung

A museum staff member will show you a selection of the most fascinating exhibits from Professor Peter Tamm's collection. Interesting stories and background information about our highlights make this tour a special experience.

Duration: 60 minutes. Meeting point: foyer. Registration is required. Cost: Adults €3.00 / Family €6.00

Historical Christmas Market

In front of the imposing background of the Hamburg City Hall every yearthe historical christmas market takes place. Over 100 traders, entertainers and craftsmen are there to held one of the finest markets.

Hochsensibilität im gesellschaftlichen Wandel

High sensitivity in social change - A beautiful life with high sensitivity

Panel discussion in the Goldbekhaus

Panel discussion PY Herzberg, S. Schröder, J. Böttcher and V. Steisslinger, moderated by Cord Röpken

How can sensitive people impact society? What potential do they have for shaping the future? And how is it possible to lead a good life with high sensitivity?
We will also be collecting questions in advance for this discussion, both during the presentations and via email. Together with the speakers, we will address exemplary questions.

Cord Röpken founded the HSP Cafe in September 2021 and has moderated this meeting every week since then. A year earlier, he established the High Sensitivity Research Space, a monthly exchange among highly sensitive people. He now leads these workshops, together with Sonja Simone Schröder, to help highly sensitive people gain a deeper understanding of themselves. His goal as a sensitivity coach is to show people the beauty and joy of high sensitivity.

Holy Shit Shopping

Holy Shit Shopping 2025 – The Urban Christmas Design Market

Since 2004, Holy Shit Shopping has stood for stylish Christmas shopping beyond the mainstream.

Starting in mid-November 2025, the cult event will once again go on a festive winter tour — with stops in Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig, and Frankfurt am Main.

In each city, the venue transforms for one weekend into a vibrant urban Christmas market full of design, art, club vibes, and street food.

On December 6–7, 2025, Holy Shit Shopping will stop in Hamburg (Messe B1, entrance Karolinenstraße 45). Around 200 creative labels, designers, artists, and small manufacturers will present their work — from sustainable fashion, handmade jewelry, and interior design to illustration, natural cosmetics, and culinary highlights such as kimchi, tapas, craft rum, and upcycled pastries.

Holy Shit Shopping is known as the trend-savvy alternative to the traditional Christmas market – young, urban, diverse, and definitely off the beaten track.

For Creatives & Labels:

Those who would like to become part of Holy Shit Shopping can now apply as exhibitors.

Info & registration: www.holyshitshopping.de

Direct application: aussteller.holyshitshopping.de

Date & Venue 2025

Hamburg: December 6–7 | Messe B1 | Entrance Karolinenstraße 45

Tickets: Online Early Bird €5 / On-site €7 | Children under 14 free

Tickets: holyshitshopping.de/tickets

Opening Hours:

Saturday: 1:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Sunday: 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Ice Curling in St. Pauli – Your Winter Highlight at the Port of Hamburg

Experience wintry fun right by the Elbe!

Our two covered ice curling lanes, each 14 meters long, offer Olympic dimensions, atmospheric décor, and genuine winter container flair – right in the heart of Hamburg’s St. Pauli.

Perfect for groups & special occasions

Whether it’s a team event, Christmas party, birthday, or a special evening with friends – winter joy is guaranteed here, sheltered from wind and weather.

Mulled wine, winter beers & punch – pure winter vibes

What’s the perfect winter atmosphere without great drinks?

Our outdoor bar serves you homemade mulled wine, selected winter beers, non-alcoholic punch, and hearty hot dishes – ideal for warming up and indulging between games in the cozy container setting.

Spots are limited – so grab your crew, reserve your lane, and experience winter at its best!

IN WORDS - Exile PEN online reading

In Words – Anthology

In this anthology, which we are publishing in honor of our late president Guy Stern, we have taken his “support and inspiration, work and leisure, guiding star and love,” language, as our starting point. For it is language that connects the members of our center.

Exile PEN, as our center is still called, is a small association with a long history. Founded in London in 1934 as the German PEN Club in exile, its membership list now includes around four hundred names, including famous authors who have found their place in the canon of German literature. Even today, our members are scattered all over the world, each with their own story of flight, expulsion, or emigration in the real or figurative sense. Stories that shape our lives and writing.

This volume contains previously unpublished stories, reflections, poems, reports, and essays, and bears witness to the diversity of the subject matter, but also to that of the writers who come together in our center.

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