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AI, Innovation and Technology: The Turbo Booster for Industry, Operations & Projects

Join us for an exciting meet-up at Mindspace Hamburg on 29th April, from 18:30 to 21:30. This event offers a prime opportunity to connect with professionals from diverse industries, exchange insights, and explore the transformative impact of AI and innovation on operations and projects.

+++ What to Expect

Bilingual Presentations:

Speakers will present in their preferred language (German or English), ensuring accessibility for a diverse audience.

Expert Speaker Sessions:

Esteemed AI experts David Thomson from ALFRED Maritime GmbH (MEYER Group), specialist in AI for shipbuilding, Ali Naqi Shaheen (Co-Founder WorkHub) and Holger Lörz, CEO & Founder of Allex.ai, will offer an inspiring keynote on the transformative power of AI. Together, they will share insights into AI’s impact on industry trends, maritime innovation, and project optimisation, providing a glimpse into the future of technology.

Networking Opportunities:

Engage with professionals and decision-makers from Hamburg's thriving tech, industrial, and maritime sectors. Share ideas, insights, and forge valuable connections with peers and industry leaders.

Industry Insights:

Discover the latest advancements in AI-driven solutions for operations, manufacturing, and project management. Explore how leading technologies are revolutionising industries and gain actionable insights from real-world applications.

Founder Insights:

Hear from Holger Lörz, who will share his journey leading Allex.ai and reveal how AI-driven solutions are transforming project and resource management across industries.

Relax and Unwind:

Conclude the evening with informal networking over refreshments and finger food, creating space for further discussions and connections.

Note: Spaces are limited, and early registration is recommended to secure your spot at this exclusive event.

Location: Mindspace Hamburg

Address: Rödingsmarkt 9, 20459 Hamburg

Register now for an evening of insight, inspiration, and valuable connections.

Ajax: The Swan of Shame

by Christopher Rüping and Ensemble after Sophokles / directed by Christopher Rüping / world premiere

"As ballet dancers our bodies are very trained, it takes years and years to develop in a certain way. The average person can't get their bodies to look that way.” (Sarah Lane, Natalie Portman's double in “Black Swan”)

For a long time, Ajax was the undisputed number two before Troy, always overshadowed by the legendary Achilles. When he dies on the battlefield, Odysseus receives his weapons - a distinction that insults Ajax's honor. Driven by ambition, he loses his mind and throws himself on his sword. Heiner Müller describes him as “Arnold Schwarzenegger in the WÜSTENSTURM”. But what would it be like to interpret Ajax in a more contemporary way? Sophocles' play could be read as a meditation on ambition, shame and failure - topics that shape our lives but are often taboo. And what happens when a woman is afflicted by the “Ajax complex”?


Christopher Rüping’s first directing project at Thalia Theater was Wolfgang Herrndorf’s “Tschick” (2012). It is still in repertory. Today, over ten years later, Rüping is one of the most renowned directors in German-language theatre. He was a resident director at Kammerspiele Munich and Schauspielhaus Zürich. He has been invited five times to Theatertreffen Berlin. At Thalia Theater, his most recent works encompass, among others, the acclaimed adaptations of Benjamin Stuckrad-Barre’s novels “Panic Heart” and “Are you awake?”

World premiere 15th January 2025, Thalia Theater

Albin & Lila - oder können Schweine Hühner lieben?

"Farmer Friedrich "Fredi" Latzke has written this touching drama in meticulous detail. He brings it to his audience in a gripping way: no fewer than four adult pigs and four chickens of prime egg-laying age populate his stage, which he has assembled from remnants of his farm.

Immerse yourself in the world of combine harvesters and slurry pits, potato harvesters and beet mice, and reap the answer to the question: Can pigs love chickens?
A piece about being different, integration and solidarity.

Alex Bernstein - Landscapes of Fire and Light

The award-winning American artist presents a bold and refreshing

examination of visual form and skillfully combines metaphors

with the power and sensuality of shaped glass. His cast,

carved and polished glass sculptures offer the viewer narrative

landscapes consisting of light, shape and color.

The forms of Bernstein's works and the techniques he uses to do so

processed glass reflects processes in nature such as oxidation, erosion,

growth and decline. Therefore, many of his works evoke images of

flowing water, ice crystals, mountain peaks and rugged gorges

- all structures that appear solid and unyielding

but are actually in constant change.

His work reflects his sense of exploration: an exquisite one

cut geometric crystal sculpture in front of a rusted one

Steel background, volcanic eruptions of cut glass emerging from

a base encrusted with steel bubbles, layers more transparent

color that blends with ambient light.

Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin
by Hans Fallada
in an adaptation by Luk Perceval and Christina Bellingen

“The Fuehrer has murdered my son!”
With these words scrawled on a postcard begins a most unusual resistance battle waged by a simple working-class married couple in Second World War Berlin. Fallada tells the tale of Anna and Otto Quangel, who after losing their son take up the fight against the Nazi state machine by the most simple means. Between the years 1940 and 1942 the couple delivers over two hundred handwritten postcards and letters, left out on the staircases and hallways of randomly selected apartment buildings. Their activities soon come to the attention of Chief Inspector Escherich, himself more career-orientated collaborateur than fervent Nazi, but who under the pressure of his superiors’ scrutiny is required to act. An initial ray of light in the darkness of his seemingly futile investigation is provided by the legal proceedings initiated by a doctor’s receptionist. She accuses the work-shy malingerer Enno Kluge of placing a highly treasonable postcard outside her employer’s surgery. This false trail leads Inspector Escherich into the twilight world of bookies and petty criminals. All too late does he come to understand the futility of his efforts. There seems to be only one way for him to obscure his failures from sadistic Obergruppenführer Prall: Enno Kluge must die.
Like trapped rats, the denizens of Berlin are caught within what remains of their daily shrinking War-State. Spies and informers, good-for-nothings, gamblers and con-men inhabit the once great city. Workers’ apartments, back yards, betting shops, dance parlours, Gestapo offices and finally the prison at Plötzensee set the scene for this chase through Berlin, of which set designer Annette Kurz has constructed a gigantic architect’s model using 4000 everyday household objects of the time.
Hans Fallada based his novel on the case files of the married couple Otto and Elise Hampel, who were executed by the Nazis at Plötzensee and whose postcards survive to this day. A helpless, badly organized and inconsequential attempt at resistance by a pair of isolated individuals? For Luk Perceval it is precisely the naiveté and selflessness of this unique couple which provide the utopian volatility of the piece. 60 years after his death, Fallada’s novel hits the bestseller lists, for the first time in its original form. It is the earliest resistance novel by a non-emigrating author, written with breathtaking hypergraphic energy. In between stays at mental institutions, Fallada manically writes 899 pages in four weeks, dying three weeks later of heart failure.

First performance 13th October 2012 at Thalia Theater

“The Fuehrer has murdered my son!”
With these words scrawled on a postcard begins a most unusual resistance battle waged by a simple working-class married couple in Second World War Berlin. Fallada tells the tale of Anna and Otto Quangel, who after losing their son take up the fight against the Nazi state machine by the most simple means.

Altona - Theresienstadt. Die Lebenswege von Leon Daniel Cohen und Käthe Starke-Goldschmidt

An exhibition in cooperation with the Friends of Yad Vashem

In January 2023, the exhibition “Sixteen Objects - Seventy Years of Yad Vashem” was shown in the German Bundestag. The history of these objects from the collection of the International Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem can be traced back to one of the 16 German federal states. The Hamburg object on display was a Torah shrine (Aron Hakodesh) made by Leon Daniel Cohen from Altona, which he took with him to the Theresienstadt concentration camp when he was deported in 1942. In 1944, Leon Daniel Cohen and his family were murdered in Auschwitz. The Torah shrine became part of the Yad Vashem collection.

Now the Torah shrine is temporarily returning to Altona on loan for the exhibition, which was developed in cooperation with the Friends of Yad Vashem. The object forms the starting point for a search for the memories that Leon Daniel Cohen and his family left behind in Hamburg-Altona. Where did they live and work? What can be found out about the family's history? The story of Käthe Starke-Goldschmidt, who was deported from Altona to Theresienstadt in 1943 but fortunately survived the camp, is also examined. When she returned to Hamburg, she brought with her the "Theresienstadt collection" of drawings and documents secretly collected there: thanks to these sources, important conclusions can be drawn about the situation of the Cohen family.

The exhibition makes clear the gap left by the persecution, deportation and murder of Altona residents of Jewish descent. Places such as the Altona synagogues or the Cohen family's homes have been destroyed, and their property was scattered and destroyed during the deportation. Nevertheless, it has been possible to make some of the traces of the lives of Leon Daniel Cohen and Käthe Starke-Goldschmidt visible again and to supplement research into Altona's history during the Nazi era.

The accompanying program for the exhibition is being developed in cooperation with the State Center for Political Education and the Hamburg Memorials and Learning Sites Foundation.