VON DER HöH
The designer’s favorite bookshop. Photo: Von Der Höh’s window display “Von Der Höh” is not just a German surname but stands for a traditional bookshop in Hamburg. Read on to see what we discovered in a small boutiq...
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GALLERY OEL-FRUEH
More and more young galleries are popping up in Hamburg. One of the latest to start showing emerging art is the Gallery Oel-Frueh, which opened December 2005. It is a rather small three-storey intercept of a typica...
FEINKUNST KRUEGER
Bagpipes for a welcome: when entering the opening of Katharina Gschwendtner current exhibition in Hamburg, visitors were greeted by live-music and a massively huge eye, cut, pasted and painted onto the window of Ga...
SPRINGHORNHOF
This summer Wibke, a good friend of mine, was working at the art-association "Springhornhof" in Neuenkirchen, a small village out in the country. As I visited her, I had my first contact with landscape-art. I think...
ELEMENT WEISS
The couple Bea Demel and Carsten Voeller started thier own multi-media agency sometime ago. Bea studied graphic-design and didn't want to work in an agency. Carsten formerly was an industrial-programmer and decided...
WAAGENBAU
On february 15th, the Hamburg based music and booking agency MFOC (Music For Our Children) held a showcase at the Waagenbau, a location right in the Schanzenviertel in Hamburg. Being known in and around Hamburg ...
HAMBURGER KUNSTHALLE
The "Galerie der Gegenwart" (Gallery of the presence) is the established place for contemporary art in Hamburg. I am long term impressed by one piece that was installed there from the very beginnig. The stalactite ...
MINIATUR WUNDERLAND
"Miniatur Wunderland" is the name of the worldﾕs biggest digital model railway. Four men, who have been running a discotheque in Hamburg, realized their childhood-dream. With a team of 16 people around professio...
RENE LEZARD FLAGSHIP STORE
Organized by the Hamburg-based agency Luna Media on September 5th, the opening party of the new Rene Lezard Flagship store took place right in the heart of our city. Having the theme of "Relax - harmony of contrasts" ...
DOME IN HAMBURG
I think every bigger city has it: a place where people go to be shaken around in hectically blinking roundabouts and rollercoasters. In Hamburg it is called the "Dome". The guys build it up 3 times a year and then hav...
MOJO CLUB
One of the most tasteful clubs in hamburg is the "Mojo Club". It opened up in 1991 and had several side activities like a shop, a lounging club and a record series. We met Leif Nueske, one of the founders, to ask h...
KOCHSALON
Four years ago Telse Bus founded the "Kochsalon" (cooking saloon) with two friends. The motivation to do this step, having not a lot of money in the pocket studying art at hamburgs "Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste...
BLINKENLIGHTS
When Berlin was split into East and West, the Alexanderplatz was the eastern central place for shopping and and its radiotower called "Alex" is now the emblem for the dynamically evolving area of the town and berl...
THE GOLDEN PUDEL CLUB
The golden pudel (=poodles) club is my favourite club in hamburg. Five minutes away from the central night amusement quater, it is a small house at the "Elbe", the largest river in Hamburg. Next is the "Hafenstrasse" ...
HAMBURGER BERG
This month we want to give you an impression of the street where we're living: "Hamburger Berg". If you're going out in Hamburg, you probably will end up on the "Kiez" which is the party- and al...
FREILUFTKINO
From the 29th of July to the 8th of August Hamburg had their annual Freiluftkino in front of the Rathaus (city hall). So all the moviegoers gathered before dusk with chairs, blankets, and other objects of movie sup...
PKK
Between a heavy dusting of snow, the PKK demonstrations and the rain take a break this month in the stand-up low-profile eatery Koch Salon. Having been around for the better part of a year, perhaps even longer, the...
