June 15: Exit in Magdeburg

Magdeburg – Music, theatre, film, metal, knowledge and cinema – Magdeburg’s event calendar for Thursday, June 15th is completely packed. Volksstimme has compiled the tips. Go here for ideas to go out on Wednesday 14th June 2023.

Manuel Richter plays Jean Siehing in Mark’s Castle

Manuel Richter presents a special cultural outing concert at Mark Fortress on Thursdays at 8 p.m. “Both are looking forward to jointly performing and interpreting many popular songs and original compositions in a warm summer atmosphere at Mark Fortress,” the invitation reads.

Manuel Richter was born in 1980 in Burg near Magdeburg and grew up in Magdeburg. Manuel Richter’s enthusiasm for music started in his early childhood. At the age of five, he devoted himself extensively to his grandfather’s record collection. More than 200 performances annually have given him a solid reputation. Not least because of their regular appearances on Aida Cruises ships.

Also interesting: Tickets for many events in Magdeburg and the surrounding area are available from the biberticket.

Jansichting can also look back on his many years of success as a professional musician. It all started with unsuccessful violin lessons and the joy of singing in a choir, after which he took up drumming at school. For 20 years he devoted himself to the saxophone.

An open stage in Mark Fortress

At the Stübchen session at the Mark Fortress, musicians of any style, whether hobby or professional, can set the tone on the session stage at the Stübchen cultural workshop.

Stübchen opens at 6 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month, from 8 p.m. There is confusion. Available are: Stage Piano, Drums, Speakers – Please Bring Portable Instruments! , according to the organizers.

“Catch Me If You Can” as a movie in Ole

On Friday, the musical “Catch Me If You Can” of the Magdeburg Theater was staged on Magdeburg Cathedral Square. To get you in the mood, Oli at Olvenstedter Straße 25 on Thursday will show Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film of the same name, starting at 7 p.m.

The story is about an imposter. Incredible things are happening in the United States.

A mineral in the strength of the Magdeburg flower

Metal bands Goath and Escarnium will be performing a concert at Flowerpower on Breite Weg 252 on Thursday, starting at 7 p.m.

“Otto the Great and Merseburg. History and Pictures” at the Museum of Cultural History

Lecture on “Otto the Great and Merseburg. History and photos ”is scheduled for Thursday, June 15, from 7 pm in the Museum of Cultural History at Otto-von-Guericke-Strasse 68 to 73. Many places in Saxony-Anhalt are currently celebrating the memory of the last journey of the Emperor Otto the Great in 973 and presents itself as part of the program supporting the special exhibition “What Works Become Pictures? Otto the Great in Memory of Later Times” at the Museum of Cultural History Magdeburg.

Markus Cotten, Head of the Cathedral Branch Library and Cathedral Archives in Merseburg, will give a lecture on Thursday. Admission is free, separate registration is not required.

University environmental social days

The University Environmental and Social Days are currently being held in Magdeburg. Three events planned for Thursday alone,

Why we behave (not) in an environmentally friendly way – a look at environmental psychological research is the name of the lecture on June 15th. This will run online via Zoom from 1pm. The link is on the site. Speakers will address the question of what motivates and enables people to act in a climate-friendly and green way, and what barriers stand in the way of green action.

Concrete Climate Policy – How political activism is strengthening climate protection is the subject of the workshop on June 15th. This operates from 5 pm to 7 pm in building 40B of the university campus on Zschokkestraße in room 227.

Power Grid Control Room – Maintaining the stability of the electrical grid in power transmission and preventing power outages It is a workshop on June 15th from 1 to 3 pm. The meeting point is in front of Terminal 9 on campus at Universitätsplatz. It is about the challenges that the energy transition brings with it and what solutions can be implemented for them. Participants can also control the network themselves and try to keep it stable.

A conversation about the movie “Kruso” by Lutz Seiler

Author Lutz Seiler wowed people in East and West Germany alike with his story of Ed and Crusoe, who defended their solitary retreat in Hindsee in the last East German summer before the fall of the Wall. In his lecture on Thursdays at 5 p.m. in the Magdeburg City Library, Paderborn literary scholar Bjorn Herdgen will take up the hit book and invite a discussion whether this novel can contribute to inner loneliness.

When Crusoe was published in 2014, it was mostly received with enthusiasm for literary studies, criticism, media, and society. In the sensually charged story, “outcasts” Ed and Crusoe on Hiddensee Island have no idea they are enjoying their outer existence shortly before the historical turning point.

The Breakfast Club at the Domgymnasium

Based on the 1985 film, the ten players from grades 11 and 12 of the Ecumenical Cathedral Gymnasium present the “Breakfast Club” with their own text and lots of music, including Tom Waits, Gerhard Gundermann, KIZ and Mozart. Performances are scheduled for Thursdays at 6pm and Fridays at 7pm.

Herbert Besten driving Hassel

In recent years, Hasselbachplatz in Magdeburg has been repeatedly stigmatized as a focal point, even as a problem area, despite its quality as a nightlife district and meeting point in the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt. The Magdeburg writer Herbert Besten gets to the heart of the matter in an artistic way.

Under the title “Check den Hassel” it organizes socio-cultural tours with the support of other artists, activities and various performances of music, poetry and rap as well as meetings with people in and around the square in Magdeburg’s southern old town. You can learn from the people why this place is livable and likable, what they value about this part of town and why they keep coming back here. the closest

The time for “Check den Hassel” is Thursday at 7pm, others will follow on July 8th at 3pm and on July 20th and 27th at 7pm. The start is always at the corner of Hasselbachplatz and Liebigstraße.

“Human rights freedom protest” in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt

A new exhibition entitled “Protest against the freedom of human rights” will open on Thursday at 3 pm in the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt in Domplatz from 6 to 9. The paintings can be viewed until July 18th.

The reason for the exhibition is the 70th anniversary of the popular uprising on June 17, 1953, in which the chain of events was presented in Saxony-Anhalt: protests were held not only in the capitals of Magdeburg and Halle or in the industrial centers of the population of Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Leuna and Buna, but also in many cities Small and rural. Only hastily summoned Soviet tanks could save the SCD dictatorship for the time being. Among others, largely unknown photographs from June 17, 1953 in Saxony-Anhalt will be shown. For the first time, contemporary audio documentation from first-hand eyewitnesses will also be presented. The exhibition can be viewed from Monday to Friday from 8 am to 5 pm. Submission is free. At the reception, a visitor form must be filled in first and a valid official photo ID must be deposited.

Indie music coughing at Hotel Moritzhof

“On the 15th of June we will stop in beautiful Magdeburg with Hustenmobil to give a concert in the Moritzhof,” says the Facebook channel of Husten, the rock band who released their debut album “Aus alley seams” last year after four EPs. published. The party starts on Thursday at 8 pm.

“But if you then hear album opener ‘Weit glühen die Felder’ with its hypnotic string arrangement and familiar, stretched, slightly hoarse vocals, you’ll want to come close,” read a review of last year’s release. The result is one of the most beautiful and evocative recordings from domestic production, which fuses a folk-pop sensibility into an ultra-modern electronic soundscape.

The band includes Gisbert zu Knyphausen, considered by many critics to be Germany’s best singer-songwriter. Senior Producer Moses Schneider of Tocotronic and Beatsteaks; and former Viktoriapark singer Tobias Friedrich aka The Thin Man.

Robin Stone plays at the dacha

Multi-instrumentalist Robin Stone’s music is diverse, interesting and captivating. Dub/Reggae, EDM, Rock and Blues are some of the main flavors in Stone’s range. His specialty is the seamless interplay of guitar, trombone, synths, and drum and bass rests to create a full range sound. After developing his energetic stage show on live episodes in 2013, Robin has toured the US with Tash Sultana and Australia with UB40, and has had sold-out headline shows in Australia and New Zealand.

The concert starts on Thursdays at 8 pm in the datsche at Karl-Schmidt-Strasse 43. Access is via Sandtorstrasse.