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Last Sunday, the last participant in the »Türmer« performance – Munich’s edition of Joanne Leighton’s Vigil project – scaled the roof of the Philharmonic Hall to stand vigil over Munich at sunrise.

A sense of expectation infuses the auditorium. A last look around the hall before the spots come on and the performers enter. Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes before the first notes sound across hall? We’ll show you.

While the Gasteig is being renovated, the Munich City Library will be housed in Gasteig HP8 and Gasteig Motorama, right opposite the Haidhausen site. The main focal points at this interim location are Family, Gaming and Digital Learning.

Along with the Gasteig, a large part of Munich’s municipal library has also moved to Sendling. In the listed Hall E, visitors will find inspiration daily from 7 AM to 11 PM, because, spurred on by the move, the library has repositioned itself: The Open Library in the Gasteig HP8 offers space for compelling experiments. The grand opening will be celebrated from 19 to 21 November.

The Gasteig HP8 has opened its doors: One concert highlight chases the next in the Isarphilharmonie, the Open Library fills Hall E with life and the entire site is never short of surprises. What a new start, what exciting times! Breathing a sigh of relief and looking forward to what’s to come, we asked visitors what they thought of Gasteig HP8?

Our last visit to the neighbourhood before the Gasteig moves in takes us to a studio community and a car valeting business.

The construction work at Gasteig HP8 are in their final phase. Hall E, Hall X and the Isarphilharmonie in Sendling will open as early as 8 October. All Gasteig institutes will move into their new quarters in several stages until finally, in March 2022, the full Gasteig programme will be available at the interim site in the south of Munich.

If you want to move house in Munich, you need strong nerves, plenty of patience and a degree of luck! It’s hard to believe that it’s feasible to move the entire Gasteig to Sendling while its home base is renovated, but it’s definitely happening. The site including Gasteig HP8 is owned by SWM, so we decided to pay a visit to our future landlord.

The new HP8 site is designed to make visitors want to linger and enjoy the atmosphere and restaurateur Florian August and his team will ensure that they can have the perfect food and drink. »GAiA« will open its doors in Hall E this autumn with a bar and reading cafe »Deli & News«, followed by the restaurant and its terrace by early 2022 at the latest.

There’s something new and surprising to discover at the interim HP8 site on every visit. The Isarphilharmonie gleams silver in the sunlight, while construction cranes surround other buildings that are reaching for the skies. The site near the Flaucher park will become the temporary home of the Gasteig from October. Although parts of it are still unfamiliar, we are gradually beginning to feel at home there. Let’s meet some of the neighbours between vehicle bonnets and studio stage.

Neighbours are the people who are most likely to surprise us, with inspiring stories and undreamed-of talents hidden away behind every front door. We want to get to know our future neighbours and we don’t want to wait until the Gasteig moves to HP8. This time we are dropping in at the Design Liga and joiner Hans Murr – tantalised by aromas of wood, paint and coffee.

Neighbours are the people who are most likely to surprise us, with inspiring stories and undreamed-of talents hidden away behind every front door. We want to get to know our future neighbours and we don’t want to wait until the Gasteig moves to HP8. During this visit, we’re calling into creative studios, a vehicle workshop and a joinery – tantalised by aromas of wood, paint and coffee.

Diana Iljine has just one wish for film fans everywhere: »Being able to experience films again where they’re at their very best«. Diana, director of the »Filmfest München« film festival, and Nico Weber, jazz student at the HMTM, share their plans for the future during the pandemic

»HP8« and »Isarphilharmonie« – these are the names of Gasteig’s temporary site and Munich’s new philharmonic hall at Hans-Preißinger-Straße in Sendling. Stephan Schütz from architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) uses current visualizations to describe what the public can look forward to in the »Gasteig HP8«.

The small row of shops next to the S-Bahn entrance at the Gasteig has acquired a new temporary use. The »Bellevue di Monaco« has moved into one of the shops and presents its wide range of projects there.

Usually, a general contractor provides all construction services for a building project. For our interim premises, this is NÜSSLI, which has a reputation for flexible construction at superior quality. The company’s strategy for success already shows in the Philharmonic Hall and Gasteig Sendling’s modular buildings.

»Culture and art are a source of strength for us humans in these times,« says Maya Reichert. And we all really need to recharge our batteries. But how do you reach your audience without being able to perform? While discussions about how to come out of the lockdown are going on, creatives are becoming one thing above all: creative. In this episode, we ask Maya Reichert from DOK.fest and concert master Yuki Kasai how they are doing without live arts, what they are currently working on and how they do it.

We start our visit with future neighbours in an old industrial building that once housed an armature winding works. Complex coils for machines were made and wound here, some of which still adorn the bare corridors. Today, the building houses studios, offices, rehearsal rooms and workshops, spread over several floors. Our first appointment is awaiting us on the third floor.

It’s a situation that we’ve lived with for months now: deserted museums, cancelled festivals, no music, theatre, no dance – these days, culture has moved almost exclusively online. Our series »Art in Times of Crisis« asks questions including: How are artists and creative people coping with lockdown? What are they really missing and what are they looking forward to? In this episode, our questions are answered by a writer, the managing director of Filmstadt München, and an alternative Munich pop band.

Nagata Acoustics may have already created the perfect sound in more than fifty different concert halls, but the Philharmonic Hall project for Gasteig’s temporary home in Sendling is unique. Find out what seat covers have to do with excellent acoustics and about the crucial moment that takes place long before the grand opening.

The conversion of Gasteig’s temporary home in Sendling is taking shape. From autumn 2021, the Gasteig will share the site at number 8 Hans-Preißinger-Straße with artists, studios and craftspeople. The renovation of the former transformer hall »Hall E«, the addition of a range of modular buildings and the interim Philharmonic Hall will completely transform the look of the place. As the final stage of the construction project gets underway, we discuss the theme of »Future« with the Gasteig team of architects.

The first moments live on stage after months of lockdown will likely be unforgettable and felt intensely. When this will happen, nobody knows. Despite the enforced pause, we remain in close contact with many creatives and listen to their concerns, especially in view of the lockdown. Here, they talk about their current situation, hopes and plans.

Moving Stories: 800,000 Library Items Relocated to Oberschleißheim!

The first moments live on stage after months of lockdown will likely be unforgettable and felt intensely. Exactly when this will happen remains to be seen. Despite the enforced pause, we remain in close contact with many creatives and want to hear their concerns, especially in view of the lockdown. Here, they talk about their current situation, hopes and plans.

So, who else is here on the interim site? What about the artists in Building F? We went on a tour of the studios.

ON YOUR MARKS – After 35 years, the Gasteig’s Haidhausen home base is being made fit for the future. A little way upriver, next to the Heizkraftwerk Süd power station and near the banks of the Isar, a new cultural powerhouse is being built – Gasteig Sendling. GET SET – Situated at the corner of Brudermühlstraße and Schäftlarnstraße, Gasteig Sendling is set to open its doors in early October. GO – For the next few years, the interim quarter with its old industrial buildings and modern architecture, will provide a unique mix of culture and education, high culture and subculture.

With the TELL ME project, from the Gasteig contemporary dance series »Gasteig moves«, Alfonso Fernández Sánchez creates an open platform for dialogue and expression. »At the end of the day, it’s about sincerity,« he says, dancing and narrating to an empty Philharmonic Hall in Chapter 1 of this performance last December.

Our longing for culturally inspiring encounters is growing! For months, the stages in the Gasteig have been largely abandoned, with no artists, no dance, no music, and no theatre. Nevertheless, we remain in close contact with many creatives and want to hear their concerns especially during lockdown. Here, they talk about their current situation, hopes and plans.

Hall E is the centrepiece of the Gasteig’s interim quarter in the Sendling district. After the move, the listed transformer hall will serve as the central foyer as well as housing the library and a gallery, among others. The photographer Herbert Stolz was on site for the department for heritage conservation and documented the imposing hall from an artistic perspective.

The heart of the Gasteig Sendling is the listed Hall E, a red brick edifice that once served as a transformer hall and is now being given a new lease of life after many years’ disuse. But converting a listed building has its pitfalls. That’s why the Gasteig architects worked closely with the Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege – the Bavarian state department for heritage conservation – which is responsible for listed buildings like this striking brick hall. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Architekt Mathias Pfeil, the General Curator for heritage conservation, explains why Hall E is of particular interest to his department.

Thanks to our extensive and well-maintained ventilation systems, the entire building enjoys an excellent indoor air quality. Even at the beginning of the pandemic, Munich’s premier culture centre had a head start in the fight against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Since then, the systems have been retrofitted to make the Gasteig even safer during the winter months. Norbert Wiesmann, head of Building Management at the Gasteig, explains how the arts centre comes by its clean air.

From November 2020, the Münchner Volkshochschule adult education centre (MVHS) has a new managing director. Arriving in the middle of the corona pandemic and in the last season before the Gasteig’s temporary relocation, Dr. Martin Ecker left his position as director of the Nuremberg Bildungscampus, which comprises the city’s library and adult education centre, to return to Munich, where he studied and lived for many years.

They create magical dawns, let the moon rise at exactly the right moment and make sure that musicians can read their scores in the dimmed hall: The Gasteig’s lighting engineers are masters of mood; without them, the Gasteig would be like a Christmas tree without lights – unimaginably dull. In this issue, we put the people who make the light into the limelight themselves.

They arrived even before the first excavator: several amateur photographers who have been documenting the Sendling site ever since construction work began there. They are participants in a long-term photographic project of the Münchner Volkshochschule community college. In a public exhibition consisting of several episodes, we will present a selection of their photographs to date.

She dances, choreographs, creates and walks – often for miles – through nature, for inspiration and very specifically to her »The Vigil« performance when it reopens somewhere. For almost ten years, choreographer Joanne Leighton has been visiting European cities with it. Here, she reveals to us her thoughts on the Munich version of her performance: »The Munich Vigil« (»Türmer München«).

They arrived even before the first excavator: several amateur photographers who have been documenting the Sendling site ever since construction work began there. They are participants in a long-term photographic project of the Münchner Volkshochschule community college. In a public exhibition consisting of several episodes, we will present a selection of their photographs to date.

He has been tasked with taking the Gasteig’s architecture into the future: Gunter Henn, architect and managing director of the internationally active Henn GmbH, is planning the »New Gasteig« together with his team of architects. In an interview, he reveals to us how he wants to make the iconic culture space of the Gasteig more open, democratic and communicative.

An open day at the New Gasteig in Haidhausen district, some time in 2026. The whole family is there, we’re meeting friends at the Deutsches Museum and together amble across the river Isar on the Ludwigsbrücke. To our left, on Rosenheimer Berg, the Gasteig is gleaming in the sunlight.

They arrived even before the first excavator: several amateur photographers who have been documenting the Sendling site ever since construction work began there. They are participants in a long-term photographic project of the Münchner Volkshochschule community college. In a public exhibition consisting of several episodes, we will present a selection of their photographs to date.

They arrived even before the first excavator: several amateur photographers who have been documenting the Sendling site ever since construction work began there. They are participants in a long-term photographic project of the Münchner Volkshochschule community college. In a public exhibition consisting of several episodes, we will present a selection of their photographs to date.

In charge of the future: architects Julia Große Frie, Anna Mochnac, Georg Glas and Tobias Jahn. As the Interim team of the »Zukunft« (»Future«) department of Gasteig München GmbH, they are responsible for the planning and construction of the Gasteig interim quarter at Sendling. In this interview, they tell us about the challenges their role has in store.

They arrived even before the first excavator: several amateur photographers who have been documenting the Sendling site ever since construction work began there. They are participants in a long-term photographic project of the Münchner Volkshochschule community college. In a public exhibition consisting of several episodes, we will present a selection of their photographs to date.

Gasteig Sendling is moving to a lively community! Right next to the construction site is the rehearsal space for International Munich Art Lab (IMAL), a project funded by the Department of Arts and Culture where young people spend two years doing artistic activities. Claudine is in charge of the choreography for acrobatics, juggling and stage fighting and she has an unusual coffee ritual that links her to the construction workers. She explains how it started.

They arrived even before the first excavator: several amateur photographers who have been documenting the Sendling site ever since construction work began there. They are participants in a long-term photographic project of the Münchner Volkshochschule community college. In a public exhibition consisting of several episodes, we will present a selection of their photographs to date.

They arrived even before the first excavator: several amateur photographers who have been documenting the Sendling site ever since construction work began there. They are participants in a long-term photographic project of the Münchner Volkshochschule community college. In a public exhibition consisting of several episodes, we will present a selection of their photographs to date.

They arrived even before the first excavator: several amateur photographers who have been documenting the Sendling site ever since construction work began there. They are participants in a long-term photographic project of the Münchner Volkshochschule community college. In a public exhibition consisting of several episodes, we will present a selection of their photographs to date.

If you want to visit the Sendling construction site, you’ll need his permission: Andreas Schmidt is in charge of the building work for the interim accommodation that the Gasteig will occupy during the general refurbishment of its premises from 2021. A guard in the gatehouse on Hans-Preißinger-Straße checks all traffic onto the site. Now he asks us for the reason for our visit: a conversation with site manager Andreas Schmidt, who welcomes us in his 20 square metre office container.

They arrived even before the first excavator: several amateur photographers who have been documenting the Sendling site ever since construction work began there. They are participants in a long-term photographic project of the Münchner Volkshochschule community college. In a public exhibition consisting of several episodes, we will present a selection of their photographs to date.