Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
The Movistar Arena is a modern indoor multi-purpose venue in Buenos Aires, located in Villa Crespo near Palermo. With room for roughly 15,000 spectators, it hosts major concerts, sporting events and large-scale productions, combining the atmosphere of an arena with the comfort and technical standards of a contemporary event hall.
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The Vorterix is a well-known live-music venue in the Colegiales district of Buenos Aires, at Avenida Federico Lacroze 3455. It has room for roughly 1,500 people and forms part of the wider Vorterix project, which combines a concert hall with a radio station, digital platform and recording facilities. The venue is particularly associated with rock and alternative music, hosting both Argentine and international artists.
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The L2 Arena, formerly known as the Bioceres Arena, is a covered multi-purpose events venue in Rosario, Argentina. Located near the Mercado del Patio and the Mariano Moreno bus terminal, it has become an important stage for concerts, cultural events, conferences and other large-scale productions.
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Club Unión y Progreso is a long-established neighbourhood social and sporting club in Villa Italia, Tandil, Argentina. Founded in 1939, it grew from a local community association into an institution offering sporting activities, cultural events and social gatherings. Its main premises are at Quintana 450, where the club remains closely connected with the surrounding neighbourhood.
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The IGA-Park in Rostock is a wide expanse of green and waterfront leisure created out of the grounds of the International Garden Exhibition held in 2003. Once an industrial harbour area, it was completely transformed into a landscaped park that combines themed gardens, modern art installations, and broad lawns along the Warnow river. Today it stands as one of the city’s most attractive recreational spaces, linking Rostock’s maritime heritage with a contemporary vision of open urban living.
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In the 1970s the Deutsches Familienkaufhaus (DeFaKa, a shopping mall) at Hannover needed a temporary new home because their normal location at the Seilwinderstraße close to the Kröpcke was rebuilt. For that reason a flat building behind the main railway station of Hannover was constructed and surprisingly it is still there today: in 1977 it was not torn down but became the Kulturzentrum Pavillon, a socio-cultural center which serves as a public library, a concert venue and a bar.
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German cities need to have a Stadthalle, an event hall for concerts and other cultural events. People in smaller towns often have a special connection to these places as they go there multiple times in live and especially graduation ceremonies take place within. This also true for the Stadthalle of Northeim in southern Lower Saxony – their local pearl was build in the 90s gives space for up to 700 spectators.
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Formerly the Turbinenhalle at Oberhausen was used to produce electricity and comprised air for the ironworks of the Gutehoffnungshütte, an important mining and mechanical engineering company. It was built in 1909 and converted into a discotheque in 1993 when the steel industry was gone. Today it is a concert location with a special atmosphere that has attracted many great bands over the years.
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I came to Erfurt last in 2015 for a concert in a club called Centrum, located in the city center, between the Anger and the Juri-Gagarin-Ring. Its perfect location became a problem as the landlord decided that he could earn more money by rebuilding the place instead of hosting a club. Half a year after my visit the Centrum had to be closed and Erfurt lost a wonderful concert hall.
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The Waldbühne Berlin is a fantastic open-air stage in the Murellenschlucht valley close to the Olympiastadion of Berlin. More than 22,000 persons can attend concerts and other events there; the biggest outdoor stage I’ve ever seen. It was built in 1936 for the Olympic summer games following the design of a Greek theatre. The creation was initiated by Joseph Goebbels and the layout included a VIP box for Adolf Hitler. You can still today guess in which time it was built by looking at the artworks at the entrance gates.
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