Ruhr.2010

RUHR.2010 - European Capital of Culture was the name of the project, the Ruhr in 2010 to present as a European Capital of Culture. Food had won the excretion representative of the 53 cities of the Ruhr Regional Association (RVR ), so the first time was considered a region. More Capitals of Culture were in the same year the Hungarian Pécs ( Pécs2010 ) and Istanbul in Turkey, where similar programs were held.

Change through Culture - Culture through Change

The starting point was described: " The Ruhr area is European Capital of Culture 2010, it is on the way to form a new center of Europe as unconventional metropolis in the making. . " Our motto is: "Change through Culture - Culture through Change". The mission statement reads: " The European Capital of Culture 2010, Essen for the Ruhr ' presents itself as host to all who want to experience the complex transformation of Europe's legendary coal and steel region into a polycentric cultural metropolis of the new type. RUHR.2010 GmbH is the company responsible for the preparation and implementation of the Capital of Culture program, including the associated marketing and tourism activities. Together with its partners, it supports the development of sustained-release structures for the Ruhr Metropolis. RUHR.2010 leads the regional actors of culture, politics and business in creative alliances. They all pursue the ambitious goal that the Ruhr Metropolis plays a significant role in the future of Europe and becomes a new, distinctive cities mark on the map of Europe. "

Application phase

For the title of European Capital of Culture 2010, originally applied for 16 German cities. Representing the Ruhr region of Essen was chosen for the title. The German candidate cities were Augsburg, Bamberg, Braunschweig, Bremen, Essen and the Ruhr, Görlitz (double candidacy Görlitz / Zgorzelec ), Halle (Saale ), Karlsruhe, Kassel, Cologne, Lübeck, Münster, Osnabrück, Potsdam, Regensburg and Wittenberg.

Among the cities of Cologne, Münster and food, which are gone into the race for North Rhine-Westphalia, Essen was selected as a representative for further triage. As Bavarian candidate Regensburg was preferred to Augsburg and Bamberg.

In March 2005, the two cities of Essen and Görlitz were selected by a jury led by the German KMK ( KMK). This nomination was confirmed by the Federal Council and forwarded in the third quarter of 2005 from the Foreign Office to the European Parliament and the European Commission.

Essen has been representative of the Ruhr under the motto "Change through Culture - Culture through Change". The concept of modernization and " self- re - inventing " what food presented under this motto, can be an example for other old industrial regions. Above all, this factor convinced the jury. On 11 April 2006, the EU expert jury announced the decision and appointment of Essen and the Ruhr European Capital of Culture 2010.

Preparations in the Ruhrgebiet was the initiative RUHR.2010 - performed European Capital of Culture. The Capital of Culture opening ceremony was held on 9 and 10 January as a big festival at the Zeche Zollverein in Essen, including a gala and funded by sponsors fireworks. The celebrations began on January 8, already with an ecumenical service in Essen Cathedral. After ringing in all 53 Ruhr area municipalities the bells.

Implementation

To implement the project, a company of the same name RUHR.2010 GmbH was founded in December 2006, at the Regional Association Ruhr, North Rhine -Westphalia, the Initiative Ruhr area and the city of Essen account. Managing directors are Fritz Pleitgen and Oliver Scheytt. The Supervisory sit among others Dr. Wulf H. Bernotat ( CEO of E.ON AG), and eating a former Lord Mayor Wolfgang Reiniger. Currently employs about 110 staff in the project.

Of all the municipalities of the Ruhr contact for RUHR.2010 were provided. It was planned to promote projects to represent the culture of the Ruhr.

Preparations were already under way in late 2008. Thus, on all roads leading to Ruhrgebiet panels " Ruhr European Capital of Culture 2010" set. The first sign revealed NRW Transport Minister Oliver Wittke and Fritz Pleitgen on September 22, 2008 at the roadhouse Bottrop -south on the A2.

Essen Central Station has been completely refurbished by the Deutsche Bahn AG from September 2008 to early 2010 in various building structures and technical equipment and largely barrier- free entrances were created. At the beginning of the " Cultural Capital of the year", large parts of the foyer with the retail stores back to the public and travelers. In contrast, Duisburg main station, Hauptbahnhof Dortmund, Mülheim main station are currently under construction.

The cities

At the RUHR.2010 participated in all the cities of the RVR area. Except for food, which presented itself throughout the year, each city was a week of " Local Hero ":

Alps, Mountain Kamen, Bochum, Bonen, Bottrop, Breckerfeld, Castrop -Rauxel, dates, Dinslaken, Dorsten, Dortmund, Duisburg, Ennepetal, Erkenschwick, food, Fröndenberg, Gelsenkirchen, Gevelsberg, Gladbeck, Hagen Haltern am See, Hamm, Hamminkeln, Hattingen, Holy House, Herdecke, Herne, Herten, Holzwickede, Hunxe, Kamen, Kamp- Lintfort, Lünen, Marl, Moers, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Neukirchen, Oberhausen, Recklinghausen, Rheinberg, Schermbeck, Schwelm, sword, Selm, Sonsbeck, Sprockhövel, Unna, Voerde Waltrop, Werne, Wesel, Weather, Witten, Xanten

Team

For the management and artistic design known personalities were obtained in public.

Board of RUHR.2010 GmbH:

Fritz Pleitgen: Chairman of the Board
Oliver Scheytt: CEO

Artistic directors:

Karl -Heinz Petzinka: Director of the topic " City of Possibilities "
Steven Sloane: Director of the topic " City of Arts "
Aslı Sevindim: Director of the topic " City of Cultures "
Dieter Gorny: Director of the topic " City of Creativity "

For assistance in the various projects ( volunteers) were recruited over 1200 volunteers.

Projects

The official RUHR.2010 program was introduced in October 2008 for the first time, a new edition of the program titled " Book Two " was released in fall 2009. It combines the individual program points under the three main themes: mythology, metropolis and Europe. These are traversed by six program areas pictures, theater, music, language, creative economy and festivals.

The Ruhr Mythology

Should be shown the cultural identity and heritage. Coal and Steel Community, Labour and Solidarity, football, the coexistence of different cultures and religions.

Shaft Signs is a key project in the field of " Ruhr Mythology ": From 22 May to 30 May 2010, more than 400 former major coal mines, spread over the entire Ruhr region, in up to 80 m height ascend big yellow helium balloons. The idea is to show the history of mining and regional structural change in the Ruhr area by an art installation.

Designing the Metropolis

Based on the vision that the polycentric structure of the 53 cities of the Ruhr area will grow together with its 5.3 million inhabitants to a new unit, be - following on from the preparatory work of the International Building Exhibition Emscher Park - Fine art, urban planning, landscape design and architecture means that new connections create between cities and new cultivar and impetus for change.

Building Culture

The utility and beauty, cultural landscape and agriculture are according to the idea of the curator Udo Weilacher within the framework of the project " Two Mountains, a cultural landscape " found at Mechtenberg in Gelsenkirchen to a new, breakthrough for other metropolitan regions symbiosis. The first field trials of cooperation between ortsansässigem farmer Hubertus Budde and Swiss landscape architect Paolo Bürgi are already underway.

Artistic interventions

The EMSCHERKUNST.2010 claims to be the biggest art project the RUHR.2010. It was held for 113 days from 29 May 2010. 40 artists and students of the Art Academy Münster created 20 artworks on the Emscher Island, which dealt with the realities of the region in the northern Ruhr area. Unusually, both the exhibition spaces and the opportunities for the public were to participate.
The cultural channel, is another key project in the overall program of RUHR.2010. It is the bustling over a distance of approximately 70,000 meters through artistic installations and actions Rhine -Herne Canal. For the first time joined to this end, all ten riparian towns along the waterways together to make the Rhine -Herne Canal to a cross-linking and connecting element.
In the project Parkautobahn the A42 motorway A42 is transformed by a variety of measures in the next 20 years into an integrated element of the urban cultural landscape of the Ruhr Metropolis. A measure to produce the desired Park character is the planting of the Urweltmammutbaums as Leitbaum along the way.
" 2-3 Streets. An exhibition in the cities of the Ruhr by Jochen Gerz " describes an exhibition at the Cultural Capital year RUHR.2010, where residents from Germany and all over Europe live rent-free for one year apartments in three cities of the Ruhr. The participants of " 2-3 Streets " undertake in return for the duration of the project to collaborate on a joint text.

" Powerful Places - Art in the area" is an art project of 16 artists bundles from the Ruhr area, which banded together in this project to multi-discipline to organize joint exhibitions in alternative venues in 2010.
The " Housing Culture Trail " presented the diversity of everyday living environments. Typical mining settlements, successful and failed experiments, unfashionable, rediscovered and carefully renewed forms of housing were placed in a tangible regional context. To RUHR.2010 about 50 homes on the route as "Look dwellings" of the public were made in an " exhibition" accessible and listed in a " guide ".
The project " Borderland Ruhr " describes the cross-border merger of twelve art associations and two arts centers of the Ruhr, the collaboratively developed a project. It reflects in the context of a series of exhibitions both in closed rooms and in the public space, the topic of " limit".
Under the title "B1 | A40 - The beauty of the great street " was the transverse through the Ruhr stretch of the national highway 1, the Ruhrschnellweg, staged as an exhibition space in the form of an art arcade. At various places along the highway themed artists and planners in with their work the A40 as vital urban space in which the residents act as pioneers of spatial appropriation.
"On Water Walking " refers to a art project in public space, which was to accompany the restoration of Seseke works by internationally renowned artists at 12 locations along the shore. The work drew the awareness of visitors to all of the various stages of ecological transformation process and offered partially the opportunity to actively participate in the transformation of the cultural landscape.
The " Ruhr Atoll " combines the topics of art, science and power by four shaped islands were installed for a limited period at the junction of Essen in the Ruhr Baldeneysees. The islands were concerned in various ways with the spawned using creativity conversion of energy within the spectrum of their perceptible forms.

Light Art

The Ruhr has numerous light art projects and is considered meaningful light (art) landscape of Europe. One of the key projects was the first Biennale for International Light Art from 28 March to 27 May 2010. Under the slogan "open light in private spaces" were two months works of light art in 60 private apartments and houses of the cities of Mountain Kamen, Bonen, Fröndenberg, Hamm, and Unna Lünen shown. About 60 internationally renowned artists were invited to the art project.

Explore images

Through the presentation of historical, current and emerging images of the Ruhr a new perception of the metropolis should be created in the making.

Dare Theatre

The theater, festivals, production and training centers in the region to provide answers to the question of how theater and dance can pick up the dividing lines between milieus, generations, languages and cultures.

Live music

Several music -reaching networks to enable the inhabitants of the Ruhr:

Instrument for Every Child, called abbreviated JeKi, the largest national initiative of cultural education.
" SING - DAY OF SONG! ": SING is a musical citizen movement. Anyone can participate. The call! SING is an open program, which offers the possibility to spontaneously rise above different musical formats, alone or in community voice. The project took place in the entire Ruhr Metropolis on June 4th and 5th 2010. About 600 registered choirs with more than 22,800 singers invite all passers-by and residents to sing along. On the evening of June 5, 2010 took place with! SING EUROPE at the Veltins - Arena in Gelsenkirchen a great final concert instead.
Grubenklang reloaded is the Jazz project of Events RUHR.2010. It is a remake of the company founded in the 1980s by the Bochum pianist Georg Gräwe Grubenklang orchestra. Gräwe is designed as artistic director, composer and performing musician the project. In addition to concerts of the newly formed " pit orchestra sound " which is also the co-founder Theo Jörgensmann, Eckard Kolter man and Achim Krämer belong, including the Moers Festival, there will be additional special projects. These are supplemented events of chamber music ensembles and soloists of regional meetings with international musicians at the Zeche Carl in Essen and other venues. There is under the artistic direction of Gräwe in Bochum, a number of " literature and improvised jazz ."
The Hans Werner Henze Project. New Music for a Metropolis. The entire musical landscape of the Ruhr Metropolis has teamed up for a tribute to the composer and musical thinker Hans Werner Henze to a Network for New Music. About 40 institutions and ensembles present throughout the year Henze's musical work and social action in more than 50 performances and series of events in 30 cities of the Ruhr. The program includes operas, ballets, symphony and chamber concerts as well as unusual works as an Internet opera, a film retrospective, radio operas and numerous children 's and youth projects.

Learn language

All forms of literature and all formats of presentation, such as novel, fairy tale, legend, Thriller, slam, poetry and poem to give people from over 170 nations with more than 100 languages new experiences.

In the project " Fabled Ruhr Region " along with the narrative researcher Dirk Sondermann, the Institute of narrative research in the Ruhr and the Society for free information systems are historical and contemporary myths and folk tales of the region in the internet ( over 500 texts) and presented in events of artists.

Boosting the Creative Industry

"RUHR.2010 pursues a strategy of cultural policy innovations, especially in the field of creative industries program. RUHR.2010 pushes the development of Creative.Quarters and long-term incentive structures in all genres of the creative class. [ ... ] The funding strategies focus on people, markets and the media. "

The Creative.Quarters new urban areas should be set up which offer artists and creative people the opportunity to influence and settlement. On the list were, among others, the Dortmunder U, the Scheidt 'sche halls in South Essen, the Lohberg in Dinslaken, the regional office of Unna-Massen, a strip of about 10 kilometers along the Rhine - Herne Canal Herne with the germ cell colliery Our Fritz. Bochum, Dorsten, Duisburg and Mülheim an der Ruhr, also contribute to the Creative.Quarters
2010LAB.tv was set up as a video platform of cultural capital and interactive portal.
Was re-nominated in the area the project Urbanatix from Bochum, presented in the young street art artists of the region together with international artists in a show at the Centennial Hall on the legs. The project will continue after 2010.

Celebrate

On January 9, opened in 2010, German President Horst Köhler during a ceremony at the Zeche Zollverein officially the program. Herbert Grönemeyer, the anthem Capital of Culture "Come to the Ruhr " before. After the official program before some 1,000 invited guests, a two-day cultural festival was held, which provided insights into the various projects of the RUHR.2010.
On 18 July 2010, the A40 has been car-free under the title Still - Life Ruhr. The road was closed for 31 hours to traffic and transformed into a stage of everyday culture. On the approximately 60 km long route were up to 20,000 tables with program of the respective groups, clubs, families, neighborhoods, institutions, etc. to visit on foot. The other track could be used with bicycles or inline skates. The organizers of this event RUHR.2010 see in the possible " emotional founding moment of the Ruhr Metropolis ". It has been estimated that about 3 million people have participated in this event.
On 24 July 2010, the Love Parade was held in Duisburg on the site of the former goods station Duisburg Gbf near the central station of Duisburg under the motto "The Art of Love" instead. It also was in the run as one of the most important and largest events RUHR.2010 as part of the celebrations of the European Capital of Culture year, even if it was supported financially or organizationally from its organizers. In a panic at the entrance of the event, 21 people lost their lives. 511 other people were injured, 40 of them seriously. The Managing Director of RUHR.2010 Fritz Pleitgen, said: "We carry hard on the tragedy." In a moral sense, he feels responsible for the accident. He added: "We must not give up. We need to get this Capital of Culture year to a successful end, always keeping in mind what happened on July 24. That's our commitment. " → Main article: disaster at the Love Parade 2010

On 18 December the RUHR.2010 ended with a simultaneous exhibition. Central fixed location was the North Star mine, where the passengers of the steamboat Ruhrtopia again could pass in review the events of the past year. On the way they got out in the ports of Duisburg, Essen and Dortmund in the game. So the other scheduled places where decentralized closing ceremonies were held, were included via live circuit and common public viewing in the central event.

Move Europe

Coal and Steel Community formed in the shape of the ECSC the foundation of the European Union. The Ruhr look back on an experience of 150 years of immigration. These experiences and various projects are the possibilities of culture as a driving force for the European society of tomorrow explore and implement strategies in.

Ahead of the Capital of Culture year, in the Ruhr area, the European Film Prize was awarded during a televised gala. The European Film Academy (EFA ) consciously chose the Ruhr area as a venue to draw attention to RUHR.2010. In addition to the " European Cinema Festival " in Germany's largest movie palace, the listed Lichtenburg food and numerous movie theaters in the Ruhr area, the official award ceremony took place in Bochum's Centennial Hall on 12 December 2009.

Academic Office - Capital of Culture 2010

The Academic Office - Capital of Culture 2010 has been established at the beginning of 2008 as a joint initiative of RUHR.2010 GmbH and the Institute for Cultural Studies Essen ( KWI). Among the duties of the office include exchanging information, dialogue, coordination and the development of scientific projects for the Capital of Culture.

Financing

Since early May 2009, is questionable due to lack of sponsors means the realization of some projects. The total budget of 63 million euros so far down as follows:

From the economy was expected to 17 million euros in funding, half of which was already promised. In fact, flowed to the end of June 2009, only 1.5 million euros. There was a funding gap of 7 million.

Exacerbated the problems by the fact that many cities and towns of the Ruhr area are in financial distress or already under budgetary support of the provincial government, such as Bochum.

An originally for the January 9, 2010 in addition to the central celebration on the grounds of the Zeche Zollverein planned opening ceremony at the Veltins - Arena has been deleted. The multicultural 2009 already scheduled Melez Festival was canceled, so that it can take place in 2010.

On June 23, 2009, Jürgen Rüttgers and Eon CEO Wulf Bernotat hosted a "Sponsors Dinners". A guest was included Hans -Dietrich Genscher. This advertising and other actions provided additional 2.5 million euros, so that the financing gap was reduced to 5.8 million euros.