Museum for Hamburg History

At the beginning of the 1980s, Hamburg’s urban landscape gradually began to change. The instigators of this transformation were not urban planners, however, but graffiti artists: inspired by films like Wild Style and Beat Street, they moved around the city at night with spray cans and left behind colourful pictures,…

In many respects, the year 1923 has a drastic significance in Hamburg’s history. The Weimar Republic was only a few years old and was being challenged and fought by both right-wing and left-wing opponents. Domestic political disputes as well as the occupation of the Ruhr by France and Belgium threatened…