Hamburg
For the interested visitor, some events held every year:
- Sports (Note that a registration, usually months in advance, is needed for public races.)
- Hamburg Marathon [22] — marathon, open to the public: April
- Tennis Masters Series Am Rothenbaum [23]: May
- HSH Nordbank Run, [24] open to the public. Race through the HafenCity (HarbourCity): May
- Hamburg Masters [25] — Hockey 4 Nations Trophy: August
- Dragon boat race, open to the public: August
- Cyclassics [26] — UCI-ProTour bike race, open to the public: August
- Hamburg City Man Triathlon [27] — triathlon, open to the public: August
- Film festivals
- Arts and exhibitions
- International Fireworks Festival: August
- Kirschblütenfest — Grand fireworks and Japanese culture: May
- Lange Nacht der Museen — one ticket, 40 of Hamburg's museums open until midnight: May
- PHP Unconference — Yearly two-day PHP Conference [34]: April
- Theme nights (jungle, romantic, Asian) at Hagenbeck's zoo [35]: Saturdays in summer
- Music
- Fleetinselfest — Music and international artists open air [36]: July
- G-Move — Techno parade (until 2005, since 2006 taking place at the city of Kiel)
- Schlagermove — German 1960s / 1970s music parade [37]: July
- Reeperbahn Festival — huge Indoor Musicfestival in many Clubs of the Red-Light-District in St. Pauli, mostly Rock, Alternative and Indie-music: September [38]
- Fun / Street festivals
- Alstervergnügen [39] — Alster fair: first weekend of September
- Christopher Street Day (Gay Pride Parade) [40]: June
- Hamburger Dom [41] — considered the largest funfair in northern Germany: three times a year
- Hafengeburtstag [42] — Hamburg's harbour birthday: May
- Motorradgottesdienst — Biker's divine service in Hamburg's largest church St. Michaelis: June
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Sister cities
Chicago, United States, since 1994
Dresden, Germany (then East Germany), since 1987
León, Nicaragua, since 1989
Marseille, France, since 1958
Osaka, Japan, since 1989
Prague, Czech Republic, since 1990
St. Petersburg, Russia, then Soviet Union, since 1957
Shanghai, People's Republic of China, since 1986
More information: Hamburg sister cities (in German only)
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Famous people born in Hamburg
- Sportspeople
- Andreas Brehme, born in 1960, football coach and former football defender
- Stefan Effenberg, born in 1968, former soccer player and football player
- Tommy Haas, born in 1978, tennis player
- Max Schmeling, 1905–2005, German boxer and heavyweight champion
- Uwe Seeler, born in 1936, football manager and former football player
- Politicians
- Helmut Schmidt, born in 1918, German Social Democratic politician and former Chancellor of Germany (1974-1982)
- Angela Merkel, born in 1954 Chancellor of Germany
- Entertainment
- Fatih Akin, born in 1973, film director
- Hans Albers, 1891–1960, actor and singer
- Samy Deluxe, born in 1977, hip hop artist, writer and producer
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, 1809–1847, composer
- Johannes Brahms, 1833–1897, composer
- Oliver Hirschbiegel, born in 1957, film director
- Astrid Kirchherr, born in 1938, photographer and artist
- Oliver Uckermann, founder and male vocalist of band Stillste Stund
- Michael Kiske, Michael Weikath, Kai Hansen, Ingo Schwichtenberg and Markus Grosskopf of Helloween, power metal band
- Writers
- Rudolf Augstein, 1923–2002, writer
- Wolfgang Borchert, 1921–1947, author and playwright
- Marion Dönhoff, 1909–2002, writer
- Henri Nannen, 1913–1996, writer
- Fashion designers
- Karl Lagerfeld, born in 1933, fashion designer
- Scientists
- Michael Artin, born in 1934, mathematician, professor at MIT
- Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, 1857–1894, physicist and electronic engineer
- Painters
- Daniel Richter, born in 1962, painter
- Others
- Albert Ballin, 1857–1918, businessman
- Paul Carl Beiersdorf, 1836–1896, pharmacist
- Helmuth Hübener, 1925–1942, youngest opponent of the Third Reich to be sentenced to death and executed.
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More impressions
 Town Hall |
 Oberlandesgericht |
 Strafjustizgebäude |
 Strafjustizgebäude detail |
 University |
 Hamburg Hall of Arts |
 Thalia Theatre |
 Schauspielhaus |
 Laeisz Hall |
 Alsterarkaden |
 Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten |
 Town Hall Altona |
 Statue |
 Bismarck Statue |
 Planetarium |
.SW.20050521.jpg/90px-StMichaeliskirche(Michel).SW.20050521.jpg) St. Michaelis Church (Michel) |
 Ruin of Nikolaitower |
 Panorama of the Binnenalster |
 Hamburg Neustadt |
 Radisson Hotel & Heinrich Hertz Tower |
 Berliner Tor |
 Dockland |
 Hanseatic Trade Center Speicherstadt |
.jpg/120px-Hafenstadt_Hamburg_(4).jpg) Speicherstadt 1 |
 Speicherstadt 2 |
 Speicherstadt Panorama |
 Köhlbrandbridge |
 Reeperbahn |
 Queen Mary |
 Landungsbrücken |
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External links
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- Official Hamburg website — In many languages
- Hamburg 2020
- HafenCity
- Hamburg at the Open Directory Project
- The City-Guide for Hamburg (German)
- Hamburg travel guide — Wikitravel
- Alternative guide to Hamburg - Extrageographic Magazine
- [43] Urban District Collective Red Winterhude — English
- Virtual Tour
- Pinocchio in Hamburg: An illustrated guidebook to Hamburg by Lamberto Bozzi
- "36 Hours in Hamburg", The New York Times
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References
- ^ State population. Portal of the Federal Statistics Office Germany. Retrieved on 2007-04-25.
- ^ Richard Ungewitter (German author) - Britannica Online Encyclopedia
- ^ Auf dem Rathausmarkt
- ^ Van Marle, Gavin. "Europe Terminals stretched to limit", Lloyds List Daily Commercial News, 2008-01-31, pp. 8-9.
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