Hamburg News

2/2009

Shaping up: HafenCity Top: ‘s urologists Flexible: OpenHouse Trendy: Hamburg‘s music With Dalmannkai to be realised With 1,550 radical prostatecto- IBA Hamburg‘s first building Many new albums by locals, a early this year, HafenCity‘s first mies, Hamburg‘s urologists of project turns a derelict industrial fully-packed festival calendar and neighbourhood will be fully com- Martini Clinic and UKE are lea- site into sustainable co-operative a co-operation with : pleted. (p.2) ders in the cancer fight. (p. 2) dwellings close to water. (p. 3) Hamburg sets the trends. (p. 4) Newsflash Hamburg‘s managers say “Yes to Hamburg“ ‘s population is Prominent enterprises get involved with emotional messages shrinking – but Hamburg Germanischer Lloyd, Deut- burg Business Develop- is growing: With a plus sche Bahn AG, Evergreen ment Corporation by order of four per cent until 2025, Hamburg will boast the fa- Shipping Agency, Eurokai, of Hamburg‘s Senate Chan- stest demographic growth Cosco Europe, NYK Line, cellery. of all German states. This Hanjin Shipping, IBM, Si- Heinrich Lieser, CEO of is the result of the new nosteel or Vestas are some HMG and HWF: “The cam- population monitor by of the companies to open- paign promotes the Free Bertelsmann Foundation, ly show their positive com- and Hanseatic City of Ham- which took into account all mitment to the business burg as a business location. 3,000 German communi- location Hamburg. We do not want to shut our ties of more than 5,000 in- Under the headline “Yes to eyes in front of problems habitants. According to the Hamburg“, they participate – but we will focus on the study, Hamburg will grow in a testimonial campaign, chances at the same time. It by some 70,000 citizens to is a proof of high entrepre- more than 1.8 millions lo- which started last month cals. The increase will be with a series of adver- neurial quality to send out especially high in regard to tisements in leading local a signal of hope to all the young adults, i.e. potential papers. The participating people living in Hamburg parents, and children. companies made it clear and the Hamburg Metropo- Also neighbouring Schles- that business also means litan Area.“ wig-Holstein will enjoy a psychology: next to concrete lopers and scientists, and the A comprehensive web- demographic increase, thus measures, it needs confidence support of talent, technology, site in German and English Bertelsmann. Growing by to ensure economic stability. and tolerance. complements the advertising 0.8 per cent, its population In their testimonials, the com- Above all, it is the Hanseatic campaign. Interested compa- will increase by 23.000 peo- panies‘ representatives name spirit. In good and less good nies are invited to join the in- ple to some 2.86 million in- several reasons why Hamburg times, Hamburg holds on to- itiative. Last but not least, TV habitants in 2025. Beneficia- ry of this development will is better confronting the glo- gether. That‘s what the city clips will be produced with all be the catchment area of the bal recession than other busi- stands for, and that‘s what the participating companies and Hanseatic city – the Ham- ness locations: the dynamic campaign clearly illustrates. broadcasted by the local TV burg . and variety of companies, the The initiative is jointly orga- station Hamburg 1 during the www.bertelsmann.de productivity of its employees, nised by Hamburg Marketing length of the campaign. the innovative power of deve- GmbH (HMG) and HWF Ham- www.yes-to-hamburg.com

Innovation sores to new heights at Hamburg as the place for aviation New Centre for Applied Aeronautical Research (ZAL) due to start operations already in March Hamburg will be home to a new as major corporate partners, ted fuel cell research. The cen- Möbius Modell- und Formbau Centre for Applied Aeronautical Hamburg will invest ten million tre will also house a new fuel GmbH & Co. KG has been in- Research (Zentrum für ange- Euro into the research facility cell lab to explore applications vesting some 850.000 Euro into wandte Luftfahrtforschung, pursuing innovations in aircraft of fuel cell technology aboard rebuilding and new machinery ZAL) due to start operations cabin interiors and air trans- aircraft as an alternative energy since 2007. Lufthansa Technik next month. Realised in a pu- portation systems. Further 3.7 source. Investments for futu- will be inaugurating its innova- blic-private partnership with million Euro will be invested re innovations are also made tion centre in spring. Airbus and Lufthansa Technik into test rigs for aviation-rela- by the local aviation industry. www.luftfahrtstandort-hamburg.de Hamburg News 2/2009 Page 2

Shortcuts HafenCity: Dalmannkai completed as second neighbourhood

Li & Fung bought MILES With the second neighbourhood citizens at HafenCity. 1,300 of wer. With the new school year Hong Kong-based sourcing of HafenCity seeing completion them will find their new home coming up in summer, children giant Li & Fung has bought this spring, Europe‘s largest at Dalmannkai, where cranes of residents or employees will the German apparel supplier inner city construction site sha- can only be found at its very tip: be able to attend the public MILES Fashion Group for 51 pes up, presenting impressive Here, Hamburg‘s new Elbphil- St. Catherine‘s school at Ha- million US-Dollar. Selling a figures of success. Until the end harmonie will be erected until fenCity, incorporating also a wide range of textiles to dis- of last year, building plots with a 2012, receiving its glass crown children day care centre with counters such as Penny and total of 710,000 sqm gross floor on the roof of port warehouse A flexible services offered until Aldi, MILES generated sales of 162 million Euro last year. The space have been sold, with ne- this year. late hours. Norderstedt-based company arly half of them being already In May, the consumer goods At Überseequartier, first flats is now to provide a platform under construction. Once reali- holding Unilever will move with will be realised in late 2009, with for Li & Fung‘s business deve- sed, the volumes sold will not 1,100 staff into its new German the rest of the total of 360 dwel- lopment in Europe. only account for approximately headquarters at Strandkai. Next lings to follow in spring 2010. www.miles-fashion.de 14,000 new office jobs and fur- to it, a new landmark will be fi- Construction in the south of the ther 1,300 in retail or gastrono- nished this year, the 16 storeys borough will start this year. Hanse-Office my, but also for some 3,000 new of residential Marco-Polo-To- www.hafencity.com Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has joined the Hanse-Office already operated by the Free and Hanseatic City of Ham- Hamburg is a global leader in the fight of prostate cancer burg and Schleswig-Holstein Martini Klinik to add new beds – Europe‘s most modern clinic inaugurated at UKE in Sankt Petersburg. Joint tar- With 1,550 radical prostatec- gnosis and therapy of prostate Next, door, Europe‘s most mo- get is to enhance and deepen the co-operation of the Nort- tomies last year, the Martini cancer. This approach is unique dern medical centre has been hern German states with the Clinic on the grounds of the in Germany, but has meanwhile inaugurated only a few days Baltic states and the northwest Hamburg-Eppendorf Universi- proven to be successful. Along ago. Covering 42,000 sqm, regions of Russia. ty Hospital (UKE) is a leading with Rochester‘s Mayo Clinic the new hospital unites 16 cli- www.hanse-office.de global address for men suf- and Baltimore‘s Johns Hopkins nics with 730 beds. Covered fering from prostate cancer. Clinic, the Hamburg private walkways link the new UKE with Selected landmark The high surgery figures were clinic is esteemed as one of two centres of competence also The “Initiative Industrial Bi- achieved in co-operation with the world‘s top three. To meet located on its ground: the Uni- otechnology North (IBN)“ UKE‘s urology, which handled demands, the number of beds versity Heart Centre (UHZ) and of TuTech Innovation GmbH nearly one-third of all surge- will be increased from 25 to 32. the Hubertus Wald Tumorzen- is a “Selected Landmark in ries. 1,000 patients underwent Martini patients are internatio- trum, University Cancer Center the Land of Ideas 2009“. The surgery at the Martini Clinic, nal, originating not only from Hamburg (UCCH). award will be granted on June founded four years ago by UKE Germany, but also from Eastern www.martini-klinik.de 24, 2009. Launched in 2006, the competition supported by the to focus exclusively in the dia- Europe and Arab countries. www.uke.uni-hamburg.de Federal government and many companies received 2,000 ap- plications from companies, News from the Hamburg Metropolitan Area research institutes, institu- tions, initiatives, community Quickborn to serve as Horizon‘s “bridgehead“ and charity projects to be ho- noured as one of the annually The Japanese manufacturer parts. Construction will start in day the global manufacturer 365 seleceted landmarks. Horizon has decided to set up spring and is scheduled to be of products for the five major www.tutech.de its new European headquarters completed in September 2009. paper finishing operations: in Quickborn in the Hamburg According to company owner folding, collating, binding, stit- Sustainable future Metropolitan Area. With the Eijro Hori from Kyoto, the new ching, and cutting. In Germany Successful revitalisation on help of the regional business office block cum distribution alone, more than 6,000 clients the Elbe banks: On the former grounds of Norsk Hydro‘s alu- development company of the centre will act as a bridgehead from the graphic industry rely minium plant, Prokon Nord districts of Pinneberg and Se- for all European activities and on Horizon‘s expertise. Around Energiesysteme GmbH has geberg WEP Wirtschaftsförde- deliveries, which will thus be the globe, its print finishing started operations of two pro- rungs-, Entwicklungs- und Pla- much faster than in the past. machinery is being used in duction sites and thus created nungsgesellschaft, the German The European headquarters more than 90 countries. 200 new jobs at its new bioe- subsidiary of the Japanese will also feature a brand-new Every year, the holding gene- thanol factory and rotor blades Horizon International Inc., Ho- 475 sqm showroom, pre- rates sales of some 130 mil- manufacturing site. rizon GmbH, has thus acquired senting Horizon‘s machinery lion. 30 million Euro are con- A milestone in the sustainable a 9,000 sqm lot at the industrial and products and serving as a tributed by the 70 employees conversion of the Elbe pre- park Hohenbecksmoor. forum for classes and courses. of the German affiliate. More mises into a “green“ produc- An international 160 sqm trai- than 400 staff are employed in tion site providing itself with European headquarters nig centre is also planned to be research & development and renewable energy right on the spot was reached with the Horizon will invest some five erected on the grounds. are thus dedicating to the de- topping-out ceremony of the million Euro into the two-storey sign and manufacture of top- future steam power plant. building with 3,000 sqm gross Gobla market leader quality, highly-reliable print www.prokonnord.de floor space, incorporating also Founded more than 60 years finishing products. a logistics centre for 10,000 ago in Kyoto, Horizon is to- www.horizon.de Hamburg News 2/2009 Page 3

Pioneering climate-friendly, co-operative living: the OpenHouse Shortcuts IBA Hamburg project to realise flexible forms of living at Ernst August Canal Lagerfeld‘s homes Wilhelminian style buildings they suggested a y-like struc- area‘s one and only. In the The developer Frankonia Euro- ornated with stucco, a vibrant ture. In the east and west wing south of the neighbourhood, bau and its partners Provinzial street life, and unique water- of the aptly called yDock, the tenants from 31 nationalities NordWest and SV Sparkas- fronts: Wilhelmsburg‘s Rei- building co-operatives Schip- have contributed their ideas senVersicherung are investing herstieg neighbourhood is not perort GbR and Schanze will to the conversion of the SAGA some 300 million Euro in the development of “Sophienter- very different from trendy in- realise a total of 32 flats for GWG houses into a multinati- rassen”, comprising white vil- ner city boroughs like Eimsbüt- their members. In the south onal, colourful “Weltquartier“. las and luxury apartments set tel or St. Georg – but was, ho- wing, Hamburg‘s public ur- Changes have also undergone in 44,000 sqm of park area on wever, a long neglected urban ban renewal and develoment the green and blue spaces of the banks of the Alster River. landscape. It was chosen by agency STEG will create eight Vering Canal, which now form Landmark of the neighbour- IBA Hamburg to realise its first triplex flats covering three le- the borough‘s idyllic prome- hood will be the former local urban building project: Open- vels. The roof will provide four nade. In the pipeline are now commander’s headquarters House – a model for building low-cost lofts for the creative. plannings for the Hamburg ter- converted into a luxury apart- and living as a community. On The open structure of all lofts races, comprising 80 dwellings ment building. Karl Lager- derelict 5,000 sqm industrial with no supporting partitions to be erected right in the park feld will produce the designs premises next to Ernst August allows a flexible use of the of the international garden for the lounge and reception Canal, 44 climate-friendly flats units that can be adjusted to exhibition in Hamburg, taking area, the private spa areas, and two Alster villas. will be built based on designs any given situation. place in the same year as IBA www.frankonia-eurobau.de by the Dutch architects office OpenHouse is IBA Hamburg‘s Hamburg, i. e. in 2013. onix from Groningen. first building project at Rei- www.iba-hamburg.de Lenffer with new tasks herstiegviertel, but not the www.steg-hamburg.de To meet the different demands, The traditional Hamburg com- pany Lenffer re-positioned itself: The porcelain house Hamburg‘s design industry to receive its own centre now equips luxury yachts and designport hamburg – a new creative hotspot at HafenCity by 2011 aircraft of oriental rulers in Arabia. Clients included the Peter Schmidt and Tobias Grau, signxport” design centre will designers. The initiative ham- airlines Abu Dhabi Amiri, Ro- Scholz & Friends and Jil San- occupy 1,350 sqm of the total burgunddesign will also find yal Bahrein, Qatar Helicopter, der – Hamburg is well-known of 10,000 sqm of gross floor new premises at the theme Qatar A. Flight, Royal Abu around the world as a first- space. Next to a design office property. Dhabi, and Royal Saudi Flight. All shops in Hamburg will be class address for outstanding for the consultancy, organisa- South of the designport, the closed. design. More than 2,000 design tion and network task, it will new German headquarters of www.lenffer.de offices and freelance designers comprise a library and design Greenpeace will be built, while are active in the Hanseatic city. archive, a design shop selling a residential building is plan- Intelligent office furniture With Primus developments products by local designers, an ned in the north. A combined In between the two world wars, GmbH constructing “design- event space, and gastronomy. urban and design planning they revolutionised Hamburg‘s port hamburg”, the flourishing The remaining 8,650 sqm will competition for these three offices with the type writers sector will now be given its be developed as office and buildings will be launched this disappearing into the desk own industry centre at Hafen- exhibition space for design month. The realisation of the after use. Today, Lotos-Werke City. On the ground floor and related firms, as well as resi- complex is scheduled for 2011. from Bad Oldesloe furnishes in the semi-basement, a “de- dential and working lofts for www.hafencity.com the offices of HafenCity with tomorrow‘s furniture. At De Norske Veritas, for example, the experts equipped the con- High-tech from Hittfeld takes care of rails at high speed ference rooms with intelligent Stahlberg Roensch developed the world‘s first high-speed grinding train furniture communicating per- fectly with the room‘s multi- The track network of German A solution was invented in being removed, depending media devices. rail is subjected to very high the south of the Hamburg Me- on the task. The occuring www.lotos-werke.de levels of operational stress. tropolitan Area. At Hittfeld, dust is filtered and stored in High train speeds and heavy Stahlberg Roensch develo- the train‘s tank. RC01‘s main Hamburg Ballet in Japan axle loads are the critical fac- ped RC01, the world‘s first application area is preventa- The renowned Hamburg Ballet tors affecting the service life high speed grinding train. Its tive grinding to avoid rolling returns Japan with 115 dan- of the rails. Wear and rolling patented technology allows a contact fatigue and corruga- cers directed by John Neu- contact fatigue (RCF) defects working speed of more than tion. Other tasks include the meier. During their four weeks occur, corrugation and vari- 80 km/h. initial grinding of new rails tour, they will perform “The ous kinds of cracks start to While conventional grinding to remove the rolling scale, Litte Mermaid“ and “The Lady destroy the rails. trains work at very low speed acoustic grinding to keep the of the Camellias“ in Tokyo, Yo- kohama, Nagoya, Hiroshima, “Head checks“ appear at the and require tracks to be clo- rail surface smooth and the Fukuoka und Hamburg‘s part- gauge corner of the rail. In sed for maintenance, the noise at bay, and low adhe- ner city Osaka. On occasion of other sections, surface de- high speed train‘s grinding sion coating removal to get the trip and the twining jubi- fects like Belgrospies, wheel service can take place within rid of leaves in autumn. To- lieeHamburg Marketing GmbH burns, and short-pitch corru- scheduled traffic. When pas- gether, they ensure a signifi- launches a PR campaign. gations are the first signs of sing over the rails, some cantly longer rail lifespan. www.hamburgballet.de the steel‘s fatigue. 0.05 – 0.3 mm of material are www.stahlberg-roensch.de Hamburg News 2/2009 Page 4

Hamburg and Gronningen signed co-operateration contract for the creative From media, IT, and telecommunications to music: Increased collaboration in all sectors of the industry Hamburg and Groningen stand Manager In- Music“, from politics were accompa- for innovative, creative, and ur- ternational Hamburg‘s nied by a delegation of Ham- ban environments. The Hanse- E c o n o m i c Reeper- burg music entrepreneurs. atic City enjoys a global repu- Relations, bahn Fes- Following a business speed tation as a creative boomtown, signed the tival and dating with partners from and the third-largest Dutch city joint paper. H a m b u r g Groningen‘s music industry, is home to the second-largest A first co- Marketing they all enjoyed the opening of university of the . o p e r a t i o n GmbH thus the Eurosonic Festival. Both cities have taken their long project pro- participa Already in the past, trend- relations in politics and busi- vided the ted at Gro- setting projects have been ness to a new level by signing right occas- n i n g e n ‘ s realised between Hamburg a Letter of Intent. Its target is to sion for the contract: “Ree- EuroSonic Noorderslag Festi- and Groningen. Last year, the strengthen the creative indus- perbahn Festival on tour“. val with a showcase of its own. Dutch city rented premises at try in both cities in all sectors, Presenting “New International Hamburg‘s representatives Hamburg‘s “gamecity:Port“, i. e. media, IT, telecommunica- Germany‘s first theme proper- tions, and music. ty for start-ups of the games The contract was signed on background industry, for its pilot project Hamburg‘s part by Reinhardt “Gaming in residence“. Wor- Reeperbahn Festival on Tour: Before the start of the festi- Stuth, Secretary of State at king for free in one of the val in September 2009, Hamburg‘s well-established Indie the State Ministry of Culture, block‘s 13 offices for a couple music event and Hamburg Marketing GmbH went touring: Sport, and the Media, and of months, Dutch games de- Presenting the hip-hop export “Deichkind“ and three other Uwe Jens Neumann (l.), Chair- velopers had the chance not bands, Hamburg‘s unique “Kiez“ feeling thrilled the au- man of Hamburg@work. For only to pursue and realise their diences at the Eurosonic Festival in Groningen. On March 21, Groningen, Jaap Dijkstra (r.), projects, but also to benefit 2009, the Hamburg festival will promote itself with a show- Councillor of Economic Affairs, from Hamburg‘s games ex- case of its own at SXSW in Austin/Texas, thus also setting International Business and Cul- pertise and to make contacts. trends internationally. http://rfontour.blogsport.de ture, and John Ebbink, General www.gamecity-hamburg.de

Hamburg is Germany‘s port of rock, pop, and Indie music News-Bits Many new songs by Hamburg artists – festival calendar packed with all styles GameCity Hamburg was gran- After visiting Hamburg‘s performed at 2007‘s Live Earth Scheeßel (June 19 - 21). “Motör- ted with the jury‘s special award Reeperbahn Festival in au- concert, will hit the stores this head“, “Amon Amarth“, and at the German Developers Prize tumn, Pittsburg‘s Post Gazette month. Later in the year, the “Hammerfall“ will celebrate the 2008 in Essen. The industry initi- was convinced: Hamburg is new album of Julian Friedrich first 20 years of Europe‘s largest ative of Hamburg@work shares Germany‘s port of rock‘n‘roll. and Dominik Pobot will follow, heavy metal festival at Wacken the award with the Games Con- This year, the city and its me- bearing the same title as the (July 30 - August 1). “Ketttcar“ vention Developer Conference, tropolitan area show that local band‘s name, “Montag“. and “Herrenmagazin“ will per- GCDC. music knows no limits. Hamburg‘s fully packed festival form at the Dockville Festival www.gamecity-hamburg.de To start, listen to the multitude summer opens with another (August 14 - 16). In autumn, of new songs presented by Live Earth artist from Hamburg, Reeperbahn Festival will return The Hermann Reemtsma Hamburg artists. “Clickclick- Stefan Gwildis, performing at September 24 - 26. To get a feel Foundation supports the restau- decker“ already launched a NDR Openair Stadtpark 2009. of unique event, image three ration of the Hamburg arts & craft new collection of Indie Rock The Hamburg band “Tomte“, nights devoted to 150 bands museum with a donation of 2.5 songs, and the neo folk forma- which has been nominated as playing new international mu- million Euro. Their funds allow tion “Tenfold Loadstar“ just club artist of the year at the Live sic on 20 stages. to construct a new spacious entry presented its third long-player Entertainment Awards 2008, www.hurricane.de foyer, which will be finished by called “It‘s Cold Outside And and the local hip-hop stars of www.dockville.de the end of the year. The Gnome is You“. The sixth “Fettes Brot“ are the headli- www.reeperbahnfestival.com www.hermann-reemtsma-stiftung.de studio album of Sasha, who ners of the Hurricane-Festival in www.wacken.com

Imprint Published by In co-operation with Editor Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg Flughafen Hamburg GmbH, HWF Hamburg Business Ministry of Arts, Culture, and Media hamburg.de GmbH & Co. KG, Development Corporation Hamburg Marketing GmbH HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, Hafen Andreas Köpke Hamburg Marketing e.V., Hamburg Habichtstraße 41 HWF Hamburg Business Messe und Congress GmbH, 22305 Hamburg Development Corporation Hamburg Tourist Board Tel.: +49 40 / 22 70 19-23 [email protected] Text: Pressebüro Hilke Maunder