It is the second Hamburg port birthday in Corona times. And this year there will also be a colorful digital program with concerts and fireworks as an alternative.
Hamburg – Once again, the people of Hamburg, and everyone who would have come to the port city from near and far, have to do without their port birthday. The Hamburg Harbor Birthday 2021 event has been moved to the Internet. Otherwise the festival attracts hundreds of thousands of people to the Elbe metropolis every year.
So that Hamburg residents and Hamburg lovers don’t have to miss out on the hustle and bustle, the organizers have come up with a few ideas to compensate for the lack of the crowd puller. Many concerts take place digitally, ship crews have recorded greetings, and there are also replacements for the fireworks. In addition to the recorded events in the stream on hamburg.de, there are also live shows with many familiar faces on all three days in the evenings.
Harbor birthday 2021: Concerts and more over the whole weekend – these are the highlights
When asked, the organizers did not give an exact schedule, after all, they were in live operation and could not estimate exactly how long each event would last. But that’s not bad, after all, even at the “real” port birthday, you are strolling around and not looking at the clock all the time.
The streamed concerts will be the main highlights. The Hamburg band Selig will perform, but also singer-songwriters such as Enno Bunger or Achim Reichel will perform their hits over the course of the weekend.
As a supporting program for the livestream, there is a digital port of Hamburg on the website, through which you can move freely and watch short videos from many corners, sometimes even in 360 °.
- 3:30 p.m .: Opening service in the St. Michaelis Church Hamburg, in short “Michel”
- Below: Opening with the stroke of the bell by Mayor Peter Tschentscher on the Rickmer Rickmers
- Following: Concert by the Elphilharmonie Orchestra, motto: “Evening dress or overalls”
Sparks on the screens: digital alternative to the big harbor birthday fireworks
The big fireworks display has always been one of the highlights of the port birthday of the Hanseatic city. Sponsor AIDA burned down tens of pyrotechnics on several ships, and a gigantic laser show lit up the night sky. This, of course, cannot be implemented this year either, regardless of the regulations, too many people would crowd the Elbe to catch a glimpse of the spectacle.
But the organizer of the port birthday also has an answer to that: A no less spectacular compilation of the last few years will be shown on the screens on the evening of May 8th. Of course, this solution has a small downer, because nothing is real here. But it will certainly not get boring, and after all, in the digital alternative, you always have the very best seats in the front row. * 24hamburg is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
List of rubric lists: © Axel Heimken / dpa 24hamburg Montage
