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Culture
Frankfurt’s cultural scene is unique – in its abundance, its diversity, its excellence and its vivacity. It features history and tradition, science and curiosities, new insights for insiders, entertainment for children as well as plenty of distractions for all those not keen on culture! The city’s museum embankment, home of the world-famous Städel Museum, is a cultural location unlike any in all of Germany. Here, in the smallest of spaces, one finds greatest thematic diversity. There’s also the museum quarter of the new old town, featuring the Historical Museum Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, the Museum of Modern Art and several others.
Museumsufer Frankfurt
Frankfurt’s series of riverside museums, the Museumsufer Frankfurt, is among the world’s most important museum ensembles. Avantgarde and old masters, spectacular exhibitions, exciting local history, Goethe and his creative heirs, world culture and financial culture, design and the prehistoric world – these are but some of the marvelous array of themes covered by Frankfurt’s museums in an ensemble of buildings quite unique in Europe.
Museums
The city’s museum embankment, home of the world-famous Städel Museum, is a cultural location unlike any in all of Germany. Here, in the smallest of spaces, one finds greatest thematic diversity. There’s also the museum quarter of the new old town, featuring the Historical Museum Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, the Museum of Modern Art and several others.
Music, Theatre and Stages
Alte Oper and Oper Frankfurt, winner of several “Opera of the Year” awards, are both known throughout Germany for their high-quality programmes, which include concerts, operas, musicals and more. Festhalle, meanwhile, regularly hosts the greats of the rock and pop scene. Jazz is also highly popular in Frankfurt, with the annual German Jazz Festival – the country’s oldest jazz celebration – attracting jazz fans from near and far. Frankfurt is also the birthplace of electronic music, made famous by DJs like Sven Väth. It may no longer be the flavour of the month, but several techno-clubs still remain in Frankfurt.
Theatre fans will find Frankfurt to be to their liking as well. The city’s range of establishments includes the Schauspiel Frankfurt, the Fritz-Rémond-Theater, the Komödie and the English Theatre, to mention but a few. Frankfurt is home to some 50 theatre ensembles, performing modern and classical theatre, dialect theatre and children’s theatre. And with the renowned Tigerpalast Variety Theatre, the city boasts a vaudeville theatre featuring the finest variety artists from around the world.
Frankfurt – A City of Literature
Frankfurt is Germany‘s literary capital. It is, for example, the birthplace of J. W. von Goethe, Germany’s greatest poet and author. The National Library is also based here, as is the annually held Frankfurt Book Fair, the world’s largest literature show. Last but not least, Frankfurt also hosts the award ceremony for the Peace Prize, which is presented by the German Book Trade at St Paul‘s Church every year.