New location for artistic-scientific transfer

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Grand opening of the ligeti center in Harburg

The vision of the "ligeti center" is becoming a reality: today saw the grand opening of the new transfer center in Harburg. The new facility is a transdisciplinary joint project of the Hamburg University of Music and Drama (HfMT), the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW), the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). On the ninth and tenth floors of the Kaispeicher at Veritaskai, around 30 people from the fields of research, art, medicine, education and engineering will work together in interdisciplinary offices and laboratories on 880 square meters. In dialog with society, culture and business, new paths will be explored to design products and concepts at the intersection of art, science and technology, which will find their way into society through public presentation.

Katharina Fegebank, Senator for Science: "In May, György Ligeti would have been 100 years old - on his birthday, the city can celebrate the opening of the ligeti center. This very special transfer center will provide new impetus for the cultural and creative industries as well as for our social development. The idea of the center is based on Ligeti's inexhaustible curiosity and is therefore an ideal place to jointly develop ideas for the future from the perspectives of the various disciplines. This project is also special because the HfMT, the HAW, the TUHH and the UKE have jointly established this interdisciplinary transfer center, thus demonstrating the enormous potential for cooperation in Hamburg as a center of science. The ligeti center stands for innovation at universities and is a great asset for our city!"

Prof. Dr. Jan Philipp Sprick, President of the HfMT: "The opening of the ligeti center marks a turning point in the history of the HfMT Hamburg. It has an impact on the landscape of German-speaking music and theater universities and, thanks to the international orientation of the center, far beyond. The cooperation with TUHH, HAW and UKE brings topics and content to our university that will have a lasting impact on our understanding of what constitutes a music and theater university in the 21st century. I would like to congratulate Prof. Dr. Georg Hajdu and the entire team at the ligeti center on this great success."

Prof. Dr. Georg Hajdu, Head of the ligeti center: "With the opening of the ligeti center, the dream of a great visionary of contemporary music has come true. György Ligeti, world-famous for his music for Stanley Kubrick's "2001 - A Space Odyssey", stood for transdisciplinary thinking as a professor of composition at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama, which he wanted to realize in a center for computer music in the Hanseatic city as early as the 1970s. This year, it finally became a reality in a contemporary, community-oriented way and with the involvement of the HAW, the TUHH and the UKE."

Background:
The ligeti center will be funded by the BMBF and the GWK from 2023 to 2027 as part of the federal-state initiative "Innovative University". The new transfer center is named after the composer György Ligeti, who was Professor of Composition at the HfMT Hamburg from 1973 to 1988 and is considered one of the most famous composers of the 20th century. He was interested in a wide range of artistic, cultural and scientific topics. The composer, who died on June 12, 2006, would have been 100 years old this year. To mark this occasion, the HfMT is organizing a Ligeti Festival from 2 to 7 May 2023 with numerous informative, concert and installation program items and cordially invites you to participate.

You can find the festival program here