Stadtgarten

With over 400 events a year, the Stadtgarten Köln is one of the internationally recognized venues in Europe for the field of current and improvised music and was upgraded to the "European Center for Jazz and Current Music" in 2018. Our premises are available for private events such as weddings and birthdays, corporate parties and other events. Depending on the occasion and the size of the group, we will be happy to make you an individual offer entirely according to your ideas. When we hosted the first concert in our newly built Stadtgarten Concert Hall more than 30 years ago, we only had a vague idea of what was to come. We wanted to do something that had never been done before in our home country. We wanted an individual and independent concert programme for current improvised music with a focus on interesting and quality content. We did not care for audience numbers nor public subsidies, but nevertheless offered guaranteed minimum pay for musicians as well as a professional setting. We aimed for a pleasant experience for both musicians and audiences when presenting music in our concert hall which therefore needed to have the best acoustic quality as well as accessibility at ground level. As a source of financing, we paired our concert hall with the Stadtgarten restaurant and associated beer garden to generate the necessary revenue. This unique concept certainly attracted a lot of attention far and wide.