Pop-up bar with concerts, DJs, open stage… and the bar exhibition „1848 REVOLUTION IN KÖLN“

March 17 – April 29, 2023
Thurs. to Sat., 5 to 10 p.m.

At the back of the new museum location
(entrance via Kolumbahof 3)

175 years ago, all of Europe is in turmoil. The revolutionary spark jumps from Paris to Cologne – in the middle of Carnival. On March 3, 1848, a crowd storms the city hall. Cologne becomes a center of the revolution.

The Kölnische Stadtmuseum commemorates this time of barricade fighting with the pop-up bar “BAR/RIKADE”: look forward to a free event program – from concerts and DJ parties to revolutionary song recitals and open-stage activities. Right in the middle: the bar exhibition “1848 Revolution in Köln”.

Spring
Thousands protest for democratic rights, led by the poor doctor Andreas Gottschalk and the labor leader Fritz Anneke. Communists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels are also active in Cologne.

Summer
Entrepreneurs demand civil rights and free trade. Democratically minded people like Franz Raveaux or Robert Blum are more radical, they want the republic, the rule of the people without monarchs.

Mathilde Franziska Anneke is a pioneer of the women’s movement. In Cologne, vigilantes march under black-red-gold flags.
Democratic leftists even wave the first red flag for the social republic.

What remains?
But their legacy still moves us today. The exhibition also reminds us of this: the constitution of the Paulskirche Parliament becomes the model for the Weimar Republic. The first democratic constitution for Germany is created in the Paulskirche. However, the path of compromise is taken and the decision is made not for a “radical democracy” but for a “constitutional monarchy. After 1945, the mothers and fathers of the Basic Law continued the ideals of 1848.

Chaliss Butto

Afrobeats African-Reggae, Songs of Love & Revolution

Fri. 17.03. | 7 pm

Chaliss Butto has been a familiar face in the Cologne music scene for years. He comes from Nigeria and has been on stage as a presenter, MC, poet and singer at a variety of events. Among the many projects Chaliss Butto has participated in as a singer and performer are Lords op d rhing, Eigelstein Royal, Bam Bam Babylon Bajasch, ButtoKlaang and Fr3io.

From 5 p.m.: Irish folk and punk rock with DJ Fakkomoto and DJane Chanto (Irish Pogo Party)

Ann can’t talk

Fresh German Indie Pop

Sat. 18.03. | 7 pm

Jerome, Kris and Maurice always aim to make music they like to listen to themselves. Musically, the band moves between danceable pop and melancholic indie. Their first three singles “Hellblau”, “Kompromisse” and “Farben” immediately made it into renowned editorial playlists such as “Wilde Herzen” on Spotify and the band has already been featured on the first radio stations as “The Newcomer of the Year”. The debut album “Keine Liebe” will be released in May 2023.

From 5 p.m.: Indie with the Indie Fresse DJ Team

Rudelbildung – the quiz for soccer rebels!

With Stefan Staub and Simon Augsten

Thur. 23.03. | 8 p.m.

Their home is called “Gottes Grüne Wiese”. One of Cologne’s most popular soccer pubs in the middle of the Belgian quarter. Every first Monday of the month, Stefan Staub and Simon Augsten organize their imaginative and original soccer quiz “Rudelbildung” here. It has become such a hit that the pub is as full on quiz days as it is during the Champions League. Today, for the first time, Rudelbildung is taking place away from home. And the question categories are being expanded to match the exhibition theme. So it’s also about soccer rebels and soccer in revolutionary times.

From 5 p.m.: Kreisliga-Pop with DJ Pelevision

Die alten Barrikaden

Revolutionary songs to sing along in German, French and Kölsch, with Roland Hüve, Laurent Chevalier and Mario Kramp.

Fri. 24.03. | 7 p.m.

A guided tour of the exhibition – combined with revolutionary songs. In German, in Kölsch and in French. To sing along. Also for those who speak little French – song texts will be distributed in the audience…
The German-French-Kölsch trio caused a sensation at the exhibition DÄ DEJOOL KÜTT. The three are back! Just in time for the riot. Which, after all, took place in Cologne in 1848 in the middle of Carnival. Revolution is great – but disturbs in the middle of the session…
So the citizens’ song is accompanied by the Trömmelche. I wonder what it sounded like when the Cologne revolutionaries sang Freiligrath’s “Reveille” to the tune of the Marseillaise in the Gürzenich? Or the “Trotz alledem”, in the version printed by Marx in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung? Unser Fahn’ es ruud – before and after 1848: Brecht and Weill pose the basic question “What does man live on?” in the Threepenny Opera. While the Beatles sing of “revolution” in 1968, Biermann demands “You, don’t let yourself harden”. Solidarity everywhere – not only in our Veedel: Ça ira!

From 5 p.m.: 60s, 70s and 80s with DJ Kalle Marx

Sebastian Sturm

Reggae, Songs of Revolution

Sat. 25.03. | 7 p.m.

Musically Sebastian Sturm is assigned to Roots Reggae. He sings exclusively in English. He is even better known in France than in D-A-CH, where he has toured nationwide several times as opening act for fully established bands like Danakil. For the fourth album A Grand Day Out, he worked with Jamaican co-producers Sam Clayton Jr. and Stephen Stewart. Since the fifth album The Kingston Session (2015), the band name is officially Sebastian Sturm & Exile Airline.

From 5 p.m.: Studio One – Vinyl Session with DJ Ganjira

Rebellion-Eyeliner!

Bitchy Bingo on Tour with Drag Queen Pam Pengco

Thur. 30.03. | 8 p.m.

Inconspicuous, shy, natural… No idea who is meant, but not Pam Pengco! She doesn’t mince words – quick-witted, dry, frank and authentic to the point of enlightenment through humor.

A lighthearted evening of bingo, hosted by a voice rarely found in women. In addition to bingo, you can expect a rebellion bar quiz!

From 5 p.m.: Female Pop with DJane Chanto (Born Naked Party)

Ena Fay – Kiss From A Rose

Concert of the Irish-German singer-songwriter with Theresa Meumertzheim (piano) and Fabian Kolar (cello).

Fri. 31.03. | 8 p.m.

Escape your own world for an evening and let yourself be carried away into another one at the concert… Ena Fay knows how to do it. Her concerts are all about mood and connection. Already after the first few words of the German-Irish singer-songwriter you listen up.

“Ena, in a sparkling 50s-style suit […] reminiscent of Marlene Dietrich’s glamour, commands the stage with elegance and grace,” noted YMX music blog about the singer’s live performance. After the great London was her hometown and “playground” for many years, the artist moved to Cologne in the summer of 2022 to share her musical magic there as well.

From 5 p.m.: Funk, soul and disco with DJ Pelevision

Heiter bis Wolkig

Punk cabaret from Cologne

Sat. 01.04. | 7 p.m.

Marco Pankow and Micha Oh as well as Berny von Gestern play live excerpts from their previous programs, enriched with new numbers from the online live magazine format “subversiv”. In addition to songs from the punk rock opera Manifest, current music parodies and old hits are on the setlist. In addition, probably one or the other new song from the current CD “Widerstandslieder” will be shown.

From 5 p.m.: German punk with DJ Fakkomoto

Songs for Political Action

Barricade anthems and revolutionary songs with DJ Thomas Rhein (Parallel Records)

Thur. 06.04. | 7 p.m.

Thomas Rhein is probably known to every record buyer in Cologne. He worked at the legendary Normal until the late nineties, and today he is one of three owners of the renowned Parallel record store. But Thomas Rhein has also written for the Stadtrevue as a music journalist and, as co-owner of the renowned Finlayson label, has made sure that the world hears Cologne music from deserving bands like Workshop, Kreidler, Geneva or Travelling Microbus. And like almost everyone in the business, Thomas Rhein is naturally also a passionate record collector. In keeping with the exhibition, he puts on revolutionary anthems, rebellious songs and rebellious music from all over the world at BAR/RIKADE.

Pankhof Punks on Piano!

Mit Marco Pankow and Andrea Hofmann

Sat. 08.04. | 7 p.m.

Songwriter Andrea Hofmann from Dresden and cabaret punk Marco Pankow from Cologne are PANKHOF – Punks on Piano. The East-West duo presents their first full-length song program for cabaret stages and festivals in 2023. Songs on piano, guitar and a bunch of other instruments are complemented by poetry and cabaret trivia. Pankhof sing and sound against the omnipresent crises of our time and for the interpersonal.

From 5 p.m.: Rebel-music with DJ Fakkomoto

Karambolage and Plasma Pepone

French Revolution and Punk Rock Barricades

Thur. 13.04. | 7 p.m.

From 5 pm: “Storming the Bastille” with DJ Robespierrev

Hip-Hop Open Stage

With Akanni Humphrey (N.Y.Bronz) feat. Dasha

Fri. 14.04. | 7 p.m.

Akanni Humphrey is a multi-talented hip-hop soul MC, singer and producer from New York’s Bronx. He is a master of audience participation and host and founder of the 1624 bapbeatz Ave Hip Hop Open Mic every Wednesday in Cologne. His live show is packed with golden era hip hop music performed in a way that everyone can sing along and party.

From 5 p.m.: Oldschool hip-hop with DJane Dasha

Majer with the MUD KIDS 

Indie, hip hop, trap, UK sounds and pop

Sat. 15.04. | 7 p.m.

Majer with the MUD KIDS an independent group consisting of Maja, Laiu, Fighthesea and Rubbaband who always have a lot of fun making any kind of music around Classic Hip Hop & RnB to Trap, UK Sounds and Pop while always staying open to other genres. To give their projects a space and share their music with others, they have come together as MUDKIDS. Their passion for music is unmistakable in their live performances. Their music is characterized by expressive and distinctive sounds, combined with profound and authentic lyrics.

From 5 p.m.: Indie with the Indie Fresse DJ Team

Protest! Mean songs from the street

A protest song program by Klaus the Violinist and Marco Pankow

Thur. 20.04. | 7 p.m.

Klaus der Geiger has been making music since the mid-1960s and is a proud 83 years old in 2023. Marco Pankow from Heiter bis Wolkig has been making music and cabaret since 1982. Both met in the late 1980s in the swamp of Cologne’s subculture in Südstadt – and since then their musical paths have crossed again and again. Now the two are making common cause. They sing – fully acoustic and unplugged – mean and nasty street songs from Klaus’ repertoire and other sources of snotty asphalt culture. Political songwriting according to the motto of Klaus the violinist: “I didn’t put up with anything (…) no servant among us and no master over us!”.

From 5 p.m.: Balkan beats, ska, punk with DJ Disko Partizani

Die alten Barrikaden

Revolutionary songs to sing along in German, French and Kölsch, with Roland Hüve, Laurent Chevalier and Mario Kramp.

Fri. 24.03. | 7 p.m.

A guided tour of the exhibition – combined with revolutionary songs. In German, in Kölsch and in French. To sing along. Also for those who speak little French – song texts will be distributed in the audience…
The German-French-Kölsch trio caused a sensation at the exhibition DÄ DEJOOL KÜTT. The three are back! Just in time for the riot. Which, after all, took place in Cologne in 1848 in the middle of Carnival. Revolution is great – but disturbs in the middle of the session…
So the citizens’ song is accompanied by the Trömmelche. I wonder what it sounded like when the Cologne revolutionaries sang Freiligrath’s “Reveille” to the tune of the Marseillaise in the Gürzenich? Or the “Trotz alledem”, in the version printed by Marx in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung? Unser Fahn’ es ruud – before and after 1848: Brecht and Weill pose the basic question “What does man live on?” in the Threepenny Opera. While the Beatles sing of “revolution” in 1968, Biermann demands “You, don’t let yourself harden”. Solidarity everywhere – not

From 5 p.m.: 60s, 70s and 80s with DJ Kalle Marx

KLEE – Trotzalledem! Love is my rebellion

Pop with clever German lyrics (exclusive concert with small line-up)

Sat. 22.04. | 8 p.m.

How can you sing about love without falling into kitsch or pathos? And how do you celebrate its revolutionary power? Suzie Kerstgens and Sten Servaes know both. They have been making music together since the late nineties. First they conquered their first fans under the band name Ralley with driving guitar pop and wonderful lyrics on the great amorous theme. Then they dared to take a bold step: Ralley became Klee and thus began the stylistic shift towards electro-pop. The courage was rewarded and the indie band turned into an act for charts, TV and radio. Today there is a concert with a special line-up, a unique chance to experience the band in a completely different guise.

From 5 p.m.: German pop with DJ Madame Summit

Optimal

Electropunk pop duo

Thur. 27.04. | 7 p.m.

We are optimal. You are optimal. We are optimal! With this friendly mantra the two storm visionaries Fabian Wahrscheinlich & Manuel Automatik usually greet their dancing audience. Sure. The brothers, who grew up in the tranquil Morkepütz, create and shape their dadaistic sound art together. Somewhere between slick pop steam hammer and tricky Säuselei. The common thread: With heart. Without filter. Intoxicatingly fat or hard disturbing. Goosebumps or question marks. Clear.

From 5 p.m.: Radical stuff with DJ Fakkomoto

Burlesque Cologne and Electro Swing Night

Burlesque time travel with the ensemble Nita Bon Air and Anna Venture

Fri. 28.04. | 7 p.m.

Burlesque Cologne is an ensemble of two burlesque artists from Cologne – Anna Venture and Nita Bon Air create their own shows and experiment with a diverse range of iconic styles, full of charm, sensuality and glamour. With retro and vintage styling from different decades, as well as modern and themed performances, this duo will show you the essence of burlesque.

From 5 p.m.: Electro Swing with DJ von Fröhling

Rolly Brings, 1848 vun unge / von unten

Songs and Lyrics about the 1848 Revolution

Sat. 29.04. | 7 p.m.

The author, composer and singer Rolly Brings personally presents his CD “1848 vun unge / von unten”. The audience gets a text booklet including translation and illustrations. Conclusion: A history lesson in Kölsch – with music.

From 5 p.m.: Kulturika DJ Team Allstars Night