History

spaces focuses specifically on sustainability, preserving and modernising historic and industrial buildings and opening them up for new uses, such as events.

Do buildings forget what they have experienced? Or do their mortar and walls forever breathe the spirit of the moment? Completed in 1911 as a social club, the CURIO-HAUS became a meeting place for artists and intellectuals in the 1920s. It became famous for its wild ‘Hamburg Artists’ Festivals’. After the war, the British occupying forces held Nazi and war crimes trials in the Curiohaus. In 1950, the university moved in, bringing with it a cafeteria. The Curiohaus was then extensively restored.

Since then, it has returned to its original purpose of providing a setting for special moments.