Förderkreis Internationales Musikfest Hamburg A private Circle of Friends that supports the yearly highlight of the concert season.

The Förderkreis Internationales Musikfest Hamburg

Some 40 Hamburg personalities have been united by their love of music since the Förderkreis of the Hamburg International Music Festival was set up in 2014.

The group was created on private initiative, and gives specific support to the festival put on by Hamburg institutions and orchestras; the Hamburg International Music Festival is the highlight of the concert season each year.

The Hamburg International Music Festival is themed using a different motto each year, and presents top-class guest appearances by international artists and orchestras, as well as special productions put on by local Hamburg cultural institutions.

Members of the Förderkreis


Jürgen Abraham
Corinna Arenhold-Lefebvre and Nadja Duken
Ingeborg Prinzessin zu Schleswig-Holstein
and Nikolaus Broschek
Annegret and Claus-G. Budelmann
Christa and Albert Büll
Gudrun and Georg Joachim Claussen
Birgit Gerlach
Ernst Peter Komrowski
Dr Udo Kopka and Jeremy Zhijun Zeng
Helga and Michael Krämer
Christine and Heinz Lehmann
Marion Meyenburg
K. & S. Müller
Christiane and Dr. Lutz Peters
Änne and Hartmut Pleitz
Bettina und Otto Schacht
Engelke Schümann
Martha Pulvermacher Stiftung
Margaret and Jochen Spethmann
Birgit Steenholdt-Schütt and Hertigk Diefenbach
Anja and Dr Fred Wendt
And further members who wish to remain anonymous.

Funded projects

Hamburg International Music Festival 2023
»Love est. 2023« »Love est. 2023« © Daniel Dittus
Hamburg International Music Festival 2022
»Les Adieux« »Les Adieux« © Daniel Dittus
Hamburg International Music Festival 2021
»Song of America: A Celebration of Black Music« »Song of America: A Celebration of Black Music« © Daniel Dittus
Hamburg International Music Festival 2019
Le Grand Macabre Le Grand Macabre © Peter Hundert
Hamburg International Music Festival 2018
Frankenstein Frankenstein © Brinkhoff/Mögenburg