Hannover Concerts is a concert agency from

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. The company is considered one of the largest concert promoters in

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History

Hannover Concerts was founded in 1979 by Michael Lohmann and Wolfgang Besemer, who died in 2014. In the same year, the agency's first concert took place in the in Hanover. In 1982, the agency brought the

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to Hanover, beating

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. The concert by the English rock band was also the first open-air concert in the old

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. In 1986, Lohmann and Besemer converted the

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from a cinema into a concert and party venue. In 2001, the concept of an open-air stage, the , was created, and in 2005, the agency took over the Stadionsporthalle, today's

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, where the company's headquarters are also located. During the

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, the agency hosted the

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at .

Activities

The agency organises more than 400 events annually and operates, among others, the Theater am Aegi, the Capitol, the Gilde Parkbühne Hannover and the

. Until 2016, ''Hannover Concerts'' was responsible for concerts and catering at the at the . Supra-regional activities include the ''Papenburg Festival'' on the grounds of the

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in Papenburg, the Mercedes Benz Open-Air in Bremen and other open-air concerts in Rostock, Wolfsburg, Hildesheim or Braunschweig. Performances organised by Hannover Concerts have included

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, U2,

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and

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2024-07-04 Nico Roeger von Hannover Concerts

In 2014, Nico Röger joined the management after the unexpected death of Wolfgang Besemer.New structures at Hannover Concerts
at www.hannover.de, retrieved 2 June 2021 In June 2018, there was an expansion of the management with Benjamin Chatton.Chatton wird Geschäftsführer bei Hannover Concerts
Göttinger Tageblatt, retrieved 15 December 2018

Notes

References

External links

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Eintrag in der Unternehmensdatenbank der Region Hannover
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Companies based in Hanover