History UsefulNotes / Hamburg

* The romantic comedy ''Mostly Martha'' takes place in Hamburg. One scene features the protagonist, a chef, shopping at the famous Fischmarkt.

The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg has been UsefulNotes/{{Germany}}'s second-largest city ever since UsefulNotes/{{Vienna}} stopped belonging to Germany (i. e. 1866, though it was also German in [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany 1938-1945]]).[[note]]Interestingly, UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}} has nearly double as many residents but its area is only 10% larger.[[/note]] This position was cemented when Hamburg (north of the Elbe river, built around the Alster river), Altona (west of Hamburg), Wandsbek (east of Hamburg) and Harburg (south of the Elbe river and Hamburg) were united by the Groß-Hamburg-Gesetz (Greater Hamburg Law) of 1938. Hamburg also is the second largest city in Europe (behind St. Petersburg) that is not a national capital. Although it is technically not a coastal city and a good 60 miles away from the North Sea, it has a quite maritime flair, also due to being a traditional MerchantCity and former part of the UsefulNotes/HanseaticLeague, and Europe's second-largest seaport because big sea-faring ships can sail up the Elbe river. In the time of UsefulNotes/AllTheLittleGermanies it was a sovereign state, and it continues that independent streaks as one of the [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland Federal States]] of Germany [[LandOfOneCity all by itself]].

The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg has been UsefulNotes/{{Germany}}'s second-largest city ever since UsefulNotes/{{Vienna}} stopped belonging to Germany (i. e. 1866, though it was also annexed like the rest of Austria in [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany 1938-1945]]).[[note]]Interestingly, UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}} has nearly double as many residents but its area is only 10% larger.[[/note]] This position was cemented when Hamburg (north of the Elbe river, built around the Alster river), Altona (west of Hamburg), Wandsbek (east of Hamburg) and Harburg (south of the Elbe river and Hamburg) were united by the Groß-Hamburg-Gesetz (Greater Hamburg Law) of 1938. Hamburg also is the second largest city in Europe (behind St. Petersburg) that is not a national capital. Although it is technically not a coastal city and a good 60 miles away from the North Sea, it has a quite maritime flair, also due to being a traditional MerchantCity and former part of the UsefulNotes/HanseaticLeague, and Europe's second-largest seaport because big sea-faring ships can sail up the Elbe river. In the time of UsefulNotes/AllTheLittleGermanies it was a sovereign state, and it continues that independent streaks as one of the [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland Federal States]] of Germany [[LandOfOneCity all by itself]].

The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg has been Germany's second-largest city ever since Vienna stopped belonging to Germany (i. e. 1866).[[note]]Interestingly, Berlin has nearly double as many residents but its area is only 10% larger.[[/note]] This position was cemented when Hamburg (north of the Elbe river, built around the Alster river), Altona (west of Hamburg), Wandsbek (east of Hamburg) and Harburg (south of the Elbe river and Hamburg) were united by the Groß-Hamburg-Gesetz (Greater Hamburg Law) of 1938. Hamburg also is the second largest city in Europe (behind St. Petersburg) that is not a national capital. Although it is technically not a coastal city and a good 60 miles away from the North Sea, it has a quite maritime flair, also due to being a traditional MerchantCity and former part of the UsefulNotes/HanseaticLeague, and Europe's second-largest seaport because big sea-faring ships can sail up the Elbe river. In the time of UsefulNotes/AllTheLittleGermanies it was a sovereign state, and it continues that independent streaks as one of the [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland Federal States]] of Germany [[LandOfOneCity all by itself]].

* ''Film/DieHamburgerKrankheit''

* In ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' the Mousekewitz family is briefly in Hamburg, boarding a ship to America after having been forced out of Russia by cats.

->''Wenn ich weit weit weg bin,''
->''ob in Sydney oder Rom,''
->''dann denke ich Hamburg meine Perle''
->''und singe home sweet home.''

->''Hamburg meine Perle,''
->''du wunderschöne Stadt.''
->''Du bist mein Zuhaus, du bist mein Leben.''
->''Du bist die Stadt auf die ich kann, auf die ich kann.''

* Creator/JohannesBrahms was born and grew up in Hamburg, and premiered some of his first compositions in the city.

* The Heiligengeistfeld (Holy Ghost Field) is a large free area to the east of the Reeperbahn. That is, 25% of the time, it is not free but occupied by northern Germany's largest [[AmusementPark fairground]] [[CallARabbitASmeerp which is called Dom]]. "Dom" translates to "cathedral" and tends to confuse foreigners and even other Germans who sometimes expect a large church. Then again, the Dom was named after a cathedral which used to stand in the Altstadt (next to the Hauptkirche St. Petri), but was demolished at the beginning of the 19th century. North of the Heiligengeistfeld stands a humongous bunker, a Flakturm, which now contains studios, a music club and a big musical instruments store.

* ''Ich war noch niemals in New York'', a ''Theatre/MammaMia''-style musical based on UdoJuergens' music

Somewhat embarrassingly for a city that fancies itself a media powerhouse, there is no major newspaper with more than regional interest. The ''Hamburger Abendblatt'' is provincial enough that many residents prefer to read dailies from Frankfurt or München; the ''Hamburger Morgenpost'' is a completely standard-issue tabloid. (A tired joke is that the ''Abendblatt'' appears in the morning and the ''Morgenpost'' in the evening, even though their names say exactly the opposite.) At least the respected ''Der Spiegel'' is published in Hamburg.

* ''Literature/FleischIstMeinGemuese''

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* The UdoLindenberg movie ''Panische Zeiten''

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* The ''Hamburger Hafenkonzert'' (Hamburg Harbour Concert) is the oldest German radio show still being broadcast. It was started in 1929 by the Norag, precursor of the current ''Norddeutsche Rundfunk''. It is broadcast every Sunday at 6 a.m. Central European Time, and always begins with the bells of the Michel and the signature tune "Anchors Aweigh".

** ''Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um Halb Eins'' (On the Reeperbahn Half Past Midnight)
** ''Nimm' mich mit, Kapitän, auf die Reise'' (Take Me With You, Captain, On the Voyage) - and a lot of other shanties (sailor songs), the most popular might be the "Hamborger Veermaster", a scathing parody of maritime glory.
** ''Hamburg, meine Perle'' (Hamburg, My Pearl), sung by the fans of the ''Hamburger Sportverein'' before every home game.

* Hamburg is among the UsefulNotes/HanseaticLeague cities you can choose as your home base in the ''[[ThePatrician Patrician]]'' games.