NDR Stage Night of the Churches

NDR presenter Daniel Kaiser and Provost Martin Vetter will guide you through the afternoon. Experience interesting talk guests and exciting acts from the evening program of the Night of the Churches. Spend a relaxing afternoon in our event area with the Night of the Churches info tent and treats from our food stalls.

We are pleased to be able to offer a bus tour with a historic omnibus in cooperation with the Hamburger Omnibus Verein e. V. The travel comfort of the 1970s/80s can be experienced on September 12th during a trip as part of the Hamburg Night of Churches and the Hamburg Monument Day. Exact information on departure times and route will be announced in good time via our homepage, the app, and social media.

The Happy Gospel Singers are the gospel choir of the Kreuzkirche Wandsbek and, fortunately, will be performing on our stage again this year. For more than 30 years, the singers have been delighting the Kreuzkirche congregation and many people in Hamburg and Northern Germany with their music and choreography. Whether in church services, concerts, church conventions, or the Night of Churches, everyone is involved with their whole soul. Let yourself be inspired by their joy of singing, dancing, and proclaiming, and come to the Happy Gospel Singers' performance! Direction: Andreas Fabienke

For the festive opening in 2026, we welcome the Head of the Senate Chancellery and the Personnel Office of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, State Councillor Jan Pörksen, and the most important representatives of Christian Churches in Hamburg. Bishop Kirsten Fehrs: Chairwoman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany and Bishop in the Diocese of Hamburg and Lübeck, Archbishop Dr. Stephan Hesse: Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hamburg, and Pastor Uwe Onnen: Chairman of the Working Group of Christian Churches in Hamburg. Afterwards, visitors will have the opportunity to receive a blessing from the clergy and be given the blessing ribbon of the Night of the Churches. With musical accompaniment by the Happy Gospel Singers.

Gospel Train – far more than just a school choir Gospel Train emerged from the middle school choir of the Goethe-Schule-Harburg GSH, founded in 1992, and is a melting pot of many cultures. At the GSH, students whose parents come from almost 30 nations are united. This cultural diversity also shapes Gospel Train. The different timbres of the nations and the cross-genre arrangements by their choir director Peter Schuldt have helped the choir achieve its very own sound, a distinctive profile, and many awards. In the past nine years, Gospel Train has received 16 prizes, including the Hamburg Integration Prize. Gospel Train stands for sophisticated arrangements, innovative cover versions of world-famous hits, and choral singing. Gospel Train is one of Hamburg's best-known cultural ambassadors.