Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover
Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media is a university of performing arts and media in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. Dating to 1897, it has reorganised and changed names as it developed over the years, most recently in 2010 when it changed from State College of Music and Drama Hanover. Since 2010, its president has been Susanne Rode-Breymann. As of 2021, the university has 1,484 students and a total of 477 staff.
Main building seen from across New House plaza (Neues Haus), main entrance near left
Name shown above the entrance of the main building constructed in 1970–73.
Main building from south-west
Built in 1903–1906, Villa Seligmann was almost unscathed by the aerial bombings of Hanover during World War II. Situated about 750 m (2,460 ft) north of the main building, the villa has been used by the university for concerts and exhibitions since 2012.
Neustädter Kirche, Hanover
The New Town Church is a main Lutheran parish church in Hanover, Germany. Its official name is St. John's Church of the court and city in the New Town at Hanover. The Baroque church was built in 1666–70 and is one of the oldest Protestant aisleless churches in Lower Saxony, conceived for the sermon as the main act of the Lutheran church service. Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Field Marshal Carl August von Alten are buried here.
Neustädter Kirche, 2009
Neustädter Markt with the Parnaßbrunnen fountain, also designed by Sartorio, steel engraving by Johann Anton de Klyher, 1727
Neustädter Markt, 1850, steel engraving by John Poppel after a drawing by George Osterwald
Interior, 2007