Veddel-Bilder / Veddeler Erzählcafe (Dieter Thal)

About the project

Veddel-Bilder is a private, non-commercial project by Dieter Thal documenting the history of Hamburg's Veddel district. It is not an industrial enterprise; no components are manufactured. At the heart of the project is the Veddeler Erzählcafe, a monthly meeting place attended mainly by older residents, where memories, photos, reports and bequests are collected and archived. From this, an extensive Veddel archive has been built up, which is prepared for lectures, exhibitions, reports and publications. The website veddel-bilder.de provides historical pictorial material on the railway station, the Elbe bridges, churches, schools, the fire brigade, the 1962 flood, and the shipyard and industrial history of Veddel. For health reasons, the operator is looking for a successor to organize the Erzählcafe and the archive.

1. 01

   Collecting photos, reports and bequests

2. 02

   Archiving

3. 03

   Preparation for lectures and publications

4. 04

   Monthly meetings and lectures

Meeting places

Inside the production

History

1. 1998

   First meeting of the Veddeler Erzählcafe on 24.09.1998 at the Stadtteilladen Veddel aktiv e.V., rooms of the former pastry shop Tellkamp, Immanuelstieg 5

2. 2004

   Dieter Thal attends the meetings for the first time (regularly 10–12 people)

3. 2007

   Relocation to the parish hall of the Immanuel Church (Wilhelmsburger Str. 73) at the initiative of Pastor Kühnelt

4. 2024

   58 participants at the traditional Veddeler kale dinner at the Kupferkrug Georgswerder; regular meetings also held at BallinStadt

5. 2025

   Operator Dieter Thal is looking for a successor for health reasons to organize the Erzählcafe and the Veddel archive