Editing Rostock (section)

==Culture==
[[File:Rostock Theater im Stadthafen.jpg|thumb|[[Volkstheater Rostock]]]]

===Theatre===
The municipal theatre is the [[Volkstheater Rostock]] where the [[Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock]] plays.

===Events===
The city is home to the annual [[Hanse Sail]] festival, during which many large sailing ships and museum vessels are brought out to sea, drawing over 1.5&nbsp;million visitors.

An annual jazz festival, ''Ostsee-Jazz'' ("Baltic Sea Jazz"), takes place in June.

===Cinemas===
The Lichtspieltheater Wundervoll is the [[art house]] cinema of Rostock. It opened in 1993 and offers a daily programme in two venues, the Metropol and the Frieda 23 with three cinemas. At Frieda 23 is the Institut für neue Medien (IFNM), Rostock's Institute for New Media, which includes a media workshop.
Both Liwu and IFNM are active members of the ''Landesverband Filmkommunikation Mecklenburg-Vorpommern''. Special screenings for schools, educational programmes and special programmes are offered as well.
It is the central venue for Rostock's Film Festival, the Festival im Stadthafen (FISH), the German Federal Festival for Young German Film.

===Museums and zoo===
[[File:Kempowski Archiv 2014.JPG|thumb|[[Walter Kempowski]] archives]]
* [[Rostock Art Gallery]] (''Kunsthalle Rostock'')
* [[Museum of Cultural History, Rostock|Museum of Cultural History]] (''Kulturhistorisches Museum'')
* Stasi Museum (''Dokumentations- und Gedenkstätte der Bundesbeauftragten für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik'')
* Warnemünde Local History Museum (''Heimatmuseum Warnemünde'')
* Shipbuilding and Shipping Museum (''Schiffbau- und Schifffahrtsmuseum'')
* [[Rostock Zoo]]
* Walter Kempowski Archive
* [[Max Samuel#Max-Samuel-Haus in Rostock|Max-Samuel-Haus]], Rostock Jewish Heritage Centre

===Food and drink===
Rostock manufactures its own local beer, called Rostocker Pilsner, manufactured at the Hanseatische Brauerei Rostock GmbH (Rostock Hanseatic Brewery Ltd.). The beer is well known throughout the city and is also sold in cities nearby. To celebrate Rostock's 800th birthday, a special light beer called Heller Freude was brewed to commemorate the occasion.

===Sport===
[[File:Ostseestadion.JPG|thumb|[[Ostseestadion]], home ground of [[Hansa Rostock]]]]
[[File:Rostock Seawolves huddle 2023.JPG|thumb|230px|[[Rostock Seawolves]] huddle in April 2023.]]
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! style="background: #BBDDFF; color:#000080;" |Club
! style="background: #BBDDFF; color:#000080;" |Sport
! style="background: #BBDDFF; color:#000080;" |Founded
! style="background: #BBDDFF; color:#000080;" |League
! style="background: #BBDDFF; color:#000080;" |Venue
! style="background: #BBDDFF; color:#000080;" |Head Coach
! style="background: #BBDDFF; color:#000080;" |Website
|-
|[[F.C. Hansa Rostock|Hansa Rostock]]
|[[association football|Football]]
|1965
|[[3. Liga]]
|[[Ostseestadion]]
|[[Bernd Hollerbach]]
|[http://www.fc-hansa.de/]
|-
|[[Rostock Seawolves]]
|[[Basketball]]
|1994
|[[Basketball Bundesliga]] 
|Stadthalle Rostock
|Przemyslaw Frasunkiewicz
|[http://seawolves.de/]
|-
|[[Rostocker FC|Rostocker FC 1895]]
|[[association football|Football]]
|1895
|[[NOFV-Oberliga Nord]] (5th division)
|Sportpark am Damerower Weg
|Jan Kistenmacher
|[http://www.rfc-1895.de]
|-
|[[HC Empor Rostock]]
|[[Team handball]]
|1946
|[[Bundesliga (handball)|3. Bundesliga]]
|Rostocker Stadthalle
|Maik Handschke
|[http://www.hc-empor.de/]
|-
|SV Warnemünde
|[[Volleyball]]
|1990
|3rd league (men and women team)
|Sporthalle Gerüstbauerring
|
|[http://www.svw-vb.de/]
|-
|[[Piranhas Rostock]]
|[[Ice hockey]]
|1953
|[[Oberliga (ice hockey)|Oberliga]] (3rd division)
|Eishalle Rostock
|Henry Thom
|[http://www.fc-hansa.de/]
|-
|Rostocker Nasenbären
|[[Skater hockey]]
|2005
|Inline-Skaterhockey-Bundesliga (1st league)
|OSPA-Arena
|Dimitri Kramarenko<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rostocker-nasenbaeren.de/verein-rostock.html|title=Verein Rostock - Die Nasenbaeren - Der Hockey Verein Rostocks|website=www.rostocker-nasenbaeren.de}}</ref>
|[http://www.rostocker-nasenbaeren.de/]
|-
|HSG Warnemünde
|[[Water polo]]
|1971
|Oberliga SH-MV (3rd league)
|Neptun-Schwimmhalle
|
|[http://www.wasserball-rostock.de/]
|}