Editing Bochum (section)

=== Music ===
Founded in 1919, Bochum's orchestra, the [https://www.bochumer-symphoniker.de/ Bochumer Symphoniker], has developed over the course of its history into one of the most important concert orchestras in western Germany. Since October 28, 2016, the [https://www.bochumer-symphoniker.de/musikforum/ Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr] has been a permanent venue. [https://www.bochumer-symphoniker.de/orchester/der-generalmusikdirektor/ Tung-Chieh Chuang] has been General Music Director of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr since the 2021/2022 season. The [https://www.bochumer-symphoniker.de/orchester/der-philharmonische-chor-bochum/ Bochum Philharmonic Choir] gives about four to five concerts a year and usually performs together with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra. In one of the venues, the [https://www.baukunst-nrw.de/objekte/Audimax-Ruhr-Universitaet-Bochum--3590.htm Audimax of the Ruhr University Bochum], there is also one of the most modern organs from the [[Klais Orgelbau]] with 82 registers.

The free rock festival [https://ruhr.amazingcapitals.com/things-to-do/events/bochm-total/ Bochum Total] has been taking place in Bochum city center since 1986. With 900,000 spectators, it is now one of the largest music events in Europe.

Since the summer of 1995, the [http://www.kunstwerkstattamhellweg.de/aktuelles/ Kunstwerkstatt] <Art Workshop> am Hellweg, a former carpenter's workshop, has hosted a wide variety of concerts all year round, from medieval music to baroque music, from Bach to jazz and boogie-woogie. In this informal setting, music fans have the opportunity not only to “sit in the front row”, but also to come into direct contact with the artists. Often artists also play here who can be heard in the [[Carnegie Hall]], in the [[Concertgebouw, Amsterdam|Concertgebouw]], in the [[Berlin Philharmonic]] or in the Great Hall of the [[Moscow Conservatory|Tchaikovsky Conservatory]]. Again and again. The initiators, Dr. Reinhard Cebulla and his wife Anna, received the [https://www.bochum.de/Ehrenplakette-der-Stadt-Bochum Badge of Honor from the city of Bochum] in 2013 and the [http://www.wattenscheider-hbv.de/zeitschr/pdf/2014-06-2.pdf Wattenscheid St. Gertrudis Prize] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230628212736/http://www.wattenscheider-hbv.de/zeitschr/pdf/2014-06-2.pdf |date=2023-06-28 }} in 2014.