Editing Kassel (section)

==Culture==
[[File:Documenta IX Thomas Schütte links.jpg|thumb|Installation by Thomas Schütte on the portico of the former [[Residenzpalais (Kassel)|Residenzpalais]] during Documenta IX, 1992]]
The first German [[observatory]] was built in Kassel in 1558, and a later version from 1714 survives as the [[Bellevue Palace, Kassel|Bellevue Palace]]. The ''Ottoneum'', the first permanent German theatre building, was built in 1606.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Museum |url=https://www.kassel.de/einrichtungen/naturkundemuseum/museum/index.php |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=Stadt Kassel |language=de-DE}}</ref> The old building is today the Natural History Museum, and the now-called [[Staatstheater Kassel]] is located in a nearby building that was constructed in the 1950s. 
Since 1927, Kassel has been home to [[Bärenreiter]], a music publishing house distributing compositions of several critically acclaimed classical musicians.

Since 1955 the ''[[documenta]]'', an international [[Art exhibition|exhibition]] of [[modern art|modern]] and [[contemporary art]], has been held regularly in Kassel. The ''documenta'' now takes place every five years. As a result of the ''documenta 6'' in 1977, Kassel became the first city in the world to be illuminated by [[laser]] beams at night (Laserscape, by artist Horst H. Baumann). This laser installation is nowadays still visible at weekends. Artworks from former editions of the ''documenta'' (mainly sculptures) can be found in multiple places in Kassel; among those are the "[[7000 Oaks]]", a work of [[land art]] by the German artist [[Joseph Beuys]]. The latest/current edition of the ''documenta'', known as "''documenta 15''", ran from 18 June until 25 September 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=documenta fifteen |url=https://documenta-fifteen.de/en/ |access-date=2022-07-23 |website=documenta fifteen |language=en-US}}</ref>