Around 115 organizers staged around 200 cultural events in all seven districts and 55 precincts in Hamburg. More than 5,700 artists were involved, at least 75 per cent of whom hail from the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. Despite the changeable summer weather, the average audience attendance came to 73 per cent. The sun shone for 168 hours and about 74 litres of rain fell.
"The Summer of Culture has thrust Hamburg into an exceptional cultural state. The great public response shows how much residents have missed live cultural experiences," said Carsten Brosda, Senator for Culture. The feedback from the artists involved, many of whom were performing for the first time in more than a year and a half, was "overwhelming. The "cultural frenzy has spread far and wide and and beyond the city limits as well", said Michael Otremba, Managing Director of Hamburg Tourismus GmbH. "We are now taking this momentum along to continue to make Hamburg visible and tangible as a cultural metropolis full of ontrasts."
