BoringHannover

Proving Hannover isn't THAT boring!

Hannover gets a bad rap. 90% destroyed in WWII, rebuilt with pragmatic post-war architecture, and known mainly for train connections and trade fairs, it's been called "exceedingly dull." Some say the greatest risk is dying of boredom.

Yet the Goethe Institut calls it "probably the most underrated city in the world." too much again, but yeah still not that bad!

BoringHannover aggregates cinema, concerts, and cultural events from across the city into a clean weekly digest. Because there's always something happening, you just need to know where to look.

The product stays intentionally calm as coverage grows. Large festivals and city-wide programmes belong to a separate City Occasions layer: one restrained homepage summary, followed by a dedicated programme for people who want the detail. See CITY_OCCASIONS.md for the product and automation contract and current implementation status.

The mixed Events on the Radar feed is browsable by broad, conservative categories such as Live Music, Party, Workshop, Sport, Market, and Film. Music genres remain visible where a source provides enough evidence. PLATZprojekt appears frequently because it is a community-run experimental space hosting many independent projects—not a single conventional venue.

Current Sources

• Cinema: Astor Grand (OV films only)
• Concerts/events: ZAG Arena, Swiss Life Hall, Capitol, Faust, Pavillon, MusikZentrum, Béi Chéz Heinz, Erhardt Café, Glocksee, Punkrock-Konzerte, Kulturpalast Linden, Broncos, Weltspiele (Weidendamm), Platzprojekt, LUX, SV Arminia, and Stumpf
• Sports: Hannover 96 home matches
• City Occasions: automatic discovery from Hannover's official festival calendar, with rich Maschseefest programme enrichment

Timing accuracy policy and current audit status: TIMING_ACCURACY.md

Development

Backend (Python 3.13+):

uv sync
uv run boringhannover --local

Frontend (Bun):

cd web
bun install
bun run dev

Contributing

Know a venue, gallery, theater, or club missing? love your help!

Add a new source in 3 steps:

1. Create src/boringhannover/sources/your_venue.py
2. Implement BaseSource with a fetch() method
3. Register with @register_source("your_venue")

Example:

from boringhannover.sources import BaseSource, register_source

@register_source("my_venue")
class MyVenueSource(BaseSource):
    source_name = "My Venue"
    source_type = "concert"  # or "cinema", "theater", etc.

    def fetch(self) -> list[Event]:
        # Scrape, parse API, whatever works
        return [Event(...)]

That's it. No central registry, no config changes. See existing sources in src/boringhannover/sources/ for inspiration.

Don't code? Open an issue with the venue name and website, i'll add it.

Philosophy

"A side project that ships is worth more than a perfect system that never launches."

Stateless. No database. Runs weekly. Filters noise. Ships fast!!

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Web: boringhannover.de License: MIT