The German House. Since 1988, every two years (summer and winter) athletes, business partners, journalists and representatives from politics and society have come together under one roof to celebrate the world’s biggest sporting events. There are also press conferences of the German Olympic Sports Confederation, live TV broadcasts of the competitions and various events. The German House offers the ideal setting for exchange and networking – in a unique atmosphere and very close to sport.
For 20 years now, Messe Düsseldorf has been building the German Houses for the Olympic Games on behalf of Deutsche Sport Marketing (DSM) 2000 Summer Olympics and, since 2010, for the Paralympic Games too. Messe Düsseldorf has been providing strong support to the German Olympic and Paralympic Family in the design, implementation and organisation of the German Houses – as meeting points and centres of encounters for sports, media and sponsors.
The facility was first installed in 1988 at the Winter Olympics in Calgary by the National Olympic Committee and the former German Sports Confederation (since 2006: German Olympic Sports Confederation ). Since the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Deutsche Sport Marketing GmbH, the exclusive marketing agency of the German Olympic Sports Confederation, has been responsible for the organization and implementation of the German House. In 2010 in Vancouver a Paralympic counterpart was established for the first time.
Deutsche Sport Marketing (DSM), which is responsible for the German Houses as the official marketing agency of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) and the National Paralympic Committee Germany (DBS), has been cooperating with Messe Düsseldorf since the Olympic Games in Sydney 2000. It is with pleasure that Deutsche Sport Marketing GmbH and Messe Düsseldorf have just recently renewed their cooperation for another four years until Tokyo 2020 including PyeongChang 2018.
Vancouver 2010 saw Messe Düsseldorf for the first time leverage its experience gained with the leading international REHACARE INTERNATIONAL – International Trade Fair and Congress for Rehabilitation, Care, Prevention, Inclusion – in cooperation with Deutsche Sport Marketing (DSM), also for the benefit of the Paralympic team, by designing, building and organising the German House – as a meeting point and centre for encounters between sports, media and sponsors.
Sidney 2000
They implemented the German House for the first time for the Summer Olympics in Sydney 2000. It found its home in the Balsam Pacific Building, a manufacturer of tartan tracks for sports events, close to Stadium Australia.
Photo: Messe Düsseldorf
SALT LAKE CITY 2002
On the occasion of the Winter Games in Salt Lake City in 2002 there were two locations: In Salt Lake City, the Deutsches Haus was located in the Alumni House of the University of Utah …
Photo: Messe Düsseldorf
SALT LAKE CITY 2002
… in Park City a branch was set up in a racquet club.
Photo: Messe Düsseldorf
ATHENS 2004
With a view of the newly built Olympic Stadium, the German House was located in the German School Athens. The successes of the German athletes were celebrated here in 2004.
Photo: Messe Düsseldorf
TURIN 2006
In the mountains of Sestriere we added a prefabricated house to the existing restaurant Il Ritrovo for the 2006 Winter Games in Turin, so that the German team had enough space to relax.
BEIJING 2008
In 2008 the Hotel Kempinski in Beijing became the meeting place for the German team. The garden and several restaurant areas were redesigned for our purposes.
Photo: Messe Düsseldorf
VANCOUVER 2010
There were again two locations for the 2010 Winter Games: In Vancouver, the German House was a guest at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in the middle of downtown Vancouver.
Team Germany pitched its tents at the Nicklaus North Golf Club in Whistler. Afterwards the German House Paralympics took place in the same location for the first time!
Photo: Messe Düsseldorf
Photo: Messe Düsseldorf
LONDON 2012
In London, the medals of the German athletes were celebrated in the listed Museum of London Docklands. This is where the German House was located in 2012.
Photo: Messe Düsseldorf
SOCHI 2014
In 2014, the German team set up their living room in the Chalet restaurant in Krasnaya Polyana for the Winter Games in Sochi.
Photo: Messe Düsseldorf
RIO DE JANEIRO 2016
For the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, the German “Beach House” was located in Barra Blue Beach Point, in the Barra da Tijuca district in south-west Rio, right by the sea.
Photo: Messe Düsseldorf
Photo: Messe Düsseldorf
Photo: Messe Düsseldorf
2018
PYEONGCHANG
In PyeongChang, the German House was housed in the Birch Hill Golf Club in the immediate vicinity of the Olympic Village in 2018.
It is the black-red-gold meeting point and thus a centerpiece of the German presence at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
It is no coincidence that many commitments in the Olympic and Paralympic environment began in German houses – there companies are “right in the middle of it instead of just there”. The attraction of the Deutsches Haus is not only fed by the emotional closeness to the event, but also by the direct communication options. The partners use this in a variety of ways, for example through specific material or services, interactive guest tools, themed evenings or incentives for employees and customers.
Also for PyeongChang 2018, where the “Birch Hill Golf Club” was set up as the hotspot for the German sports family and their guests on an area of 1,500 meters, the German House received atmospheric and formative impulses from the partners – and in return their communication with them generated content – your own and that of the teams. A win for both sides.
Photo: Messe Düsseldorf
TOKYO 2020
The meeting point for the German athletes in Tokyo 2020 is the “AQUA CiTY ODAIBA” shopping in the Odaiba neighbourhood. This is a prime location in the immediate vicinity of numerous competition venues boasting vistas of the Tokyo skyline.
Photo: Deutsche Sport Marketing / Picture Alliance; Photographer: Kenjiro Matsuo
2020 would have seen Messe Düsseldorf realise the German House for the Olympic Games for the eleventh time and for the Paralympic Games for the sixth time now on behalf of Deutsche Sport Marketing (DSM).
The location meets all needs – especially those of the athletes. Benefits include the floor space which allows for flexible interior design, the central location where all sports venues are – by Tokyo standards – within easy reach. Situated less than three kilometres away are the arenas for beach volleyball (Olympic), tennis (Olympic) and wheelchair tennis (Paralympic), climbing (Olympic), basketball (3×3), gymnastics (Olympic), BMX, skateboarding as well as swimming as a triathlon discipline. The Olympic/Paralympic Village and the Media Centre (IBC/MPC) are about six kilometres away, the Olympic Stadium approximately twelve. Since summer 2017 those responsible at Messe Düsseldorf – together with colleagues from their subsidiary in Japan – have been looking for a suitable location inspecting more than 30 facilities.
Photo: Deutsche Sport Marketing
Every time anew, the German Houses are as individual and unique as the places where they are. Together with them you have the opportunity to be a part. in Tokyo, Japan, the venue for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Originally due to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the event was postponed in March 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo must be rescheduled to the New dates: 23 July to 8 August 2021 – Tokyo 2020 to safeguard the health of the athletes, everybody involved in the Olympic Games and the international community.
Photo: Deutsche Sport Marketing
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