{"id":10668,"date":"2024-08-21T08:52:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T06:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stadtmanufaktur.com\/reeperbahn-festival-how-a-music-event-is-shaking-up-the-district\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:59:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:59:38","slug":"reeperbahn-festival-how-a-music-event-is-shaking-up-the-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stadtmanufaktur.com\/en\/magazin\/reeperbahn-festival-how-a-music-event-is-shaking-up-the-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Reeperbahn Festival: How a music event is shaking up the district"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the idea to Europe’s biggest club festival<\/h2><\/div>

I still remember the first information meetings. Club operators and other players in St. Pauli were contacted and invited. A colorful crowd gathered in the Schmidtsalon on Spielbudenplatz<\/a>. The initiators made a visible effort to explain to those present what they were planning and what opportunities this “Reeperbahn Festival” idea would offer. Did we understand the scale of it back then? Hardly. <\/p>\n

But the clubs went along with it, the local players got involved in the experiment and the city seemed to have the necessary willingness and support from the outset to make it all possible. The start was bumpy, chaotic and anything but smooth. But one thing was clear: the audience really wanted it all. And so it went on … <\/p>\n<\/div>

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Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since its foundation in 2006, the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg<\/a> has developed into Europe’s largest club festival. The festival strengthens the Hamburg brand as a music location, attracts international visitors and boosts the local economy. The USPs of the festival: the close connection with the St. Pauli district and the diversity of the program, from concerts to exhibitions. Julia Staron, <\/b><\/span>Neighborhood manager<\/b><\/span> from the Reeperbahn BID<\/a>, remembers the birth of the Reeperbahn Festival.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The Reeperbahn Festival plays a central role for Hamburg<\/h2><\/div>

Today, some 18 years later, the Reeperbahn Festival plays a central role for Hamburg, especially for the St. Pauli district. The largest club festival in Europe<\/b> attracts many thousands of music fans, artists, industry representatives and the media every year. <\/span>A few figures about the Reeperbahn Festival 2023:<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n