Reeperbahn Festival

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Reeperbahn Festival
Logo of the Reeperbahn Festival
Logo of the Reeperbahn Festival
General information
place Hamburg-St. Pauli
genre Indie , Pop , Rock , Folk , Singer-Songwriter , Electronic , Hip-Hop , Soul , Jazz and Classical
Website www.reeperbahnfestival.com
Visitor numbers
2006 11,500 (by days)
200 (total number of trade visitors)
2008 15,000 (by days)
500 (total number of trade visitors)
2009 17,500 (by days)
1,000 (total number of trade visitors)
2010 15,000 (by days)
1,500 (total number of trade visitors)
2011 18,000 (by days)
2,000 (total number of trade visitors)
2012 22,500 (by days)
2,500 (total number of trade visitors)
2013 25,000 (by days)
3,000 (total number of trade visitors)
2014 30,000 (by days)
3,400 (total number of trade visitors)
2015 32,000 (by days)
3,700 (total number of trade visitors)
2016 37,000 (by days)
4,400 (total number of trade visitors)
2007 40,000 (by days)
4,700 (total number of trade visitors)
2017 9,000 (by days)

The Reeperbahn Festival offers as Europe's biggest club festival annually over four days in late September, several hundred program points around the Reeperbahn in Hamburg and is one of the most important venues in the music industry worldwide. Initially conceived as a pure music festival, the event took place for the first time in 2006. Since 2009, the programmatic expansion has provided concerts as well as an extensive art program and a business platform for companies and organizations from the international music and neighboring digital economy. In 2018, for the 13th edition of the Reeperbahn Festival, 900 program items from a wide range of disciplines for over 40,000 trade and festival visitors (by days) from all over the world will take place in more than 90 venues in St. Pauli from 19 to 22 September.

The Reeperbahn Festival is a co-production of the Reeperbahn Festival GbR and Inferno Events GmbH & Co. KG.

development

As an urban club festival, the Reeperbahn Festival attaches great importance to the support of newcomers from all over the world. The music program covers a wide range of music from indie , pop , rock , folk , singer-songwriter , electronic , hip-hop , soul , jazz and classical . Long before their big breakthrough, artists such as Bon Iver from America, the successful German artists Cro and Kraftklub , Biffy Clyro or Chilly Gonzales and Ed Sheeran from Great Britain played at the Reeperbahn Festival.

Since the Reeperbahn Festival was initiated, music-related visual arts, urban art, literature and film have been offered in addition to the performances of numerous artists. This area has always been expanded. The Reeperbahn Festival offers young artists a platform and promotes interdisciplinarity and networking of different sectors as well as the development of further scenes. An integral part of the Reeperbahn Festival art program is the large sales exhibition "Flatstock Europe Poster Convention", which presents not only artist posters but also concert announcement posters in screen print quality and has been taking place at the Reeperbahn Festival since 2006. Furthermore, in addition to various exhibitions and installations of various genres of art, literary events are an important component of the Reeperbahn Festival. An extensive music film program has been supplementing the Reeperbahn Festival since 2016. This was expanded to include the Music Film Contest in 2017 .

In addition to the public program, the Reeperbahn Festival offers a professional visitor program for companies and organizations from the international music and digital industries. They can make contacts and present their products at conferences, networking sessions, showcase concerts and many other innovative events.

Development of the program in numbers:

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
210 130 140 155 188 230 440 580 600 700 800 900

Locations

The center of the Reeperbahn Festival is the Spielbudenplatz with its open air stage at the eastern end of the square, information and catering stands and the Flatstock Europe Poster Convention sales exhibition. The concerts, exhibitions and the business program take place in various locations around the Reeperbahn. The venues are concert halls, clubs, bars, theaters, galleries and unusual places such as the St. Pauli Church , the Hamburg School Museum , the Michel and, for the first time in 2017, the Elbphilharmonie , as well as the "Festival Village" on the Heiligengeistfeld .

Development of the locations in numbers:

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
21st 16 19th 27 39 73 70 70 69 70 70 90

Media coverage

The media coverage extends to numerous articles in print and online media as well as television and radio broadcasts.

Die Zeit Online: Pop meets politics - Reeperbahn Festival: “Making social impact with music” / “Raise Your Voice”: Critical sounds create political awareness.

"The Reeperbahn Festival is one of the largest and most important platforms for young artists, newcomers and the music industry," wrote Deutschlandfunk .

The Hamburger Abendblatt quoted John Gammon from the British-American trade magazine “Pollstar”: “At the time when the cancellation of Popkomm left the largest European music market without an international platform, Hamburg closed the gap [...]. The festival is getting better every year - I had far too few fingers to count all the great concerts I have seen ”.

The Huffington Post reports: “ […] (Reeperbahn Festival) is one of the best festivals in Europe for uncovering great new talents before the rest of the world catches on, and now with the Anchor Award, there's a way to further those artists that seem ready to rise to the next level. ”

In 2017, a discussion in the Schmidt Theater caused a sensation, during which Herbert Grönemeyer described German pop music as "Frau-Merkel-durchgebelt".

Anchor - Reeperbahn Festival International Music Award

The Anchor - Reeperbahn Festival International Music Award , or Anchor for short, is an award presented for the first time in 2016 for “up-and-coming music talents” and is presented as part of the Reeperbahn Festival. Selected by people from the music industry, the nominees are made up of bands and solo artists from the festival program. The artists are judged during their live shows at the festival by an international jury from the music industry. The winner will be chosen on the last day of the festival. The first award winner in 2016 was the Swedish singer-songwriter Albin Lee Meldau , followed by the British singer Jade Bird in 2017. The award is intended to serve as a seal of quality and a guide for fans and the music industry alike.

year jury Nominees Award winners
2018

Tony Visconti

Linda Perry ( 4 Non Blondes )

Skye Edwards ( Morcheeba )

Jason Bentley ( KCRW )

Cassandra Steen

Anna Aaron

Blanco White

Faces on TV

FRUM

Freya Ridings

Hope

Tamino

Tiwayo

Faces On TV

Tamino

2017 Tony Visconti

Emily Haines ( Metric / Broken Social Scene)

Shirley Manson ( Garbage )

Huw Stephens ( BBC Radio 1 )

Valeska Steiner and Sonja Glass ( BOY )

Alice Merton (GER / CA / UK)

Fast Romantics (CA)

Fenne Lily (UK)

First Hate (DK)

Jade Bird (UK)

Joseph J. Jones (UK)

Matt Maltese (UK)

Pabst (GER)

Jade Bird
2016 Anna Ternheim

Emilíana Torrini

James Minor (Head of SXSW Festival)

Ray Cokes

Tony Visconti

Y'akoto

Albin Lee Meldau (SE)

Connor Youngblood (US)

Holly Macve (UK) Konni Kass (FO)

Olivia Sebastianelli (UK)

Parcels (OFF)

Shame (UK)

WOMAN (GER)

Albin Lee Meldau

Activities abroad

Since 2009, the Reeperbahn Festival has been regularly represented in cooperation with the City of Hamburg with various activities at South By Southwest (SXSW), Austin, Texas. For example, there was further presence in May 2017 at FIMPRO, Guadalajara, Mexico, as the organizer of a delegation trip for the German music industry. This initiative was supported by the Federal Foreign Office as part of the Germany-Mexico Year as well as at Eurosonic Norderslag in Groningen, NL, at The Great Escape, Brighton, UK, at CMJ, NYC and Canadian Music Week , Toronto, Canada. Here the Reeperbahn Festival u. a. with music programs, panel discussions, specialist lectures and organized meetings with music journalists and music business people.

Reeperbahn Festival New York Edition

The Reeperbahn Festival New York Edition has been held annually in June since 2016 as part of A2IM Indie Week, the general meeting and conference of the American Association of Independent Music, in New York City.

The Reeperbahn Festival New York Edition is characterized by three components: (1) a delegation trip by European music businessmen, (2) a showcase evening with 5–8 international artists and, since 2017 (3) the announcement of the jury for the music competition of the Reeperbahn Festival , the ANCHOR.

  1. The delegation consists of European representatives of the independent music and creative industries who are looking for access to the North American music market, primarily for the label and distribution sector. In 2016, 14 delegates joined the Reeperbahn Festival delegation, in 2017 23 representatives.
  2. National and international artists appear in the showcase. In 2016 the showcase took place in Midtown at the Gramercy Theater. The following played: Adi Ulmanski (ISR), Fenster (DE), Grand Analog (CAN), Jesper Munk (DE), Malky (DE), Moonboy Inc. (DE), Rebstar (SWE). In 2017 the showcase took place in the Pianos in the Lower East Side. Albin Lee Meldau (SWE), Carnival Youth (LVA), Leyya (AUT), Lydmor (DNK), Megan Bonell (CAN), We bless this mess (PRT), Oliver St. Louis (USA) played.
  3. In 2017, as part of the Reeperbahn Festival New York Edition, the jury for the ANCHOR - Reeperbahn Festival International Music Award was announced for the first time at a press conference, chaired by the producer Tony Visconti.

The project was supported in 2016 by the Federal Foreign Office and in 2017 by the Federal Ministry of Economics. Local media partners were The Village Voice in 2016 and Consequence Of Sound in 2017.

In 2018 the Reeperbahn Festival New York Edition took place from June 18 to 23.

Prizes and awards

  • 2010: HANS - The Hamburg Music Prize , Hamburg program maker of the year
  • 2010: Live Entertainment Award "Promotion of Young Talent of the Year"
  • 2013: HAMMA Awards, special prize "Hamburg Motiv"
  • 2013: Hamburger of the year in the "Culture" category
  • 2016: European Music Award "Best indoor Festival"

Line up

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Line-up of the Reeperbahn Festival 2006–2017:

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AZ, dpa: Reeperbahn Festival 2013: Casper and Gloria create the atmosphere . In: Augsburger Allgemeine. 29th September 2013.
  2. ↑ Reeperbahn Festival ends with record attendance . In: Welt.de , September 20, 2014.
  3. ↑ dpa, lno: Record: 34,000 visitors at the Reeperbahn Festival . In: The world. September 28, 2015.
  4. ↑ Tino Lange: Record attendance at the Reeperbahn Festival in the Kiez . In: Hamburger Abendblatt. September 26, 2016. (paying)
  5. ↑ Birgit Reuther: Reeperbahn Festival breaks its record . In: Hamburger Abendblatt. September 24, 2017. (paying)
  6. ↑ Carsten Heidböhmer: 400 concerts in one mile - welcome to St. Pauli . In: Stern . 22nd September 2015.
  7. ^ NDR: Reeperbahn Festival: Hamburg - gateway to the world of music. Retrieved May 19, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Reeperbahn Festival website. Retrieved May 19, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Imprint on the Reeperbahn Festival website . Retrieved March 23, 2016.
  10. ↑ a b Flatstock Europe. Retrieved May 19, 2017 .
  11. ↑ UNHEARED! Music film festival. In: All of Hamburg. June 12, 2016. Retrieved May 19, 2017 .
  12. ↑ FOCUS Online: Hamburg: kick-off to the 12th Reeperbahn Festival - Hamburg is again the capital of music . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed December 12, 2017]).
  13. ↑ Michel & St. Pauli Church: Heavenly venues at the Reeperbahn Festival. In: MOPO.de. September 20, 2016. Retrieved May 19, 2017 .
  14. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt - Hamburg: Reeperbahn Festival: Concerts also in the Elbphilharmonie . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed December 20, 2017]).
  15. ↑ Reeperbahn Festival: Owen Pallett & stargaze @ Reeperbahn Festival 2017 in the Elbphilharmonie. September 29, 2017. Retrieved December 20, 2017 .
  16. ^ Reeperbahn Festival: Martin Kohlstedt in the Festival Village. Retrieved December 20, 2017 .
  17. ↑ a b Mark Spörrle: Pop meets politics: Reeperbahn Festival: “Using music to influence society” . In: The time . September 20, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed December 13, 2017]).
  18. ↑ a b Reeperbahn Festival 2017 - Newcomer meeting around the Kiez . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed December 13, 2017]).
  19. ↑ a b c Reeperbahn Festival: Meldau wins first anchor award. In: time online. September 25, 2016. (zeit.de)
  20. ↑ dpa: British songwriter wins prize at Reeperbahn Festival . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on December 13, 2017]).
  21. ↑ HANS - The Hamburg Music Prize. ( Memento from October 12, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
  22. ↑ Cullum's Stadtpark Concert and Reeperbahn Festival honored . In: Hamburger Abendblatt. April 6, 2011. (paying)
  23. ↑ HAMMA Award ( Memento from October 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  24. ↑ The Hamburger of the Year 2013 . In: The world. December 15, 2013.
  25. ↑ The Winners! | European Festival Awards. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 21, 2017 ; Retrieved May 19, 2017 (UK English).
  26. ↑ https://www.festivalsunited.com/festivals.php?op=showf&reeperbahn-festival-2014&fid=1245