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Tickets
Festival tickets for the public programme are available as 1-, 2-, 3-, or 4-day tickets. These tickets give you access to concerts, shows, and parties as well as to numerous programme events in the exhibition and talk areas and to our programme events that are specifically aimed at young people in the music industry.
If you have any questions, please contact our ticket service via email at Tickets-Festival@reeperbahnfestival.com. For trade visitors, please contact Tickets-Conference@reeperbahnfestival.com.
Tickets for the festival are available in our official online ticketshop (subject to availability).
You can also purchase tickets during the festival via our online shop (subject to availability).
Tickets for trade visitors are available before and during the festival in the online shop (subject to availability).
Please note that tickets purchased via platforms other than our ticket shop may be invalid. Tickets from secondary markets – which are often offered there at inflated prices – are frequently counterfeit or already blocked and therefore do not guarantee admission.
Tickets for individual concerts or individual programme items are not available.
People with a pass with the B mark for the severely disabled are entitled to take a companion with them free of charge. We kindly ask that you send an email with the relevant documentation to tickets-festival@reeperbahnfestival.com. Further information can be found here.
There is no discount for children or teenagers.
After you have completed your order, your print@home tickets will be sent to your e-mail address. Your tickets are also available in your customer account. To access your ticket there, please click on “My account” at the top right of the ticket shop. Now click on “My orders” to get an overview of all your tickets.
If you have forgotten your login details, you can reset your password here in the login area.
Please make sure that you have your ticket with you as a digital PDF when you enter the festival. This e-mail and the invoice are not valid as admission tickets.
You can also show your print@home festival or conference ticket as a mobile ticket on your cell phone. It is therefore not necessary to print out the ticket.
The Reeperbahn Festival ticket does not need to be personalised. Personalisation is only required for conference ticket holders.
This year, the Reeperbahn Festival ticket is not valid for public transport. We recommend that you find out about the various ticket options offered by the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV). The HVV offers a variety of tickets, including single tickets, day and weekly tickets as well as group tickets, which allow you to travel to and from the festival in comfort. You can find more information on the HVV website or at the points of sale.
Elbphilharmonie
Elbphilharmonie will once again be a venue for Reeperbahn Festival 2025 and will host two concerts on 19 September.
We will publish the artists performing at the Elbphilharmonie on our website in spring 2025. To ensure that as many Reeperbahn Festival ticket holders as possible can attend a concert in the Elbphilharmonie, we are working with a reservation system until the acts are announced. All ticket holders will also receive more detailed information on this in spring 2025.
The concerts in the Elbphilharmonie are part of the festival programme and can only be reserved in combination with a festival ticket. Seating in the Elbphilharmonie is limited and the purchase of a festival ticket does not entitle the holder to attend a specific concert in the Elbphilharmonie. Seats in the concert hall are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis without fixed seat allocation.
No. Unfortunately, only one concert in the Elbphilharmonie can be selected per conference ticket, 4-day ticket, 3-day ticket, 2-day ticket, or 1-day ticket (Friday).
For admission to a pre-booked concert in the Elbphilharmonie, you must exchange the voucher you have received or the ticket you have purchased for a physical ticket for the Elbphilharmonie at the ticket desk in the Festival Village at Heiligengeistfeld up to two hours before the start of the concert.
Please note that tickets cannot be exchanged at the Elbphilharmonie.
During Reeperbahn Festival, there is free seating for concerts in the Elbphilharmonie. You have to exchange the digital voucher that you received via email in advance for a physical ticket for the Elbphilharmonie at the ticket desk at Heiligengeistfeld and then collect your festival wristband. This ticket does not include a seat assignment, so you can choose your seat directly in the Elbphilharmonie when you enter the main hall. Therefore, it pays to be early so you can get a good seat.
Please note: Without the physical ticket and a valid Reeperbahn Festival wristband, admission to the concerts in the Elbphilharmonie cannot be granted.
You are allowed to leave the hall during a concert, but we ask that you exercise caution and use the applause breaks to avoid disturbing the artists on stage as well as the other visitors. The acoustics in the hall are very sensitive, and we want all visitors and artists to have an unforgettable concert experience. Please also note that we cannot guarantee re-entry to the hall during the event.
Opening hours
Wednesday, 17.09.2025 to Saturday 20.09.2025 daily 09 a.m. - 11 p.m.
Inclusion
We strive to make Reeperbahn Festival as sustainable as possible and to continuously improve in this regard. In doing so, we refer to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, in particular gender equality, fewer inequalities and sustainable consumption and production.
Gender equality
As a partner of the Keychange initiative, we are aiming for a 50% FINTA+ quota in all programme segments by 2025. By signing the Keychange Pledge, we have set ourselves the goal of promoting more women, intersex, trans and non-binary people in the line-up. In 2024, we will also track the proportion by which male and female speakers speak at the conference for the first time. Internally, we use a guideline for gender-inclusive language to ensure more inclusive communication.
Fewer inequalities
We endeavour to make the festival as accessible as possible. As we use various rented locations, we assess their accessibility individually, more on this here. We offer easy language on the website and subtitles in videos on social media to make the content accessible. Our app offers customisable font sizes for Android and iOS via the device settings. All information about accessibility on the website can be found here. Together with KulturLeben Hamburg e.V., we enable people with low incomes to access the festival. There are also numerous free events. With our awareness concept, we want to create a safer space for everyone. We also offer childcare and parent quiet rooms for professional visitors, artists and staff.
Sustainable consumption and production:
We obtain the electricity for the Festival Village from a certified green electricity provider and present the carbon footprints of selected venues at our conference.
Our artist and crew catering is exclusively vegan and vegetarian in order to minimise our ecological footprint. We also promote climate-friendly travel by providing bicycle parking spaces. We hire transport vehicles locally and use cargo bikes for short journeys.
We largely avoid printing on paper; where unavoidable, we use sustainable materials for posters, business cards, advertising materials and much more.
In addition to our own specific measures, we address sustainability issues in all areas of the programme. You can find these in our festival and conference programme.
Due to the large number of our locations, we have to assess the accessibility of each Reeperbahn Festival location individually. The following venues are wheelchair accessible, but not all of them are equipped with accessible toilets:
Alte Liebe, Chikago, Elbphilharmonie, Festival Village, Pocca Bar, Große Freiheit 36, Georg Elser Halle, Haspa Filiale, Indra, Knust, Mojo Club, Mojo Jazz Café, Molotow Club, Molotow Backyard, Nochtspeicher, Resonanzraum, Schmidts Tivoli, Schmidtchen, Sommersalon, Spielbude, St. Michaelis Kirche (church), St. Pauli Fanshop, Spielbudenplatz, Uebel und Gefährlich, 3001 Kino (cinema).
You can find wheelchair-accessible sanitary facilities in the Festival Village at Heiligengeistfeld and Spielbudenplatz.
There are also accessible toilets in Mojo Club, Schmidtchen and Resonanzraum as well as in the Elbphilharmonie and in the St. Michaelis Kirche (church).
There will be a barrier-free counter at the Ticket Desk. We also have a mobile ramp available for you, which you can obtain from the Info Desk if required.
If you have any problems or questions on site, the staff at the information desks in the Festival Village at Heiligengeistfeld and at Spielbudenplatz as well as in the clubs will be happy to help you at any time.
Arts & Word Submission
For the Arts Playground, we are looking for programme ideas in the formats ‘Exhibition’, ‘Interactive’, and ‘Performance’.
By exhibition, we mean exhibitions of any kind, whether photographs, paintings, posters, multimedia art, sculptures, installations, or other forms of presentation. Interactive describes a format that allows visitors to actively participate in a module or to interact with it directly. The Performance programme includes dance and site-specific performances.
The Word programme includes readings, live podcasts, and talks, as well as poetry slams and comedy stand-ups.
The Open Call for Arts & Word Submissions runs from 3 March to 30 April 2025, during which time you can apply. Please give us some time to review all submissions and give you feedback. We will process the submissions as quickly as possible and get back to you at the end of May.
The Word programme takes place on all festival days in the pre-evening programme (around 4 - 8pm) in suitable festival locations. In the past, for example, we have shown programmes in the Imperial Theatre, the Prinzenbar, or the Alte Liebe.
As the Reeperbahn Festival takes place in the clubs at various locations on St. Pauli, the Festival Village on Heiligengeistfeld acts as the central hub of the festival. This is where the festival wristbands are handed out, and there are concert stages, food trucks, and various offers from our festival partners to discover.
The Village and therefore also the Arts Playground are accessible without a ticket, inviting festival lovers, music and art enthusiasts as well as artists themselves to explore this space and discover new things.
The Village is open daily during the festival until 10pm.
In previous years, we have worked with pagoda tents and sea containers.
The Arts Playground consists of a large outdoor area and some of these exhibition spaces. Please let us know via the form how much space you need.
Water and electricity can be provided by arrangement.
The following applies to all modules that are placed outdoors: The Heiligengeistfeld is located in Hamburg in wind load zone 2 and you must provide proof of operational capability up to Beaufort scale 8 (wind load). You must provide your ballast. Your module should be weatherproof and able to withstand wind and rain.
No, as long as the object does not require it. Security staff will be on-site during the day when the festival is running and at night.
Your modules can be set up in the Arts Playground from Sunday (14/09/2025) from 8am at the earliest and should be completed by Tuesday (16/09/2025) at 6pm.
Dismantling is possible from the close of operations on Saturday (20/09/2025), i.e. on Sunday night, and should be completed by 8pm on Sunday (21/09/2025).
No, open fires are not permitted for safety reasons.
Flying constructions require a building inspection, this must be planned and the building books must be available.
The assumption of production costs is agreed on an individual basis. Please indicate the means and materials required for the realisation when submitting the form.
Yes, the prerequisite is that your programme module is available on all festival days, 17-20.09.2025. One-off interactive or performative programme items will only be scheduled into the timetable late in the current year, so you must be available on all festival days at the time of application.
Yes, the fee will be negotiated individually. You can enquire about your performance via the submission form.
Hotel and travel expenses will be agreed upon individually. Please also indicate your requirements via the form if you (expect to) have a need.
Speaker & Session Submission
Anyone involved in the music and creative industries can take part in this year's Call for Submissions.
For our sessions, there are a few criteria that are particularly important to us and that you should consider when submitting your proposals: Your contributions should reflect the zeitgeist of our industry, encourage discussion and offer new perspectives and practical solutions. Your sessions should represent a diverse group of participants in order to promote a promising dialogue through diversity. We value clear opinions and attitudes, even if they sometimes swim against the tide, but your discussion rounds should be respectful and professionally moderated.
Please note: Obvious product presentations, company presentations and advertising for individual services will not be considered here.
Do you have a business model, product or service that could be of interest to our delegates? Then please contact our Sales & Partnerships team: partner@reeperbahnfestival.com
Application window: 03.03.2025 - 30.04.2025
Screening and curation: from the beginning of May
Status of submission information: from the end of May
You can submit as many proposals as you like. Please note, however, that we will not select more than one topic per participant. As always: ‘Quality over quantity’.
All people taking part in the session (including the moderator) should be informed and, ideally, confirmed before the submission.
German and English. Please make sure that your proposal is submitted in the appropriate language.
You can choose from the following formats:
Panel
2-4 Speakers + Moderation
45-60 min. + 15 min. Q&A
Interview
1-2 Speakers + Moderation
45 min. + 15 min. Q&A
Talk/Firesidechat/Dialogue
1-3 Speakers, no moderation
45 min. + 15 min. Q&A
Keynote/Inspirational Talk
1-2 Speakers, no moderation
30-60 min. inkl. Q&A
Pitch/Präsentation
1-2 Speakers, no moderation
15 min. + 15 min. Q&A
Workshop
1-2 Speakers
60-90 min.
max. 25 attendees
Mentoring Session
1-2 Speakers
60-90 min.
max. 5 participants with previous application process
Special format
None of the formats listed are suitable for you?
We are looking forward to your suggestions!
- Artist Management / Artist Development / A&R
- Live Entertainment
- Marketing
- Media & Journalism
- Publishing / Rights Management
- Policy Making
- Recorded Music
- Sustainability
- Social Action / Activism
- Sync
- Technology
All speakers, moderators and the person who curated the session will receive a Delegates Pass for the Reeperbahn Festival as well as catering for the day of the session.
For each confirmed session you will receive an expense allowance of €700 upon receipt of an invoice. No additional travelling expenses or fees will be covered.