Bahnhof Pauli

Bahnhof Pauli is a 399-capacity concert club in Hamburg, inside the Klubhaus St. Pauli on Spielbudenplatz. Its defining feature is a purpose-built U-Bahn-station setting: guests enter via a platform, while live music and dancing take place in a track-bed-style floor. Since September 2015, the room has brought a compact club scale to a large Reeperbahn nightlife complex.

A new-build station below the Reeperbahn

Bahnhof Pauli grew out of the new Klubhaus St. Pauli development, a six-storey, roughly 5,000-square-metre building created for music, theatre, hospitality and nightlife. Urban Space developed the project idea; akyol kamps : bbp architekten designed the building; Norbert Aust, Rainer Blohm, Matthias Leßmann, Corny Littmann and Axel Strehlitz formed the builder group. Construction began in January 2015.

The Klubhaus opened on September 23, 2015, during the tenth Reeperbahn Festival. Contemporary reporting counted Bahnhof Pauli among the building’s seven initial venues, placing the club inside a dense new cultural complex from its first night. The official venue history dates Bahnhof Pauli’s own first opening to September 2015. Its transit imagery came through design, with the platform entrance and track-bed dancefloor supplying the room’s central visual idea.

What the room is built to host

Bahnhof Pauli books concerts expected to draw at least 100 people, alongside club nights, comedy, special events and corporate uses. Its calendar mix runs through indie, folk, pop, hip-hop, electronic, rock, alternative and metal; the venue also explicitly pitches its lighting and sound setup for electro and techno events. Germany’s Music Information Centre lists about 100 popular-music concerts plus dance events. The platform-and-track-bed layout creates a close, all-standing concert environment, and a lift provides accessible entry.