page_title: Reeperbahn
section_title: Popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Reeperbahn / Popular culture
caption_attribution_description: Jörg Immendorff 1986, Hans- Albers-Denkmal (Hans Albers Memorial), Hamburg, Germany
context_page_description: The Reeperbahn is a street and entertainment district in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, one of the two centres of Hamburg's nightlife and also the city's major red-light district. In German, it is also nicknamed die sündigste Meile and Kiez. The Reeperbahn Festival is among the largest club festivals.
context_section_description: The popular 1944 movie Große Freiheit Nr. 7 tells the story of a singer (played by Hans Albers) who works in a Reeperbahn club and falls in love with a girl played by Ilse Werner. Hans Albers and Heinz Rühmann played in the 1954 movie Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins (On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight, after a song of the same name sung by Albers in the 1944 film).
  In 1958, Trinidadian calypso artiste, Lord Invader recorded a track entitled "My Experience On The Reeperbahn". It recalls a time when he was conned by a transvestite. "You cannot tell a man from a woman. I was a man dancing hand in hand with a man dressed as woman on the Reeperbahn". "Reeperbahn" is a 1978 song by Udo Lindenberg, to the tune of Penny Lane, lamenting the decay of the entertainment there.
  In the 1965 film Ship of Fools, Jose Ferrer and Christiane Schmidtmer sang "Heute Abend Geh'n Wir Bummeln Auf Der Reeperbahn." (Tonight We Will Go Strolling on The Reeperbahn)
  The Police song "Low Life" is about the Reeperbahn.
  Randy Pie 1975 song "Kitsch" is about a curiosity shop on the Reeperbahn – the group hailed from Hamburg.
  Reeperbahn is the name of a 1980s Swedish band. Finnish artist Irwin Goodman has made a song and an album called St.Pauli ja Reeperbahn. The street is also mentioned in the Elvis Costello song "Human Hands", in Van Morrison's song "Heavy Connection", in Paul Kelly's song "Every Fucking City", in the Midnight Oil song "Mountains of Burma", the Sloppy Seconds song "Germany" from their album Destroyed and in the Runrig song "Song of the Earth". The heavy metal band Blue Cheer have a song called "Sweet Child of the Reeperbahn" on their 1991 album Dining with the Sharks. The punk band The Toy Dolls have a song titled "Caught up the Reeperbahn", first released on their 1993 album Absurd-Ditties.
  "Reeperbahn" is the name of a track from the Christian rock group Model Engine's CD The Lean Years Tradition.
  The Reeperbahn is often mentioned in Karen Duve's 1999 novel, Regenroman. (The English translation is entitled Rain).
  Tom Waits' 2002 release Alice contains a track called "Reeperbahn".
  Dutch DJ and producer Nicky Romero had the music video for his song "Toulouse" shot in Hamburg, Germany. Near the end, the actors enter the Reeperbahn's subway system.
  Australian pop-punk band the Hard-Ons have a song called "Don't Fear The Reeperbahn" on their 2007 album Most People Are Nicer Than Us. Its title is a play on the Blue Öyster Cult song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper".
  German electro house duo Digitalism recorded the song "Reeperbahn" on their 2011 release I Love You Dude.
  The commercial house music producer Eric Prydz has a track titled "Reeperbahn" under his moniker Pryda.
  London based indie band Spector have a bonus track titled "Reeperbahn" on the deluxe version of their 2015 album Moth Boys.
  UK based folk rock band Skinny Lister wrote a song titled Hamburg Drunk, which depicts a rough night "falling and sprawlling down the old Reeperbahn" on their 2016 album "The Devil, The Heart and the Fight".
caption: Socle of Hans Albers statue at the Hans-Albers-Platz, by Jörg Immendorff 1986. Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins
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