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Subsidies in March 2026: What's new?

Subsidies in March 2026: What's new?

Federal, state and institutional funding supports Hamburg's creative professionals in all sectors. The monthly article provides a compact overview of the current funding programmes with all the important information and deadlines.

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Subsidies in September 2025: What's new?

Subsidies in September 2025: What's new?

Federal, state and institutional funding supports Hamburg's creative professionals in all sectors. The monthly article provides a compact overview of the current funding programmes with all the important information and deadlines.

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Music WorX 2025: these are the start-ups

Music WorX 2025: these are the start-ups

Together with the Ministry of Culture and Media, we are supporting five start-ups with ideas that operate at the interface of music and technology.

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Wie können wir gerechter gestalten?

Wie können wir gerechter gestalten?

Produkte und Prozesse sind für manche Menschen komfortabel, während sie andere ausschließen. Im Design Zentrum Hamburg geben Mawuto Dotou und Anna Unterstab Workshops zu Intersektionalität und Gestaltung – und vermitteln kreative Ansätze, um diskriminierende Strukturen zu brechen.

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Visions that work: Driving innovation with visions of the future

Visions that work: Driving innovation with visions of the future

Transformation needs visions of the future: Simone Kaiser from Fraunhofer IAO on socially accepted change, trends and how creative minds enrich the process.

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Place matters

Place matters

The city as a total work of art: In this interview, British urban researcher Charles Landry talks about his concept of the Creative City - and explains the importance of creativity for a city worth living in.

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Nachhaltig zum Erfolg

Nachhaltig zum Erfolg

Das Label Jan ’n June startete 2014 als Vorreiter nachhaltiger Mode. Die Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft begleitete es vom Crowdfunding bis zum Pop-up.

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A Success Story on Every String

A Success Story on Every String

With Polytone, Philipp Klotz provides access to high-quality instruments - and gives musicians the chance to realise their potential regardless of financial barriers.

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"The creative industries need entrepreneurship"

"The creative industries need entrepreneurship"

In this interview, Prof Elmar Konrad explains why entrepreneurship is essential for creative professionals - and how university education can better prepare creative professionals for it.

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Really good stuff: How do we get people excited about cross innovation?

Really good stuff: How do we get people excited about cross innovation?

An interview with Claudia Köhler, who develops innovative programmes at the Thuringian Agency for the Creative Industries and shows why companies and creative professionals can achieve more together.

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Presseschau

Zwölf Preise für Hamburgs Filmschaffende

Die Preisträger*innen der 33. Ausgabe von Filmfest Hamburg stehen fest.

Filmfest Hamburg

Kreativverbände kritisieren EU-KI-Verordnung

40 Organisationen werfen der EU vor, Urheberrechte im Umgang mit generativer KI zu ignorieren.

Börsenblatt

Zwischen Leidenschaft und Prekarität

Neue Studie zeigt: Trotz geringer Einkommen und fehlender Absicherung finden viele Künstler*innen Sinn in ihrer Arbeit.

BBK/Stiftung Kunstfonds

"Buch und Buchhandel in Zahlen 2025“ veröffentlicht

Alle Kennzahlen zum Buchmarkt 2024 jetzt in der neuen Ausgabe „Buch und Buchhandel in Zahlen“.

Börsenblatt

EU-Musikmarkt wächst rasant

Streaming treibt EU-Musikmarkt an: 2024 über 5,7 Mrd. Euro Umsatz – über ein Fünftel der globalen Einnahmen.

Bundesverband Musikindustrie

Finanzen für Selbstständige

Mehr Klarheit für deine Finanzen

Money mindset: How do I deal with money?

Money mindset: How do I deal with money?

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Parenthood and finances in self-employment

Parenthood and finances in self-employment

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Financial planning for the self-employed in 7 steps

Financial planning for the self-employed in 7 steps

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Creative location Hamburg

Industry information for Hamburg's creative industries: Regularly updated reports and discussions on topics that move the industry.

99.590

People work in Hamburg's creative industries

Every 14.

employed person in Hamburg

28.302

of which are self-employed

12.28 billion

Euros in sales were generated in 2021

80.4 million

Euro of which by small entrepreneurs

4.4 billion

in the software/games segment, the submarket with the highest sales in 2021

All data is taken from the Goldmedia Location Monitor, according to the methodology of the BMWK Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft (as of February 2024).

Industry reports

Regularly updated reports on the submarkets of the creative industries

Music in Hamburg: creative engine and economic factor

Music in Hamburg: creative engine and economic factor

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Press in Hamburg: Digitalisation of a traditional industry

Press in Hamburg: Digitalisation of a traditional industry

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Design in Hamburg: Sustainable world design and AI as growth drivers

Design in Hamburg: Sustainable world design and AI as growth drivers

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Film in Hamburg: Between great cinema and social media snippets

Film in Hamburg: Between great cinema and social media snippets

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JvM builds its own AI tool - and continues to count on creative minds

JvM builds its own AI tool - and continues to count on creative minds

Robert Andersen, Managing Creative Director at Jung von Matt CREATORS, and his team optimise creative processes - for example with the AI tool STABLES. A conversation about impact and potential.

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Subsidies in September 2025: What's new?

Subsidies in September 2025: What's new?

Federal, state and institutional funding supports Hamburg's creative professionals in all sectors. The monthly article provides a compact overview of the current funding programmes with all the important information and deadlines.

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A Success Story on Every String

A Success Story on Every String

With Polytone, Philipp Klotz provides access to high-quality instruments - and gives musicians the chance to realise their potential regardless of financial barriers.

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Press in Hamburg: Digitalisation of a traditional industry

Press in Hamburg: Digitalisation of a traditional industry

Hamburg publishers are earning more and more money online - and through direct dialogue with their readers. New sources of revenue between management seminars and hyperlocal journalism: an industry overview

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"If we penalise disruption, we are dead as a society"

"If we penalise disruption, we are dead as a society"

Creatives are driving social transformation, as journalist and author Wolf Lotter writes - but they often have a hard time in large companies. A conversation about curiosity as the most important resource and the end of routine work.

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"We now need to take a more pragmatic approach"

"We now need to take a more pragmatic approach"

(Almost) everyone agrees that bureaucracy inhibits creativity. Dr Sonja Boss explains why it still exists and how creative people can help to reduce it. The lawyer translates EU directives into national law for German daily newspaper publishers and calls for courage to be bold - and to leave gaps.

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