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The international start-up Postal Sounds won this year's Music WorX Jury Pitch 2025 on 4 December with the idea of making cities tangible through music.

Music WorX Founder Award 2025: Award for Postal Sounds

The international start-up Postal Sounds won this year's Music WorX Jury Pitch 2025 on 4 December with the idea of making cities tangible through music.

Application Start Gamecity Hamburg Prototype Funding 2026

From February 23 to March 30, developers can apply for Prototype Funding from Gamecity Hamburg for the development of digital games.

Portside Game Assembly 2026: Tickets for brunch and party now available

Portside Game Assembly, the B2B conference for established indie studios, will set sail again through the Hamburg Harbour on June 26, 2026.

Music WorX Founder Award 2025: Award for Postal Sounds

The international start-up Postal Sounds won this year's Music WorX Jury Pitch 2025 on 4 December with the idea of making cities tangible through music.

First AI Media Leaders Conference in Hamburg

Over 50 speakers and more than 350 experts from the media and digital economy spent an entire day at the Mojo Club discussing the topic of AI.

Kreativ Gesellschaft honoured with award at the German Urban Development Award …

For its JUPITER project, Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft received a special award at the 2025 German Urban Development Prize – as one of the best examples of innovative urban development.

Portside Game Assembly welcomes indie studios back on board in June 2026:

Portside Game Assembly, the B2B conference for established indie studios, will set sail again through the Hamburg Harbour on June 26, 2026.

Further creative use in the heart of St. Pauli

Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft rents the listed Alte Schule at Seilerstraße 41/43 and will let it out for creative uses in future.

Further creative use in the heart of St. Pauli

Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft rents the listed Alte Schule at Seilerstraße 41/43 and will let it out for creative uses in future.

Kreativ Gesellschaft honoured with award at the German Urban Development Award …

For its JUPITER project, Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft received a special award at the 2025 German Urban Development Prize – as one of the best examples of innovative urban development.

Kreativ Gesellschaft honoured with award at the German Urban Development Award …

For its JUPITER project, Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft received a special award at the 2025 German Urban Development Prize – as one of the best examples of innovative urban development.

Further creative use in the heart of St. Pauli

Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft rents the listed Alte Schule at Seilerstraße 41/43 and will let it out for creative uses in future.

Wanted: Innovative business ideas for the music industry

At the state press conference on July 15, 2025, Dr. Carsten Brosda and Egbert Rühl took stock of 15 years of Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft and shared a look ahead.

Social Design Week: Design Zentrum shows the social impact of design

Under the motto "Creating Community", the Design Zentrum Hamburg is organising an interactive week with an exhibition and events from 16 to 22 June 2025.

Prototype Funding 2025 for Games

In the latest round of Prototype Funding, Gamecity Hamburg, part of Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft, supports six promising digital games with up to 80,000 euros each as a non-repayable grant. This funding enables start-ups in Hamburg and supports companies in developing marketable prototypes.

AIM Leaders: Erste Fachkonferenz für KI in der Medien- und Digitalwirtschaft

nextMedia.Hamburg bringt am 27. November erstmals Entscheider*innen aus der Medien- und Digitalwirtschaft zum Thema KI zusammen.

Wanted: Innovative business ideas for the music industry

Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft and the Ministry of Culture and Media invite founders and start-ups from the music tech sector to apply for the Music WorX Incubator 2025 by 18 June.

Molotow opens at new location

The traditional club finds a new home at Reeperbahn 136. Senator for Culture and Media Dr Carsten Brosda and Egbert Rühl, Managing Director of Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft, visit the Molotow team in the new premises.

New publication "More space for creative interim use" published

With the publication "More space for creative interim use - innovative strategies and instruments for property management and urban development", the Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft is publishing a comprehensive compilation of specialist articles, practical reports and expert interviews on all aspects of creative interim use.

GCES 2025: Creative industries provide impetus for democracy and innovation

At this year's German Creative Economy Summit (GCES), creatives, entrepreneurs and thought leaders came together in Hamburg to discuss the status quo and the future of the industry.

Creative interim use: Frei_Fläche will continue in 2024

Creative industries instead of vacancies: The successful model of creative interim use will continue to revitalise Hamburg in the coming year.

Music WorX Founder Award 2024: winning teams honoured

Merging music collections, linking viewing and listening experiences, connecting musicians with local fan communities or industry experts: The four teams focus on innovations that connect - and win over the jury and audience.

Impetus for the city centre: these 22 creative projects are set to revitalise …

The Ministry for Urban Development and Housing is funding 22 pilot projects for an attractive and sustainable Hamburg city centre with 640,000 euros. The selected projects create meeting spaces, promote social participation and cultural diversity and focus on climate change, community and the creative use of public spaces. Several projects are aimed specifically at children and young people and are to be implemented by autumn 2025.

New pop-up space opens in Mönckebergstraße: The satellite uses construction …

In Mönckebergstraße, Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft has opened a pop-up space for creative and cultural uses in cooperation with property developer Tishman Speyer.

New pop-up space opens in Mönckebergstraße: The satellite uses construction …

In Mönckebergstraße, Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft has opened a pop-up space for creative and cultural uses in cooperation with property developer Tishman Speyer.

Wanted: Innovative business ideas for the music industry

Gemeinsam mit der Behörde für Kultur und Medien fördert die Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft vier aufstrebene Start-ups an der Schnittstelle von Musik und Technologie.

Kreativ Gesellschaft soll traditionsreichen Kulturort an der Reeperbahn …

Mit der Anmietung einer Immobilie an der Reeperbahn 136 sichert die Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft einen historischen Ort für Kultur- und Live-Musik auf St. Pauli und verschafft dem Molotow eine langristige Perspektive.

Textile Week showcases future fabrics and innovations in textile design

From 13 to 23 June, the Design Zentrum Hamburg will be presenting pioneering materials and innovations in textile design at the second Textile Week.

Wanted: Innovative business ideas for the music industry

Im Future Fashion Lab arbeiten Designer*innen, Modelabels und Unternehmen gemeinsam an den Zukunftsthemen der Textilbranche. Hier wird nachhaltige Mode entworfen, produziert und verkauft – inmitten der Stadt.

Wanted: Innovative business ideas for the music industry

Die Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft und die Behörde für Kultur und Medien rufen aufstrebende Start-ups und Gründer*innen aus ganz Europa dazu auf, sich mit innovativen Music-Tech-Ideen für das Förderprogramm Music WorX zu bewerben.

Wanted: Innovative business ideas for the music industry

Gamecity Hamburg startet die Bewerbungsphase für den Games Lift Inkubator 2024. Teams und Solo-Devs können sich vom 2. Mai bis zum 10. Juni auf für das in Deutschland einzigartige Förderprogramm für Spieleentwickler*innen bewerben.

Summit meeting of the creative industry with politics and business in Hamburg

Kreative Zwischennutzung liefert wertvolle Impulse für die Transformation der Innenstädte. Für die temporäre Umnutzung des ehemaligen Kaufhauses hat die Kreativ Gesellschaft den begehrten polis Award gewonnen.

Summit meeting of the creative industry with politics and business in Hamburg

KI, Kreislaufwirtschaft, urbane Transformation und vieles mehr: Die Premiere des German Creative Economy Summit am 6. und 7. März bot Platz für Debatten, die die Branche bewegen – und brachte 850 Teilnehmende aus 11 Kreativbranchen zusammen.

Summit meeting of the creative industry with politics and business in Hamburg

The industry get-together of the creative industries, where the topics of the future are negotiated with politics, science and administration, on 6 and 7 March 2024, at Theaterfabrik Kampnagel.

Creative interim use: Frei_Fläche will continue in 2024

Creative industries instead of vacancies: The successful model of creative interim use will continue to revitalise Hamburg in the coming year.

Music WorX Founder Award 2023: Double award for Polytone

The young start-up from Berlin beat off the competition at the Music WorX Pitch 2023 with a leasing platform for classical instruments.

Jupiter Day

Hamburg celebrates creative interim use in former department stores' with all-day art and cultural programme.

scoopcamp 2023

International experts will discuss the journalism of the future at scoopcamp 2023.

SPACE opens in Hamburg's Speicherstadt warehouse district

From 4 September 2023, the new innovation space SPACE in Hamburg's Speicherstadt will open its doors to companies, start-ups and freelancers from the content and technology industry.

Prof. Christina Elmer receives scooop Award 2023

In her keynote, Christina Elmer discussed the changes that the media industry should implement now to best position itself for the future.

Hamburg Games Conference 2024

Hamburg Games Conference on 5 and 6 March 2024 with a business focus on "Invest in Games".

Reopening Jupiter

From April, the former department stores' will once again be transformed into a creative planet. For the launch of the second Jupiter mission, a full programme awaits on all floors on 15 April 2023.

20 years of Gamecity Hamburg

Gamecity Hamburg has been supporting and promoting the local games industry for 20 years and is planning some special activities and events in its anniversary year.

400.000 euros for games "Made in Hamburg

From 3 March to 5 April, the application phase for the Gamecity Hamburg prototype funding runs

Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft

nextMedia.Hamburg

Design Zentrum Hamburg

Gamecity Hamburg

Free_space

From July 2021 to July 2025, Frei_Fläche promoted creative interim uses in Hamburg. The project has now come to an end.

SPACE

Newly opened: The innovation space in the Speicherstadt for companies and creative minds from the fields of content and technology

German Creative Economy Summit

Let's join Creative Forces! On 6 and 7 March 2024, the German Creative Economy Summit will take place in Hamburg at Kampnagel. The GCES is the first national industry meeting for the eleven submarkets of the creative industries.