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The Reeperbahn is a street in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, one of the two centres of Hamburg's nightlife and also the city's red-light district. In German it is also sometimes described as die sündige Meile (the sinful mile).
The name Reeperbahn means ropewalk, which is a place where ropes are made (Low German Reep = rope, the standard German word is Seil; Bahn= track). The street was a ropewalk in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The street is lined with restaurants, night clubs, discotheques and bars. There are also strip clubs, sex shops, brothels, a sex museum and similar businesses. The Operettenhaus, a musical theatre, is also located at the Reeperbahn. It played Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats for many years, after that Mamma Mia!, an ABBA-musical, and now "Ich war noch niemals in New York", ("I have never been in New York") featuring hit songs by Austrian singer/songwriter Udo Jürgens. There are other theatres at the Reeperbahn (St. Pauli Theater, Imperial Theater, Schmidts Tivoli) and also several Cabarets/Varietés.
Udo Lindenberg - Reeperbahn 2011 feat. Jan Delay (What It's Like) (offizielles Video)
Red Light District Hamburg Reeperbahn
St. Pauli: Eine Nacht auf der Reeperbahn - Dokumentation
Hamburg und seine Reeperbahn: Die Thekenfrauen vom Kiez - Reportage aus der Szenegastronomie
Penny auf St Pauli Ein Supermarkt auf der Reeperbahn Doku
Die Reeperbahn Rotlicht Tour von den Kiezjungs
Profi checkt Profi: Nachtclubs auf der Reeperbahn (1/3) | taff | ProSieben
Profi checkt Profi: Nachtclubs auf der Reeperbahn (2/3) | taff | ProSieben
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Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um 11 - Teil 1 (1/3) - Penny Markt an der Reeperbahn - SPIEGEL-TV
Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um 11 - Teil 1 (3/3) - Penny Markt an der Reeperbahn - SPIEGEL-TV
Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um 11 - Teil 2 (1/3) - Penny Markt an der Reeperbahn - SPIEGEL-TV
Spector - Reeperbahn
VonLöwen & Teut haben Party auf der Reeperbahn (2)
Around the curve of The Parrot Bar
A broken-down old movie star
Hustling and Easterner
Bringing out the beast in her
A high dive on a swimming pool
Filled with needles and with fools
The memories are short but the tales are long
When you're in the Reeperbahn
Oh, they called her Rosie when she was a girl
For her bright red cheeks and her strawberry curls
When she would laugh the river would run
She said she'd be a comedian
Oh what a pity, oh what a shame
When she said, ‘come calling', nobody came
Now her bright red cheeks are painted on
And she's laughing her head off in the Reeperbahn
Now little Hans was always strange
Wearing womens underthings
His father beat him but he wouldn't change
He ran off with a man one day
Now his lingerie is all the rage
In the black on every page
His father proudly calls his name
Down there in the Reeperbahn
Now if you've lost your inheritance
And all you've left is common sense
And you're not too picky about the crowd you keep
Or the mattress where you sleep
Behind every window, behind every door
The apple has gone but there's always the core
And the seeds will sprout up right through the floor
Down there in the Reeperbahn
Down there in the Reeperbahn
Down there in the Reeperbahn