The 11th edition of the Reeperbahn Festival passed by so quickly - "Congratulations" to Albin Lee Meldau for winning the ANCHOR and THANK YOU all for four extraordinary festival days!

We were proud to welcome 38,000 guests on four days to the 2016 Reeperbahn Festival, 4,400 of them international delegates from 40 nations. Review the highlights of the Reeperbahn Festival 2016 in words, pictures and videos.

We can't wait for next year – Early Birds for festival and conference are available right now! Reeperbahn Festival 2017, 20. – 23. Sept. Next year’s feature country will be Canada, a country from which great music has come for years and with which the Reeperbahn Festival has had a long-standing partnership.
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Apart from the ANCHOR 2016, also the winners of Der Helga Award, the VIA VUT Indie Award as well as the winners of the Reeperbahn start-up pitch, the Unerhört! Music Film Festival and the binge.watch Awards were announced at the Reeperbahn Festival 2016.

ANCHOR 2016
Albin Lee Meldau
Statement of the Jury: „"With his magic and brooding anger, he is definitely a maverick, akin to the David Bowies and Freddy Mercurys of the world."

Der HELGA! Festival Award
- Most charming camping-area: Feel
- Nicest security: Open Flair
- Most pleasant bathroom experience: Feel
- Attention to detail: Fusion
- Most emotional Moment: Highfield
- Clearest pathways: MS Dockville
- Best Festival: Hurricane

VIA! VUT Indie Awards 
- Best newcomer: Mogli     
- Best label: Monkeytown Records
- Best act: Moderat
- Best album: BOY
- Best experiment: Kaput – Magazin für Insolvenz und Pop
- VIA! Indieaxt: Christiane Falk (Journalistin) 

Startups@Reeperbahn Pitch
- Baqend

Unerhört! Filmfestival Award
- Girl Power
- Mali Blues

binge.watch Awards
- Best gaming experience: Lucid Trips – Nico Uthe, Sara Vogl, Julian Heinken, Sebastian Hinz (VR Nerds)
- Best immersive experience: Home VR – Spacewalk Experience BBC / Tom Burton
- Best Music Experience: U2's Song For Someone – Chris Milk
- Best video experience – presented by Riverside Entertainment: MODERAT "Reminder" – Sehsucht
- Best documentary experience: Walking New York – Chris Milk

binge.watch game-changer award
Soundstage – Logan Olson