List of songs about Hamburg
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This list of songs about Hamburg is about songs dedicated to or involving the city, state and port of Hamburg, Germany.
Traditionally, Hamburg has been associated with a number of sea shanties, and Low German folk music and Schlager, added by Hamburger Schule rock and pop during the early 1980s, and alternative rock and hip hop during the early 1990s. Most notable recent musicians with work about the Hanseatic city are ECHO Award winners Udo Lindenberg, Fettes Brot and Revolverheld; international artists include Frank Boeijen, Keane, Édith Piaf and Tom Waits.
List
Note: this list should exclude songs where Hamburg is simply name-checked (like in "London, Hamburg, Paris, Rome, [...]", lyrics of "All Over the World" by the Electric Light Orchestra) or barely mentioned in a few lines (like in "Every Fucking City" by Paul Kelly).
18th century
1723: "Hamburger Ebb’ und Fluth" (water music) by Georg Philipp Telemann (baroque)
1723: "Hamburg Admiralty Music" by Georg Philipp Telemann (baroque)
1786: "Hamburg Sonata" (Sonata in G major, Wq 133) by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (baroque)
19th century
1828: "Stadt Hamburg an der Elbe Auen" by Albert Methfessel (official Hamburg Anthem)
1850: "De Hamborger Veermaster" (shanty)
1870: "Rolling Home" (shanty)
1888: "Mondnacht auf der Alster" by Oscar Fetrás (waltz)
20th century
1910s
1912: "On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight" by Ralph Arthur Roberts
1940s
1941: "Under the Red Lantern of St. Pauli" by Lale Andersen
1944: "On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight" by Hans Albers from picture Große Freiheit Nr. 7
1950s
195?: "In Hamburg liegt ein Segelschiff im Hafen" by Die Travellers
1954: "On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight" by Hans Albers from picture On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight
1955: "C'est à Hambourg" by Édith Piaf
1957: "The Heart of St. Pauli" by Hans Albers from picture The Heart of St. Pauli
1958: "Das Mädchen aus Hamburg" by Hildegard Knef from picture La Fille de Hambourg
1960s
1962: "Heimweh nach St. Pauli" by Freddy Quinn
1964: "In Hamburg when the Nights are long" by Lale Andersen
1966: "[Hamburg du schöne Stadt] Eh du mon Dieu, mon Dieu!" by Frank Wedekind
1970s
1970: "In Hamburg sagt man Tschüss" by Heidi Kabel
1970: "Der Junge von St.
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