Financial support needed:
Save our extra class cultural events with the laissez faire factor!

Where else, if not at Peppi?
Who else, if not you?

We’ve now reached the end of the first quarter of the year. A big, heartfelt thankyou to everyone who has provided their support so far! But we have unfortunately still not reached our funding goal. So, while our campaign on Startnext is now finished, the request for your support continues here. 
To use the words of Hildegard Knef:
“Life owes us nothing but life itself. Everything else we must get done ourselves!” So, take a moment and ask yourself whether you would prefer to live with or without Peppi. Preferably with?
Then, please, reach into your wallet to support Peppi. Every euro counts!

An interview with regular guests at Peppi:

What is “Peppi” and what is the problem?

Peppi Guggenheim in Berlin is much more than just a neighborhood bar—for 15 years, it has been a one-of-a-kind meeting place for music, art, and community in the heart of the district of Neukölln. Peppi has an extensive cultural program: Outstanding jazz concerts and performances take place on Fridays and Saturdays, DJ evenings on Thursdays, and PeppiOke every first Monday in the month. All of this takes place on a donation basis, which would not be possible without the volunteer engagements of the numerous culture lovers who regard Peppi as a home away from home.


But Peppi’s existence is now at stake: Corona and an onerous tax debt have brought the bar to its knees. Some of you will perhaps now ask: What’s going on, why doesn’t the proprietor Georg Weishäupl pay his taxes? He’s naturally done so, but what this is now about is an additional tax debt or, strictly speaking, an outrageous injustice that is also driving other bar owners to despair. Since the bar owners are simply doing something that has been common practice for centuries: giving discounts to regular guests and free drinks to artists and volunteer helpers. A purely normal human practice and in purely mathematical terms, so to say, advertising losses. But this practice is not recognized or only to a very small extent on the part of the tax office. It instead chooses to turn losses into earnings, for which—of course—taxes must be paid. Something is fundamentally going wrong here!
Since, while Peppi’s program has never generated real financial profits, it has attracted the support and huge dedication of a passionate, multinational team. 

Following this brief summary, you can now calculate for yourselves what losses—for the tax office, profit—Georg, the owner of Peppi, has amassed with the two concerts per week as well as various other events over the years since 2018.
We now need you to help us to cover these debts — and thus our motto: come, enjoy, drink, donate!

Funding Target

Roughly 60.000,-€

Use

Preserving the cultural operations

Current Status

13.833,03€ + 10 Barrels of Beer
(April, 16th, 2025)

Why is the Peppi that important?

Culture for Everyone

Our events—whether international jazz or performances—are and will remain admission-free so that truly everyone can enjoy them.

Cultural Legacy

The concerts are professionally recorded and filmed, live-streamed, and archived so that they are accessible for everyone—something that the bands highly appreciate.

Neighborhood Hotspot

Peppi is a social anchor point in Berlin-Neukölln. A lively place for encounters, where openness, tolerance, and coexistence are lived.

Auswahl Konzertvideos

Toxodon

live at Peppi November 2024

Ben Kraef

live at Peppi January 2025