Kreativbehörde Regensburg

What Kreativbehörde Regensburg does

The Kreativbehörde Regensburg is a municipal creative economy agency that operates within the Amt für Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft of the City of Regensburg, Germany. Founded in 2015 under the leadership of Sebastian Knopp, it functions as the central point of contact for the local culture and creative economy, serving creative businesses, solo practitioners, students, and multiple municipal departments. The Degginger, a ~1,000 m² historic patrician house at Wahlenstraße 17, anchors its operations and offers rentable spaces including the Bühne (150 m², capacity 170), Projektlabor (50 m²), Pop-Up Raum (38 m²), kleinste galerie (6.45 m²), and the Startplatz co-working incubator at €119 per month. A second physical site, the Creative Hub (25 m² container), has been activated as the first usable space at the developing Kreativareal am Auweg in eastern Regensburg.

The agency's service mix combines subsidized physical-space rental with programmatic formats and a structured co-creative methodology called the Labor der kreativen Köpfe, which commissions application-vetted freelance creatives to address municipal challenges for departments including the Umweltamt, the Amt für Stadtplanung und Mobilität, and the Amt für Stadtbahnneubau. Recurring event formats — Netzwerkdienstag (bimonthly), Zukunftsdialog (twice yearly), Entrepreneurship unplugged (annual), and SPOTLIGHT — sustain community engagement and pipeline visibility. The 2025 and 2026 Kreative Arbeitsräume annual exhibitions together profiled sixteen creative-economy tenants spanning design, architecture, art, game development (CipSoft), printing (Druckerei Pustet), and jewelry. Operations rely on standard SaaS infrastructure: Locaboo for space booking, LimeSurvey for citizen survey administration, and figures for analytics; the Obermünsterviertel project additionally deployed an AR wayfinding layer (r_weitert) built with partner uns:r studio, with sensor-based evaluation of immediate urban measures beginning mid-March 2026.

The Kreativbehörde is wholly funded through the City of Regensburg municipal budget, operates without external investors or commercial revenue, and discloses no budget figures. Core strategic partnerships include joint operation of the Degginger with HTW GmbH, co-organization of Entrepreneurship unplugged with IHK Regensburg, and co-hosting of the Netzwerkdienstag with Forum Kreativwirtschaft Regensburg e.V. Pricing across space rentals follows a published Entgeltordnung at subsidized municipal rates, while kleinste galerie exhibiting artists receive a €400 honorarium plus up to €300 for materials. The agency has 10–12 staff including two apprentices and operates exclusively in Regensburg, although the Degginger was recognized as a Modellprojekt der nationalen Stadtentwicklungspolitik in 2015 by the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building, giving it national-level visibility in German urban-development policy circles.

Name

Kreativbehörde Regensburg

Legal name

Stadt Regensburg

Website

https://kreativbehoerde.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Kreativbehörde Regensburg is the municipal creative economy agency of the City of Regensburg, operating the Degginger creative hub, subsidized workspaces, and a co-creative methodology that commissions freelance creatives to address municipal challenges for city departments.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Creative Economy Development Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131)

SIC

Operators Of Nonresidential Buildings (6512)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Arts, Culture & Creative Placemaking Enterprises (BPAGALAO)

akta.pro secondary industry

Space Planning & Workplace Design (BPAHAKAI)

Keywords

• Creative economy support
• Co-working space rental
• Event venue rental
• Creative industry incubation
• Urban development consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Regensburg

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Municipal Budget / Public Funding: The Kreativbehörde is a municipal agency within the Amt für Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft of the City of Regensburg. Its primary funding comes from the public municipal budget, allocated through the city council (Stadtrat). This covers staffing, programming, and infrastructure maintenance.
2. Space Rental Income: The agency generates rental income from letting rooms and workspaces at the Degginger and the Creative Hub. Spaces are rented at subsidized municipal rates (Entgeltordnung Degginger). The Startplatz co-working desk is offered for 119 EUR per month, and event spaces are rented hourly/daily/weekly. The small gallery artists receive a 400 EUR honorarium plus up to 300 EUR material costs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Kreativbehörde Regensburg operates the Degginger — a historic patrician house converted into a ~1,000 m² creative hub — providing subsidized event, workshop, exhibition and co-working spaces to culture and creative economy practitioners in Regensburg. It runs signature community formats (Netzwerkdienstag, Zukunftsdialog, Entrepreneurship unplugged, SPOTLIGHT, annual Kreative Arbeitsräume exhibition) and the Labor der kreativen Köpfe methodology, which commissions creative professionals to develop co-creative solutions for urban challenges on behalf of municipal departments.

Product overview

Kreativbehörde Regensburg operates as a municipal creative agency under the Department for Economics and Science of the City of Regensburg, offering a portfolio of physical spaces, programmatic formats, and collaborative methodologies. The core offerings center on the Degginger, a historic patrician house serving as the main creative hub with multiple rentable spaces (Bühne, Projektlabor, Pop-Up Raum, kleinste galerie, Startplatz), complemented by the Creative Hub container facility at the Kreativareal am Auweg. The Labor der kreativen Köpfe provides a structured methodology for co-creative problem-solving between the administration and creative professionals. Programmatic formats include Netzwerkdienstag, Zukunftsdialog, Entrepreneurship unplugged, SPOTLIGHT, and annual exhibitions. The Startplatz offers an incubator workspace for creative entrepreneurs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Degginger Historic patrician house serving as the central creative hub of Regensburg since 2015, offering approximately 1,000 m² across four floors with event spaces, co-working areas, and offices for creative businesses.
• Bühne (Stage) 150 m² event venue with capacity for 170 people, equipped with presentation technology, flexible seating, and a bar, suitable for lectures, symposiums, networking events, hackathons, and festivals.
• Projektlabor (Project Laboratory) 50 m² space for workshops, meetings, smaller presentations, and industry gatherings, equipped with projector, whiteboard, flipchart, interactive screen, and furniture for up to 30 people.
• Pop-Up Raum 38 m² temporary space for public-facing, experimental formats of the local creative industry, suitable for exhibitions, pop-up stores, and product presentations with a minimum rental period of one week.
• kleinste galerie (Smallest Gallery) 6.45 m² exhibition and experimentation space for the free art and culture scene and local creative economy, featuring six exhibitions per year curated by the Kreativbehörde and the Culture Office. Selected artists receive a EUR 400 honorarium plus up to EUR 300 material costs.
• Startplatz Incubator for founders in the cultural and creative industries located in the heart of the Old Town, offering a co-working desk including coaching for EUR 119 per month.
• Creative Hub Double container with approximately 25 m² and an adjacent wooden terrace, serving as the first rentable usage space at the future Kreativareal am Auweg, equipped for workshops and meetings.

Quantifiable outcome

• 2,369 citizens participated in a biowaste separation survey (May–June 2026) as part of a Labor der kreativen Köpfe project
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• HTW GmbH (Hochschule für Wirtschaft, Technik und Kultur)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Degginger is operated jointly by the Kreativbehörde and HTW GmbH. HTW (University of Applied Sciences for Economics, Technology and Culture) contributes academic expertise and student engagement to the programming and management of the creative hub.
• Stadt Regensburg (City of Regensburg)coreOthersThe Kreativbehörde is an official department (Amt für Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft) of the City of Regensburg. The city council (Stadtrat) approves its budget, measures, and strategy. The agency serves the city's administration across multiple departments.
• IHK Regensburg (Chamber of Industry and Commerce)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerThe IHK Regensburg co-organizes the 'Entrepreneurship unplugged' format with the Kreativbehörde, providing business expertise, speaker networks, and promotional support. This brings entrepreneurial content and legitimacy to the creative economy audience.
• Forum Kreativwirtschaft Regensburg e.V.coreGTM or Marketing PartnerThe Forum Kreativwirtschaft (Creative Economy Forum) co-hosts the Netzwerkdienstag der Kreativen (Networking Tuesday of the Creative Sector), which is the regular open networking event for the entire creative economy in Regensburg. This partnership provides the primary networking platform for the local creative community.
• Amt für Stadtplanung und Mobilität (City Planning and Mobility Office)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Labor der kreativen Köpfe was commissioned by this municipal department to develop creative solutions for urban challenges in the Obermünsterviertel district, including traffic, noise, and quality of stay. The department also collaborated on the evaluation survey for immediate measures.
• Umweltamt der Stadt Regensburg (Environmental Office)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSince early 2026, the Labor der kreativen Köpfe has been commissioned by the environmental office to address biowaste separation challenges in Regensburg, conducting surveys and developing creative solutions to increase recycling rates.
• Amt für Stadtbahnneubau (City Tram Construction Office)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEight months before the citizen referendum on the Regensburg Stadtbahn, this office commissioned the Labor der kreativen Köpfe to develop new communication approaches for the tram project, helping to convey complex infrastructure information to the public.
• R_NEXT (Stadt Regensburg Smart City Initiative)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerR_NEXT is Regensburg's smart city initiative. The Labor der kreativen Köpfe operates in the context of R_NEXT, applying co-creative methods to urban transformation challenges as part of the city's smart city strategy.
• Amt für Jugend und Familie (Youth and Family Office)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThis municipal department collaborated with the Labor der kreativen Köpfe on the 'Gemeinsam bunt' (Together Colorful) project, which involved children and youth in designing a floor painting for the Obermünsterplatz through workshops at the Mehrgenerationenhaus.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft: Publicly funded creative-economy agency of the City of Hamburg, operating co-working and event spaces, cluster programs, and consulting for the cultural and creative industries. The closest functional analogue to Regensburg's Kreativbehörde, with a similar mandate to support creatives and co-create with municipal administration, but at a much larger city scale.
• Factory Berlin: Private members' community and co-working operator in Berlin focused on technology, creative, and impact-driven companies. Comparable as a curated creative community hub with programming, but operates on a commercial membership model rather than a municipal mandate.
• Stadt Köln – Kulturamt / Creative City Cologne: The City of Cologne runs creative-economy development programs through its cultural office and partners, with comparable objectives of cluster-building, space provision, and co-creative urban projects. Shares the German municipal-agency structure and public funding model.
• Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie: Berlin's economic development agency, which manages the city's Creative Industries cluster (Cluster IKT, Medien und Kreativwirtschaft) and runs programs supporting creative businesses, location marketing, and innovation. Comparable to the Kreativbehörde as a public-sector intermediary fostering the local creative economy.
• Kreativ München (City of Munich): Munich's municipal platform for the cultural and creative industries, providing consulting, networking, events, and visibility programs for creative professionals. Operates with a comparable public mandate of professionalization and visibility support as the Kreativbehörde.
• Hans Sauer Stiftung – social design lab: Munich-based foundation running the social design lab, which applies co-creative and design methods to urban and societal challenges. Direct methodological overlap with the Labor der kreativen Köpfe; one of its alumni (Peter Steger) joined the Kreativbehörde in 2024.
• Impact Hub Berlin: Member of the global Impact Hub network, running a curated innovation community in Berlin with co-working, incubation, and event programming. Overlaps with the Kreativbehörde's incubation (Startplatz) and community-building functions, particularly for early-stage impact-driven founders.
• St. Oberholz: Berlin-based creative co-working and event space with a strong programming layer for the digital and creative economy. Comparable as a venue-plus-format operator serving creative freelancers and founders, but operating commercially in Berlin rather than via a municipal mandate.
• Forum Kreativwirtschaft Regensburg e.V. Local industry association for Regensburg's creative economy, co-hosting the Netzwerkdienstag der Kreativen with the Kreativbehörde. Represents the same constituency the agency serves and is a tightly coupled partner for community events.

Regional players

• MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg: State-level non-profit supporting the creative and cultural industries in Baden-Württemberg, including cluster programs, funding advisory, and event formats such as the POPUPHOUSE. Operates at a regional rather than municipal scale but with overlapping creative-economy support mandate.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance5 records

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