The demonstration to save the club follows a devastating fire.

Representatives from Hamburg’s Golden Pudel club are organising a demonstration in the city this Friday (February 19) in support of the troubled venue.

As RA reports, Golden Pudel booker Ralf Köster explained the purpose of the protest in an email statement, which is to ensure the club continues to exist in its current form.

The protest follows the announcement that the venue would close in spring due to a dispute between the venue’s owners, and the subsequent fire at the club on February 14 that the police believe was the result of arson.

Köster’s email reveals other unreported details of the fire, including a refugee’s tent home being destroyed and the archives of local activist group Park Fiction suffering water damage.

As well as wanting the original Pudel club to remain in its current location, the protestors want the “building and ground secured in an uncommercial form, forever” and a space in the top floor “for the neighbourhood, for hard-to-understand-art, for poodle-booking, discussions, for the Park Fiction Archive, for Right-to-the-City-issues, for subcultures.”

The demonstration begins at FC St. Pauli at 8.30pm local time tomorrow (February 19) – more information can be found at Facebook.