Party in Göttingen

Parties in Göttingen: Your night, your sound, your event calendar

Göttingen is more than just a university, canteen and "just a quick beer after work". Once you start dancing your way through the city's parties, you'll soon realize that there's an amazing amount going on here at night for a city that seems so scholarly during the day. And the best thing is that you don't have to book big-city overload or overpriced door busters. Göttingen is more like this: come in, hang out, meet people who will be sitting in a seminar tomorrow and are already pretending to have rhythm in their blood today. Whether you're into indie and alternative, prefer to go into autopilot to electro and techno, suddenly know every word to 90s and 2000s (for whatever reason) or are simply looking for a place where the bass will briefly knock out your to-do list, you'll find plenty of reasons in the events calendar not to "have to" go home at 11:17 pm. A good place to go for anything between concert cellar vibes and a dance floor is the Nörgelbuff in the city center, for example. The place is more of a live club than a permanent pub, meaning that it opens when something is going on and then it does. It regularly hosts DJ evenings and scene nights with global sounds, indie, rock and everything that's danceable without being over-the-top. If you like it a little louder, edgier and alternative, the EXIL live. music. club. is a pretty reliable address: Rock, indie, electro, dark wave, gothic and themed party nights have been part of the program there for years, exactly the kind of events where you either turn up wearing all black or wish you'd at least put on black socks after 20 minutes. And yes, even though Göttingen is compact, the scene isn't monotonous: sometimes it's the classic sweaty club night, sometimes it's a dance night with a scene focus, sometimes it's an after-show atmosphere where you're suddenly talking to strangers about your favorite albums as if you've been friends since 2013. If you prefer "bar first, escalate later", this works surprisingly well in Göttingen: around the city center and the corner of Weender Straße, you can warm up in bars and pubs and then see where your mood takes you. Keyword: spontaneous change of plans, but in a pleasant way. And because we don't want to talk about one-off hypes here, it's worth taking a look at regular formats such as theme parties, DJ nights, 80s 90s 2000s evenings, alternative floors or electronic nights that pop up again and again in Göttingen, depending on the season and location program. In short: you don't need a perfect occasion, just the willingness to let the city show you its danceable side. Check our calendar of events, parties and happenings in Göttingen, save your favorites and then get out and about: Göttingen is small enough for short distances, but big enough for nights that go on longer than planned. And if you claim the next day that you were "only out for a short time": We won't say anything. We really won't.