Posted on March 7, 2010 – 19:18 in Features | Steven
FC St. Pauli
Photo by Benne Ochs from the current St. Pauli Merchandising Catalogue
I was just going to get to that point – obviously, St-Pauli sells typical football merchandise, jersey etc, but mostly, you have a streetwear collection that is sold in high end streetwear stores through a very tight distribution. That is very untypical of a football club.
Absolutely, but again, the club is a representation of what the neighbourhood is like and vice versa. It would be stupid to plaster the skull and cross bone over everything and / or only to make football jerseys. We depend on the support of the scene and that’s why we make the clothes and products we do. It is a balancing act trying to combine the two but so far it has worked.
Coming back to the Skull & Cross Bone logo – do you know when exactly that entered the sphere of the club and where it came from?
Sure, it comes right out of the anarchist camp that occupied the Hafenstrasse. The legend, or the myth really isn’t one. Really, the person responsible for bringing the flag into the sphere of the club was Doc Mabuse.
He first the person to do so – and to be honest, the flag was probably just hanging outside of his window and one day he brought it to a game and it snowballed from there. At the next game more people brought more flags to the game, then a printer got involved, and the original skull and cross bone, which is a drawing from an old anatomical textbook became official. Amazingly, the skull and cross bone is legally protected and has survived numerous legal battles. As of 1998 the skull and cross bone with the wording “St. Pauli” officially belongs to the club.
13 comments for “FC St. Pauli”
Excellent feature!
written by Llywarch on 11. Mar, 2010
Very nice!
written by Hodja on 11. Mar, 2010
Wow, great review on the hood and club i hate to love love to live in! Thanks!
written by Earl Harbor on 12. Mar, 2010
magnificent club with best fans ever seen !
written by jan west on 16. May, 2010