Gaycation Editorial

PUMP opens a house floor at Stuttgart's Lehmann Club on 7 November

PUMP opens a house floor at Stuttgart's Lehmann Club on 7 November

Artwork: PUMP

PUMP, Stuttgart's gay and queer techno party, is back at Lehmann Club, Breitscheidstraße 12, on Saturday, 7 November 2026, from 23:59 to 09:00. New this time: two floors (Techno | House) plus the play area. Our event listing has the key facts and the tickets. What follows is the organisers' own announcement, published by PUMP.

Line-up: Bastian Hill (Stuttgart | Berlin), Ben Hille (PUMP), Jannis Maxim (Vision Ekstase, Lehmann), Kiti Arsa (Stuttgart), Vani Vachi (VESELKA, Kyiv | Berlin), vonSchwind (Dôme d'Amour, Saarbrücken)

Alongside our main floor, where Ukrainian techno heavyweight Vani Vachi from Berlin will put you in a trance at peak time, we are starting a soulful, groovy house floor downstairs in the club! To make room, we are moving our popular play area upstairs.

Techno floor

Vani Vachi grew up in the underground scenes of Kyiv, London and Berlin and became known through queer party residencies, among them VESELKA, before taking the decks at RSO, Tresor, Pornceptual, ADE, Whole Festival, Brave! Factory and many more by storm. As a producer, singer and performer, her sound focuses on the emotional, futuristic and groovy side of techno.

Jannis Maxim has long been a fixture of the Vision Ekstase team at Lehmann and of the Stuttgart collective Schimmer Records, and was a resident at the city's legendary Toy Club. He is known for versatile mixes that blend house and techno elements into a hypnotic groove.

Bastian Hill has been playing in Berlin and Stuttgart for many years. He breaks genre boundaries, mixes different styles of techno and creates his own energetic, sexy sound. You know and love him from his regular sets at PUMP, most recently at the Pride Edition.

House floor

vonSchwind from Saarbrücken is a co-founder of the queer party "Dôme d'Amour" at the Silodom there and, like Jannis, part of Schimmer Records. His sound is a pulsating mix of progressive house, underground dance hits of the 90s and influences from every era of queer club culture, and it gets every foot moving.

The Stuttgart DJ Kiti Arsa weaves soulful, deep house into dynamic, driving sets. Known well beyond the region for a long time, she has delivered euphoric highlights at Fridas Pier, Romantica, Studio Amore, Vibrancy Open Air, Bahnwärter Thiel and C2 Ost, among others, and always has the crowd completely under her spell.

PUMP host Ben Hille, known for his rousing, varied mixes on the main floor, surprises you this time with a feel-good house music set on our new dance floor.

PUMP

The party is very gay, but not men-only. Queer people of every gender and all open-minded people are warmly welcome. Only the play area is reserved for people who identify as male.

We are a safe space. When flirting and hitting on someone in the club, and especially in the play area, one rule always applies: consent! Homophobia, racism, sexism and any other kind of discrimination or harassment are no-gos.

Hot outfits are welcome, whether sporty, kinky, topless or in drag. Keys for the lockers at the entrance and upstairs are available for a deposit. No body shaming: on our dance floor every body is beautiful.

The general rule at Lehmann: no pics. You tape over your cameras with stickers at the entrance. Tickets are on presale now. Please note: it is cash only at the door and at the bars.

Don't come too late, it is sure to be full and hot.

We pump up the volume - feel free to express yourself!

Our page on the October edition shows where the party was last month, and our Germany page covers the rest of the country.

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