NGC 1808 is a nearby barred spiral galaxy which hosts young stellar clusters in a patchy circumnuclear ring with a radius of \sim 240 \mathrm { pc } .
In order to study the gaseous and stellar kinematics and the star formation properties of the clusters , we perform seeing-limited H + K -band near-infrared integral-field spectroscopy with SINFONI of the inner \sim 600 \mathrm { pc } .
From the M _ { \mathrm { BH } } - \sigma _ { * } relation , we find a black hole mass of a few 10 ^ { 7 } M _ { \odot } .
We estimate the age of the young stellar clusters in the circumnuclear ring to be \lesssim 10 \mathrm { Myr } .
No age gradient along the ring is visible .
However , the starburst age is comparable to the travel time along the ring , indicating that the clusters almost completed a full orbit along the ring during their life time .
In the central \sim 600 \mathrm { pc } , we find a hot molecular gas mass of \sim 730 M _ { \odot } which , with standard conversion factors , corresponds to a large cold molecular gas reservoir of several 10 ^ { 8 } M _ { \odot } , in accordance with CO measurements from the literature .
The gaseous and stellar kinematics show several deviations from pure disc motion , including a circumnuclear disc and signs of a nuclear bar potential .
In addition , we confirm streaming motions on \sim 200 \mathrm { pc } scale that have recently been detected in CO ( 1-0 ) emission .
Due to our enhanced angular resolution of < 1 \arcsec , we find further streaming motion within the inner arcsecond , that have not been detected until now .
Despite the flow of gas towards the centre , no signs for significant AGN activity are found .
This raises the questions what determines whether the infalling gas will fuel an AGN or star formation .