Berliner Festspiele

Upcoming

Theatertreffen

2 to 20 May 2024

The 10 remarkable productions, selected by a jury of critics, were announced in a press conference on 26 January 2024, 11:00. The programme will be published on 5 April, advance ticket sales will start on 19 April at 14:00

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Reflexes and Reflections

7 October, the War in Gaza and the Debate in Germany

13 to 16 June 2024

On four themed days, curated by Saba-Nur Cheema and Meron Mendel, the Berliner Festspiele wishes to create a space for nuanced reflection without adopting reflex positions on one of what is assumed to be only two possible sides.

© Ali Ghandtschi

Dance | Guest Performance

Sasha Waltz & Guests: Sacre

27 to 30 June 2024

Considered one of the key works of modernism, it is a hundred years after the genesis of Igor Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemps” that Sasha Waltz takes on the Mariinsky Theatre’s offer to engage with this extraordinary piece of musical and dance history. Its title translates to “The Rite of Spring”. For this evening, it is accompanied by the “Scène d’Amour” from “Roméo et Juliette” by Hector Berlioz and her choreography “L’Après-midi d’un faune” to the music of Claude Debussy.

A group of dancers kneel on a stage. A couple is lying on the floor in front of them.

Sacre

© Bernd Uhlig

Dance | Guest Performance

Tanz im August

36th International Festival Berlin

As part of the international festival Tanz im August, three productions will be shown at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele in August 2024. Advance booking for two productions is now open.

Purple jellyfish against a blue background

© Lance Anderson / Unsplash

Musikfest Berlin

24 August to 18 September 2024

In 2024, the Musikfest Berlin will once again open the concert season in late summer with top-class international orchestras, celebrated conductors and remarkable soloists. Tickets are already available to purchase for selected concerts. The full programme will be published in April 2024.

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Performing Arts Season

9 October 2024 to 25 January 2025

The second season, presented between October 2024 and January 2025, will concentrate on memory and heritage in contemporary performing arts, with a focus on New York’s dance and performance scene.

Performing Arts Season

Gropius Bau

Nancy Holt: Circles of Light

22 March to 21 July 2024

Over the course of five decades, Nancy Holt explored how we perceive our environment and how we attempt to understand our place on the surface of this planet. From March 2024, the Gropius Bau presents Circles of Light, the artist’s most comprehensive survey exhibition in Germany to date. It includes film, video, photography, sound works, concrete poetry, sculptures and expansive installations as well as drawings and documentation from over 25 years.

Nancy Holt, Electrical System, 1982, installation view (detail), Gropius Bau, 2024

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, courtesy: Sprüth Magers, photo: Luis Kürschner

Pallavi Paul: How Love Moves

22 March to 21 July 2024

With How Love Moves, the Gropius Bau presents the first major institutional solo exhibition of Pallavi Paul. As an artist and film scholar, Paul engages the camera as her primary tool to interrogate how regimes of “truth” are produced and sustained in public life. Through her multimedia practice spanning film, installation, performance, drawing, photography and writing, she negotiates the documentary not only conjured as film or image – but as an ecology of materials, networks, global alliances and systems.

Pallavi Paul, How Love Moves, film still, 2023

© Pallavi Paul

Media Library

“Kill your Darlings! Streets of Berladelphia”

By René Pollesch

René Pollesch provided unforgettable moments at the Theatertreffen in 2002 with the invitation to his “Prater-Trilogie” parts 1 to 3 and in 2012 with "Kill your Darlings! Streets of Berladelphia for unforgettable moments at the Theatertreffen, for which we are deeply grateful. René Pollesch died suddenly and unexpectedly on 26 February at the age of 61. The 3sat recording of “Kill your Darlings! Streets of Berladelphia” is available in our media library until 27 May 2024.

A man with a naked upper body and colourful trousers walks over the backs and shoulders of a group of people.

Kill your Darlings! Streets of Berladelphia

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The Berliner Festspiele

All year round, Berliner Festspiele host a multitude of festivals, exhibitions and individual events in two houses – the Haus der Berliner Festspiele at Schaperstraße and the Gropius Bau near Potsdamer Platz – and other venues in the city.

The photovoltaic system on the roof of the Gropius Bau.

The photovoltaic system on the roof of the Gropius Bau.

jirka-jansch.com, 2011

Sustainable Environmental Performance

We have been following EMAS guidelines for sustainable environmental performance since 2013. Find out more about our goals and the measures that we have already taken on the website of our umbrella organisation.