Call for Participation Berliner Festspiele’s Living Archive

We are looking for visitors of our events and festivals who are willing to share their experiences or memories with us and, perhaps, with the audience at Gropius Bau. These memories could either refer to current festivals like MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues, Musikfest Berlin, Theatertreffen or Jazzfest Berlin or concern festivals and programme series that no longer exist, such as Metamusik-Festival, spielzeit’europa or Horizonte – Festival of World Cultures.
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Jazzfest Berlin 2020 on Demand

You can still access the concerts and music videos featured at this year’s festival edition, including the focus topics Jazzfest Berlin – New York, Jazzfest Berlin Radio Edition, Jazzfest Berlin Outer Spaces and Jazzfest Berlin Off Stage on ARTE Concert and Berliner Festspiele on Demand, free of charge.
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Until 12 March 2021

3sat “Starke Stücke”

We present two “Starke Stücke” from the 2020 Theatertreffen which could not be recorded before October 2020 due to the pandemic: “Der Menschenfeind (The Misanthrope)”, directed by Anne Lenk, and “Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän (Man in the Holocene)”, directed by Alexander Giesche!
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Berliner Festspiele 70

In 2021, Berliner Festspiele will have their 70th anniversary. As well as a living archive, there will be a programme conceived jointly by the institution’s festival directors and curators at Gropius Bau in March. For the first six months of the year, we have planned six international guest performances at Haus der Berliner Festspiele as well as an opera performance at Kühlhaus Berlin. The festivals MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues, Theatertreffen and Theatertreffen der Jugend will once more be able to use the Haus der Berliner Festspiele as their venue, and we are looking forward to the comprehensive retrospective of Yayoi Kusama’s works at Gropius Bau.
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