“Non-Face” by Robert Lippok & Lucas Gutierrez

We will be there.

19.3.–
28.3.21

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Film still from: “This Is Not a Game”

Video on Demand

This Is Not a Game

A short history of Q as a mindfuck game

Video On Demand

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Sunil Gupta, Untitled 22

Exhibition

Masculinities

Liberation through Photography

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What’s On
Theatertreffen Award

Theatertreffen Award

© Piero Chiussi

The Selection of 10 Productions of the 2021 Theatertreffen

The Theatertreffen-jury of critics has announced its selection of ten remarkable productions for the 2021 festival edition. 285 productions in 60 cities were viewed either in person or online. 531 votes were submitted and a total of 26 productions were suggested and discussed.

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Film still from: “This Is Not a Game”

This Is Not a Game

Playing with reality: in his video essay, Arne Vogelgesang looks at the history of and background to QAnon and considers the elements that have contributed to the rapid spread of this conspiracy theory.
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Der Menschenfeind

Der Menschenfeind. Ulrich Matthes, Manuel Harder, Lisa Hrdina, Franziska Machens, Jeremy Mockridge, Elias Arens

© Arno Declair

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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Gropius Bau What’s On

Hella Jongerius, Woven Brick (detail), 2019

Recently pusblished!

Gropius Bau Journal

The Gropius Bau Journal is an online platform that aims to explore entangled futures, and ways of thinking and living together, using the broad themes of the exhibition programme as a lens to look at the wider world.

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Sunil Gupta, Untitled 22

Exhibition

Masculinities: Liberation through Photography

Until 17 March 2021
Closed until further notice

Featuring works by Laurie Anderson, Richard Avedon, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Isaac Julien and Annette Messager, a comprehensive group exhibition at the Gropius Bau titled Masculinities: Liberation through Photography explores the ways in which masculinity is experienced, performed and socially constructed from the 1960s to the present day.

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Coming Soon
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MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues 2021

We will be there – and we hope you will be there, too! After the short-notice cancelation of MaerzMusik 2020, after a memorable year with ever-changing landscapes of expectance and many contingency plans, we are braced for an exclusive online edition of MaerzMusik 2021.
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“Non-Face” by Robert Lippok & Lucas Gutierrez
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Berliner Festspiele 70

Berliner Festspiele turn 70 this year. Plans for the first half of their anniversary year include a digital “Living Archive” and a programme of performances at the Gropius Bau conceived jointly by the festival directors and curators.
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Despite hours of rain, music enthusiasts experienced an open-air music festival of the Berliner Festwochen in autumn 1964 with unique slapstick interludes on the glassy stage.

Despite hours of rain, music enthusiasts experienced an open-air music festival of the Berliner Festwochen in autumn 1964 with unique slapstick interludes on the glassy stage.

© Film still from: “Blick in die Welt”, 1964/42, PROGRESS Film GmbH

All year round, Berliner Festspiele host a multitude of festivals, exhibitions and individual events.
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The Berliner Festspiele Edition

Berliner Festspiele

Edition No. 29

The weight of the votes: In the latest issue of the edition, Elske Rosenfeld, Klaus Wolfram and Jan Wenzel discuss how the citizens’ movements created a draft constitution and new public spheres in 1990. (in German)

Berliner Festspiele

Refurbishing at Haus der Berliner Festspiele

Construction work will continue until February 2022. During a hiatus in the refurbishment in the spring of 2021, the house will be open to the public once more, provided that the pandemic development allows this.

 Further information

More Berliner Festspiele

Solar system on the roof of the Gropius Bau

Berliner Festspiele

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.

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Berliner Festspiele

Statement by the “Initiative GG 5.3 Weltoffenheit”

As representatives of public cultural and research institutions in Germany, we share a mandate from the state to promote arts and culture, historical research and democratic education and to make these accessible to the general public. Toward this end, we rely on a public sphere that welcomes controversial debates in accordance with the norms of the German constitution. At the center of our initiative lies a common struggle against antisemitism, racism, right-wing extremism and any form of violent religious fundamentalism.

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We are many * Every single one of us.

Berliner Festspiele

The Berlin Declaration of The Many

Berlin theatres, art and cultural institutions and their associations take a clear stance against right-wing populism. We are one of them!

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