Concerts
Taylor Mac: Holiday Sauce… Pandemic!
Livestream:
12.12.20, 20:00
Video On Demand:
13.12.20 – 2. 1.21
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Concerts
Jazzfest Berlin on Demand
Recordings of the concerts
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Exhibition
Masculinities
Liberation through Photography
Until
10.1.21
Closed until further notice
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Exhibition
Otobong Nkanga
There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground
Until
13.12.20
Closed until further notice
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What’s On
From 12 December 2020
Taylor Mac: Holiday Sauce… Pandemic!
Taylor Mac first performed at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele in 2019 with the monumental show “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music” and returns on 12 December with the virtual vaudeville ‘Holiday Sauce… Pandemic!’, a live stream that features music, film, variety and a whole lot more. The show will be available to view as video on demand from 13 December.
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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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Taylor Mac – A 24-Decade History of Popular Music
© Eike Walkenhorst
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! Also available for a limited period of time: “Hamlet”, directed by Johan Simons, also part of the 2020 festival edition.
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Der Menschenfeind. Ulrich Matthes, Manuel Harder, Lisa Hrdina, Franziska Machens, Jeremy Mockridge, Elias Arens
© Arno Declair
Coming Soon
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
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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