A metal stand with a gramophone hopper on which a red hand lamp lies, with music stands behind it.

17.3.–
26.3.23

To the programme
Daniel Boyd, Untitled (PAITA), 2022

Daniel Boyd: RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION)

24 March to 9 July 2023

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Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora

Indigo Waves and Other Stories

Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora

6 April to 13 August 2023

To the exhibition
Detail of the London Symphony Orchestra, in the foreground two cellists are visible in front of their sheet music.

26.8.–
18.9.23

Selected progamme highlights
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What’s On

To MaerzMusik
A metal stand with a gramophone hopper on which a red hand lamp lies, with music stands behind it.

© Camille Blake

MaerzMusik 2023

The programme for MaerzMusik 2023 is now online. This year’s edition of the festival will take place from 17 to 26 March at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele and at numerous venues across Berlin. It is also the first festival under the artistic direction of the curator and music journalist Kamila Metwaly. The programme for 2023 features the works of Michael Beil, Laura Bowler, Lucia Dlugoszewski, Juliet Fraser, Noa Frenkel, Laure M. Hiendl, Elaine Mitchener, Pauline Oliveros, Mathias Spahlinger, Jakob Ullmann, ensemble mosaik, Ensemble Musikfabrik, KNM Berlin, Nadar Ensemble and many others.

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Learn more about the new design
The new logo family of the Berliner Festspiele: The “Berliner Festspiele” brand has two lines in a font that plays with ascenders and descenders; the further brands “Musikfest Berlin”, “MaerzMusik”, “Jazzfest Berlin”, “Theatertreffen”, “Gropius Bau” and “Treffen junge Szene” two lines in capitals.

Our New Look

The Berliner Festspiele are gradually introducing a new look that we have developed together with the agency 3pc. We have begun using new logos and typefaces here on the website, on our posters and digital channels from March 2023. And we look forward to integrating our new website design during the second half of the year.

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Jugendkulturkarte

JUGENDKULTURKARTE

From 1 February until 30 April 2023, all Berliners between the ages of 18 and 23 will be able to avail of the JUGENDKULTURKARTE – 50 Euros that can be spent on event-tickets at approximately 200 cultural institutions in Berlin – including the Berliner Festspiele and the Gropius Bau. We look forward to your visit!

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Lucia Dlugoszewski
MaerzMusik

Digital Guide

How not to become famous – our Digital Guide “Lucia Dlugoszewski” provides some introductory insights into the life and works of this composer, performer, inventor of instruments, writer and choreographer who will be a focal figure of MaerzMusik 2023 and 2024.

 To the digital guide
Gruppe x Gropius Bau

Full Disclosure

Gruppe and the Gropius Bau present “Full Disclosure”, a digital talk series about the pandemic, the politics of the body and the lasting effects of the Cold War era.

 To the project
Detail of the London Symphony Orchestra, in the foreground two cellists are visible in front of their sheet music.
Musikfest Berlin

Digital Guides

The Digital Guides provide interesting details and connections. With the help of this multimedia offer, the Musikfest Berlin illuminates its programme from new perspectives, conveys overarching ideas and provides information about backgrounds worth knowing. Artists’ talks, the long version of which can be found as a video in the Berliner Festspiele Mediathek, complete the offer.

 To the concerts
Gropius Bau Journal
Gropius Bau

Journal

The Gropius Bau Journal is an online platform that aims to explore entangled futures and ways of thinking and living together.

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The photo shows the band with its frontman Serhij Zhadan in the middle against a green background. The band members are wearing black jeans and black T-shirts. Some shirts show white skulls or a pug.
Performing Exiles

Of hope and resistance

"Performing Exiles" presents music from Ukraine: with literary ska-punk by "Zhadan i Sobaky" around the author Serhij Zhadan and the trio project "Vesna" by Mariana Sadovska, Christian Thomé and Markus Braun, which brings ancient music into a dialogue with electronic sounds.

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Upcoming

To the selected programme highlights
Detail of the London Symphony Orchestra, in the foreground two cellists are visible in front of their sheet music.

© Fabian Schellhorn

Musikfest Berlin 2023

The next Musikfest Berlin will take place from 26 August to 19 September 2023. A selection of five highlights from the programme is already on sale. The full programme will be published in April.

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More about the festival
Logo Performing Exiles

Performing Exiles 2023

From 15 to 25 June 2023, Performing Exiles will enrich the Berliner Festspiele programme with an interdisciplinary festival. Dedicated to a burning social issue, it brings together the work of an often overlooked artistic scene in Berlin for the first time in a comprehensive setting. For ten days, performances, theatre, discourse events and concerts will reflect on the description of exile beyond the narrow concepts of flight and political persecution. Tickets for two concerts are already available. The full programme will be published on 5 May 2023.

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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.

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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.

 To the KBB GmbH
Blue-yellow colour gradient reminiscent of the Ukrainian flag
Berliner Festspiele

Support of the Ukrainian Cultural Scene

With this letter of intent, we, the signing cultural organizations, express our intention to welcome, host and stage Ukrainian theatre artists in our venues, to make Ukrainian dramatic work visible to the European community.

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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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