For her debut play 16GB: Tischtennisplattenpolitik (Table Tennis Politics), Zehra S&ouml;nmez received Berlin’s playwriting award for young audiences. Written in poetic yet precise language, the play explores public space, coexistence and the politics of everyday places. This staged reading presents selected excerpts from the text.&nbsp;

Situated between the panel on growing up in Kreuzberg and its artistic representation – including in film – and the parallel table tennis tournament with Kreuzberg youth centres, 16GB: Tischtennisplattenpolitik unfolds its own space of resonance. At the heart of the play are the siblings Andaç and Ceren, who receive a 16 GB memory card as a graduation gift and are asked to make a film. From this premise, Zehra S&ouml;nmez develops a text about memory, family, visibility, and social participation. The table tennis table becomes a symbol of public space – a place where encounters, conflict, and community take shape. This staged reading presents selected excerpts from the award-winning debut by the author, which will premiere at Theater an der Parkaue in November 2026.&nbsp;Zehra S&ouml;nmez is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of literature, theatre, film and visual art. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in German Studies, Art and Education, while also studying for a bachelor’s degree in Communication Design.

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16GB: Tischtennisplattenpolitik

With 36 MELODY, the dance battle taking place as part of the festival day Welcome to Kreuzberg! pays tribute to Kreuzberg’s hip-hop culture of the 1980s and 1990s. Named after the song My Melody by the Kreuzberg hip-hop groundbreakers Islamic Force, the format references one of the tracks that helped shape the district’s early hip-hop scene.

Under the artistic direction of Kadir AMIGO Memiş – a Kreuzberg-based dancer and choreographer who began dancing at the Naunynritze youth centre and later co-founded the Flying Steps Academy and the Funkin’ Stylez Festival – the event brings a 7 to Smoke All Styles Battle (a battle format in which dancers compete to win seven consecutive rounds) and a Junior Battle to Gropius Bau. Organised by Merve Ayan, a key figure in Berlin’s urban dance community, the event brings together dancers from different generations and styles. They compete against one another while celebrating the diversity of a culture that emerged in Kreuzberg and continues to thrive today.Kadir AMIGO Memiş – Artistic Director / Dancer Merve Ayan – Organiser SAMAN – Host Bgirl ANNI – Judge CRIS – Judge IMAN – Judge PEZ – Judge DJ Kizito – DJ&nbsp;Kadir AMIGO Memiş is a dancer and founding member of the legendary breaking crew Flying Steps (est. 1993). A multiple-time B-Boy World Champion, he is considered one of the trailblazers of German hip-hop culture. For more than 30 years, he has shaped the scene as a dancer, choreographer, and mentor.Saman Hamdi is a dancer, organiser and campaigner. In 2010 he became German Breaking Champion and went on to organise events including Battle of the Year (BOTY), the HollyHood Film Festival and numerous hip-hop education projects in Berlin and eastern Germany. He holds a PhD on hip-hop activism and has organised campaigns supporting causes such as anti-deportation initiatives and healthcare strikes.Cristina Buenaflor is a Berlin-based dance artist of Filipino-Spanish heritage specialising in club and street styles. She works as a performer, movement director and educator, creating participatory projects. Her work spans film, television and collaborations with brands including Zara and JBL.&nbsp;Iman Gele is a Berlin-based dancer, choreographer, host and organiser. As part of the East African diaspora, she is committed to amplifying marginalised perspectives within the dance scene. She is a member of the collectives Walashé and NDA BIVINI.Pez has been an active dancer, performer and educator for over 15 years. He has worked in film, television and commercial productions and taught in Germany, South Korea, Spain, France, Italy, Thailand and China. Since 2024, he has focused on organising Waving events and strengthening Berlin’s dance community.BGirl Anni discovered her passion for breaking at the age of six and became the German SDF Champion in 2024. She is trained and mentored by BGirl Jilou and also dances with the Next Flava Crew under BBoy Tayfun. Most recently, Anni won the 1 May Battle in Berlin and the second DTV Ranking Battle. She is the current German Junior BGirl Vice Champion.DJ Kizito (Joshua Kizito Nsubuga) is a Berlin-based DJ with roots in the hip-hop freestyle dance scene. His distinctive, balanced sets combine familiar tracks with unexpected discoveries. He has played at battles and clubs across Germany, Japan and Cuba, including his own productions in his sets.Merve Ayan is a project organiser with experience in managing arts and cultural projects. Her work focuses on dance events, network building and community and artist management. For 36 MELODY, she is responsible for the event’s organisational coordination and implementation.

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Taking the exhibition Kreuzberg: Kunst und Migration seit 1960 (Art and Migration since 1960) as its point of departure, the panel Growing Up in Kreuzberg brings together artists and contemporary witnesses to discuss the political and artistic forms of self-organisation that defined Kreuzberg and West Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s.

The presence of migrant children in the streets of Kreuzberg was shaping artists’ perspectives on the district in the 1970s. Works with titles such as Sanierungsspielplatz (Construction Site Playground, 1974), Analphabeten in zwei Sprachen (Illiterate in Two Languages, 1975) and Kinderw&uuml;nsche (Children’s Wishes, 1979) addressed the difficult starting conditions faced by children who had not been considered within the system of the so-called guest work. The participants reflect on how childhood and youth in Kreuzberg have been portrayed through artistic practice, and discuss youth initiatives that played a formative role in the development of new artistic expressions.Neco Çelik is a Berlin filmmaker, screenwriter and theatre director. His artistic practice spans cinema, television, theatre, opera and dance. Çelik has directed numerous films, including Urban Guerillas (2003) and Alltag (2002). Shaped by the youth and hip-hop culture of Kreuzberg, he has been actively involved in cultural youth work and social initiatives for many years.Abuzer G&uuml;ler moved from Turkey to West Berlin in the 1970s and studied painting at the arts academy Hochschule der K&uuml;nste. In his works from the 1980s, personal memories of his Alevi-Kurdish family in Turkey often overlap with&nbsp;everyday observations in Kreuzberg. Alongside his artistic practice, he has been actively involved with the youth centre Schlesische 27 since 1983.Claudia Hummel works at the intersection of artistic practice and education and researches the history of artistic-educational practices in West Berlin since the 1970s. From 2009 to 2024, she taught at the Berlin University of the Arts. She currently heads the Major programme Critical Social Practice in Art Education at Zurich University of the Arts.Mehrangis Montazami-Dabui came from Iran to West Berlin and began studying at the film academy Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb) in 1972. In her documentary films, including Analphabeten in zwei Sprachen (Illiterate in Two Languages, 1975), Wir wollen auch leben (We Want to Live, Too, 1976/78) and Kindertr&auml;nen (Children’s Tears, 1985), she systematically examined the living conditions of the children of labour migrants in Kreuzberg and West Berlin.

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Yılmaz Atmaca, Eda Aydın, F&uuml;sun Cibir, Taies Farzan, David Frommhold, Leon Kostner, Sebastian Kowski, Sasun Sayan, Amir Shokati

With Bizim Radyo: Verlorene Stimmen des Widerstands (Forgotten Voices of Resistance), Kaya Peters invites audiences to a listening session in the Waiting Room. &nbsp;

The documentary radio play traces the history of the Turkish-language radio station of the same name, which broadcast from Leipzig in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) during the so-called Cold War. Their programme served as an important source of information for many people in Turkey as well as for migrant workers in West Germany. Through voices, music and archival material, the work brings this largely forgotten transnational history to life.&nbsp;Kaya Peters is an artist, curator, and cultural producer, living in Berlin. His practice weaves together sound, space, and storytelling, with a focus on post-migrant memory cultures and social movements. Peters works as a curatorial assistant at Galerie Wedding – Raum f&uuml;r zeitgen&ouml;ssische Kunst and, is part of İÇ İÇE Festival as well as the artistic team of B&auml;renzwinger, Berlin.As part of Berlin Art Week

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Bizim Radyo: Verlorene Stimmen des Widerstands

Forgotten Voices of Resistance – Bizim Radyo

From the 1970s onwards, the bodies of migrant women increasingly became the focal point of racist public debates. In response, migrant women from different backgrounds and social classes in Kreuzberg and West Berlin formed alliances to fight for independent residency rights, political participation and gender equality. Moderated by Elisabeth Kimmerle, this panel discussion with Aso Agace, Kook-Nam Cho-Ruwwe and Serpil Yeter explores these networks and forms of self-organisation, as well as the artistic and political strategies they developed and their legacy for contemporary intersectional struggles.

A social pedagogue, conflict mediator and long-time advocate for migrant women, Aso Agace has devoted her career to educational counselling and intercultural dialogue. In 1981, she founded Hînbûn, an international education and advice centre for women, their families and migrant women affected by violence, which she led for 35 years. Since 1991, she has worked as a counsellor and interpreter at Zentrum &Uuml;berleben, a foundation for survivors of torture.Kook-Nam Cho-Ruwwe is a board member of DaMigra, Germany’s umbrella organisation of migrant women’s associations, and serves on the advisory board of Bundesstiftung Gleichstellung – the federal foundation for gender equality. Having arrived in West Germany from South Korea in 1970 as part of the labour recruitment agreements, she worked as a registered nurse in Berlin. In 1978, she co-founded the Koreanische Frauengruppe in Deutschland, which campaigns for equal opportunities for migrant women in employment and social participation.Elisabeth Kimmerle earned her doctorate at the ZZF Potsdam with her research on migration, gender, and political spaces. Previously, she worked as co-project lead and editor of the German-Turkish online platform taz.gazete. Her book Frauen in Bewegung. Politische R&auml;ume von Migrantinnen aus der T&uuml;rkei in West-Berlin, 1961-1989&nbsp;was published by Wallstein in 2025. She currently researches intimacy and lethal violence in Germany since the late nineteenth century.Serpil Yeter studied painting at arts academy İstanbul Devlet G&uuml;zel Sanatlar Akademisi. She lived in Berlin for more than 20 years and currently works in Istanbul and Bodrum, Turkey. Between 1980 and 1985, she was among the founders of the Turkish-German puppet theatre group Taschentheatergruppe, which collaborated, among others, with the Theatermanufaktur Berlin. Her works have been exhibited internationally and are included in numerous public and private collections.

Frauen kämpfen: Migrantisch-feministische Selbstorganisation

Women’s Struggles: Migrant Feminist Self-Organising

Organised by Outreach Berlin, a mobile youth work team in Kreuzberg, young artists will present their own songs and tracks from the neighbourhood during an Open Mic in the atrium. The open mic will be hosted by Željko Ristić.

Outreach Berlin supports young people through mobile youth work directly in their neighborhoods, developing projects together with them in public space. &nbsp;Željko Ristić is a streetworker in Kreuzberg who has worked for many years at the intersection of youth culture, sports, and community engagement. His work focuses on fostering participation, creating spaces for encounter, and shaping public space together. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;

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Sema Moritz – Artistic Director Martin Lillich – Bass Serkan Duran – Bouzouki, Bağlama&nbsp; Cevat Maskar – Percussion Asmin Su K&ouml;k, Ayşe Berrin Konuralp, Barbara Basile, Bet&uuml;l Fırat, Dilara Pak, Dilek &Ouml;lç&uuml;m, Eda Aylin Doğanay, G&ouml;zde B&ouml;c&uuml;, G&uuml;l&uuml;zar Mertin, H&uuml;lya Ede-Uçta, Kebire Y&uuml;cesan Friebel, Meltem Schulze, Nebahat Başbolat, Necla Deniz, Selda Şakar, Selver Mersin, Sermin Doğanay, Suna K&ouml;k – Choir &nbsp;

On the occasion of the festival day Welcome to Kreuzberg!, the SEYYARE Anatolian Women’s Choir, a multilingual women’s choir between Anatolia, the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and Berlin, will present a musical programme in the atrium of Gropius Bau. The choir draws on the tradition of Turkish workers’ choirs in West Berlin, combining it with multilingual songs about memory, solidarity and communal life.

The SEYYARE Anatolian Women’s Choir was founded in early 2024 through collective singing at the funeral of Filiz Taşkın (1944–2024), a prominent Kreuzberg activist and witness to the history of labour migration. Under the artistic direction of Sema Moritz, the choir brings together around 20 women who perform folk songs from Anatolia, the Balkans, the Caucasus and the Middle East in their original languages. SEYYARE premiered on International Women’s Day 2025 at Maxim Gorki Theater. Since then, the choir has developed into an independent musical collective that understands music as a living archive – a space where memories, languages and stories are carried across generations.Sema Moritz is a singer, storyteller and musical researcher. Living between Berlin and Istanbul, she has worked for more than four decades at the intersection of music, memory and artistic freedom. She understands music as a space for encounter, autonomy and collective remembrance.

Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian, Ladino, Arabic, Italian, Assyrian, Greek, Farsi, Zaza and Azerbaijani 

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Spielen und Toben im BAUBAU

BAUBAU Take-over

With Kreuzberg United, NaunynRitze, one of Kreuzberg’s most influential centres for youth work, takes its game on the road to Gropius Bau. For decades, it has served as a hub for community, participation and self-organisation within the neighbourhood. For one day, the long-running relay cup tournament for Kreuzberg youth centres moves into the atrium, where teams from the neighbourhood compete for the trophy.

NaunynRitze is a sports, education and cultural centre in the heart of Berlin-Kreuzberg. The organisation’s main focus is open youth work, with a particular emphasis on cultural and sports-based activities. Closely connected to Berlin’s hip-hop scene, NaunynRitze has helped shape the city’s cultural history like few other places. As a space for encounter, exchange and communication, it provides non-commercial activities and opportunities for participation within the neighbourhood. Through its open youth programme at NaunynRitze and its open children’s programme at Civilipark, it creates accessible spaces for exploration and personal development, where children and young people can actively shape activities according to their own interests and aspirations.

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Kreuzberg United

We are celebrating Kreuzberg – with a major festival day full of talks, readings, music, dance and shared activities. The day is part of the group exhibition <a href="${link:{uuid:{d637606d-e485-431a-a651-8dcd98879831},repository:{website},provider:{jcr},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/2026/ausstellungen/kreuzberg}}}">Kreuzberg: Kunst und Migration seit 1960</a> at Gropius Bau, which explores migration, work and everyday life in the neighbourhood from the 1960s to the fall of the Berlin Wall. For Welcome to Kreuzberg!, artists from the exhibition come together with local initiatives, associations and neighbours who have shaped the district and continue to make it what it is today.

With Aso Agace, Neco Çelik, Kook-Nam Cho-Ruwwe, Abuzer G&uuml;ler, Claudia Hummel, Elisabeth Kimmerle, Kreuzberg United (NaunynRitze), Mehrangis Montazami-Dabui, Sema Moritz &amp; SEYYARE Anatolian Women’s Choir, Kaya Peters, Željko Ristić / Outreach Berlin, Zehra S&ouml;nmez, Serpil Yeter, 36 MELODY – Dance Battle with Kadir AMIGO MemişCurated by Nora-Swantje Almes, Curator Live Programme and Outreach, with &nbsp;Edona Kryeziu, Curatorial Assistant Outreach, and Elena Setzer, Assistant Curator

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Located in the centre of Berlin, the Gropius Bau is a lively place for encounters with art and each other. As an internationally renowned exhibition centre, it offers space for major exhibitions and performances by contemporary artists.

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We’re Looking Forward to Welcoming You Again in March!

Gropius Bau is currently closed for exhibition preparations. Our restaurant Beba and our bookstore will reopen on 4 March, before we kick off our spring programme, featuring a performance by <a href="${link:{uuid:{16d14ae2-9463-45b4-91de-95a846c0f377},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/2026/veranstaltungen/leila-hekmat}}}">Leila Hekmat</a>, the <a href="${link:{uuid:{fd3f9e70-97e8-46fb-b639-fc701f8d4039},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/baubau/veranstaltungen/baubau-play-day-pop-up-26}}}">big pop-up</a> of our play space BAUBAU and the opening of our <a href="${link:{uuid:{baa82be9-6411-41e5-806b-4889004c8459},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/2026/ausstellungen/peter-hujar-liz-deschenes}}}">Peter Hujar / Liz Deschenes</a> exhibition. Find more details in our <a href="${link:{uuid:{62c3018b-bb40-46ce-8019-646ec5cd2e4a},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/besuch/informationen}}}">Information &amp; Tickets</a> section.

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Talks and performances – free admission

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With more than 130 international musicians performing in 24 acts, Jazzfest Berlin 2026 presents a multi-faceted view of the global jazz scene. The full festival programme, complete with concerts, films, jam sessions, discursive events and a range of community and outreach projects is published. Advance ticket sales are on.

Jazzfest Berlin

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With A Year without Summer by Florentina Holzinger, the last of the 10 most remarkable productions selected for Theatertreffen 2026 will be presented this autumn. The performances will take place at the Volksb&uuml;hne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. Remaining tickets may be available at the box office.

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The fourth edition of the Performing Arts Season focuses on myths and rituals – with works by international artists such as Marina Abramović, Marie Chouinard and Dumb Type. Advance tickets are available.

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Through contributions to the programmes of various festivals, as well as a specially developed project unfolding in urban space, the Berliner Festspiele place a particular focus on performative and musical arts from Japan in their anniversary season.

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Kunst und Migration seit 1960

Nowhere were the social and cultural changes in West Germany more powerfully manifested than in Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighbourhood. Here, the transformations reshaping life in the Federal Republic through labour recruitment agreements with countries such as Italy, Greece and Turkey played out on a local scale. The group exhibition Kreuzberg: Kunst und Migration seit 1960 (Art and Migration since 1960) presents artistic perspectives on migration, work and life in the district that is also home to Gropius Bau.

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Dabei sein und nicht schweigen

For more than five decades, Gabriele St&ouml;tzer has been grappling with questions of justice, gender and self-determination. Her own body often plays a central role in her work – not as an object, but as a site of resistance and feminist self-assertion. Opened at Gropius Bau in June 2026, Dabei sein und nicht schweigen (Showing up and Not Remaining Silent) is the artist’s largest institutional solo exhibition to date.&nbsp;

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A&nbsp;Play Space for Kids

Playing, laughing, making noise, letting off steam, doing nothing – all in an exhibition venue! With BAUBAU, the artist Kerstin Br&auml;tsch designed an&nbsp;admission-free play space for kids, where more is allowed than forbidden. On Gropius Bau’s ground floor, colourful wallpapers, structures, objects and open-ended material called “loose parts” configure flexible spaces that are shaped by children’s activities. They set the tone and decide what happens in this place.

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A Short History from 1900 to the Present

What has been the role of play in public space, both historically and in the present? Complementing BAUBAU, our free play space for kids, Gabriela Burkhalter’s Playing in the City presentation traces the history of playgrounds since their emergence in 1900 to today. The free presentation is open to all and can be seen in two rooms next to the play space’s entrance.

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The Practice – What Moves Artists

The Practice – What Moves Artists&nbsp;is a book series by Gropius Bau that invites artists to showcase a practice that they pursue, that has influenced them or that has been with them for a long time. In the fourth volume of the series On Fleeing into the Public, new drawings are superimposed over the artist Gabriele St&ouml;tzer’s photographic archive and traverse a conversation that revolves around the relationship between the underground and the public, her beginnings as an artist and the continuation of her work.

Gabriele St&ouml;tzer: On Fleeing into the Public

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A Vibrant Place for Enganging with Art and Each Other

Located in the centre of Berlin, Gropius Bau is a lively place to encounter art and each other. The internationally renowned institution is part of the Berliner Festspiele and stages large-scale exhibitions and performances by contemporary artists, offering new perspectives on our present.

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The Practice – What Moves Artists&nbsp;is a book series by Gropius Bau that invites artists to showcase a practice that they pursue, that has influenced them or that has been with them for a long time. In the second volume of the series, artist, performer and author Vaginal Davis looks back on the saucy underground scenes of Los Angeles and Berlin together with former bandmates.&nbsp;On Dangerous Ground recounts past gigs, spectacular live performances and well-kept secrets.

Vaginal Davis: On Dangerous Ground

Nowhere were the social and cultural changes of 1960s and 1970s West Germany more powerfully manifest than in Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighbourhood. Here, the broader transformations reshaping life in the Federal Republic through labour recruitment agreements with countries including Italy, Greece, and Turkey became visible at the local scale. The group exhibition focuses on the diverse and largely overlooked cultural production on the topic of labour migration and on how artists in the neighbourhood have responded to the tensions and issues of their time.

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With Andrew Durbin, Biliana Voutchkova, Gary Schneider, Queer Analog Darkroom and Selin Davasse

On the occasion of <a href="${link:{uuid:{baa82be9-6411-41e5-806b-4889004c8459},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/2026/ausstellungen/peter-hujar-liz-deschenes}}}">Peter Hujar / Liz Deschenes: Persistence of Vision</a>, Sp&auml;tschicht x C/O Berlin turns its focus on 26 March to photography within the shifting terrains of urban space, visibility, and resistance. Look forward to performances, a workshop, a screening and a reading. Admission is free.

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We are looking forward to welcoming you back in mid-March with the reopening of our play space, <a href="${link:{uuid:{df42e57d-a14a-4b44-a5e4-9d3e7dcab5a6},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/baubau}}}">BAUBAU</a> (on 22 March), and two exhibitions, <a href="${link:{uuid:{55d64239-53fe-4b12-8567-a63191c6cae4},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/2025/ausstellungen/vaginal-davis}}}">Vaginal Davis: Fabelhaftes Produkt</a> (from 21 March) and <a href="${link:{uuid:{9618c701-bd05-432e-b688-5943e1f7fc57},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/2025/ausstellungen/yoko-ono}}}">YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND</a> (from 11 April). For details on opening hours and tickets, please visit our <a href="${link:{uuid:{62c3018b-bb40-46ce-8019-646ec5cd2e4a},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/besuch/informationen}}}">Information &amp; Tickets</a> page. We look forward to seeing you soon!

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Anl&auml;sslich des 75. Jubil&auml;ums der Berliner Festspiele l&auml;dt der K&uuml;nstler Akira Takayama zu gef&uuml;hrten Touren auf der Berliner Ringbahn ein, die Begegnungen mit Geistern alternativer Zuk&uuml;nfte erm&ouml;glichen.

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Internationale Spitzenorchester, renommierte Dirigent*innen und herausragende Solist*innen pr&auml;sentieren beim Musikfest Berlin ein vielf&auml;ltiges Konzertprogramm – von Opernauff&uuml;hrungen bis zu zeitgen&ouml;ssischen Werken. Der Ticketvorverkauf l&auml;uft.