Accessibility

Access and Arrival

The Performing Arts Season takes place at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele and the Gropius Bau. Here you can read information about barrier-free access so that you can enjoy your visit. For more information and to buy tickets please contact our ticket office.

Berliner Festspiele – Ticket Office

Contact, information, reservation, telephone bookings

Daily 11:00–17:00

Tel +49 30 254 89 100
inklusion@berlinerfestspiele.de

Reductions for Attendants

If you have a severe disability and require someone to escort you, this person will be admitted free of charge – such tickets can be arranged by telephone, at the daytime box office at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and at the evening box offices. Please present the appropriate ID (“B-Ausweis”) when you enter the event.

Haus der Berliner Festspiele

You can reach the Haus der Berliner Festspiele at Schaperstraße 24 barrier-free by public transport: The underground station Spichernstraße has two lifts on the platform of the U3 in the direction of Warschauer Straße and in the direction of Krumme Lanke as well as a guide system for the blind on the two side platforms.

The Haus der Berliner Festspiele has barrier-free, step-free access to the foyer and the auditorium on the ground floor. The upper foyers and the side stage can be reached via a lift. 

A toilet for all genders and for people with reduced mobility is located on the ground floor.

More information and audio directions (in German)

Gropius Bau

Access and Arrival
The entrance to the Gropius Bau via the accessible entrance is suitable for people with limited mobility, wheelchairs and prams. This is located to the left of the main entrance and is additionally marked with signs in front of the main entrance.
From the surrounding public transport stops, this can be reached as follows:

S-Bahn station Anhalter Bahnhof (S1, S2, S25, S26): 
The nearby S-Bahn station Anhalter Bahnhof has an escalator and a lift. This is delineated by signs on the train platforms. The escalator and lift can be found on the way towards the exit “Möckernstraße/Tempodrom”. The lift leads to Askanischer Platz, which is connected to Schöneberger Straße by a tarred path. After about 100 metres on the right-hand side, you will find yourself on Stresemannstraße. Cross the street and stay on the left for about 500 metres to Niederkirchnerstraße. As soon as you have turned onto Niederkirchnerstraße, you will already see the main entrance 100 metres away, with a sign regarding the barrier-free entrance.
The S-Bahn station also has an exit via stairs. This is located in the direction of the exit “Stresemannstraße/Schöneberger Straße”, where the “Martin-Gropius-Bau” is already marked with an accompanying arrow on the platform sign. If you follow this sign, another one will point you to the right exit, which leads directly to Stresemannstraße. There, another sign points the way to the Gropius Bau. 

Bus stop Abgeordnetenhaus (M41):
On Stresemannstraße, between the Abgeordnetenhaus S-Bahn station and the turn-off to Niederkirchnerstraße, you will also find the bus stop “Abgeordnetenhaus”. If you arrive there from the direction of “Potsdamer Platz”, you must first cross the street. After about 300 metres along Stresemannstraße, you will find Niederkirchnerstraße on the right-hand side. As soon as you have turned into this street, the main entrance is 100 metres away, along with a sign directing you to the accessible entrance.

(Accessible) parking spaces
The Gropius Bau has a large car park on its west side, which can be reached via an entrance on Stresemannstraße.

There are six accessible parking spaces on the left-hand side of this car park. Niederkirchnerstraße also has a disabled-friendly car park, which is located on the side of the Abgeordnetenhaus, Berlin’s House of Representatives, diagonally opposite the main entrance.

Visit
The building provides barrier-free access to all three exhibition floors. Wheelchairs and portable museum stools are available to loan from the cloakroom.

All Gender / Accessible toilets
Toilets for all genders, which also function as accessible toilets, can be found on the first floor.