“Limits of Knowing“ explored the utmost borders of the rational knowledge. Inspired by agnoseology – the “theory of unknowability” – the interdisciplinary programme invited you to float between reason and imagination. States that are less popular in our knowledge-​based society, like anticipation, premonition or bewilderment, can serve as a way into artistic, scientific and philosophical issues. Immersive artworks attempted to transform ideas into sensory experiences, concepts into “felt” sense and question our perception of reality by using current technical devices such as clothing with sensors, smartphone applications, VR glasses or analogue techniques such as scenography or narrative spaces.

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What’s On

Exhibitions and Installations

On September 14, 2015 at 5:51 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors measured ripples in the fabric of spacetime – gravitational waves – arriving at the Earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe. Announcement LIGO Caltech / MIT, 11.02.2016For over 100 years, we have known – after Einstein – that time is an animate and inconstant physical quantity. But only theoretically: within all possible changes to the three main components of the universe – space, time &amp; energy – the fluctuation of time is the only one that has always escaped our sensorial capacities, and forever existed exclusively in our minds. However, this situation changed dramatically on February 11th, 2016. On this date, an announcement by LIGO Caltech &amp; MIT told the world of the first-ever detection of time-fluctuation, achieved with the help of the most sensitive machine ever to be built by humankind.Following LIGO’s vital incentive, “Arrival of Time” is an exhibition that celebrates just that: the arrival of time in its other, more exotic guise – as an outlandishly curvaceous, pliant, and irrepressibly animate component of the universe. To approach an understanding of this paradoxical phenomenon, “Arrival of Time” turns to immersive aesthetics, through works created especially for this exhibition by Prof. Rana X. Adhikari, William Basinski, Rainer Kohlberger, and Evelina Domnitch &amp; Dmitry Gelfand. Offering experiential approaches to that which we cannot yet grasp, it stages a “Black Hole Theater”, a sensory overload of quantum fluctuations, and invites you to become acquainted with the owner of the most complex perceptual apparatuses in the animal kingdom.The exhibition is accompanied by a Study in which visitors are welcome to linger, consult the books made available in the library, and puzzle at ease over this most perplexing of phenomena.

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<h3>Cast</h3>Director/Compositon <a href="${link:{uuid:{7b47224f-4204-402a-a11e-5c4bdcdc9ffe},repository:{artists},path:{/bfs-mediathek/S/chris-salter}}}">Chris Salter</a> + <a href="${link:{uuid:{a59069a4-f8d1-4905-ac29-1d73c330f166},repository:{artists},path:{/bfs-mediathek/T/tez}}}">TeZ</a> in Zusammenarbeit mit Ian Hattwick Costume Design JNBY China Technical Development Input Devices and Music Interaction Lab (IDMIL), McGill University, Montreal, Kanada Technical Assistance Marcelo Wanderley Technical Director Ian Hattwick Technical Implementation Ivan Franco, Julian Neri, Alex Nieva, Patrick Ignoto, Louis Fournier Production Manager Sven Gareis Production Assistance Garrett Lockhart Odour Consultant Caro Verbeek Management Remco Schuurbiers – DISK Agency, Berlin

The immersive spatial installation “Haptic Field (v2.0)” is a multisensory experience in which touch, sight and listening fuse into a holistic experience. First, the visitors dress in overalls specially designed by JNBY, whose semi-transparent hoods obscure their view, while integrated sensors and vibrating actuators convey intense sensory impressions; a hallucinatory and dreamlike environment is created, in which everything is in motion. The participants are guided through the rooms by the moving vibrations pulsing through the clothes as well as shimmering light and darkness. The visitors’ fixation on the sense of sight becomes secondary, space begins to dissolve and their perception of their own physical boundaries becomes blurred. Perhaps this was how life felt before the mirror stage?

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<h3>Cast</h3>Concept Rimini Protokoll (Stefan Kaegi / Dominic Huber) Text <a href="${link:{uuid:{d5f83bc5-2192-4045-8a8d-aa9e1b0c7480},repository:{artists},path:{/bfs-mediathek/K/stefan-kaegi}}}">Stefan Kaegi</a> Scenography <a href="${link:{uuid:{59dda9c8-bfd3-4797-8c3f-a9dc960e9309},repository:{artists},path:{/bfs-mediathek/H/dominic-huber}}}">Dominic Huber</a> Video <a href="${link:{uuid:{0bd371b7-7700-4c41-9134-7a995cc54bb2},repository:{artists},path:{/bfs-mediathek/D/bruno-deville}}}">Bruno Deville</a> Dramaturgy <a href="${link:{uuid:{106912bf-78dc-46e6-a63f-3a609730188f},repository:{artists},path:{/bfs-mediathek/H/Katja-Hagedorn}}}">Katja Hagedorn</a> Sound Frédéric Morier Assistant Director Magali Tosato, Déborah Helle (internship) Assistant Set Design Clio Van Aerde, Marine Brosse (internship) Technical Design and Installation Construction Théâtre de Vidy, Lausanne

What remains of us after we die? How can memories be staged?Stefan Kaegi accompanied eight people who, for different reasons, have decided to prepare their farewell. Thus, in collaboration with the set designer Dominic Huber, spaces were created that tell the story of what remains of people when they are no longer there: an EU ambassador documents a foundation that will continue her work in Africa when she is gone. A Zurich-based Muslim organises the repatriation of his body to his hometown of Istanbul. A German banker near the end of his life reflects on the role he played in National Socialism. A researcher into dementia realises that he does not want to live with the disease that he himself has researched his whole life long. A base jumper takes out a term life insurance for his family, so that in case of his death, he will not leave behind a financial mess. And a ninety-year-old employee wonders what story the photographs of her life will tell.“Nachlass” is like a 21st-century pyramid or mausoleum, which has been designed by its future owner: here, eight contemporary positions illustrate what legacy and heritage mean today. What do we want to pass on to the people we love, and what do we want to leave for the society we live in? The audience enters eight immersive spaces, accompanied by voices, objects and images as well as the limits of their own existence, at the place where the baton is passed on to the next generation.Part of the programme Limits of Knowing

Rimini Protokoll (Stefan Kaegi / Dominic Huber)

Rimini Protokoll (Stefan Kaegi Dominic Huber)

Director, Scenography, Script &amp; Concept: <a href="${link:{uuid:{a32af75a-c9c7-4109-9b04-5c039ba8f74a},repository:{artists},path:{/bfs-mediathek/E/mona-el-gammal}}}">Mona el Gammal</a> Technical Director &amp; Creative Technologist: Philipp Wenning Director of Photography: Christian M&ouml;ller Executive &amp; Creative Producer: S&ouml;nke Kirchhof With: Rike Will (Ivo Solar), Sascha Sommer (Shevek Puts) Original voices: Gil Webster, Peter Feltham, Julia Whitham, Richard Doust, Ella Perrin, Amina Nouns Dramaturgical Consultation: Thomas Fischer, Dr. Thomas Oberender, Carolin Hochleichter, Daniel Richter Assistant director: Dana Georgiadis Co-Author / Author Forum: Evol M. Puts Scenography assistant: Julia Bahn Scenography construction: Thomas Fischer, Bastian Sp&auml;th, Martin Heise, Amina Nouns, Hannes Tr&ouml;lsch, Teresa Fischer, Florian Wulff, Line Sexauer Support: Alexander Mayer, Diana Ròsza, Lara Hofmann, Sarah Haas, Torben Otten, Ida &amp; Ida Graphic design: Christian Bo Johansen, Rike Will Make-up artist: Julia Grieshaber Costume design: Antonia Bitter Costume design assistant: Luisa Wandschneider Fraunhofer HHI Volumetric video supervisor: Ingo Feldmann Additional supervision: Oliver Schreer, Peter Kauff Technical concept: Bernd Duckstein Recording &amp; camera calibration:: Florian Krassow, Michael Reinhardt, Danny Tatzelt, Marcus Zepp Volumetric data calculation: Narges Baharestani, Thomas Ebner, Aurela Shehu, Sylvain Renault 3D scans: Steffen Sommer Camera assistant: Jens Hallmann, Kevin Ruhland Lighting design &amp; Gaffer: Michael Rudolph Lighting design assistant: Martin Heise, Martin Siemann Sound design: Tom F&ouml;rderer, Christian Bo Johansen (Kern) Re-recording mixing &amp; spatial mixing: Martin Recker Postproduction supervisor &amp; editor: Philipp Wenning Assistant editor &amp; VR Graphics: Jessica Zippel Postproduction stereographer: S&ouml;nke Kirchhof Stitching &amp; Compositing: Ba Linh Vu Motion Graphics: Tim Stadie VFX Artist: Chris Blaser Production management: Maximilian Fleming Location management: Philipp Eichhorn Consultation Narrative Space: Penelope Wehrli, Henning F&uuml;lle, Marc Poorterman Co-Author IFM: Juri Padel Website IFM: Oliver Hardes Website Rhizomat: Michael Bock Catering: La Buvette – Philipp Lumpp, Leimann &amp; Georgiadis Associate producers: Simon Ofenloch (ZDF/ARTE), Kay Meseberg (ARTE360/ARTE G.E.I.E.), Annina Zwettler (ARTE Deutschland), Jochen Werner (Berliner Festspiele)

The 360° movie “RHIZOMAT VR” extends the <a href="${link:{uuid:{7a3996db-a6d2-4553-b6ef-9890621b2725},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/programm/archiv/immersion/2016/rhizomat}}}">Narrative Space “RHIZOMAT”</a> built by the artist <a href="artist_connector">Mona el Gammal</a>, from physical into digital space. In the world of “RHIZOMAT VR”, the Institut f&uuml;r Methode (IFM), a global private company, has replaced the state and suppresses and monitors people with the promise of security and stability, down to the minutest areas of their life.

The underground group Rhizomat, whose members push ahead in research into an alternative social order in individual cells, as well as organising practical resistance, rebels against the totalitarian IFM. Rhizomat has set itself the task of snatching those whose free will has not been completely extinguished from the dictatorial system. The regular mind control tests by the IFM are used by Rhizomat to set up alliances. Between dystopia and utopia, obedience and freedom, a struggle develops for each individual.Mona el Gammal’s work is an unusual form of political theatre: without actors, and with a stage that extends into the Internet and virtual space. In winter 2016, visitors were able to explore a dystopian yet very real-looking installation in a former telecommunications office in Palisadenstra&szlig;e in Berlin that took up several floors. There, in a very individual way, they could discover the traces and evidence of these stories that took place in these rooms and link them. The installation ran for three months 12 hours a day. With the 360 ° movie “RHIZOMAT VR”, this now-defunct space can be entered and seen anywhere.“RHIZOMAT VR” is the pilot project of a cooperation between ARTE and Berliner Festspiele / Immersion. The film, which was co-produced with INVR.SPACE, explores the artistic potential of connecting theatrical forms with new technological possibilities. At the same time, the film reviews the new medium with criticism and reflection, thereby leading the way to the development of virtual reality as a medium of art. Welcome to the Institut f&uuml;r Methode.

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The Berliner Festspiele organise a range of festivals and art exhibitions, concerts, dance and theatre performances, readings, lectures, debates and much more throughout the year. These events are presented at a range of locations across Berlin but are concentrated primarily at their own two venues: the Gropius Bau and the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

The Berliner Festspiele programme archive includes all events from 2004 onwards.

The archive pages of the current festivals and programme series can be found in the menu of the respective festival under Programme/Archive.

Berliner Festspiele&rsquo;s own events, guest events and past festivals and programme series are listed on this page.

&ldquo;Limits of Knowing&ldquo; explored the utmost borders of the rational knowledge. Inspired by agnoseology &ndash; the &ldquo;theory of unknowability&rdquo; &ndash; the interdisciplinary programme invited you to float between reason and imagination. States that are less popular in our knowledge-​based society, like anticipation, premonition or bewilderment, can serve as a way into artistic, scientific and philosophical issues. Immersive artworks attempted to transform ideas into sensory experiences, concepts into &ldquo;felt&rdquo; sense and question our perception of reality by using current technical devices such as clothing with sensors, smartphone applications, VR glasses or analogue techniques such as scenography or narrative spaces.

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The Berliner Festspiele&rsquo;s programme series &ldquo;Immersion&rdquo; presented the work of artists who transcended the conventional oppositions between work and viewer, stage and auditorium, object and observer.

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Berliner Festspiele 75

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In 2026 the Berliner Festspiele celebrate their 75th anniversary. A selection of events programmed throughout the entire year engage take the anniversary as their theme or mark the occasion with works at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, the Gropius Bau, the Philharmonie, on Berlin’s Ringbahn and at other locations in the city. Outstanding international that liberal societies and their cultural institutions face in a new, multipolar world order. artists such as Marina Abramović, Gabriele St&ouml;tzer and Akira Takayama will set the agenda both thematically and aesthetically. Entitled “Die gro&szlig;e Unordnung” (The Great Disorder), the four-day focus Reflexes &amp; Reflections will also enquire about the challenges.

75 Years of the Berliner Festspiele

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The massacre, hostage-taking and rocket attacks by Hamas have shaken us deeply. The grue-some attack on Israel on 7&nbsp;October left us stunned and initially lost for words.

The Berliner Festspiele on Current Events in Israel, Gaza and Germany

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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.

Support of the Ukrainian Cultural Scene

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In June 2026, Sasha Waltz &amp; Guests will be performing the productions Beethoven&nbsp;7 and In&nbsp;C at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. Sasha Waltz &amp; Guests will also be staging a special evening to celebrate the 75th&nbsp;anniversary of the Goethe-Institut.

Sasha Waltz &amp; Guests

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Tickets for ten selected concert highlights of the Musikfest Berlin, which in 2026 will also mark the 75th&nbsp;anniversary of the Berliner Festspiele, are already available. The programme includes Gy&ouml;rgy Ligeti’s grotesquely humorous anti-opera Le Grand Macabre and George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.

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The exploration of myths and rituals shapes the fourth edition of the Performing Arts Season with works by Marina Abramović, Mario Banushi, Marie Chouinard, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas, Ictus, Bl!ndman, Dumb Type, Damien Jalet / Kohei Nawa and Gisèle Vienne. The programme will be published on 18 June, and advance ticket sales will start.

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The Theatertreffen’s jury of critics announced their selection of the 10 most remarkable productions for the 2026 Theatertreffen. The programme will be published on 2&nbsp;April, advance ticket sale will begin on 18 April, 10:00.

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Advance ticket sales will start on 18&nbsp;April at 10:00

The Programme Has Been Published

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6 and 7 March 2026How does the bourgeois longing for revolt take shape, when the faith in progress and reason is unsettled? Berlin-based artist and director Leila Hekmat explores this question in her newly commissioned performance Roses Rising – The Movement, premiering in the Gropius Bau’s atrium. Moving between concert and ballet, the piece transforms the space into a landscape hovering between bunker, rehearsal room and dreamscape and invites the audience to witness a dinner party unravel into a happening.

Leila Hekmat: Roses Rising – The Movement

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19 March to 28 June 2026Working in New York City between the Stonewall uprising of 1969 and the onset of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, Peter Hujar captured a pivotal cultural moment in piercing black-and-white photographs. In the exhibition Persistence of Vision, Hujar’s photographs are interspersed with contemporary works by New York City-based artist Liz Deschenes, opening up an intergenerational dialogue on photography.&nbsp;

Peter Hujar / Liz Deschenes: Persistence of Vision

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Reopening on 15 March 2026Playing, 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.

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15 April to 23 August 2026One of the most influential performance artists of all time, Marina Abramović presents Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition at Gropius Bau in spring 2026. The show traces her ongoing engagement with ritual, eroticism, death and the body as a site of political resistance.

Marina Abramović: Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition

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Widely regarded as one of the most original and influential artists of the 20th&nbsp;century, Diane Arbus’ bold black-and-white photographs demolish aesthetic conventions and upend all certainties. With Diane Arbus: Konstellationen, Gropius Bau presents the most comprehensive exhibition of her work to date. Featuring 454&nbsp;prints, many of them shown here for the first time, Konstellationen offers new perspectives on Arbus’ iconic images and the wide range of her portraiture.

Diane Arbus: Konstellationen

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Marking twenty years since artist, writer and performer Vaginal Davis made Berlin her home, Gropius Bau presents the first comprehensive solo exhibition of her work in Germany. In her expansive oeuvre, punk meets glamour, queer activism meets Black counter-culture and resistance meets desire. Fabelhaftes Produkt offers an overview of Davis’ practice and artistic collaborations.

Vaginal Davis:&nbsp;Fabelhaftes Produkt

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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.

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Ligia Lewis is a central figure in redefining performance within the context of the visual arts. In her multifaceted practice, she combines performance, live installation and film. &nbsp;From autumn 2025, Gropius Bau presents I’M NOT HERE FORRRRR…, the artist and choreographer’s most comprehensive solo exhibition to date. It brings together new and existing works that explore themes of race, gender, violence and resistance.

Ligia Lewis: I’M NOT HERE FORRRRR…

Upcoming Exhibitions at the Gropius&nbsp;Bau

Since 14 March 2026Playing, 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.

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19 June to 6 December 2026For 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. Opening at Gropius Bau in June 2026, Dabei sein und nicht schweigen will be the artist’s largest institutional solo exhibition to date.

Gabriele St&ouml;tzer: Dabei sein und nicht schweigen

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions at the Gropius&nbsp;Bau

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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.

Sustainable Environmental Performance

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Active since 2018, the national network DIE VIELEN formulates clear positions against enmity, right-wing extremism and attacks against artistic freedom. With the campaign “SHIELD &amp; SHINE”, the alliance is calling out to take an even stronger stance in support of a plural, democratic orientation of the world.

SHIELD &amp; SHINE – We Are Many

<h3>Sustainable Environmental Performance</h3>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.

All year round, Berliner Festspiele host a multitude of festivals, exhibitions and individual events in two houses – the Haus der Berliner Festspiele at Schaperstra&szlig;e and the Gropius Bau near Potsdamer Platz – and other venues in the city.

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On 13 January, the Theatertreffen’s jury of critics announced their selection of the 10 most remarkable productions for the 2026 Theatertreffen at a press conference. Our congratulations go to the nominated production teams and all participants!

The 10 Most Remarkable Productions 2026

In interviews Eun-Me Ahn, Akram Khan and Ligia Lewis discuss their artistic practice and the creation of their recent works, which were presented during the Performing Arts Season 2025/26. Essays and a lecture also offer insights into the significance of dolls in Gisèle Vienne’s work, as well as into the rehearsal process for Thorsten Lensing’s Dancing Idiots.

Performing Arts Season 2025/26

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Through diverse choreographies and forms of expression in contemporary and urban dance, young dancers explored what constitutes their own identity and how it asserts itself in interaction with others. The recordings of the productions invited to the Tanztreffen der Jugend 20245 are available in the media library.&nbsp;

Tanztreffen der Jugend 2025

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In conversation with music journalist Peter Margasak and Nadin Deventer, artistic director of Jazzfest Berlin, trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith looks back on more than half a century of “Creative Music”. Also in the Media Library: two films invite viewers behind the scenes of the Jazzfest Community Film Lab.

Jazzfest Berlin

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Find out more about some of MaerzMusik’s 2025 artists, including Joan La Barbara, Laura Bowler and Pamela Z: talks, interviews and a portrait have been published in the Berliner Festspiele Media Library.

MaerzMusik 2025

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Watch the four 3sat “Starke St&uuml;cke“ from the Theatertreffen 2025 in the media library. In addition, statements from the Theatertreffen jury as well as various discussions from the “Forum Theatertreffen 1965–2025“ are available online.

Theatertreffen 2025

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On the future of debate culture: The videos of the second edition of “Reflexes &amp; Reflections with lectures, discussions and a late-night programme are available in the Media Library.

Reflexes &amp; Reflections 2025

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The central theme in the productions of the Theatertreffen der Jugend 2025 is fear: fear of the events and catastrophes that come thick and fast, fear of war, poverty and failure, fear of manipulation and being overwhelmed by social media. Recordings of the productions and the opening ceremony are available in the media library.

Theatertreffen der Jugend 2025

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Discover background information on Musikfest Berlin 2025, including interviews with selected composers and performers, stories related to the hidden object picture, and audio recordings of selected concerts, which will be available shortly after each event.

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The Treffen junge Musikszene 2025 presents a rather young line-up of surprisingly mature, accomplished and experimental musicians, including numerous strong female artists. Recordings of the concerts are available in the media library.

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In their 2025 texts, the young authors write about very personal situations and relationships, from issues of social and emotional integration to family histories and everyday observations, to questions about the global situation, politics, the climate, and social or economic injustice. The readings and other events are available in the media library.

Treffen junger Autor*innen 2025

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Advance sales are now live: tickets for ten selected concert highlights of the Musikfest Berlin, which in 2026 will also mark the 75th anniversary of the Berliner Festspiele, are now available. The program includes Gy&ouml;rgy Ligeti's grotesquely humorous anti-opera Le Grand Macabre and George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.

As an international co-production, artists Nina Laisné and François Chaignaud and singer Nadia Larcher have developed a performance that is carried by music, singing and dance at once. In “Último helecho”, European Baroque meets South American folklore and mythology.

Último helecho

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In Thorsten Lensing’s new play, Ursina Lardi, Karin Neuh&auml;user, Sebastian Blomberg, André Jung and drummer Willi Kellers play characters careening their way from one disaster to the next. What defines them is an absurd blend of brutality and tenderness, anarchy and metaphysical curiosity, existential pain and zest for life.

Tanzende Idioten

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Artist and choreographer Ligia Lewis’s new work “Wayward Chant” explores the intersections of despair and beauty through the mobilization of the chorus. A pared-down score unfolds, featuring moving, chanting bodies arranged in detailed formations.

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