Music + Dancing

Music + Dancing

Booming technobeats and a jazzy transverse flute, mirrored dance halls with red silk curtains, small cellar clubs with trashy decorations: Berlin has a new spot for music and dancing for every mood throughout the year. The capital has the largest techno scene in the world, but also clubs playing every other kind of live music and the traditional ballrooms, where in some cases couples have swayed for over 100 years.

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Located in the heart of the city, Matrix Berlin offers you the freedom to celebrate on up to 7 floors and is open 365 days a year. Combining people, fashion and music...

The view from 40 Seconds makes the guests become speechless; because the eyes of the night revellers rest on the illuminated Sony Centre, the Philharmonic and the new...

From Herbie Hancock to Diana Krall to Till Brönner – all the big jazz names have played here. A-Trane is, despite its limited 100-seat capacity, one of the biggest...

The About:Blank Club, which was once run on an illegal basis, is situated at the Ostkreuz S-Bahn station, and is hardly recognisable as a club from the outside. In a...

Musically, in this alternative gay club, everything continues to be distinct and wide ranging, including Rock, Indie, Elektro, Pop, and Schlager—an alternative gay...

The Adagio is a nightlife club, which can also exclusively be used for events. The Adagio plays with interior architectural elements of past epochs: antique choir...

Since 2003, the Amber Suite has been situated in the Ullstein House, a listed building, in the south of Berlin. The Amber Suite...

Classic theatre close to the people, extravagant costume shows and concerts of world music are all united under one roof in the Amphitheatre at Monbijou Park opposite...

The self-termed Antje Øklesund Audivisual Laboratory is an anti-scene bar, club and concert venue all rolled into one. Concerts and exhibitions are held here with a...

Today, this 7,000 sqm venue at the edge of the Spree River is the site for countless concerts, fairs and parties – but the building complex in Berlin’s Treptow...

Two veterans of the Berlin restaurant and club scene have opened a new club called ASPHALT in the cellar of the Hilton Berlin - formerly known as "Trader Vics". The...

Most popular music meeting point in the heart of Friedrichshain. Space for up to 2000 people, a small garden and its well arranged music hall makes you have an...

B-flat was founded in 1995 by the musicians Jannis Zotos and Thanassis Zotos together with the actor André Hennecke. The very different character of the founders is...

The jazz parties in the former workers’ bathhouse of the old Reichsbahn Repair Works (RAW) are characterised by world music – the owners of this place set no limits...

The Badenscher Hof has for 20 years been is a cosy niche for the more traditional types of jazz and blues. The live jazz is accompanied by distinguished cooking with...

The disco ball glitters, the garlands flutter. Underneath, on the dance floor of the oldest surviving Berlin ballroom, elegant couples dance the night away. The motto...

The "best club in the world", Berghain, and the Panorama bar, are legendary. There is also the darkroom, the Lab.oratory...

At Nollendorfplatz bowling fans can send one down at Berlin’s oldest alley. Freshly modernised and fully equipped with state-of-the-art technology and pioneering...

Classy mixed drinks, international DJ acts and secret gigs of renowned artists are the signature features of the Bohannon club. The bar in the club has independence...

The “Paradox Ball” was invented in the Café Keese, the defining feature of which was that ladies chose their partners. This is still the rule here, whether the...

The Club in the neighborhood of Friedrichshain created a great place for skaters, bikers and party people from the empty and almost ruinous factory buildings of the...

It is a very simple procedure. And yet again it is unreachably exclusive: after a 30 second elevator ride to the fifth floor of the Adlon Palais, a personal...

Clärchen´s Ballroom is an institution. In 1913 Fritz Bühler and his wife Clärchen opened “Bühler´s Ballroom”. The present “Clärchen´s Ballroom” is a dance hall with...

The "Club der Visionäre" is not a classic beach bar. However still counts as one of Berlin’s hottest spots in summer. The sand is missing, but this party location not...

On the upper level of Connection, gay men party and dance in the newly designed and spacious club. It is here that the ...

Pupils and youths among themselves, who dance in one of the hippest clubs of Berlin’s nightlife—that is the idea of the party series “D light”. In doing so, with...

Dusty, dull and conservative was yesterday’s image of dance. The dance school "Traumtänzer" is very different.
Different varieties of dance are offered almost...

Berlin’s largest gay disco, which attracts lesbians and gays with eccentric shows, the guests belong to various age groups. The audience is lesbian as well as gay and...

The owners weren’t able to decide whether they wanted a Viennese Café or a good quality lounge – so they finally settled on opening the Edelweiß at Görlitzer...

There are many concert halls in Berlin. But there is only one Fritz Club. Right next to the Ostbahnhof lies the Postbahnhof; and there, in the true to the original...

Freischwimmer (EN)

Chill out in a restaurant along the water

Located directly on the water, this romantic, relaxed and comfortable restaurant is decorated with wooden furniture, old lamps and ornate picture frames. Simply put, Freischwimmer is a cool location in Kreuzberg’s Flutgraben area. The restaurant is in a very old building that was once used for renting and repairing boats. The entrance is directly next to Berlin’s oldest gas station. You can sit outdoors during the summer and indoors during the winter.