Photography © Citlali Fabián Mexico Photographer of the Year Professional Competition Creative Sony World Photography Awards 2026 Photography 08/10/2026 – 07/02/2027 Sony World Photography Awards 2026 Photography 08/10/2026 – 07/02/2027 From 9 October 2026 to 7 February 2027, the Friends of the Willy Brandt House, in collaboration with Sony Germany & Austria, will be… Read more
Theatre © English Theatre Berlin Theatre 08/10/2026 + 7 additional dates The West Ain't What It Used To Be Theatre 08/10/2026 + 7 additional dates Thanksgiving with country music, Jell-O salad and Dolly Parton. Read more
Photography © THOMAS BILLHARDT /Camera Work Gallery Photography 02/10/2026 – 07/02/2027 THOMAS BILLHARDT – DIE AUGEN WEIT OFFEN Photography 02/10/2026 – 07/02/2027 Through the lens of resilience, we witness the unfiltered realities of history and oppression in Thomas Billhardt’s raw documentation of… Read more
Dance & Performance © Arthur Péquin Dance & Performance 09/10/2026 + 7 additional dates Afghan Women: A Desperate Vitality Dance & Performance 09/10/2026 + 7 additional dates Visitors enter a room modelled on an Afghan living room. In the centre, a large tablecloth lies on top of carpets, upon which ceramics by… Read more
Cabaret & Comedy © Ass-Dur Cabaret & Comedy 02/10/2026 + 6 additional dates Ass-Dur: BRUDERLIEBE Cabaret & Comedy 02/10/2026 + 6 additional dates Two brothers, one piano – and endless possibilities to drive each other crazy. And to touch each other. And to make each other laugh. Read more
Festivals & Markets © GettyImages, Foto: Alexander Spatari Festivals & Markets 09/10/2026 + 2 additional dates Berlin Ramen Festival Festivals & Markets 09/10/2026 + 2 additional dates Berlin’s festival celebrating Japanese cuisine, featuring a wide variety of ramen creations, sake, tea, traditional crafts, children’s… Read more
Pop Electro Rock © Festival of Lights in Concert Pop Electro Rock 09/10/2026 + 7 additional dates Beyond the Light - Reflections - Featuring music by Good Vibes Tribe 11:11 Pop Electro Rock 09/10/2026 + 7 additional dates To kick off the Festival of Lights, the new “Beyond the Light” program will premiere on the weekend of October 9–11—in response to numerous… Read more
Blues & Jazz © Daniela Incoronato Blues & Jazz 09/10/2026 Big Band Night 2026 Blues & Jazz 09/10/2026 At Big Band Night, both of the venue’s big bands—the Flintstones Big Band and the Neue Welt Jazz Orchestra—will perform their current… Read more
Top Event Film, theatre, literature & music © iStock.com, Foto: anibaltrejo Top Event Film, theatre, literature & music 09/10/2026 – 17/01/2027 Christoph Schlingensief: Es ist nicht mehr mein Problem, macht eure Scheiße alleine Top Event Film, theatre, literature & music 09/10/2026 – 17/01/2027 Through his work, Christoph Schlingensief relentlessly drew attention to the injustices of the present. Read more
Theatre © Eike Walkenhorst Theatre 09/10/2026 Die Räuber (The Robbers) Theatre 09/10/2026 The world is out of joint. Not only are the harbingers of the French Revolution shaking society with class struggles and violence, but the… Read more
Play © Birgit Hupfeld Play 09/10/2026 + 1 additional date Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) Play 09/10/2026 + 1 additional date Still hardly born, Oskar Matzerath recognizes the world as a universal disaster - and rejects it. Only the metal drum promised by his mother… Read more
© Michael Petersohn 09/10/2026 – 06/11/2026 Dracula – Blutige Anfänger 09/10/2026 – 06/11/2026 “Dracula – Bloody Beginners,” the new production by Komödie am Kurfürstendamm, is a hilariously wild ride that blends *Dance of the Vampires… Read more
Panel discussion © visitSpandau, Foto: Dagmar Schwelle Panel discussion 09/10/2026 Film Screening & Discussion | “Good Bye Lenin!” (2003) Panel discussion 09/10/2026 The head of the famous Lenin monument from Lenin Square (now United Nations Square in Friedrichshain) has been on display since 2016 in the… Read more
Lectures & Readings © Illustration: Angelina Dashkevic Lectures & Readings 09/10/2026 + 2 additional dates GEREIZTHEITEN Lectures & Readings 09/10/2026 + 2 additional dates Shimmering night figures, the vile §218, mandatory murder of spouses, sobering fates of emigrants and housing shortages - in short: the… Read more
Blues & Jazz © Tsiona Lida Blues & Jazz 09/10/2026 Gur Liraz Trio Blues & Jazz 09/10/2026 In the Gur Liraz Organ Trio, the guitarist combines his love of 1960s and 1970s jazz with his own contemporary sound. Together with the… Read more
Concerts © Foto: Eric Scaggiante Concerts 09/10/2026 Heith and Tarawansawelas: Duori Concerts 09/10/2026 Some collaborations take shape in the same studio. Duori came together across continents. Since meeting in Bandung in 2017, Italian producer… Read more
Pop Electro Rock © Stefanía Elín Linnet Pop Electro Rock 09/10/2026 Inspector Spacetime Pop Electro Rock 09/10/2026 They come from Reykjavík, sing mostly in Icelandic, and sound as if they spent the late 90s hanging out in Parisian nightclubs, sipping… Read more
Top Event History & Archaeology © Foto: fot. Piotr Ligier / Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie Top Event History & Archaeology 02/10/2026 – 17/01/2027 InterNationalgalerie#1 Top Event History & Archaeology 02/10/2026 – 17/01/2027 To kick off a new cabinet series at the Old National Gallery, the National Museum Warsaw is visiting Museum Island. Read more
Blues & Jazz © Getty Images, Foto: Westend 61 Blues & Jazz 09/10/2026 Jazz in the Minister’s Gardens 2026 Blues & Jazz 09/10/2026 Seven federal states – one festival! The state representations of Brandenburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Rhineland… Read more
Festival © Kirschendieb & Perlensucher Kulturprojekte Festival 09/10/2026 Klangstraße – Music Festival Festival 09/10/2026 Tango by the cash machines, swing at the hotel bar, folk on the terrace, chanson in work clothes, Afro-beats at the hairdresser’s, soul by… Read more
Top Event Art © Sammlung Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, Photo: Oliver Ziebe, Berlin Top Event Art 09/10/2026 – 25/01/2027 Lovis Corinth: Then came Berlin! Top Event Art 09/10/2026 – 25/01/2027 It is hard to exaggerate Lovis Corinth’s contribution to modernism. In his own lifetime the virtuosic painter (1858–1925) was one of the… Read more
