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Lectures & Readings © © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Foto: Johannes Berger Lectures & Readings 10/09/2026 E hoʻi ka Nani: On Beauty & Return Lectures & Readings 10/09/2026 Objects Talk Back is a project about the possibilities of literature to open up new stories and relations through museum archives. International writers are invited to explore collections at the Humboldt Forum, to select an object, and write about it however… Read more Literature Location Humboldt Forum Schlossplatz 10178 Berlin Time 19:00 pm – 20:30 pm https://www.humboldtforum.org/de/programm/termin/literatur/e-hoi-ka-nani-von-schoenheit-rueckkehr-164224/ Buy tickets
Opera & Operetta © Matthias Baus Opera & Operetta 06/09/2026 + 2 additional dates Samson et Dalila Opera & Operetta 06/09/2026 + 2 additional dates Camille Saint-Saëns’ opera *Samson et Dalila* tells the story of Samson, a Hebrew who rebels against Philistine rule and seeks to liberate his people. Thanks to the strength bestowed upon him by God, he is considered nearly invincible. However, when he falls… Read more Classic music in Berlin City of music Location Staatsoper Unter den Linden Unter den Linden 7 10117 Berlin Time 18:00 pm https://www.staatsoper-berlin.de/de/veranstaltungen/samson-et-dalila.7651/ Buy tickets
Theatre © Vahid Amanpour Theatre 10/09/2026 + 2 additional dates The Blizzard Theatre 10/09/2026 + 2 additional dates Vladimir Sorokin’s The Blizzard is a ‘road novel’ of the most fantastical kind, with a country doctor and his coachman travelling through a fairy-tale, post-apocalyptic Russia, racing to vaccinate the population against a mysterious plague that turns the… Read more City of music Location Komische Oper Berlin: Schillertheater - Großer Saal Bismarckstraße 110 10625 Berlin Time 19:00 pm https://www.komische-oper-berlin.de/spielplan/a-z/der-schneesturm/ Buy tickets
Blues & Jazz © Arnaud Ele Blues & Jazz 11/09/2026 20 Years of the Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra Blues & Jazz 11/09/2026 The Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra is celebrating its 20th anniversary at the Radialsystem—a major event for all fans of boundless music. Read more experimental and contemporary Art City of music Location Radialsystem Holzmarktstr. 33 10243 Berlin Time 20:00 pm
Art © Foto: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Katrin Hammer Art 11/09/2026 + 1 additional date Aging Masters: Premiere Art 11/09/2026 + 1 additional date Ersan Mondtag and Nadim Samman are staging a Berlin-based vanitas performance at the Gemäldegalerie, engaging in a dialogue with both living and deceased Old Masters. Read more Berlin Art Week International Contemporary Art Location Gemäldegalerie Matthäikirchplatz 4-6 10785 Berlin Time 19:00 pm https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=161040 Buy tickets
Festival © ACUD Club Festival 11/09/2026 BOUNCE UP – Berlin's New Pulse of the Caribbean Festival 11/09/2026 BOUNCE UP – Berlin’s Pulse of the Caribbean is back for its second round. Following its successful debut in April, the dancehall party series returns to the ACUD Club on September 11. Starting at 10 p.m., you can look forward to a night full of dancehall… Read more Location ACUD Veteranenstraße 21 D 10119 BERLIN Time 22:00 pm https://www.instagram.com/bounceup_berlin/
Lectures & Readings © Illustration: Angelina Dashkevic Lectures & Readings 11/09/2026 + 2 additional dates GEREIZTHEITEN Lectures & Readings 11/09/2026 + 2 additional dates Shimmering night figures, the vile §218, mandatory murder of spouses, sobering fates of emigrants and housing shortages - in short: the general great helplessness of the years 1924 to 1933 is being tried in the Berlin court. But the triumph of the "ethnic… Read more The roaring twenties in Berlin Jewish Berlin Literature Location Theater im Palais Am Festungsgraben 1 10117 Berlin Time 19:30 pm https://www.theater-im-palais.de/event/gereiztheiten/ Buy tickets
Dance & Performance © Känguruh Production Konzertagentur GmbH Dance & Performance 11/09/2026 HEINZ ERHARDT Project - Eyes open and through! Dance & Performance 11/09/2026 Heinz Erhardt's humor remains unique to this day: playful, subtle, and always with a twinkle in his eye. Few entertainers since have mastered the nuances of comedic and often musical communication with their audience so perfectly, captivating and entertaining… Read more Location Admiralspalast Friedrichstraße 101 10117 Berlin Time 20:00 pm https://www.eventim.de/event/das-heinz-erhardt-projekt-heinz-erhardt-projekt-augen-auf-und-durch-begleitet-vom-glenn-miller-orchestra-admiralspalast-20654177/?affiliate=VB1 Buy tickets
Art © Berlinische Galerie © Foto: © Noshe Art 11/09/2026 – 05/04/2027 Jeewi Lee Art 11/09/2026 – 05/04/2027 In her artistic practice Jeewi Lee works with site-specific installations, sculpture, serial paintings and interventions. She often uses simple, seemingly worthless materials and artefacts that carry allegorical traces of lived experience, memory, time and… Read more Berlin Art Week Contemporary Art Location Berlinische Galerie - Ausstellung Alte Jakobstraße 124 10969 Berlin https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/tageskarte-berlinische-galerie-museum-fuer-moderne-kunst#/ Buy tickets
Photography © Katharina Sieverding, VG Bild-Kunst Foto: Klaus Mettig, VG Bild-Kunst Photography 11/09/2026 – 07/11/2026 Katharina Sieverding: Life-Death Photography 11/09/2026 – 07/11/2026 For Berlin Art Week 2026, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents the exhibition *Life–Death* by Katharina Sieverding. The exhibition centers on the 1969 film of the same name, complemented by large-format film stills and previously unpublished Polaroids. Read more Berlin Art Week Contemporary Art Location Galerie Thomas Schulte Charlottenstraße 24 10117 Berlin Time 12:00 pm – 18:00 pm
Opera & Operetta © visitBerlin Opera & Operetta 05/09/2026 + 3 additional dates Lucia di Lammermoor Opera & Operetta 05/09/2026 + 3 additional dates Long before the cinematic popularity of Downton Abbey or the Jane Austen craze, the ruthless inner world of the British landed gentry became the setting for Italian opera. With his 1835 setting of Walter Scott's successful novel The Bride of Lammermoor… Read more Classic music in Berlin Location Deutsche Oper Berlin Bismarckstraße 35 10627 Berlin Time 19:00 pm Buy tickets
Top Event Concerts © GettyImages, Foto: Eloi_Omella Top Event Concerts 11/09/2026 + 1 additional date Nina Chuba - Summer shows 2026 Top Event Concerts 11/09/2026 + 1 additional date With a new album under her belt and the biggest open-air shows of her career, Nina Chuba is ready for 2026. Welcome to Berlin! Read more City of music On Tour Open Air Location Parkbühne Wuhlheide An der Wuhlheide 4 12459 Berlin Time 19:00 pm https://www.eventim.de/event/nina-chuba-sommershows-2026-parkbuehne-wuhlheide-20533252/?affiliate=VB1 Buy tickets
Top Event Art © Peter Rigaud, 2025 Top Event Art 11/09/2026 – 21/02/2027 Preis der Nationalgalerie 2026: Maurizio Cattelan Top Event Art 11/09/2026 – 21/02/2027 Maurizio Cattelan, one of the most influential figures in contemporary art, will be honored with the 2026 Preis der Nationalgalerie. This will be Cattelan's first solo exhibition in Germany. His works, which range from sculpture and installation to conceptual… Read more Berlin Art Week Contemporary Art Location Neue Nationalgalerie Potsdamer Straße 50 10785 Berlin Time 10:00 am – 18:00 pm https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/neue-nationalgalerie-tagesticket#/ Buy tickets
Top Event Art © courtesy the artist, KAB Inc. / Neo Sora Top Event Art 11/09/2026 – 20/06/2027 Ryuichi Sakamoto. seeing sound, hearing time Top Event Art 11/09/2026 – 20/06/2027 The first major retrospective of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s work in Europe highlights his diverse, innovative practice, including three-dimensional sound installations created in collaboration with international artists. Sakamoto works at the intersection of sound and… Read more Berlin Art Week experimental and contemporary Art Contemporary Art Location Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart Invalidenstraße 50/51 10557 Berlin Time 10:00 am – 18:00 pm http://www.smb.museum/ausstellungen/detail.html?tx_smb_pi1%5BexhibitionSmartId%5D=87688 Buy tickets
Excursions © © Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, Foto: Anne Preussel Excursions 11/09/2026 In simple language through the exhibition BERLIN GLOBAL Excursions 11/09/2026 The Mediators are flexible in their approach to people with learning difficulties, learners of German or visitors who want a tour that is easy to understand. Read more History Accessible Events Guided tours of the museum Location Humboldt Forum Schlossplatz 10178 Berlin Time 16:00 pm – 17:30 pm https://www.humboldtforum.org/de/programm/termin/fuehrung/in-einfacher-sprache-durch-berlin-global-29747/ Buy tickets
Art © CREDIT: Design / Corporate Identity by Public Possession Art 11/09/2026 – 13/09/2026 SOFT POWER FESTIVAL 2026 Art 11/09/2026 – 13/09/2026 Soft Power is a transdisciplinary festival at the intersection of art, music, and social dialogue. As part of Berlin Art Week 2026, the festival combines exhibitions, performances, concerts, DJ sets, discussions, and communal dining into an open total work of… Read more Berlin Art Week Contemporary Art Location Haus der Visionäre Eichenstraße 4A 12435 Berlin Time 12:00 pm https://www.anahitasadighi.com/softpower-festival
Pop Electro Rock © THE GREAT FAULTS Pop Electro Rock 11/09/2026 THE GREAT FAULTS - Indie Rock Pop Electro Rock 11/09/2026 THE GREAT FAULTS – since 2011, this indie rock duo has been blending the artistic disciplines of songwriting, live performance, studio work, and video art into a unique, cohesive concept. Read more City of music Location Art Stalker Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße 67 10627 Berlin Time 20:00 pm – 22:00 pm https://art-stalker.reservix.de/p/reservix/group/532381 Buy tickets
Play © Doris Hüser Play 11/09/2026 + 2 additional dates The Borsig Conspiracy Play 11/09/2026 + 2 additional dates “The Borsig Conspiracy” is a theatrical tour set in the heart of the city. It tells the story of a world-famous company from Tegel. Borsig was once the second-largest manufacturer of steam locomotives in the world. Read more History Bauhaus & Modernism Location Werksanlage Borsig - Borsigtor Berliner Str. 2l 13507 Berlin Time 17:00 pm – 19:30 pm https://industriekultur.berlin/festival/veranstaltung/die-borsig-verschwoerung-3/
Top Event Festival © Berliner Zentrum Industriekultur (bzi) Top Event Festival 12/09/2026 – 04/10/2026 Berlin Industrial Heritage Festival Top Event Festival 12/09/2026 – 04/10/2026 On the weekends from September 12 to October 4, 2026, more than 30 Berlin monuments of industrial heritage will open their doors for a diverse program of events. Read more History Bauhaus & Modernism Berlin's neighbourhoods Urban development Day of the Open Monument The roaring twenties in Berlin Location Deutsches Technikmuseum Trebbiner Straße 9 10963 Berlin https://industriekultur.berlin/erleben/festival/
Theatre © visitBerlin Theatre 12/09/2026 + 1 additional date Bookpink: New Arrivals Theatre 12/09/2026 + 1 additional date Bookpink: New Arrivals is an evening about power, care, imagination – and what happens when you take birds too seriously. Or just seriously enough. Read more Location Deutsches Theater Berlin Schumannstraße 13 A 10117 Berlin Time 19:30 pm https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/produktionen/bookpink-new-arrivals Buy tickets
Play © JR Berliner Ensemble Play 12/09/2026 + 2 additional dates It's Britney, Bitch! Play 12/09/2026 + 2 additional dates "To understand this world, we need to know how to love, because when we know how to love, we understand how to save this world." It's Britney, Bitch! is a musical-narrative evening about unhappy love and addiction, about truth and veracity in pop, about… Read more Location Berliner Ensemble - Großes Haus Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1 10117 Berlin Time 20:00 pm https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/its-britney-bitch Buy tickets
