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Reading

01/06/2025

The ROMANIAN CAFE

Reading

01/06/2025

Brecht, Döblin, Lasker-Schüler, Tucholsky, Reinhardt, Hollaender, Kisch, Liebermann, Kästner, Kaléko, Höxter, and so many more! – Almost the entire intellectual elite of the time frequented Berlin's legendary Romanisches Café in Charlottenburg in the 1920s.

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- Literature
- The roaring twenties in Berlin
Theater im Palais Theater im Palais

12:00 pm

https://www.theater-im-palais.de/event/das-romanische-cafe/

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Reading

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Reading

16/11/2025 + 1 additional date

Katharina Thalbach: Die Blechtrommel

Reading

16/11/2025 + 1 additional date

Katharina Thalbach definitively became one of the biggest stars of German cinema and theater with Volker Schlöndorff's adaptation of Günter Grass's global success "The Tin Drum." She plays Maria Truczinski, with whom the main character, Oskar Mazerath (played…

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- Gastspiel
- Literature
Kabarett-Theater Distel Kabarett-Theater Distel

14:00 pm

https://distel-berlin.de/de/spielplan/gastspiele/artikel-katharina_thalbach_die_blechtrommel.html

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Lectures & Readings

© Gysi © Oliver Reetz, Riedl © Andreas Sibler

Lectures & Readings

14/09/2025

Gregor Gysi & Dr. Matthias Riedl: Missverstehen Sie mich richtig!

Lectures & Readings

14/09/2025

Dr. Matthias Riedl meets Dr. Gregor Gysi. The renowned nutritional medicine specialist and diabetologist, whose life and research focus is on the connection between eating habits and health, provides Germany's most prominent Left Party politician with…

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- Politics & Society
Kabarett-Theater Distel Kabarett-Theater Distel

18:00 pm

https://distel-berlin.de/de/spielplan/extra/artikel-gregor_gysi_dr_matthias_riedl_missverstehen_sie_mich_richtig_.html

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Blues & Jazz

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Blues & Jazz

28/09/2025

vivo: Jazzotic five

Blues & Jazz

28/09/2025

The Jazzotic Five is one of the few jazz bands in Berlin that showcases New Orleans and Chicago hot jazz. They play pieces by almost all the great jazz bands of the 1920s and 1930s, including Louis Armstrong, Clarence Williams, Fletcher Henderson, Duke…

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- Free of charge
- City of music
Evangelische Dorfkirche Alt-Tegel Evangelische Dorfkirche Alt-Tegel

17:00 pm
Guided Tour

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Guided Tour

03/05/2025 + 1 additional date

BERLIN GLOBAL Experience the WELTSTUDIO – Maps as you’ve never seen them before

Guided Tour

03/05/2025 + 1 additional date

The WELTSTUDIO features three interactive map-making methods that reimagine the practice of cartography: the Person Map, the Thread Map and the Ball Map. You can make maps out of threads, body-sized posters with individual stories or tracks that lead rolling…

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Humboldt Forum: Berlin Ausstellung, 1. OG Humboldt Forum: Berlin Ausstellung, 1. OG

14:00 pm – 17:00 pm

https://www.humboldtforum.org

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Classical Music

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Classical Music

07/05/2025

LUNCH CONCERT: Ina Leonore Böger, Lea Simone Hartlaub, Maxine Moesta, Oliver Buck, Tobias Fehlow, Rin Watanabe, Diandian Zhang

Classical Music

07/05/2025

Every Wednesday from September to June at 1 p.m., the Philharmonie invites you to a free lunchtime concert. For 40 to 50 minutes, there will be chamber music, piano works, or even something unusual like a percussion duo – from classical to tango.

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Philharmonie Berlin Philharmonie Berlin

13:00 pm

https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/konzerte/kalender/55812
Performance

© Courtesy: Nachlass Charlotte Posenenske und Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin / Foto: Andrea Rossetti

Performance

14/05/2025

CHARLOTTE POSENENSKE in action

Performance

14/05/2025

In the early 1960s, artists like Donald Judd and Dan Flavin transformed flawless, mass-produced products such as metal boxes or fluorescent tubes into works of art. The German artist Charlotte Posenenske deliberately distances herself from this sobriety of…

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Neue Nationalgalerie Neue Nationalgalerie

18:00 pm – 19:00 pm

https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=146777
Classical Music

© Karina Kaminska

Classical Music

16/05/2025

RIAS Kammerchor Berlin - Freitag ¾ sechs

Classical Music

16/05/2025

The RIAS Chamber Choir Berlin will be performing the concert in the "Friday 3/4 six" series, presenting works by Rautavaara, Schnittke, Pärt, and Vasks. As the title suggests, the one-hour concert will take place on Friday, May 16, 2025, at "three-quarters…

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- City of music
- Classic music in Berlin
St. Elisabeth-Kirche St. Elisabeth-Kirche

17:45 pm

https://www.elisabeth.berlin/de/kulturkalender/rias-kammerchor-berlin-freitag-34-sechs
Concerts

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Concerts

17/05/2025 – 18/05/2025

Female Composers Piano Marathon Vol. 2: "A Room Full of Voices"

Concerts

17/05/2025 – 18/05/2025

"A Room Full of Voices" – 24 hours of music and texts by female artists – poetic, touching, controversial, and feminist.

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St. Elisabeth-Kirche St. Elisabeth-Kirche

11:00 am – 11:00 am

https://www.elisabeth.berlin/de/kulturkalender/komponistinnen-piano-marathon-vol-2-room-full-voices

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Workshop

© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Foto: Martina Schilling

Workshop

04/05/2025 + 8 additional dates

Treasure box. Drop-In for families and children

Workshop

04/05/2025 + 8 additional dates

Who or what is close to your heart and has a special place in your treasure box? Cuddly toys, friends, family, neighbours, plants, pets, Lego toys, comic figures, favourite book or something completely different?

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- Children
- Free of charge
Humboldt Forum: Werkräume Humboldt Forum: Werkräume

12:00 pm – 15:00 pm

https://www.humboldtforum.org/de/programm/termin/drop-in/schatzkiste-2-143905/
Workshop

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Workshop

10/05/2025

Hanging scrolls, folded books and the art of telling stories

Workshop

10/05/2025

Around the stupa, a traditional Buddhist structure, there are register-like reliefs that tell stories. Roll-outs such as Patuas and Thangkas have a similar narrative structure. Inspired by this, children and adults create their own scroll pictures and…

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- Children
- Free of charge
Humboldt Forum: Werkräume Humboldt Forum: Werkräume

14:00 pm – 17:00 pm

https://www.humboldtforum.org
Art

© Meduza

Art

26/04/2025 – 06/07/2025

No. The Exhibition

Art

26/04/2025 – 06/07/2025

In 2014, a team of independent journalists left Russia to escape pressure and censorship. In exile, they created Meduza, now one of the most important independent Russian-language media outlets.

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Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien

10:00 am

https://kunstraumkreuzberg.de/programm/no-the-exhibition-nein-die-ausstellung/
Classical Music

© Swami Silva

Classical Music

01/06/2025

On the Road: Con-Sequenzas

Classical Music

01/06/2025

Zafraan takes you on a journey to L. Berio with exciting consequences. The game starts, Liam gives the signal: This is their language. We wait briefly, the rhythm grows, the earth turns. In two hours, 75 years and several continents appear. Explosive…

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- City of music
- Classic music in Berlin
DOCK 11 | DOCK ART Theater, DOCK 11 | DOCK ART Theater,

19:30 pm

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Film, theatre, literature & music

© Hannes Hegen

Film, theatre, literature & music

05/05/2025

Comics in the GDR

Film, theatre, literature & music

05/05/2025

The exhibition honors the artist Hannes Hegen, the Digedags, and other "comics of the GDR." Additionally, other illustrators and graphic artists from the industry are presented.

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Bezirkszentralbibliothek "Mark Twain" Bezirkszentralbibliothek "Mark Twain"

19:00 pm
Concerts

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Concerts

28/09/2025

Sound Spaces: Retrotonik

Concerts

28/09/2025

Now almost 100 years old, Electronic Music is almost Early Music. Here, too, there are retro movements - away from digital samples and back to analog synthesizers. What is the idea behind the phenomenon of electronic music, which so effortlessly transcends all…

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- City of music
Musikinstrumentenmuseum - Ben-Gurion-Straße Musikinstrumentenmuseum - Ben-Gurion-Straße

14:30 pm – 16:30 pm
Lectures & Readings

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Lectures & Readings

19/11/2025

Max Czollek in Conversation with Sasha Marianna Salzmann

Lectures & Readings

19/11/2025

After Theatre of Reconciliation and Overcoming the Present, the third season of Max Czollek’s series of talks, entitled The Beginning is Near, looks to the future. Considering the calamities of recent years and those currently looming, this may seem…

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- International
- Accessible Events
Haus der Kulturen der Welt Haus der Kulturen der Welt

18:00 pm

https://www.hkw.de/programme/der-anfang-ist-nah/conversation-with-sasha-marianna-salzmann#main
Concerts

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Concerts

20/07/2025

Sound Spaces: Fortune infortune fort une

Concerts

20/07/2025

After the death of her brother and two husbands, Margaret of Austria decided never to remarry at the age of 24. She transformed her court in Mechelen into a center of intellectual and artistic activities in the spirit of humanism. Musicians, artists and…

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- City of music
Musikinstrumentenmuseum - Ben-Gurion-Straße Musikinstrumentenmuseum - Ben-Gurion-Straße

14:30 pm – 16:30 pm
Classical Music

© St. Elisabeth-Kirche + Villa Elisabeth (Kultur Büro Elisabeth)

Classical Music

03/05/2025

Musica Fiata & La Capella Ducale: "Cantate Domino - Festliche Kantaten"

Classical Music

03/05/2025

Two leading early music ensembles, Musica Fiata and La Capella Ducale, conducted by Roland Wilson, present festive cantatas by Johann Philipp Krieger.

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- Classic music in Berlin
- City of music
Sophienkirche Sophienkirche

20:00 pm – 22:00 pm

https://www.elisabeth.berlin/de/kulturkalender/musica-fiata-la-capella-ducale-cantate-domino-festliche-kantaten

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Lectures & Readings

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Lectures & Readings

21/05/2025

Max Czollek in Conversation with Manja Präkels

Lectures & Readings

21/05/2025

After Theatre of Reconciliation and Overcoming the Present, the third season of Max Czollek’s series of talks, entitled The Beginning is Near, looks to the future.

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- Politics & Society
Haus der Kulturen der Welt Haus der Kulturen der Welt

18:00 pm

https://www.hkw.de/programme/der-anfang-ist-nah/conversation-with-manja-praekels#main

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Classical Music

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Classical Music

21/05/2025

Lunch Concert: Seohyeon Kim

Classical Music

21/05/2025

Every Wednesday from September to June at 1 p.m., the Philharmonie invites you to a free lunchtime concert. For 40 to 50 minutes, there will be chamber music, piano works, or even something unusual like a percussion duo – from classical to tango.

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Philharmonie Berlin Philharmonie Berlin

13:00 pm

https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/konzerte/kalender/55821