Events and festivals in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on the weekend of September 19-20, 2026: Santiano closes its tour with two concerts in Ralswiek, while Klockenhagen celebrates its harvest festival.
One last big weekend before autumn begins. On Rügen, the band Santiano plays a second concert the evening before and closes its tour on September 19, 2026 at the Naturbühne Ralswiek. Events and festivals in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on the weekend of September 19-20, 2026: Santiano closes its tour with two concerts in Ralswiek, while Klockenhagen celebrates its harvest festival.
Santiano's Tour Finale at the Naturbühne Ralswiek
Santiano's 2026 tour comes to a close. The shanty-rock band Santiano gives two big open-air concerts at the Naturbühne Ralswiek on Rügen. On September 18 and 19, 2026, the band from Flensburg performs against the backdrop of the Großer Jasmunder Bodden, the same stage that otherwise hosts the Störtebeker Festival. Two evenings, one big celebration to close the season.
The new album is called "Da braut sich was zusammen". It gives the tour finale its name and carries the northern German band through its current tour. Seven number-one albums, more than 5.5 million records sold. Those numbers stand behind the name Santiano, a band that has moved between shanty tradition and rock music since its founding. Shanty-rock blends traditional sea shanties with electric guitars and a powerful stage sound. That record makes the band one of the most successful German-language acts of the past decade.
The second evening, September 19, 2026, closes this concert series and falls within this weekend, right on the water of the Bodden.
The Rest of the Weekend Between Harvest Festival and Crane Migration
The harvest festival in Klockenhagen marks Erntedank on September 20. The five-hectare open-air museum near Ribnitz-Damgarten ranks among the region's most popular folk festivals, with a historical parade of costumed museum staff, carriages and tractors. Alongside it come a large farmers' market, the judging of harvest crowns, brass bands and craft stalls. In Stralsund, another date begins the same day. The crane week follows the autumn migration of the "lucky birds" from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe across the Vorpommern lagoon landscape, with excursions, multimedia shows and talks. The Stralsund organ days also start there. The week of organ concerts, improvisations, silent-film screenings with organ accompaniment and children's activities runs at the city's three great churches, St. Nikolai, St. Jakobi and St. Marien. It carries the banner of "Orgelstadt Stralsund" and its concentration of significant historic organs, cultivated since 2002.
On the Kurplatz in Sassnitz, young talent takes the stage. The Ost-See-Sternchen talent competition, organised by the town, brings together young performers from across Rügen aged 7 to 27 in singing, dance, acrobatics and instrumental solos on September 19. Nearby in Klausdorf, a race sets off too. The Klausdorfer Kranichlauf, held since 2012, starts the same day over four distances between 500 metres and 15 kilometres, starting and finishing at the Vorpommernhus, with a handmade medal for every finisher. In Bergen auf Rügen, styles collide. Fette Ente im Krokoteich mixes rock, electronic music and subculture on September 18 and 19 in the workshop hall on Gingster Chaussee, run by the cultural association La Grange e.V. between the island's off-scene and wider networking.
In Rostock, a neighbourhood festival draws the crowds. The Südstadt/Biestow neighbourhood festival invites visitors on September 19 to a lively afternoon of music, hands-on activities, regional food and an obstacle course in Kringelgrabenpark. In Bad Doberan, experts take the floor. Specialists in history, art history, theology and heritage conservation debate the upkeep of the minster and the former Cistercian monastery at the Doberan Abbey Days symposium from September 18 to 20, rounded off with concerts and guided tours. On Usedom, music opens its doors. The Usedom Music Festival opens in Heringsdorf on September 19, devoting its three festival weeks of classical music, jazz and world music in churches, palaces and the spa villas of the imperial resorts to a different Baltic Sea country each year.
The Usedom Music Festival continues until October 10.