Grünau Christmas Market at Don-Ugoletti-Platz

The 2025 edition continued the series documented since 2021. Again at Don-Ugoletti-Platz, again on the 1st Sunday of Advent, again with the three participating choirs. The market remained true to its format: no expansion, no commercial stalls, but a consistently volunteer-run neighbourhood festival.

This makes the Grünau Christmas Market one of the few Berlin Advent markets that deliberately keep their character small over the years – in contrast to the large tourist crowds in Mitte and Charlottenburg. In the state of Berlin and the Treptow-Köpenick borough, it is considered a model example of lived local tradition.