Festivals in Berlin

In May 2026, a new festival format launches at Schaubude Berlin: PULS & PEILUNG will showcase works by students of the Contemporary Puppetry...

Every November, puppets from all over the world gather at FEZ-Berlin in Wuhlheide: over 80 performances, around 20 international ensembles,...

The Pyronale is Berlin's international fireworks world championship – a two-day competition where six pyrotechnics teams from around the wor...

In August, the qantaloop Festival brings one of the most influential live acts of the Berlin electronic scene back to the sandy beach: Lexy...

Queens & Flowers is the young, but already established, drag summer festival at the Botanical Garden Berlin in Dahlem (Steglitz-Zehlendorf d...

In June 2025, Neukölln's first queer street festival took place in Neukölln's Reuterkiez. This was a response to repeated right-wing and hom...

The Queer Night Market Berlin takes place on Friday, April 24, 2026, from 4 PM to 11 PM at Holzmarkt 25 in Berlin-Friedrichshain. An evening...

For years, Berlin has boasted one of Germany's most vibrant poetry slam scenes — but few formats bring queer voices to the stage as concentr...

The Queere Kunst- und Kulturtage Lichtenberg is the annual queer-feminist picnic festival of the Berlin district of Lichtenberg. Over a week...

Quer durch Berlin is the annual international long-distance regatta of Berlin rowing – one of Europe's oldest and most traditional rowing co...

QWEER Spring FEST is Berlin's young queer community festival, bringing together fashion, art, tattoo stations, food stalls, and drag shows u...

RABATZ is the annual open-air family festival of the Berlin children's radio station Radio TEDDY. For two days, up to 40,000 families celebr...

From September 9 to 12, 2026, Radialsystem in Berlin-Friedrichshain will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a multi-day festival. The forme...

From August 22 to 30, 2026, the radioeins Parkfest will take place – nine days of live broadcasts, concerts, comedy, readings, children's pr...

Since 2022, the Rave The Planet Parade has been the official successor to the legendary Berlin Love Parade and, at the same time, a politica...

On 14 August 2026, Ray Wilson & Band will play "Genesis Classic" at Freiluftkino Friedrichshagen. Wilson, who sang the album "Calling All St...

For three days every May, re:publica transforms STATION Berlin in Kreuzberg into the largest European meeting point for the digital society....

With "Reflexes & Reflections – The Great Disorder", the Berliner Festspiele invites you to four thematic days at the Haus der Berliner Fests...