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Reported picks, venue stories and scene guides connected to the Berlin concert calendar.
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Naseer Shamma Makes the Oud the Center of Berlin’s West-Eastern Weekend
Traditional and new works meet in an oud-led ensemble of rare instrumental detail.
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Two Rooms, Five Sets: A Jazz Route Through Berlin, November 12–15
Contemporary vocal jazz, trumpet-led writing, standards and a two-night Latin American set shape the coming Berlin weekend.
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From New Wave Dance Floors to Psych-Noir: Berlin’s Post-Punk Route
Follow new wave, post-punk and psych-gaze across PrivatClub, Lido and Urban Spree, November 6–8.
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Fat Dog Brings Its Second-Album Surge to Festsaal Kreuzberg
A seven-piece built for punk impact and club pressure takes over Kreuzberg on Friday, November 6.
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Maschinenhaus Puts Three Forms of Songcraft in One Compact Weekend
Three nights at Maschinenhaus (Kulturbrauerei), from Thursday, November 5 through Saturday, November 7, 2026, reveal a venue built for close-range shifts in scale.
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Four Nights of Orchestral Dialogue: Haydn, Mahler, Widmann and Rachmaninoff
From Thursday, November 5 through Sunday, November 8, Berlin’s orchestral calendar moves from Haydn and Mahler to Widmann and Rachmaninoff.
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Jazz as Living Archive: Àbáse and Corina Bartra on Berlin’s Thursday Night
Gretchen and Kunstfabrik Schlot host a compact Thursday thread of jazz shaped by migration, memory and rhythmic exchange.
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PrivatClub’s Three-Night Route From Salzburg Indie Rock to Dark Synthpop
From Thursday, October 29 through Saturday, October 31, three sharply different bills show PrivatClub’s range.
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Three Halloween Frames: Film Scores, Post-Hardcore and Club Theatre in Berlin
For October 30–31, follow a compact route through score-minded jazz, punk friction and full-scale Halloween club programming.
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Mark Guiliana’s Beat Music Brings a Fresh Electronic-Jazz Charge to Gretchen
A drummer-composer with a broad electronic vocabulary gives Gretchen’s anniversary month one of its sharpest live propositions.
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From Cortini’s Atmosphere to Fell’s Systems: A Live-Electronic Thread at Berghain
Follow a focused route through atmospheric synthesis, rhythmic abstraction, dub pressure and experimental club sound.
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Lido’s Three-Night Run Turns a Former Kreuzberg Cinema Into a Pop-to-Art-Rock Room
A former cinema’s compact concert identity comes into focus across three 20:00 shows at Lido in Kreuzberg.
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Maria Arnal Brings AMA’s Vocal World to Gretchen
On Saturday, Maria Arnal brings her solo album AMA and its meeting of voice, electronics, and polyphony to Gretchen.
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From Magnetic Tape to Kanklės: Silent Green’s Experimental Two-Night Thread
A Friday of drone and image gives way to a Saturday quartet joining Icelandic, Lithuanian and Belgian musical languages.
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Lido’s Three-Night Route From Synth Pop to Rap and Punk, October 22–24
From trumpet-led German pop to Rager Boy rap and a punk album release, Lido packs three live languages into one weekend.
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Three Nights, One Rhythm Section Thread at Kunstfabrik Schlot
Across three upcoming nights, Andrea Marcelli connects distinct bands inside one of Mitte’s enduring jazz rooms.
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Kurt Rosenwinkel Revisits The Remedy for a Singular Sunday at Zig Zag Hall
A 2008 live document becomes a present-tense quintet concert at Zig Zag Hall on Sunday, October 25.
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One Room, Three Tempos: Beate Uwe’s October 16–18 Weekend
A three-night route through the club’s regular formats, from ChopChop’s Friday bill to Dompe and tatzentanz.
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Ohm’s Three-Night October Run Moves From Live Pressure to GIFT and nice 2 be nice
Across Thursday to Saturday, Ohm frames its compact room through live electronics, a GIFT lineup, and a local Saturday series.
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From Punk Drag to Pop and House: A Queer Weekend Thread at Lido and Gretchen
Follow a live-band release at Lido into Girls Town’s pop, house, hip-hop and R&B programme at Gretchen.
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Acid Arab’s La Hafla Night Makes Gretchen the Week’s Essential Thursday
A rare meeting of documented collaborators gives this Acid Arab DJ set a live, sharply defined centre of gravity.
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Three Small-Room Guitar Routes for Berlin, October 15–18
Start with I Promised The World, choose Urban Spree’s multi-act indie bill, then finish with Wesley & The Boys and Spa Boys.
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Berghain / Panorama Bar Maps Three Club Identities Across One October Weekend
From WEEEEIRDOS to Hypersoft and Klubnacht, Berghain / Panorama Bar sets out three distinct routes for October 8–10.
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Gretchen’s Weekend Route Through UK Club Music, From Selector Sets to Jungle
From Friday, October 9 through early Sunday, Gretchen turns its anniversary into a compact study of club music’s many forms.
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Azymuth Brings Five Decades of Brazilian Groove to Lido
Alex Malheiros leads Azymuth through a new chapter when the Brazilian trio plays Lido on Thursday, October 8.
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Three Ensemble Sizes Set Berlin Jazz in Motion, October 1–2
For the opening nights of October 1–4, Berlin offers three useful perspectives on how an ensemble can shape a jazz set.
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Víkingur Ólafsson’s Brahms Turn Gives Berlin a Three-Night Classical Pivot
A change of soloist places Brahms’s First Piano Concerto at the charged centre of a major Philharmonie Berlin programme.
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From Original Post-Punk to Indie-Night Memory at Bi Nuu and Lido
And Also The Trees bring an original-era perspective to Bi Nuu before Lido revisits the indie canon that followed.
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Gretchen Opens Its 15th Year With Three Distinct Live Routes
Three concerts from Thursday, October 1 through Sunday, October 4 set the tone for Gretchen’s anniversary month.
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Three Nights of European Jazz at Kunstfabrik Schlot
A focused Thursday-to-Saturday route through contemporary European jazz in Berlin-Mitte.
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Kantine am Berghain Sets a Three-Night Course From Beats to Latin Rhythm
Three consecutive nights make Kantine am Berghain a focused destination for live, beat-driven music next weekend.
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Ohm’s Two-Track Weekend: La Casita Opens Out, VERSION Turns to Bass
Two upcoming nights at Ohm trace a compact route from live opera and installations to a resident-led club session.
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Crack Bellmer’s Three-Day Route From Late Thursday to Saturday Afternoon
Three distinct crews make Crack Bellmer a concise Friedrichshain destination from Thursday night through Saturday afternoon.
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Haus der Sinne Frames Two Intimate Berlin Music Worlds
Two upcoming nights, on Thursday, September 24 and Saturday, September 26, place adventurous solo work beside a four-act Berlin showcase.
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Fifty Years of Punk Gets a Berlin Archive Room at Columbia Theater
A Saturday conversation joins Manchester memories, West Berlin connections and material from Archiv B.
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Three Rooms, Three Scales at Konzerthaus Berlin
From September 17 to 19, Konzerthaus Berlin shifts focus with three sharply scaled classical programmes.
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Three Evenings Give Schokoladen a Sharp Guitar-Pop Spine
From Thursday, September 17 through Sunday, September 20, Schokoladen maps a compact route through independent guitar music.
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K-INDIE ON Brings a Two-Night Korean Indie Bill to Holzmarkt 25
Catch The Young, Bongjeingan, kimseungjoo and Chang Kiha shape a concise weekend festival at Säälchen.
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Two Showcase Bills Take Over Klunkerkranich’s Rooftop Floors
Spend Friday and Saturday with two crews shaping separate all-evening routes across Klunkerkranich’s Wohnzimmer and Hinter den Alpen.
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Two Nights, Two Registers at Berghain / Panorama Bar
From disco archives to industrial-tinged techno, one address carries two sharply drawn electronic programmes on September 11 and 12.
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A Two-Night Garage-Punk Route: Designer, Then Billy Childish & CTMF
Berlin’s September 10–11 garage-punk pairing moves from a touring double bill to CTMF’s long-running DIY catalogue.
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Three Consecutive Nights Put PrivatClub’s Guitars in Focus
Spend Thursday through Saturday in Kreuzberg with she’s green, AUGER, and JEANLUC at PrivatClub.
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A Four-Day Philharmonie Berlin Arc: Brett Dean Returns, Jurowski Rings the Bells
From Thursday 10 September through Sunday 13 September, Philharmonie Berlin hosts two sharply drawn orchestral propositions.
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Three Nights, Three Scales of Jazz at Kunstfabrik Schlot
A compact Mitte run offers three sharply different reasons to spend next week in the jazz cellar.
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