Venues

For Independent Performing Arts

Acker Stadt Palast

The Acker Stadt Palast in Berlin's Mitte district is a place where established artists and newcomers meet to experiment and ...

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Acud Macht Neu

The initiative ACUD MACHT NEU operates three spaces at Kunsthaus ACUD: the Club, Studio and Gallery. The aim is to ...

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Acud Theater

[...] The ACUD Theatre is a place for young, innovative and diverse theatre, building bridges between acting, dance, performing art, ...

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ada Studio

ada Studio is a workspace for Berlin based emerging choreographers, located at Uferstudios for contemporary dance in Berlin-Wedding. It was ...

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Alte Feuerwache

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Alte Münze

The Alte Münze is a former mint in Berlin-Mitte on the riverside of the Spree, where a place has been ...

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Astrid Lindgren Stage

The Astrid Lindgren Theatre is committed to the credo of its namesake: Like the world-famous Swedish author of books for ...

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Atze Music Theater

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Ausland

ausland is an independent venue for music, film, literature, performance and other artistic endeavours. We also offer our infrastructure for ...

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Ballhaus Naunynstraße

 Naunynstraße in Berlin-Kreuzberg stands for an artistic practice that has changed the theater scene: post-migrant theater. It was founded by ...

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Ballhaus Ost

Ballhaus Ost in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg is a venue for independent theater, performance, dance, music theater and music. As an experimental ...

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Ballhaus Prinzenallee

Ballhaus Prinzenallee is a place that confronts the divisive tendencies in society with an enquiring eye. The forms of performance ...

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bat Studiotheater

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Berliner Ringtheater

The Berliner Ringtheater creates socially engaged theater. It is a space for contemporary storytelling and performative expression that explores critical ...

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BKA Theater

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Brotfabrik

The Brotfabrik Bühne (Bread Factory Theatre) in the Weissensee district of Berlin is an independent venue for touring shows and ...

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CFB Berlin

The CFB is more than just a cultural and social hub in Wedding. Over the past 10 years, it has ...

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Chamäleon Theater

The CHAMÄLEON Theater in Berlin Mitte stands for contemporary circus - a comparatively young form of the performing arts between ...

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Circus Schatzinsel

Circus Schatzinsel is a new circus in, with and for Berlin. Amidst the hustle and bustle of Kreuzberg, there is ...

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Club der Polnischen Versager

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Cordillera - Raum für Körper und Utopien

CORDILLERA Berlin in Oberschöneweide is a rehearsal and presentation venue for locally and internationally active artists. The space facilitates the ...

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Das Weite Theater

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Deutsches Nationaltheater Fritzenhagen

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Die Wiesenburg

The Wiesenburg is a cultural center in Berlin Wedding. With several studios, workshop spaces, recording and rehearsal rooms, as well ...

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DOCK 11 | DOCK ART

DOCK ART, the performance space at DOCK 11, is part of Berlin's diverse theater landscape. As a permanent venue, the ...

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DOCK 11 | EDEN*****

DOCK 11 EDEN ***** combines the areas of production, pedagogy and presentation in contemporary Dance spatially as well as structurally ...

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English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center

English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center (ETB | IPAC) is a performance venue within Berlin’s independent performing arts ...

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Fabriktheater Moabit

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FELD Theater für junges Publikum

FELD is an artistic production and performance space in Berlin that stimulates artistic research and development as a place for ...

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Figurentheater Grashüpfer

Whether it's traditional hand puppet shows, free animation of objects, artistic marionette or shadow puppet theater, all artistic forms of ...

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Fliegendes Theater

FLIEGENDES THEATER in Berlin-Kreuzberg has been very popular among both young and old for many decades. Performance forms such as ...

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Galli Theater Berlin

The Galli Theater Berlin is a popular place for art, culture and encounters in the center of the capital. It ...

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Gemeinschaftshaus Gropiusstadt

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Globe Berlin

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GRIPS Hansaplatz

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GRIPS Podewil

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Halle Tanzbühne Berlin

The Halle Tanzbühne Berlin is the production and performance venue of the cie. toula limnaios and its guests. In 2000, ...

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HAU Hebbel am Ufer - HAU 1

HAU Hebbel am Ufer, with its three venues HAU1, HAU2 und HAU3 and the digital stage HAU4 is a paragon ...

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HAU Hebbel am Ufer - HAU 2

HAU Hebbel am Ufer, with its three venues HAU1, HAU2 und HAU3 and the digital stage HAU4 is a paragon ...

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HAU Hebbel am Ufer - HAU 3

HAU Hebbel am Ufer, with its three venues HAU1, HAU2 und HAU3 and the digital stage HAU4 is a paragon ...

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HAU Hebbel am Ufer - HAU 4

HAU Hebbel am Ufer, with its three venues HAU1, HAU2 und HAU3 and the digital stage HAU4 is a paragon ...

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Heimathafen Neukölln

In 2009 the theatre company Heimathafen Neukölln launched a new folk theatre in Berlin´s most multi-cultural district Neukölln. With the ...

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HfS UNTEN | HfS OBEN | HfS Probebühnen

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Hotel Continental - Art Space in Exile

Hotel Continental – Art Space in Exile is an independent center for cultural and artistic production dedicated to support artists ...

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Jugendtheaterwerkstatt Spandau

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K77 Studio

The K77 is a small studio and venue in Prenzlauer Berg in a formerly occupied house, which still exists today ...

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Katapult

Katalpult is a studio for contemporary performing arts in Berlin. It is organized by and for artists: it offers residencies, ...

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Kleines Theater

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KOBALT Figurentheater Berlin

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LAKE Studios Berlin

LAKE Studios Berlin is a shared living and dance production space for 9 diverse residents (short and long term). They ...

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Liebig12

Born in 2011 somewhere in the core of Berlin Friedrichshain, Liebig12 is an atelier & community oriented initiative run by ...

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Mehringhof-Theater

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Monbijou Theater

Right by the Spree, set in Monbijou Park opposite Museum Insel, Monbijou Theater blends classical and modern theater. Passionate, raw, ...

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Morgenstern - Theater im Rathaus Friedenau

The Morgenstern is full of ambience. The theatre hall combines heritage protection with state-of-the-art technology. 2 adjoining rooms are ideal ...

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Neue Bühne Friedrichshain

As a free stage, we want to be host to a wide variety of national and international groups and artists. ...

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Neuköllner Oper

Opera can be done in a completely different way: contemporary and entertaining, with stories and heroes of our city and ...

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Oyoun

Oyoun conducts sociocultural and artistic perspectives that emphasize neurodiverse and class-critical perspectives throughout Berlin and internationally with the goal of ...

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Pfefferberg Theater

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Prime Time Theater

On January 10, 2004, the Prime Time Theater launched its stage sitcom Gutes Wedding, Schlechtes Wedding, which, with over 130 ...

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Puppentheater Felicio

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Q Space

Q Space is a contemporary circus space in Berlin, welcoming professionals, adults, and children. We provide professional circus artists and ...

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radialsystem

Since its opening in September 2006, Radialsystem V has established itself on an international scale as a privately funded, innovative ...

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RambaZamba Theater

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Ratibor Theater

Since 2001, the Berlin improv ensemble “Die Gorillas” has been organizing an international festival for improvisational theater, which has grown ...

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Schaubude Berlin

As a Senate-sponsored venue for the theater of things, the Schaubude Berlin has become a central platform of the genre ...

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Schlossplatztheater

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Shakespeare Company Berlin | Theater am Insulaner

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Sophiensæle

Sophiensæle is one of Berlin’s most important centers for the independent performing arts. Located in a historically protected building complex ...

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Spreehalle Berlin

SPREEHALLE Berlin provides high-voltage art with internationally known musicians from the fields of electronic music to jazz and all the ...

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Statttheater Lichtenberg

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Mime Centrum Studio 2

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tak Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg

Since january 2018 artists and artist collectives kainkollektiv (Bochum), suite42 (Berlin), France-Elena Damian (Berlin) and Anna Koch/Moritz Pankok (tak e.V. ...

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Tanzfabrik Berlin Bühne

Tanzfabrik Berlin is a place for dance art, choreography and performance.   It offers space for rehearsals, production, artistic and ...

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TANZKOMPLIZEN at Podewil

TANZKOMPLIZEN is the first performance and production venue in Berlin that exclusively and continuously brings dance for young audiences to ...

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TATWERK | Performative Forschung

TATWERK is the central node of an ecosystem of diverse players in the independent scene who work in synergy to ...

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TD Berlin

TD Berlin, founded in 2003, is a theater in the city center. The repertoire includes a weekly changing program of ...

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Theater der kleinen Form

Since 2006 we have been doing children's theater in Berlin-Friedrichshain. The name is program: "the small form". In our inviting, ...

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Theater Expedition Metropolis (ExMe)

Expedition Metropolis (ExMe) is a centre for theatrical practices established 25 years ago to explore community learning and acting through ...

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Theater im Delphi

For decades forgotten, the venue, built in 1929 as a silent movie theater, was reawakened as an international cultural center ...

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Theater im Keller Berlin

The Theater im Keller - Circus of Travesty - was founded on January 3rd, 1987 and is open to its ...

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Theater im Kino

Theater im Kino (nord) was opened at the end of 2006 and, thanks to its location, offers excellent accessibility to ...

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Theater im Palais

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Theater Jaro

Theater Jaro is a theatre for children between two and nine and their families. All of Jaro's plays are written ...

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Theater Mirakulum

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Theater o.N.

Theater o.N. is an independent theater in Berlin that produces theater and dance for children and adults. Over the past ...

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Theater Strahl

Over the last thirty-five years Theater Strahl has emerged as a trailblazer of ambitious contemporary theatre for young audiences. Strahl ...

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Theater Strahl, Kulturhaus Schöneberg

Founded in 1987 as an independent theatre group, Strahl has performed on two permanent stages in Berlin-Schöneberg since the end ...

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Theater Thikwa

Theater Thikwa is “Germany’s most well-known theater where artists with and without so-called disabilities come together to make theater” (rbb ...

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Theater unterm Dach

The Theater unterm Dach is a production and performance location for theater projects produced within the independent performing arts community ...

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Theater Verlängertes Wohnzimmer

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Theater X

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Theater Zitadelle

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Theaterforum Kreuzberg

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Theaterhaus Berlin | Mitte

For over thirty years, theaterhaus berlin has been a production centre and networking platform for the independent performing arts scene ...

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Theaterhaus Berlin | Schöneweide

For over thirty years, theaterhaus berlin has been a production centre and networking platform for the independent performing arts scene ...

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ufaFabrik

ufaFabrik is a public interdisciplinary space for culture in the south of Berlin. Culture, art, ecology and social togetherness have ...

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Uferstudios for Contemporary Dance

Uferstudios for contemporary dance are a rehearsal, event and education venue at the same time - created for and consulted ...

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UNI.T - Theater der UdK Berlin

UNI.T - the theatre of the Berlin University of the Arts is unlike any other theatre in Berlin. As the ...

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Vaganten Bühne

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Vierte Welt

In 2010, the actors group Lubricat initiated the founding of Vierte Welt at Kottbusser Tor, located in the Neues Zentrum ...

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Villa Elisabeth | St. Elisabeth

Villa Elisabeth Villa Elisabeth, a historical protected building, impresses with its spaciousness. Through a foyer and via a wide staircase ...

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Villa Kuriosum

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Zebrano Theater

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Zirkus Mond

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ZK/U Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik

The ZK/U - Centre for Art and Urbanistics was founded in 2012 in the Stadtgarten Moabit in a former railway ...

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