Venues
For Independent Performing Arts
Acud Macht Neu
The initiative ACUD MACHT NEU operates three spaces at Kunsthaus ACUD: the Club, Studio and Gallery. The aim is to ...
Acud Theater
Since 1990, The ACUD Theater has been a place for innovative and experimental work that builds bridges between disciplines in ...
ada Studio
ada Studio is a workspace for Berlin based emerging choreographers, located at Uferstudios for contemporary dance in Berlin-Wedding. It was ...
Alte Feuerwache
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Alte Münze Berlin
The Alte Münze is a former mint in Berlin-Mitte on the riverside of the Spree, where a place has been ...
Astrid Lindgren Stage
The Astrid Lindgren Theatre is committed to the credo of its namesake: Like the world-famous Swedish author of books for ...
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 ...
Ballhaus Naunynstraße
Naunynstraße in Berlin-Kreuzberg stands for an artistic practice that has changed the theater scene: post-migrant theater. It was founded by ...
Ballhaus Ost
Ballhaus Ost in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg is a venue for independent theater, performance, dance, music theater and music. As an experimental ...
Ballhaus Prinzenallee
The Ballhaus Prinzenallee in Berlin-Wedding is an independent theater with 200 seats that combines political theater, support for emerging artists, ...
bat Studiotheater
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Berliner Ringtheater
The Berlin Ringtheater is dedicated to socially engaged, critical theatre. It serves as a production hub for contemporary stories and ...
BKA Theater
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Brotfabrik Bühne
The Brotfabrik Bühne in Berlin-Weißensee is a vibrant off-theater venue for contemporary performing arts. Around 300 performances each year showcase ...
CFB Berlin
The CFB is more than just a cultural and social hub in Wedding. Over the past 10 years, it has ...
Chamäleon Theater
The CHAMÄLEON Theater in Berlin Mitte stands for contemporary circus - a comparatively young form of the performing arts between ...
Circus Schatzinsel
Circus Schatzinsel is a new circus in the heart of Berlin. We want to give children, teenagers, young adults and ...
Club der Polnischen Versager
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Cordillera - Raum für Körper und Utopien
CORDILLERA Berlin – a self-managed cultural centre for dance, performance and embodied research. Founded in 2020 by the association Die ...
Das Weite Theater
For over 30 years, Das Weites Theater in Lichtenberg has been synonymous with professional puppetry and drama of the highest ...Die Wiesenburg
The Wiesenburg is a cultural center in Berlin Wedding. With several studios, workshop spaces, recording and rehearsal rooms, as well ...
DOCK 11 | DOCK ART
DOCK ART, the performance department at DOCK 11, is part of Berlin's diverse independent theatre scene and a recognised anchor ...
DOCK 11 | EDEN*****
DOCK 11 EDEN ***** combines the areas of production, pedagogy and presentation in contemporary Dance spatially as well as structurally ...
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 ...
Fabriktheater Moabit
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FELD Theater für junges Publikum
FELD is a contemporary theater on Berlin-Schöneberg's independent scene that invites young audiences and adults alike to make artistic discoveries. ...
Figurentheater Grashüpfer
Whether it's traditional hand puppet shows, free animation of objects, artistic marionette or shadow puppet theater, all artistic forms of ...
Fliegendes Theater
FLIEGENDES THEATER in Berlin-Kreuzberg has been very popular among both young and old for many decades. Performance forms such as ...
Galli Theater Berlin
The Galli Theater Berlin is a popular place for art, culture and encounters in the center of the capital. It ...Gemeinschaftshaus Gropiusstadt
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Globe Berlin
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GRIPS Hansaplatz
Under the direction of Natalie Driemeyer, Tom Keller and Winfried Tobias, the GRIPS Theatre is an open house for people ...
GRIPS Podewil
Under the direction of Natalie Driemeyer, Tom Keller and Winfried Tobias, the GRIPS Theatre is an open house for people ...
Halle Tanzbühne Berlin
The HALLE Tanzbühne Berlin is a production space and performance venue for cie. toula limnaios and their guests. In 2000, ...HAU Hebbel am Ufer - HAU 1
HAU Hebbel am Ufer, with HAU1–3 and the digital stage HAU4, presents current positions in theatre, dance and performance, complemented ...
HAU Hebbel am Ufer - HAU 2
HAU Hebbel am Ufer, with HAU1–3 and the digital stage HAU4, presents current positions in theatre, dance and performance, complemented ...
HAU Hebbel am Ufer - HAU 3
HAU Hebbel am Ufer, with HAU1–3 and the digital stage HAU4, presents current positions in theatre, dance and performance, complemented ...
HAU Hebbel am Ufer - HAU 4
HAU Hebbel am Ufer, with HAU1–3 and the digital stage HAU4, presents current positions in theatre, dance and performance, complemented ...
Heimathafen Neukölln
In 2009 the theatre company Heimathafen Neukölln launched a new folk theatre in Berlin´s most multi-cultural district Neukölln. With the ...
HfS UNTEN | HfS OBEN | HfS Probebühnen
The HfS has two large stages, UNTEN and OBEN each of which can accommodate up to 100 audience members. Access ...
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 ...
Jugendtheaterwerkstatt Spandau
english description followsJunges Tanzhaus Berlin | TanzZeit e.V.
K77 Studio
The K77 is a small studio and venue in Prenzlauer Berg in a formerly occupied house, which still exists today ...
Katapult
Katalpult is a studio for contemporary performing arts in Berlin. It is organized by and for artists: it offers residencies, ...
Kleines Theater
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Kuringa — Space for theatre of the oppressed
LAKE Studios Berlin
LAKE Studios Berlin is a shared living and dance production space for 9 diverse residents (short and long term). They ...
Liebig12
Born in 2011 somewhere in the core of Berlin Friedrichshain, Liebig12 is an atelier & community oriented initiative run by ...Luftschloss Tempelhofer Feld | Atze Musiktheater
Mehringhof-Theater
Since 1985, the 230-seat Mehringhof Theater has become a premier venue for German-language cabaret—with a particular focus on politically charged ...
Monbijou Theater
Right by the Spree, set in Monbijou Park opposite Museum Insel, Monbijou Theater blends classical and modern theater. Passionate, raw, ...
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 ...
Neuköllner Oper
Opera can be done in a completely different way: contemporary and entertaining, with stories and heroes of our city and ...
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 140 episodes, ...
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 ...
R100
R100 is a self-organized, non-profit project space in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg on the grounds of Neue Zukunft. Collectively managed and in a ...
radialsystem
Radialsystem in Berlin is a place for art and collective action, where different cultural traditions and forms of knowledge meet ...
RambaZamba Theater
The heart of the RambaZamba Theatre in the Kulturbrauerei is formed by 35 actors, all of whom live with disabilities. ...
Ratibor Theater
The founding of Ratibor Theater took place during a period of political and artistic change. In 1977, a free theater ...
Schaubude Berlin
As a Senate-sponsored venue for the theater of things, the Schaubude Berlin has become a central platform of the genre ...Schlossplatztheater
english description followsShakespeare Company Berlin | Theater am Insulaner
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Sophiensæle
Sophiensæle is one of Berlin’s most important production houses for independent performing arts. Since 1996, Sophiensæle has focused on a ...Spreehalle Berlin
SPREEHALLE Berlin provides high-voltage art with internationally known musicians from the fields of electronic music to jazz and all the ...
STUDIO2 des Internationalen Theaterinstituts
STUDIO2 is a 165 square metre rehearsal room available for practical artistic movement work in dance, theatre and performance art. ...
tak Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg
TAK is a collectively run independent theatre in Berlin that is open to Berlin-based and international artists and collectives. At ...
Tanzfabrik Berlin Bühne
Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE is a production and performance venue for dance in Wedding – internationally networked and at the same ...
TATWERK | Performative Forschung
TATWERK is the central node of an ecosystem of diverse players in the independent scene who work in synergy to ...
TD Berlin
TD Berlin, founded in 2003, is a theater in the city center. The repertoire includes a weekly changing program of ...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, ...
Theater Expedition Metropolis (ExMe)
The Theater Expedition Metropolis is positioned at the intersection of community-based art and professional performance. Expedition Metropolis pursues a decidedly ...
Theater im Delphi
For decades forgotten, the venue, built in 1929 as a silent movie theater, was reawakened as an international cultural center ...
Theater im Keller Berlin
The Theater im Keller - Circus of Travesty - was founded on January 3rd, 1987 and is open to its ...
Theater im Kino
The Theater im Kino (tik) opened in Friedrichshain in 2006. Since then, the venue has established itself as an off-theatre, ...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 ...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 ...
Theater Strahl
Over the last thirty-five years Theater Strahl has emerged as a trailblazer of ambitious contemporary theatre for young audiences. Strahl ...
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 ...
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 ...
Theater unterm Dach
The Theater unterm Dach is a production and performance location for theater projects produced within the independent performing arts community ...
Theater Verlängertes Wohnzimmer
The “Theater Verlängertes Wohnzimmer” is a small off-stage in Berlin-Friedrichshain. It took its current form in 2010 but has been ...
Theater X
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Theater Zitadelle
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Theaterforum Kreuzberg
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Theaterhaus Berlin | Mitte
For over 30 years, theaterhaus berlin has been a production centre and networking platform for the independent performing arts in ...
Theaterhaus Berlin | Schöneweide
For over 30 years, theaterhaus berlin has been a production centre and networking platform for the independent performing arts in ...Tiyatrom — Türkisches Theater Berlin
ufaFabrik IKC
ufaFabrik is a public interdisciplinary space for culture in the south of Berlin. Culture, art, ecology and social togetherness have ...
Uferstudios for Contemporary Dance
Uferstudios for contemporary dance are a rehearsal, event and education venue at the same time - created for and consulted ...
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 ...
Vaganten Bühne
Vagantenbühne Berlin is located in the heart of City West, between Bahnhof Zoo and Kurfürstendamm. In our intimate 83-seat venue ...
Vierte Welt
Vierte Welt is a space where artists, specialists, activists and the public come together as equals to engage in dialogue ...
Villa Elisabeth | St. Elisabeth
Villa Elisabeth Villa Elisabeth, a historical protected building, impresses with its spaciousness. Through a foyer and via a wide staircase ...Villa Kuriosum
Zebrano Theater
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