The Next Day #36: Berlin Weekend Guide
From 8th to 11th February: Jazznova, AŸA, Fashion Week, Moritz Von Oswald, Carnaval, Nurkan Erpulat, Falk Richter, Curt Block, film festivals
This weekend comes with an ode to jazz with performances by Jazzanova and Yoni Mayraz. AŸA presents an intimate concert at Morphine Raum, accompanied by piano and strings. End your weekend with the avant-pop sounds of Galina Chikiss & Sveta Ben on Sunday.
Fashion Week is underway, with the official party hosted by OXI presented by KEYI Magazine featuring a FLINTA lineup, including Helena Hauff. Moritz von Oswald will play a dub techno set at OHM, while Baile da Bossa offers Brazilian carnival vibes at Festsaal Kreuzberg.
Two premieres not to be overlooked are 'Hund, Wolf, Schakal' directed by Nurkan Erpulat, and 'Bad Kingdom' by Falk Richter. Though tickets may be sold out, it's worth trying for last-minute availability or booking for a later date.
The Jewish Museum is opening the highly anticipated exhibition 'My Verses are Like Dynamite: Curt Blochʼs Het Onderwater Cabaret.'
Film enthusiasts can explore 'Final Girls Berlin,' dedicated to horror films by women and non-binary filmmakers, as well as Retakes & Revisions 2024 and KODEX: Documentary Film Festival.
Be sure to check out our save-the-date section to ensure you don't miss any popular events.
Stay updated on Berlin's top news in English with 20 Percent Berlin, offering a Tuesday preview of three-weekend events for your planning.
AŸA: Piano & Strings
Thu-Fri, 08-09.02, 7:30 pm. Morphine Raum, Köpenicker Straße 147 Hinterhof, 1. Etage, 10997 Berlin. Ticket: 25€.
AŸA blends a unique twist on her Moroccan and Yemeni roots with pop and R&B melodies. The concert takes place at the cozy Morphine Raum. 🎧 Towers of Cards
Murilo Sá
Thursday, 08.02, 7:30 pm. Eschschloraque Rümschrümp, Rosenthaler Str. 39 - 2, Mitte. Free admission.
The musician Murilo Sá blends a unique melodic style, fusing influences from Brazilian and alternative music (1960s-2000s). His next show experiments acoustically, shifting between a 12-string guitar, keyboard, and drum machine beats. 🎧 Christmastime Blues
Jazzanova Live: In Between Revisited
Friday, 09.02, 8 pm. Kesselhaus & Maschinenhaus, Kulturbrauerei. Ticket: 33,60€.
The Berlin-based Jazzanova, pioneers of nu-jazz and broken beat, celebrate their debut album 🎧 "In Between" with an exclusive live performance 22 years later.
Yoni Mayraz
Saturday, 10.02, 8:30 pm. Gretchen, Obentrautstrasse 19-21, 10963. Ticket: 10/20€.
The jazz musician Yoni Mayraz exorcises dark spirits on his new album 🎧 ‘Dybbuk Tse!’. Yoni blends jazz with elements of 90’s New York hip hop, old-school breakbeats, and Middle Eastern music, creating shimmering new hybrid forms.
John Francis Flynn
Saturday, 10.02, 7 pm. silent green, Gerichtstrasse 35, Wedding. Ticket: 16€.
John Francis Flynn's soulful melodies and skillful guitar work weave a compelling narrative of Irish folk. A storyteller through song, his music resonates with the rich heritage of Ireland. 🎧 Look Over the Wall, See the Sky
Galina Ozeran (Chikiss) & Sveta Ben
Sunday, 11.02, 7 pm. Kantine Berghain, Am Wriezener bhf, 10243. Ticket: 19€.
A collaboration within the Belarusian avant-pop scene: Sveta Ben and Galina Chikiss, both artists with rich creative backgrounds. Sveta handles poetry and music, while Galya is a wizard in arrangements and sound production. 🎧 Приём! / Priyom!
KEYI Magazine x Fashion Week
Thursday, 08.02, 6 pm - 6 am. OXI, Wiesenweg 1-4, 10365. Ticket: 13,20€ before 9 pm / 22€ after.
The official party of Berlin Fashion Week with a chic and predominantly FLINTA lineup that gripped us. DJs 🎧 Helena Hauff, GIA, Berlin Bunny Gościńska, Ludmila Houben, Hara Katsiki, and FLORA (PL) will command the decks. #electro #acid
weeeirdos
Thursday, 08.02, 10 pm - 4 am. Berghain/Säule, 70 Am Wriezener Bahnhof.
The queer party 'weeeirdos' occupies the Säule this Thursday with a cool lineup featuring 🎧Peder Mannerfelt (live), Beatrice b2b Matrixxman, Kessie, and Viscerale.
Duty Free Merger IX
Friday, 09.02, 11:59 pm - 8 am. OHM, Köpenicker Str. 70, 10179. Ticket: 15€.
A night dedicated to dub and reggae curated by the 🎧 Duty Free party series, featuring an unmissable dub techno DJ set from Moritz von Oswald.
Carnaval: Baile da Bossa
Saturday, 10.02, 1 pm - 4 am. Festsaal Kreuzberg, Am Flutgraben 2. Ticket: 20€
I'm in Brazil enjoying one of my favorite times of the year: Carnival. But for those in Berlin, don't worry, the party is on with live bands playing plenty of samba and 🎧Brazilian carnival tunes. Get your glitter, and costumes, and be ready to shake it down to the ground.
Gene On Earth presents Rave 'n' Cruise
Sat-Sun, 11 pm - 11:59 pm. Zenner, Alt-Treptow 15, 12435. Ticket: 22,60/35€
24 hours of music from top DJs and live acts on a single dancefloor, accompanied by curated Chiller's Lounge featuring light installations and deluxe downtempo sounds. With DJs 🎧 Karine, 🎧 Lucy Cook, ASIA (live), Craig Richards, Fumiya Tanaka, and others. #downtempo #house
More parties:
Groove Therapy offers a cure for the winter blues through a night of house music. Fri, 09.02, 11 pm. Bulbul, Skalitzer str. 114, 10999. 🎧 DJ Northern
Eastern Margins from London, the home of alternative Asian culture, presents unique Asian diasporic communities across Europe. Sat, 10.02, 11:30 pm. Panke, Gerichtstraße 23, 13347 Berlin. Ticket: 12/15€. 🎧 LVRA 🎧 Anh Phi #breakcore
Staub 11: 24-hour celebration marking 11 years of keeping the dance floor alive with techno beats. Sat, 10.02, 10 pm - 10 am. ://aboutblank, Markgrafendamm 24c, 10245. 🎧 Staub #109
Paris Gazette (Exil)
Thursday, 08.02, 7:30 pm. Directed by Luk Perceval. German with English surtitles. Berliner Ensemble Grosses Haus, Bertolt-Brecht-Platz, 1, 10117 Berlin. Tickets: 14/44€.
Paris, 1935: a pulsating metropolis at the center of Europe. The city has become a place of exile for thousands who had to leave Germany after the National Socialists seized power in 1933. As early as the 1920s, Lion Feuchtwanger was one of the first writers who recognized how dangerous Hitler and his party were going to be.
Hund, Wolf, Schakal (Premiere)
Saturday, 10.02, 7:30 pm. Directed by Nurkan Erpulat. German with English surtitles. Maxim Gorki Theater, Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin. Tickets: 12€ - 40€.
Berlin. Neukölln. Two brothers, Saam and Nima. After their mother's execution, they fled the chaos of the Iranian revolution to Germany with their father Jamschid. How to integrate into this new society? How to leave the past behind and find a place among those seeking opportunities on the streets, those who are just as lost as you are?
Bad Kingdom (Premiere)
Sunday, 11.02, 8 pm. Directed by Falk Richter. German without surtitles. Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Kurfürstendamm 153, 10709 Berlin. Tickets: 7€ to 49€.
Falk Richter's latest play at the Schaubühne explores the present through fragmented scenes, uncertain settings, and possible realities. Is it a nightmare, a film set, a therapeutic role play, or reality? Something is amiss in this 'bad kingdom' of the present.
My Verses are Like Dynamite: Curt Blochʼs Het Onderwater Cabaret
Opening 08.02, 6:30 pm. Until 26.05. Jewish Museum, Lindenstr. 9–14
10969. Free admission.
The exhibition showcases Bloch's courageous resistance to Hitler's regime through his anti-Nazi publication, The Underwater Cabaret. The zine contains satirical content, but it also reveals a touching narrative of Bloch's family tragedy, rebellion, and resilience. Bloch's daring venture involved creating 95 magazines in just 19 months, from August 1943 until April 1945.
Sylvie Fleury. Égoïste
Opening Friday, 09.02, 6-8 pm. Until 23.03. Sprüth Magers, Oranienburger Strasse 18, Mitte.
Sylvie Fleury's exhibition explores consumerist culture, mixing fashion and art. Since the 1990s, her work has challenged values, desires, and fetishism, using luxury items and everyday objects. With slogans and vivid visuals, she delves into the intersection of high-end luxury and trash culture, addressing the concept of fetishism often overlooked in modern visual culture.
Lucy Raven: Ready Mix
Friday, 09.02, 7 - 9 pm. Neue Nationalgalerie, Free Admission.
Lucy Raven's video installation Ready Mix (2021) explores work, technology, and power. The opening of the exhibition coincides with the laying of the foundation stone of the building, designed by Herzog & de Meuron. At 8 pm there will be a performance by Deantoni Parks, who composed the music for "Ready Mix."
Nguyễn Trinh Thi, How to Improve the World (2021)
Until 08.04. Berlinische Galerie, Alte Jakobstrasse 124-128, 10969. Ticket: 6€
Set in the Central Highlands of Vietnam where a large concentration of groups of indigenous people live, “How to Improve the World“ is a film about listening. The film reflects on the differences in how memory is processed between the culture of the eye and that of the ear while observing the loss of land, forests, and the way of life of the indigenous people in this part of the world. It’s possible to watch online.
The New Hollywood
Until 29.02. Babylon Berlin, Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 30, Mitte. Ticket: 8€.
Program featuring over 50 movies produced from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. Notable films from the early New Hollywood era include Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Rosemary's Baby, A Clockwork Orange, and Taxi Driver. It’s a chance to see classic movies on the big screen.
Final Girls Film Festival
Until 11.02. City Kino Wedding, Müllerstraße 74, 13349. Ticket: 8,80€/66€ all-access pass. With English subtitles.
'Final Girls Berlin' is a film festival dedicated to horror written, directed, and/or produced by women and non-binary filmmakers. The 9th edition delves into horror in its darkest forms, featuring psychological thrillers, traumas, and terror. On our list are "Somewhere Quiet" by Olivia West Lloyd and "Where the Devil Roams," by Zelda Adams, Toby Poser, and John Adams.
Last book launch of F.R.DAVID – “Erratum”: Music to study/relax too
Friday, 09.02, 7 pm - 12 am. KW Institute, Auguststrasse 69, Mitte. Free admission with registration.
F.R.DAVID's final event after 17 years invites private reading in a public space, featuring live music by Oùat and a vocal score by Anthony Elms. Be ready for a unique experience with drinks, lasting five hours.
Japanmarkt
Sunday, 11.02, 12 - 7 pm. Festsaal Kreuzberg, Am Flutgraben 2, 12435 Berlin. Tickets: 8/15 €
For fans of Japanese culture, this festival features live music, kids' workshops, arts and crafts vendors, massages, performances, and delicious food.
🎹 TootArd fuses traditional Middle Eastern sounds with contemporary global influences. Monday, 12.02, 7:30 pm. Gretchen. Ticket: 22,60€. 🎧 Migrant Birds
🎺 Beirut has an extra concert on Thu, 15.02, 8 pm. Tempodrom. Ticket: 49,50. 🎧 Hadsel
🩰 Club Amour with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: 07-08.03, 7 and 9 pm. Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Main Stage. Ticket: 19/63€.
🎸 The Heliocentrics: An ensemble known for their genre-blending approach, incorporating elements of jazz, funk, psychedelic rock, and world music. 26.02, 8:30 pm. Gretchen. Ticket: 28,25€. 🎧 Legna
🎭 Dirty Hands by Jean-Paul Sartre: Hugo, on a political mission to assassinate Hoederer, grapples with moral conflict and questions the intertwining of politics and personal convictions. 12-13.03 (13 with English subtitles), 7 pm.
🪩 Disco Tehran - Nowrouz in Berlin: Fri, 22.03, 11 pm - 6 am. Gretchen. Ticket: 13,55/22,60€.