01 SUN
Trödelmarkt Landsberger Allee
MARKET This market opening marks the start of the season, which means Spring is on the horizon. Whether you’re looking for pre-loved GDR chairs or Y2K low-rise jeans, chances are you can find them at the Landsberger Allee Trödelmarkt. As the saying goes, one person’s junk is another person’s treasure.
- Landsberger Allee 364 (IKEA carpark). Starts 8:00
Winterreise
DANCE Featuring choreography and direction by Christian Spuck and music by Hans Zender, this ballet uses the 24-song cycle of Franz Schubert’s Winterreise (Winter Journey) as its basis for both large ensemble scenes and intimate solos.
- Staatsoper, Unter den Linden 7, 10117 Berlin. Starts 19:30
02 MON
Batman (1989) in Concert
CONCERT For one night, the Uber Eats Music Hall will transform into Gotham City, screening the iconic Batman movie directed by Tim Burton, accompanied by an impressive orchestra that will bring Danny Elfman’s score to life.
- Uber Eats Music Hall, Uber Platz 2, 10243 Berlin Starts 19:30
03 TUE
ITB Berlin – International Travel Trade Show
EVENT Since 1966, the ITB (Internationale Tourismus Börse) has been a central attraction for the tourism industry, growing from five participants to what is now over 10,000. With more than 180 countries representing many facets of the industry, this trade show is a lively marketplace inspiring wanderlust to far flung places.
- Messe Berlin, Messedamm 22, 14055 Berlin Starts 10:00
BELLO!
DANCE The Italian circus collective Fabbrica C hits the stage, fresh from sell-out seasons at Berlin Circus Festival with a new, expanded version of Bello! Expect a poetic, raucous show exploring beauty, from both inside and out.
- Chameleon Theatre. Rosenthaler Str. 40/41, 10178 Berlin. Through Mar 31.
04 WED
Final Girls Berlin
FILM Dedicated to the ‘final girl’ trope in slasher movies, the 11th addition of this Berlin-based indie film festival is all about bloodthirsty horror cinema, feminism and female rage. Knives out!
- City Kino Wedding, Müllerstraße 74, 13349 Berlin Through Mar 8.
05 THU
F Festival (*uck the Patriarchy)
THEATRE Get yourself in the mood for International Women’s Day by saying, “F the Patriarchy” at this celebration of feminist performance. Now in its fourth edition, the F Festival lets viewers enjoy theatre that tackles topics like misogyny, menopause and fairytales with equal doses of rage and humour.
- Ballhaus Prinzenallee, Prinzenallee 33, 13359 Berlin. Starts 20:00.
Silent Film Symphonies Festival
FILM/MUSIC Throughout March, the historic Apostle church hosts a smorgasbord of symphonies that celebrate the iconic musical scores of the silent movie era. Featuring classics like George Méliès’ Journey To The Moon and Irwin Allen’s 1960s hit The Lost World, this festival is a treat for cinephiles and audiophiles combined.
- Apostle Church, An der Apostelkirche 1 10783 Berlin. Starts 19:30.
06 FRI
Roses Rising – The Movement
ART Visual artist and director Leila Hekmat creates large-scale theatrical worlds defined by skewed rococo-esqe aesthetics and a distinctive performance language. The Movement is the first of a two part installment that draws upon vaudeville, ballet and tableau vivant to examine collective responses to crisis, probing bourgeois performativity and self-staging as political gestures.
- Gropius Bau, Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin. Starts 20:00.
Cradle Me Hard + Sweet Delerium
CABARET This double bill is a quirky pairing, bringing together two companies that explore the everyday through object manipulation and acrobatics. If you’ve ever wondered how clowns and acrobats deal with the mundane necessities of life these shows will give you a glimpse of the journey from backstage to the big top.
- Zirkus Mond, Lilli-Henoch-Straße, 10405 Berlin Starts 19:00.
Berlin Post Punk: Dry Fruits & Lovegaze
GIG With a focus on the FLINTA* community, these two bands bring their riotous and sassy shenanigans together on one shared stage to remind us that girls and femmes have always been at the front and centre of guitar-driven anthems.
- Grune Salon (Volksbuhne), Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin. Starts 20:30.
08 SUN
International Women’s Day
PROTEST In today’s political climate, International Women’s Day isn’t just another holiday, it’s a call to unite, uplift and continue the fight for gender equality. If you can, use the day off (even though this year it falls on a Sunday) to take part in one of the many protests and solidarity marches across the city.
- Events citywide.
Shells, Rubbish, Mangroves
FILM With a focus on the environment, pollution and climate change, children from Venezuela, Papua New Guinea and Peru present a series of short films exploring these big topics from their perspectives, showing what role nature plays in their worlds.
- Humboldt Forum, Schloßpl., 10178 Berlin. Starts 13:00.
10 TUE
Zola Jesus
GIG Stripped of her wild, throbbing electronics, Zola Jesus presents an intimate reworking of her songs, using an acoustic, minimal approach. Using a variety of instruments that will be accompanied by her powerful voice, this will be an up close and personal moment with the artist.
- Heimathafen Neukölln, Karl-Marx-Straße 141, 12043 Berlin. Start 20:00.
11 WED
Mark Reeder’s Mystery Movie Night
FILM Just like with a box of chocolates, with this mystery movie night, you never know what you’re gonna get. For each event, Mark Reeder picks a movie to screen to an intimately sized audience, but the selection remains a closely guarded secret right up until the moment the film starts. It could be a comedy, it could be horror, it could be a rare sci-fi gem – you just don’t know! One thing is guaranteed: the choices are never boring.
- Backhaus Projects, Weserstr. 168, 12045 Berlin. Starts 19:30.
13 FRI
Irish Film Festival
FILM From Cillian Murphy to Paul Mescal to Barry Keoghan, Irish talent has been dominating the international film stage lately. Celebrate Irish cinema in Berlin on the weekend before St. Patrick’s Day with a curated selection of films, documentaries and visual art shorts. There will also be some traditional live music on Saturday when Babylon will be bathed in green light. Come for the films, stay for the craic!
- Babylon Berlin, Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 30, 10178 Berlin. Start tbc.
T35: Tresor’s 35th bday
CLUB For Tresor’s 35th birthday weekend, the full cavernous club space, including OHM, will be open for many hours of unforgettable celebratory chaos. The line-up has been released and it looks awesome. Highlights include Adriana Lopez, Blake Baxter, DJ Bone, Barbara Preisinger, Daniel Bell and Chloe Lula. Go hard or go home.
- Tresor, Köpenicker Str. 70, 10179 Berlin. Starts 22:00
Mary Ocher
GIG Returning with her new album Weimar, recorded using a 1870s instrument, Mary Ocher pivots towards 20th century minimalism and chamber pop in her newest work. To celebrate its release, Ocher and some special guests will be performing. After the show, there will also be a panel discussion on the topic of freedom and censorship.
- Galiläa-Kirche. Rigaer Str. 9, 10245 Berlin. Starts 18:00
Vierte Welle Film Festival
FILM If ever there were a festival that proudly wears its heart on its sleeve – along with its politics and cinematic ambition – it’s Vierte Welle. Berlin’s international feminist and queer short film festival returns in 2026 to champion voices that are too often pushed to the margins.
- Lichtblick Kino Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin. Through Mar 15.
14 SAT
Collective Osmosis
ART Contemporary artist Oscar Murillo explores collective mark making and osmosis, the process of how water particles move through a semi-permanent boundary. The exhibition presents new abstract works from the artist’s Surge, Scarred Spirits and Disrupted Frequencies series, while also inviting visitors to take part in creating collaborative artwork throughout the summer months.
- Das Minsk Kunsthaus. Max-Planck-Straße 17, 14473 Potsdam. Starts 19:00.
16 MON
Smut Slam
SPOKEN WORD From unexpected sexual epiphanies, to hilarious bedroom mishaps, to blissful kinky encounters, great stories are meant to be told. And who wouldn’t want to share their most memorable sexcapades with a room full of strangers? Led by queen of the mic and resident hedonist Cameryn Moore, Smut Slam is the open stage for all things fun and freaky.
- The Social Hub. Alexanderstraße 40, 10179 Berlin. Starts 19:00.
18 WED
Transform
EVENT It’s somewhat ironic that Berlin hosts a tech conference based around the digitisation of industry considering you can still send a fax in the capital. But the future has arrived, so head on down the Transform conference to hear about all things tech, from up-and-coming trends, to virtual reality, to, you guessed it, the dreaded AI.
- Station Berlin. Luckenwalder Str. 4-6, 10963 Berlin. Starts 10:00.
19 THU
Art & Piano
CONCERT Art & Piano is an immersive, groundbreaking live event that combines Ukrainian painter Alexander Glinkin, French pianist Grégory Priva and German video artist Martin Kohlmann exploring themes of exile, reflection and rebirth.
- Jüdisches Gemeindehaus. Fasanenstraße 79-80, 10623 Berlin. Starts 19:00.
20 FRI
MaerzMusik
MUSIC/THEATRE Berlin’s annual contemporary music festival is back with a rich programme featuring concerts, installations and musical theatre. This year’s stand-outs include Meredith Monk, Ellen Fullman and Georg Friedrich Haas. The festival presents sound works that hopefully renew our understanding of the world and our place within it.
- Various locations. Through Mar 29.
Klavierfest Weißensee
MUSIC Sure, your situationship’s steamy Spotify playlist is cool, but have you ever sat through a rendition of Bach’s soul-stirring piano piece ‘Ricercar’? Ditch the stay-at-home speakers and head over to Weißensee. Trust us, this concert will hit all the right notes.
- Bildungs- und Kulturzentrum Peter Edel, Berliner Allee 125, 13088 Berlin. Starts 20:00
The Picture of Dorian Gray
CONCERT Norwegian-Finnish director Heiki Riipinen brings this reworked version of Oscar Wilde’s queer, mythical play to the stage. What we’re most excited to see in this adaptation? The ugly, aging portrait in the attic!
- Berlin Ensemble, Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin. Starts 20:00.
21 SAT
Berlin Chocolate Festival
FOOD Sweet tooth or not, if you’ve never tried pizza with cocoa dough or tacos with chocolate sauce, then quite frankly you’ve never lived. The Berlin Chocolate Festival is here to save you. Of course, more traditional chocolate is on offer too, so get ready to indulge.
- Arena Market Berlin. Eichenstraße 4a, 12435 Berlin. Through Mar 22.
22 SUN
Queer Slam Berlin x Studio 14
COMEDY The largest regular poetry slam in the capital, Queer Slam, mostly throws their events at SO36, but on the odd occasion they switch it up. This edition will take place at Studio 14, so if you’ve ever wanted to watch some talented members of the LGBTQIA+ community have their six minutes in the slam spotlight, head on down.
- Studio 14 – Die rbb Dachlounge. Masurenallee 20, 14057 Berlin. Starts 19:00.
Run Around the Müggelturm
SPORT This one’s for all the troopers who powered through Berlin’s long, cold winter. Offering races at 5K, 10K and half marathon distances, this running event’s scenic course along Köpenick’s Dahme river is also the perfect location to practice for the Berlin Half in April.
- Wendenschloss Lido. Möllhausenufer 30, 12557 Berlin. Starts 10:00
24 TUE
Live Radiant: Anne Paceo
GIG Artist, composer and drummer Anne Paceo performs at the planetarium in collaboration with the Live Radiant series. The show features a special audio-visual show that will light up the night sky and place Paceo among its stars.
- Zeiss-Großplanetarium, Prenzlauer Allee 80, 10405 Berlin. Starts 21:00.
25 WED
The Greek Film Festival In Berlin
FILM Now running for over a decade, currently in its 11th edition, this five-day indie film festival is bringing the best of contemporary Greek cinema to the Hauptstadt, screening anything from offbeat experimental flicks to beautiful shorts, and even showing the big-budget blockbusters.
- Babylon, Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30, 10178 Berlin. Through Mar 29.
Hot Sauce Workshop – Fearless Fermentation
FOOD This event dives head first into the spicy history of hot sauce, giving you a chance to explore the hottest condiments Berlin has to offer, and even make your own. So if fermentation is your vibe, this event will be explosive.
- Edible Alchemy in the Remise, Moosdorfstraße 7-9, 12435 Berlin. Starts 18:00.
26 THU
Taverna Stories – A wild variety spectacle
THEATRE This bawdy show fuses acrobatics, cabaret and circus into a riot of high-octane, action-packed fun, fuelled by vodka (of course). The performances are set inside a bar somewhere in the mysterious East – in a place where strange characters collide, dance and drink their way beyond borders, logic and reality itself.
- Pfefferberg Theater, Schönhauser Allee 176, 10119 Berlin. Starts 20:00.
11 Millimeter – International Football Film Festival
FILM If cinema and football had a love-child, it would be 11 Millimeter, a festival where the game is both hero and metaphor. Now in its 21st edition, this is the world’s first and largest festival dedicated entirely to football films.
- Colosseum Filmtheater, Schönhauser Allee 123, 10437 Berlin. Through Mar 30.
Premier League Darts
SPORT Darts is having a moment right now. Thanks to the talents of 19-year-old wunderkind Luke Littler, a whole new generation of fans have discovered the joy of watching grown men throw darts at a board. It’s honestly much more exciting than it sounds. This event is your chance to see Littler and seven of the best players in the world battle it out at the Uber Arena in a one-night tournament. The whole evening will be a real spectacle, and almost everyone in the crowd usually chooses to don fancy dress. It’s going to be loud, ludicrous and more fun than you might expect.
- Uber Arena, Uber Platz 1, 10243 Berlin. Starts 19:00.
27 FRI
Critical Mass
PARTY Every last Friday of the month, cyclists band together in one big bike ride to take back the streets of Berlin and disrupt traffic with bells, whistles and, you guessed it, bikes. It’s basically a protest on two wheels!
- Meet at Mariannenplatz / Heinrichplatz. Starts 20:00.
Berlin Literary Salon
LITERATURE The European Writers Salon is arriving in Berlin. There will be readings, wine and the chance to meet other writers from far afield. The Berlin Literary Salon is a great place for booksworms and creatives to unite.
- Lettrétage, Veteranenstraße 21 10119 Berlin. Starts 19:30.
Tree Blossom Festival: Britzer Baumblüte
EVENT Wait, what? Spring is in the air, and the streets will be once again littered with pink confetti and the promise of warmer days ahead. There’s many places to get a selfie with the pink stuff, but the Tree Blossom Festival never fails – it includes fairground rides and original Thuringian grilled sausage.
- Gutspark Britz, Parchimer/Fulhamer Allee, 12359 Berlin.
Ostpro Berlin
EVENT Back for another year, the Ostpro festival showcases the best of the former East Berlin, like cuddly toys, kitchen staples and delicious treats. If you want to step back in time or refamiliarise yourself with bygone classics, Ostpro has all your needs covered.
- Trabrennbahn Karlshorst, Treskowallee 159, 10318 Berlin. Through Mar 29.
29 SUN
Naschmarkt
FOOD Sweet tooths unite for a ride around the world on the sugar train! This special event at Markthalle Neun focuses on sweet treats from far-flung places. They’ve got everything from Alfajores and amaretti to mochi and marzipan. Just don’t tell your dentist.
- Markthalle Neun, Eisenbahnstraße 42/43, 10997 Berlin. Starts 11:00.
Red Bull BC One Cypher Germany 2026
SPORT This is set to be one of the fiercest showdowns Berlin has seen. Eight b-girls and 16 b-boys battle it out at Germany’s top solo breakdancing competition. The winners take the crowns and will earn their place representing Germany at the Red Bull BC One World Final 2026 in Toronto.
- Kesselhaus in der Kulturbrauerei, Knaackstraße 97, 10435 Berlin. Starts 15.30.
Berlin Half Marathon
SPORT A cornerstone of the city’s running calendar, the Berlin Half Marathon is closing out the month. Each year, it draws an international field of runners where elite athletes run shoulder-to-shoulder with amateurs, all carried by the energy of cheering crowds that turn the course into a citywide celebration.
- Straße des 17. Juni, 10623 Berlin. Starts 9:30.
