Festival Season in Berlin

Berlin's festival calendar spans a wider political and sonic range than any other city in this index - from an Olympic pine-forest amphitheatre built for 1936 to a decommissioned Soviet power station, from a club culture the German UNESCO Commission formally inscribed as intangible heritage in March 2024 to a 70,000-capped anti-commercial commune in Mecklenburg that announces no lineup. The season runs January through late summer.