Various venues • Jan & Jul • Adm • www.fashion-week-berlin.com/en
Top designers and local talent present their new collections.
CityCube Berlin • (030) 38 30 00 • 2nd half of Jan • Adm • www.gruenewoche.de
The largest gourmet feast in the world, Green Week is a tasty agricultural and gastronomical fair for everyone. Nowhere else can you enjoy a culinary journey around the world in such a condensed space.
Filmhaus Potsdamer Platz • 2nd & 3rd week in Feb • www.berlinale.de
The Berlinale is the top German film festival, and is attended by Hollywood and German stars alike. Until 1999, the film festival took place around the Zoo-Palast cinema; today the area around Potsdamer Platz takes centre stage for the festivities.
CityCube Berlin • (030) 38 30 00 • Mar • Adm
The world’s largest tourism fair offers up-to-date travel information to the general public, often at elaborately designed stalls. The night-time shows put on by many of the exhibiting countries are especially popular.
Kreuzberg • Whitsun (varying date in May or early Jun)
Multicultural Berlin celebrates for three days in the colourful Kreuzberg district in a street carnival parade.
Kurfürstendamm and Straße des 17. Juni • (030) 23 62 86 32 • 3rd or 4th weekend in Jun
This colourful pride parade on Christopher Street Day celebrates sexual diversity. Up to 500,000 people from all around the world boisterously celebrate as they drink and dance in the streets of Central Berlin.
Berlin museums • (030) 24 74 98 88 • last weekend Aug • Adm • www.lange-nacht-der-museen.de
For one night, one ticket gives access to all the city’s museums until well after midnight, offering visitors an unusual experience. Many institutions also put on special events, and street artists and sellers entertain the patiently queueing public.
Various venues • End Aug • www.pop-kultur.berlin
As a successor of the Berlin Music Week, this new festival for bands, musicians, artists, producers, labels and audiences is held at various venues in Kulturbrauerei in the Prenzlauer Berg district.
CityCube Berlin • (030) 30 38 30 00 • every year in early Sep • Adm
The latest in high-tech toys and entertainment technology are on show from over 1,500 global exhibitors at the IFA (International Broadcasting Exhibition).
Various venues • Oct • www.festival-of-lights.de
For 10 days, dozens of Berlin’s most popular landmarks are illuminated using light installations created by a number of artists.
Open daily
This former airport has become the city’s largest sports ground (see Tempelhofer Feld).
Brandenburger Tor • 1st Jan
This New Year’s Day Run is for those who are fit and not afraid of the cold.
Velodrom • 2nd half of Jan
The Six-Day Race is one of Berlin’s most venerable sports events.
Kurfürstendamm • end Mar
The international meeting of bikers is a noisy event.
Olympiastadion • May
Germany’s second-most important soccer cup final is played here.
Str. des 17. Juni • Jun–Aug: Sun evening
In-line skaters from around the world meet for night-time “blading”.
Treptower Park • early Jun • triathlon-service.de
Amateurs can register online for this.
Olympiastadion • First Sun in Sep
Germany’s biggest athletics festival.
Str. des 17. Juni • 3rd/4th Sun in Sep
The most exuberant marathon in the world attracts thousands of runners.
Trabrennbahn Mariendorf • 1st week in Aug
The derby for professional trotter races.
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