Tag der Clubkultur

18/10/2025

🎬 Turn up the volume, here comes the official aftermovie of this year’s record TAG DER CLUBKULTUR Festival Week! 
Last Sunday marked the end of 10 incredible days full of disciplines, formats, and all the wild, beautiful facets that make up this unique thing we call club culture in Berlin.
Massive thanks to all the clubs and spaces, collectives and promoters, artists, thinkers, and creatives who hosted more than 100 events all over the city, each offering their own creative take on how club culture builds bridges and continues to transform over the past 35 years since reunification.
You’re what makes Berlin so special, in the past, now, and in the future. ❤️
Special thanks to and for funding and supporting the project since day one.

We hope you enjoy this video as much as we enjoyed this amazing week, which, despite all the challenges, turned out to be our most successful yet. Hopefully not the last one!

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cny kulch pietrus

16/10/2025

Before dropping the official aftermovie of this year’s festival week, here’s a little throwback to some of the many precious moments from last weekend. Our club cultural journey led us through Maghreb music and culture, the legacy of ballroom, a legendary drag opera and Latin cabaret. We dove into Berlin’s bass evolution, African rhythms with electronic sounds and the q***r hard groove scene. We immersed ourselves in expanded listening and sonic experimentation, and explored resistance history of the Zionskirche through music and the future of Berlin’s club culture through Afro-diasporic perspectives.

📸 .pietrus

Opera

.db.berlin

Bar Night Of The Long Call - as part of the by and

SAUTI by .berlin

HOUSE OF SPICE CABARET

TWO BERLIN‘S ONE GROOVE - Afro Diasporic Club Culture Then & Now
berlin x Tag Der Clubkultur

UMZ UMZ: Nightshift by .zmuzmu

Sunday Service 2025 by .bl

Bridging Realities - .berlin x TAG DER CLUBKULTUR - 35 Years of Movement at

THE BRIDGE THAT’S OUR BACK - ASHAWO CAFE by

Stay tuned for the video recap of our unforgettable festival week, coming this Saturday!

16/10/2025

Before dropping the official aftermovie of this year’s festival week, here’s a little throwback to some of the many precious moments from last weekend. Our club cultural journey led us through Maghreb music and culture, the legacy of ballroom, a legendary drag opera and Latin cabaret. We dove into Berlin’s bass evolution, African rhythms with electronic sounds and the q***r hard groove scene. We immersed ourselves in expanded listening and sonic experimentation, and explored resistance history of the Zionskirche through music and the future of Berlin’s club culture through Afro-diasporic perspectives.

📸 .pietrus

Opera

.db.berlin

Bar Night Of The Long Call - as part of the by and

SAUTI by .berlin

HOUSE OF SPICE CABARET

TWO BERLIN‘S ONE GROOVE - Afro Diasporic Club Culture Then & Now
berlin x Tag Der Clubkultur

UMZ UMZ: Nightshift by .zmuzmu

Sunday Service 2025 by .bl

Bridging Realities - .berlin x TAG DER CLUBKULTUR - 35 Years of Movement at

THE BRIDGE THAT’S OUR BACK - ASHAWO CAFE by

Stay tuned for the video recap of our unforgettable festival week, coming this Saturday!

14/10/2025

11/10/2025

TAG DER CLUBKULTUR INSIGHTS: 12.10 (Festival Week)

On October 12th, presents Two Berlins, One Groove: Afro-Diasporic Club Culture Then & Now, an evening exploring Berlin’s club culture through Afro-diasporic perspectives. A photo exhibition highlights key venues, scenes, and communities before and after the fall of the Wall, followed by a panel discussion with DJ Jimmy Bamba, Smiley Baldwin, Aicy Eisner, Aziz Sarr, and DJ Tausi. The night culminates in a musical journey blending funk, hip-hop, reggae, and contemporary global beats.

Throughout the day, .berlin hosts saHHara x TAG DER CLUBKULTUR, a full program of music, workshops, screenings, and a market. The day begins with a darbuka workshop exploring Maghreb rhythms, followed by a short film screening, craft market, and DJ workshop blending Arabic sounds with techno and house. The program concludes with a party featuring Xanax Attax, Meriem S, and saHHar, celebrating Berlin’s club culture as a living movement connecting new generations and global influences.
bl invites guests to Sunday Service 2025, a multi-disciplinary gathering combining mindfulness, a fishbowl discussion about community needs and dreams, an award ceremony, and a Mini Ball. The event reflects the legacy of ballroom culture, connecting the resilience of Black and Latinx trans women to Berlin today, bridging artistic expression, mutual care, and visions for the future.

At and , Earth Dog Records x Iterations unites two crews across the Atlantic for a daytime party on the River Spree. Expect deep house, trance-inducing rollers, and off-kilter gems, with performances by Bambi, GTI b2b Mademoisel, Marius, Jek b2b djfix, and Iggy P b2b a special guest, promising a vibrant and eclectic dance floor experience.

11/10/2025

The final day of Festival Week brings everything full circle and the energy, the people, and the ideas that have shaped Berlin’s club culture for 35 years. Bridging Realities: 35 Years of Movement honors the past while building futures. What began as movement becomes connection, what started underground becomes shared vision. Thank you for being part of this year’s Festival Week! One more round of our 2025 Festival Program starts now!

From immersive music and dance by Earth Dog and Iterations () to saHHara (.berlin) at Crack Bellmer, the day blends workshops, film screenings, and SWANA beats — celebrating culture, care, and resilience.

Sunday Service 2025 (.bl) gathers the community for reflection, joy, and connection, inspired by the legacy of Ballroom and Black and Latinx trans women.

continues this spirit with film, poetry, and dialogue — honoring voices like Audre Lorde and Angel Maxine, and amplifying stories of s*x work, art, and liberation.

Collectives like SHIFT THE SPACE and Maaya () create transformative experiences, merging sustainability, subculture, and sound — shaping the next 35 years of fearless Berlin club culture.

The Festival Week closes not with an ending, but with a bridge — between past and future, movement and memory, resistance and joy.

OPEN MIC with L. J. Fox
Sign up 20:00 | Start 20:30 | Free donation at the door

11/10/2025

Michael Müller ist Gründer der Triangel Agency () und hat mit seiner Arbeit als Agent Techno weltweit mitgeprägt.
Wenn er und İpek İpekçioğlu sich zum Gespräch treffen, geht es nicht um Nostalgie, sondern um Kontinuitäten. Die beiden sprechen in der dritten Podcast-Folge von „Club Culture Conversations“ über das Ausgehen als politischen Akt und erinnern sich an Räume, die in Berlin längst verschwunden sind. Zwischen Kudamm und Kreuzberg, Rave und Realität, teilen sie ihre Geschichte von Zugehörigkeit und Veränderung, in der die Clubkultur das kollektive Gedächtnis ihrer Stadt ist.

Jetzt Podcast hören, überall wo es Podcasts gibt. Link in Bio. 🎧

Podcast Credits
Konzept: Clubcommission Berlin e.V. (Katharin Ahrend .son, Josephine Pepita Niang .lu), Archiv der Jugendkultur (Daniel Schneider)
Redaktion & Produktion: Ulla Heinrich ()
Kamera, Ton, Schnitt, Jingle: Jascha Müller-Guthof ()
Track: Luca De Michieli

Wir danken dem Archiv der Jugendkultur, einem einzigartigen Ort in Berlin.

10/10/2025

TAG DER CLUBKULTUR INSIGHTS: 11.10 (Festival Week)

On October 11th, .berlin presents SAUTI, bringing Batida, GQOM, Singeli, and Kuduro to the dance floor. Each edition is more than a party – a cultural experience where music, art, and community converge, creating safe, inclusive spaces for Afro-diasporic, q***r, and culturally curious communities while building bridges between Berlin and creative networks across Africa.

From 15:00 to 03:00, closes their exhibition Counterclockwise by Paul Waak, curated by Lucie Freynhagen. Visitors can experience Waak’s paintings from new angles and enjoy panoramic city views from the top floor of Greenhouse Berlin. Live music by Melizards, DJ Rotwein, Valentin, and Geist accompany the finissage.

returns to Club OST with LOVEDANCIN’, a night of House, Disco, Boogie-Funk, Soul, and Latin sounds. Highlights include a special DJ set by Hercules & Love Affair and performances by Flo Real and Tom Kutsche.

During the day, hosts Der Raum in einer Stadt ohne Platz, a monthly radio brunch show with Moafunk, an open cake bazaar, stand-up comedy hosted by Deo Katunga, and afternoon DJ sets by Frequenz557 and friends for a cozy wind-down.

At night, .zmuzmu kicks off Nightshift, an immersive rave experience merging music, lights, and visuals into a unified stimulus. Featuring live and back-to-back sets from fire at work, KaraKara, SKVLLFACE, Kenzura b2b Rabbi Green, GRAU, Saint Popsy b2b SKVLLFACE b2b Jesh b2b Dubshroud, Nightshift connects local DNB crews and introduces bass genres to a wider audience.

10/10/2025

On October 11, Berlin turns into a canvas for club culture: immersive sounds, experimental performances, and community-driven projects paint the city with creativity, activism, and underground energy.

Zug der Liebe e.V. connects club culture, civil society, and politics — uniting music, activism, and care through demonstrations, Social Raves, and community projects. Bulbul Berlin bridges global sounds and Berlin’s underground with an international program of live acts and performances.

Jiā La curates day-to-night experiences centering q***r, migrant, and Asian diasporic voices, while DECOLONOIZE amplifies BIPOC musicians through punk-driven concerts and DIY events. Amour Africain merges Afro-electronic sounds, design, and culture with community, bringing genres like Batida, GQOM, and Singeli to Berlin’s dance floors.

KUKUMU builds community through art, workshops, and live music, all run by volunteers. Aktionshaus fosters collaborative artistic research across disciplines, while UMZ UMZ and the multimedia collective create immersive, audiovisual rave experiences and installations that transform recycled materials into interactive art.

König continues its Drag King revolution with performance, theater, and community for trans, nonbinary, and q***r artists. The BSWC brings art and activism together, highlighting the voices and histories of Black s*x workers.

Berlin’s club culture once again shows its power to connect — through music, art, activism, and care.

Instagram Handles: .zmuzmu .berlin .spice.burlesque .hava .corazon___ .bambina

Full program and tickets on the website (link in bio).

10/10/2025

Before we jump into the final days of this year’s festival week, we want to take a moment to look back at some inspiring events from the past days that showed how interdisciplinary and discursive club culture can be, and what “Bridging Realities” means from different perspectives within Berlin’s club culture.
We danced to thrilling live music by rising local artists from the African diaspora, explored short films about the scene in East and West Berlin before the fall of the Wall, were immersed in noisy and socio-critical sounds in an atelier, learned about the q***r connections to São Paulo and its sonic landscape, dove into a curated program and exhibition that reflected the resistant, collective, and q***r spirit of the local scene, and discovered how the Master’s program Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at UdK ties into Berlin’s club culture.

Check out the program of this weekend via the link in bio.
sessions with Batila & The Dream Bus .bln

EDGE: Bridging Realities by .berlin

Fade In / Out: Bridging sound Dimensions by

Clubbing Before Techno“ Screening by

Bridging Beats: Berlin meets São Paulo by .bln

Signal to Noise

09/10/2025

TAG DER CLUBKULTUR INSIGHTS: October 10th (Festival Week)

presents Night of the Long Call, a commemoration of a violent attack on a concert in the same church nearly 38 years ago, featuring performances by Tuçe Alba, Mug, and FRANKIE, accompanied by visual and sound installations.

Later, Studio DB .db.berlin and Archives Sonores host Archives Sonores VII, an experimental night of IDM, ambient, dub techno, and avant-garde sounds with live performances and visuals.

From October 10 to 12, THE BLACK S*X WORKER COLLECTIVE presents The Bridge That’s Our Back – Ashawo Cafe, a multi-day program of performances, screenings, and community events.

Stromausfall Kollektiv Berlin .berlin invites guests to Bridging Realities – Stromausfall x TAG DER CLUBKULTUR, with two curated dance floors offering trance, hard groove, and sets by emerging talent.

Finally, at Ballhaus Ost, König Opera takes the stage — a Drag King theater production by Buba Sababa and Dick Hunt.

Berlin’s night belongs to those who bridge realities.

Visual by

Full program & tickets via link in bio.

09/10/2025

On October 10,
Berlin’s club culture spans genres, spaces, and communities.

800A continues to host cultural courses, workshops, and intimate performances, transforming into a cozy venue for live music, DJ sets, and drag shows. Aktionshaus explores “action” as artistic research, combining communal work, rehearsal, and experimental performance.

8MM Bar stands as a cultural landmark supporting alternative music and sustaining long-term community practices. Stromausfall .berlin brings curated, high-energy raves that highlight FLINTA* and q***r artists, while UNDCRWD hosts inclusive dance floors that celebrate diversity and collective care.

BSWC centers Black s*x worker voices and live performance, combining activism with artistic expression. König presents drag theater for trans, non-binary, and q***r communities. ARCHIVES SONORES and Bulbul Berlin bring immersive audiovisual and experimental performances that connect global sounds with Berlin’s underground.

Berlin proves once again that nightlife is more than parties — it’s creativity, resistance, and connection.

Full program and tickets on the website (link in bio).