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31.10.3.11.2024

60 Years of Jazzfest Berlin: Still Digging

Founded in 1964 in West Berlin as one of the first jazz festivals in Europe, Jazzfest Berlin is turning 60. Good reason to examine this legendary festival’s rich history in the international Jazzfest Research Lab and to map out paths towards a promising future in the Jazzfest Community Lab Moabit.

“In having teamed up with various new partners for the Labs, we aim to gain and share new insights into modern, trend-setting festival production. Both anniversary specials challenge everything we take for granted, helping us to leave our comfort zones and providing inspiration for Jazzfest Berlin 2024’s diverse concert programme.”

— Nadin Deventer, Artistic Director Jazzfest Berlin

Detailed information about the Labs

Jazzfest Research Lab

Six decades of Jazzfest Berlin means six decades of contemporary history, Berlin history, German history, European, transatlantic and intercontinental history and, of course, 60 years of music history.

Jazzfest Community Lab Moabit

28.10. – 3.11.2024

The people of Moabit and their musical and cultural backgrounds, their stories, initiatives, origins and aspirations are at the heart of the Jazzfest Community Lab Moabit project.

In the Media Library

Video still Jazzfest Berlin 2024: Community Lab Moabit

Introducing: Jazzfest Community Lab Moabit

To mark its 60th anniversary, Jazzfest Berlin is celebrating the cultural diversity of the neighbouring district of Moabit in collaboration with around 35 official partners and initiatives and with over 350 participants of all ages. In June 2024, interviews were conducted with 20 partners who presented their perspectives, wishes and ideas for the Jazzfest Community Lab Moabit. You can get a first impression with this film.

Introducing: Jazzfest Research Lab

In two seminars during the summer semester of 2024, students from the Berlin University of the Arts and the University of Hildesheim have explored the festival’s history from various perspectives. In this film, the participants give a first look at how they dealt with their research subject.

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Documentary: Children’s Projects of the 2023 Jazzfest Berlin

Apparitions x Jazzfest ImproCamp for kids

For the first time in its long history, 60 children took centre stage in two projects at the 60th Jazzfest Berlin in 2023. The ImproCamp was newly launched, inviting 30 children via various social organisations and giving them a holistic, transdisciplinary approach to the art of improvisation.

Programme Release 2024

The complete programme of Jazzfest Berlin 2024 with all concerts, the weekly programme of the Jazzfest Community Lab Moabit, including a musical neighbourhood walk, and the detailed supporting programme for the Jazzfest Research Lab will be announced on 11 September.

About Jazzfest Berlin

Presenting both style-defining icons of jazz and young positions from a wide variety of styles, Jazzfest Berlin presents a festival programme full of creative border-crossings and collective visions.

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Dance

Tanz im August

15 to 29 August 2024

As part of the international festival Tanz im August, three productions will be shown at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele in August 2024. In these works, movement resists categorisation, the theatre stage transformed into a skatepark and natural phenomena inspire dance. Advance ticket sale has started.

Music

Musikfest Berlin

24 August to 18 September 2024

Musikfest Berlin sees itself as a forum for the innovative creative work carried out by large-scale orchestras and ensembles in the genre of classical and modern music and ushers in the Berlin concert season spectacularly. The full programme is online. Advance ticket sale has started.

Literature

24th international literature festival berlin

5 to 14 September 2024

The international literature festival berlin is one of the most important literature festivals in the world. Every year in September, the ilb brings international authors together in Berlin for book premieres, readings and panel discussions. The main venue is the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. The full programme is online. Advance ticket sale has started.

Gropius Bau |

Exhibition

Pallavi Paul: How Love Moves

22 March to 21 July 2024

With “How Love Moves”, the Gropius Bau presents the first major institutional solo exhibition of Pallavi Paul. As an artist and film scholar, Paul engages the camera as her primary tool to interrogate how regimes of “truth” are produced and sustained in public life.