Calendar 2024

With the Jazzfest Research Lab, initiated in January 2023, Jazzfest Berlin has welcomed academics and students to take a critical look at the festival’s archive, its programmes, creators, musicians and – last but not least – its myths.

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.

Celebrating, questioning, researching; hosting, mobilising, empowering; bowing, challenging, remembering and advancing: Jazzfest Berlin is 60 years old – and still digging. 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