July 31, 2025

SPIELRAUM – The Days of the Independent Performing Arts Community in Berlin | 10 to 21 September 2025

Berlin’s independent performing arts community is as large and diverse as the German capital itself. With this in mind, it is high time to take a deep dive into the community and become (re) acquainted with people and places in this vibrant scene!

From September 10 to 21 SPIELRAUM will provide opportunities for getting to know the independent performing arts community from other perspectives – with events that invite the audience to get to know the artists, to participate and to engage in shared reflection alongside the art that is taking place on stage. A wide variety of different formats will open up new perspectives both on the art itself as well as upon the locations of the independent performing arts community as places for exchanges and places that hold within them the power of societal transformation. In doing so, SPIELRAUM also builds bridges between unusual performance venues such as neighborhood centers, punk clubs and shopping centers.

SPIELRAUM is not a curated festival: instead, it features a schedule of programming consisting of audience and community formats that has been created together with the community itself. This year’s highlights include, amongst others: a theater workshop in a neighborhood center, an open house day with a circus jam, tours of performance venues, open rehearsals followed by discussions, a pot luck meeting format, a forum theater production, a multisensory piece for visually impaired children, a variety of dance and movement workshops, a gym that has been transformed into a theater and an open air music happening.

The SPIELRAUM program is featured in the Berlin Bühnen schedule and is continuously updated. Tip: You can filter the program items by selecting the „To participate“ category, along with other participatory offerings.

The opening will take place on September 10, 2025 at Globe Berlin.

The Berlin Performing Arts Program is a program of LAFT Berlin – Landesverband freie darstellende Künste Berlin e. V.

The Performing Arts Program – Performing Arts in Focus (PAP-PAFO) is supported by the State of Berlin – Senate Department for Culture and Community) from funds of the European Fund for Regional Development (EFRE) within the program „Strengthening the Innovation Potential in Culture III (INP III)“.

Theaterhaus berlin is part of SPIELRAUM – Freie Szene Tage der darstellenden Künste Berlin and invites you to three special events on 14 and 19 September:

• 14. September
  Welcome to the youth day of this year’s KUYUM dance platform at the theatrehaus Berlin | Mitte location! Look forward to an inspiring programme day with music, dance and community. Join the clown show Back to the Roots by Afrobatic.. More info here.

• 19. September
  A day full of insights into exciting artistic processes:
  Discover the poetic dance performance If Wind Were Your Language… by Izabella Herzfeld and take an exclusive look at the new theatre piece Komische Vögel. They came, they saw, they flew by Vanessa Stern.
  More info here.