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This legendary festival for media arts and digital culture brings the world’s creative avant-garde to Berlin every year.

Berlin’s “Theme Year 2013” commemorated the anniversaries of two key turning points in 20th century German history: the 75th anniversary of the November pogroms of 1938 and the 80th anniversary of the Nazi seizure of power in 1933.

From 2010 to 2014, this week-long pop music gathering featured a sophisticated programme exploring digital trends and hands-on formats like Music Hack Day, while also offering the best parties in town.

The Project Office for Diversity Development works to foster the structural transformation of Berlin’s cultural sector into a more diversity-oriented system.

Berlin has celebrated this unique joint festival four times over the years. In one jam-packed night, up to 70 opera and theatre stages showcase their work in all of its diversity.

The Second World War came to an end in Berlin on 2 May 1945. Seventy years later, at key spaces throughout the city, we set up several large-scale panorama photos that portrayed a destroyed urban landscape – but also the hopes of its inhabitants.

For one full weekend in 2012, Berlin celebrated its 775th anniversary, took a look back at its eventful history and called for even more tolerance and openness to the world.

One of the most important public library conferences took place for the first time in Berlin and attracted roughly 400 participants from 38 countries.

This city-wide initiative marked the anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation and explored what the promise of paradise means to us today.

Well-known German personalities tell the stories behind a number of Berlin memorials and works of art – via QR code and a telephone call.

For six weeks in the summer of 2011, this exhibition spotlighted the latest work of roughly 80 artists living and working in Berlin.

We created “BERLIN 365/24” to spotlight the full breadth of the city’s cultural diversity and creativity in all areas from mainstream to niche.

In 2009, the yearlong celebrations marking the "20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall" attracted an audience of millions and pushed Berlin to the forefront of worldwide attention.

Highly moving images from the key event marking the anniversary were seen by an audience of more than a million people in Germany and abroad.

For seven days at seven original historical sites, Berlin remembered, celebrated and paid tribute to the Peaceful Revolution and those individuals who had the courage to resist the regime of the GDR.

We joined with the Berlin Wall Foundation to pay tribute to the victims of the Berlin Wall and the division of Germany in a very special way.

Berlin commemorated the end of WWII and the liberation of Europe from Nazi dictatorship with a week of theme-based digital events.

For Berliners, the city-wide week of Bauhaus-themed events under the banner “bauhauswoche berlin 2019” was the highlight of the nationwide celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the legendary art and design school.

This joint city-wide project brought the epoch-making power of the 1918/19 Revolution to the streets of Berlin.

The 125th anniversary celebrations paid homage to the fashionable “showcase of the West” and brought a new shine to the Ku'damm.

Over the course of three full days, Berlin joined with hundreds of thousands of people to celebrate 28 years of unity and freedom in Germany and Europe.

With five of the most important science institutions marking key anniversaries, we celebrated Berlin as a capital of research and knowledge.

Berlin’s museums have much to offer in the hot months of the year. The cultural highpoint of the summer in the German capital is the Long Night of the Museums in late August.