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Durchlüften 2026. Open-Air-Festival im Humboldt Forum
Date details
- Date Thursday, 30/July/2026 19:00 (11 more dates)
- Venue Humboldt Forum: Schlüterhof (Berliner Schloss)
- Address Schloßplatz 5, 10178 Berlin-Mitte
Public transportation
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Train (S-Bahn)
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S Hackescher Markt
- S3
- S5
- S7
- S75
- S9
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S Hackescher Markt
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Underground
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U Museumsinsel
- U5
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U Rotes Rathaus
- U5
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U Hausvogteiplatz
- U2
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U Unter den Linden
- U5
- U6
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U Museumsinsel
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Bus
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U Museumsinsel
- 100
- N5
- 300
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Berliner Schloss
- 147
- 200
- N2
- U2
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Werderscher Markt
- 147
- 200
- N2
- U2
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Spandauer Str./Marienkirche
- N42
- 100
- 200
- N2
- N5
- N8
- N40
- N60
- N65
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Neumannsgasse
- 147
- 200
- N2
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U Rotes Rathaus
- 200
- N2
- N8
- N40
- N42
- N60
- N65
- U2
- 300
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Staatsoper
- 100
- N5
- 300
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Nikolaiviertel
- 200
- 248
- N2
- N42
- N8
- N40
- N60
- N65
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Fischerinsel
- 200
- 248
- N2
- N42
- 147
- U2
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S Hackescher Markt
- N42
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Jüdenstr.
- 248
- 300
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U Hausvogteiplatz
- 200
- N2
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S+U Alexanderplatz Bhf/Memhardstr.
- U2
- N2
- 100
- 200
- N5
- N8
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U Unter den Linden
- 100
- N5
- 300
- 147
- N6
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U Spittelmarkt
- 200
- N2
- 248
- N42
- U2
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U Museumsinsel
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Tram
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Am Kupfergraben
- 12
- M1
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Spandauer Str./Marienkirche
- M5
- M4
- M6
- 50
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S Hackescher Markt
- M5
- M4
- M6
- 50
- M1
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Georgenstr./Am Kupfergraben
- 12
- M1
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Universitätsstr.
- 12
- M1
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Monbijouplatz
- M5
- M1
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Am Kupfergraben
Part of:
Durchlüften 2026. Festival at the Humboldt Forum
Auftritt der Musikerin Sorvina mit Band bei Durchlüften 2025 – Schwarze Sängerin mit Mikro
© Lidia Edith Monge
On four summer weekends, DURCHLÜFTEN transforms the Humboldt Forum’s Schlüterhof into a free open-air meeting place where musical traditions from across the globe unfold as living cultural archives.
5 years open. Already 5 years DURCHLÜFTEN. For the sixth time now, DURCHLÜFTEN transforms the Schlüterhof courtyard of Berlin’s Humboldt Forum into a vibrant open-air stage for global music, cultural dialogue, and shared experience. From 9 July to 1 August 2026, across four summer weekends, the festival presents 24 live acts and 12 DJs from around the world. Each evening features two concerts followed by a DJ set, creating twelve nights of musical discovery, movement, and encounter in the heart of Berlin — once again with free entry for all.
From electrified Mauritanian desert blues to Andean Indigenous futurism, Kurdish acid ritual to Afro-Colombian bass cosmologies, Tanzanian polyphony to Anatolian-Nordic electronica—the courtyard becomes a meeting point of living cultures. Artists carry traditions such as living archives, weaving ancestral instruments, languages, and storytelling into contemporary forms, diasporic exchange, and global club culture. Collaborations with independent labels like Argentina’s ZZK Records and Karachi-based honiunhoni further expand these cross-continental sonic dialogues.
Since its inception, DURCHLÜFTEN has stood for cultural dialogue beyond museum walls. What begins inside the galleries — in exhibitions, collections, and interdisciplinary exchange — flows outward into lived experience. The courtyard becomes a commons: a space of participation, hospitality, and collective presence.
DURCHLÜFTEN remains free and open to all. Please be prepared for queuing moderately.
DURCHLÜFTEN welcomes everyone: the music and art lover, the crate digger, the museum visitor who lingers after sunset, the raver, the neighbor passing by, and the grandmother visiting with her family. Here, we gather not only to listen, but to experience cultures in motion.
LINE UP 2026
ADG7 – Ak Dan Gwang Chil -Korea | AySay – Denmark | Kurdish | Turkish | BCUC – Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness – South Africa | Canto Diáspora – Diverse Latin America | Berlin | Charlotte Colace – Cuba | France | Berlin | Humazapas – Ecuador | Jatun Mama – Ecuador | Loma Reqs – Kurdish | Colombia | Massa Dembele – Burkino Faso | Germany | Morena Leraba – Lesotho | Muslim Shaggan – Pakistan | Nana Benz du Togo – Togo | Noura Mint Seymali – Mauritania | Nuevos Rios – Colombia | France | Pęki Momés – Turkish | Renata Flores – Peru | Seppuku Pistols – Japan | Tamara Flores – Austria | Mexico | Uche Yara – Berlin | Austria | Ustad Noor Bakhsh – Pakistan | Yalla Miku – Eritrea | Switzerland | Wura Samba & Gebrüder Teichmann – Nigeria | Deutschland | The Zawose Queens – Tanzania | 100 lbs of Summer – Berlin | New Zealand | Australia
DJ’S
afrodisiac | Ben Olayinka | Fania Brava ft. Lionza | Femdelic | In Living Color | Lyla Safi | Montoya | MzRizk | natsu | Necios: eÑe b2b Forastero | Ra Mava | TMNIT
- Free admission
- Ground Floor, Schlüter Courtyard
5 years open. Already 5 years DURCHLÜFTEN. For the sixth time now, DURCHLÜFTEN transforms the Schlüterhof courtyard of Berlin’s Humboldt Forum into a vibrant open-air stage for global music, cultural dialogue, and shared experience. From 9 July to 1 August 2026, across four summer weekends, the festival presents 24 live acts and 12 DJs from around the world. Each evening features two concerts followed by a DJ set, creating twelve nights of musical discovery, movement, and encounter in the heart of Berlin — once again with free entry for all.
From electrified Mauritanian desert blues to Andean Indigenous futurism, Kurdish acid ritual to Afro-Colombian bass cosmologies, Tanzanian polyphony to Anatolian-Nordic electronica—the courtyard becomes a meeting point of living cultures. Artists carry traditions such as living archives, weaving ancestral instruments, languages, and storytelling into contemporary forms, diasporic exchange, and global club culture. Collaborations with independent labels like Argentina’s ZZK Records and Karachi-based honiunhoni further expand these cross-continental sonic dialogues.
Since its inception, DURCHLÜFTEN has stood for cultural dialogue beyond museum walls. What begins inside the galleries — in exhibitions, collections, and interdisciplinary exchange — flows outward into lived experience. The courtyard becomes a commons: a space of participation, hospitality, and collective presence.
DURCHLÜFTEN remains free and open to all. Please be prepared for queuing moderately.
DURCHLÜFTEN welcomes everyone: the music and art lover, the crate digger, the museum visitor who lingers after sunset, the raver, the neighbor passing by, and the grandmother visiting with her family. Here, we gather not only to listen, but to experience cultures in motion.
LINE UP 2026
ADG7 – Ak Dan Gwang Chil -Korea | AySay – Denmark | Kurdish | Turkish | BCUC – Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness – South Africa | Canto Diáspora – Diverse Latin America | Berlin | Charlotte Colace – Cuba | France | Berlin | Humazapas – Ecuador | Jatun Mama – Ecuador | Loma Reqs – Kurdish | Colombia | Massa Dembele – Burkino Faso | Germany | Morena Leraba – Lesotho | Muslim Shaggan – Pakistan | Nana Benz du Togo – Togo | Noura Mint Seymali – Mauritania | Nuevos Rios – Colombia | France | Pęki Momés – Turkish | Renata Flores – Peru | Seppuku Pistols – Japan | Tamara Flores – Austria | Mexico | Uche Yara – Berlin | Austria | Ustad Noor Bakhsh – Pakistan | Yalla Miku – Eritrea | Switzerland | Wura Samba & Gebrüder Teichmann – Nigeria | Deutschland | The Zawose Queens – Tanzania | 100 lbs of Summer – Berlin | New Zealand | Australia
DJ’S
afrodisiac | Ben Olayinka | Fania Brava ft. Lionza | Femdelic | In Living Color | Lyla Safi | Montoya | MzRizk | natsu | Necios: eÑe b2b Forastero | Ra Mava | TMNIT
- Free admission
- Ground Floor, Schlüter Courtyard
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