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Events, festivals, and venues: German-language popular music: Schlager, Deutschpop, NDW, Deutschrock

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Astra Kulturhaus

The Astra Kulturhaus is a concert and party venue on the RAW-Gelände in Berlin-Friedrichshain, opened in 2009 in a former East German railway cultural center with room for 1,500 people.

Batschkapp Frankfurt

The Batschkapp, also written Die Batschkapp, is a rock and pop concert venue in Frankfurt am Main, founded in 1976 by the city's Sponti scene as a left-wing cultural center.

Das Fest

Das Fest is a mostly free annual open-air music festival held since 1985 in Karlsruhe's Günther-Klotz-Anlage park, drawing up to 260,000 visitors each late July.

Donauinselfest

Donauinselfest is a free three-day open-air music festival held each summer on Vienna's Danube Island in Austria. First held in 1984, it claims to be Europe's largest free-entry festival.

Gasometer Wien

Gasometer Wien, also known as Gasometer Vienna, is a concert venue in the basement of one of four converted 19th-century gas tanks in Simmering, Vienna, opened in 2001.

Große Freiheit 36

Große Freiheit 36 is a concert club on the Große Freiheit street in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, near the Reeperbahn, operating since 1985 and among the city's best-known venues.

Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle (music)

The Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle is a 15,500-capacity indoor arena in Stuttgart's NeckarPark, Germany, opened in 1983 as Europe's first multifunctional arena; a replacement is now planned, with the city exploring an investor model in 2026.

Im Wizemann

Im Wizemann is a concert and event house in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, Germany, opened in 2015 in the former Zapata club, hosting over 400 events and roughly 200,000 visitors yearly.

Markthalle Hamburg

Markthalle Hamburg is a concert venue in Hamburg, Germany, opened in 1977 in a former flower market hall, hosting about 200 events and 100,000 visitors a year.

Mercedes-Benz Arena Berlin

The Mercedes-Benz Arena Berlin, known since 2024 as the Uber Arena, is a Berlin indoor arena that opened in 2008 and hosts Eisbären Berlin and ALBA Berlin.

Molotow

Molotow is a music club on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg's St. Pauli, founded in 1990 and known for early shows by The White Stripes and The Killers.

Muffathalle

The Muffathalle is a concert hall in the Muffatwerk cultural center on the Isar in Munich, opened in 1993 in a listed 1893 power station.

Rote Fabrik

Rote Fabrik, meaning Red Factory, is a collectively run cultural center in a former silk factory on Lake Zurich in Zurich, occupied by artists and activists in 1980.

Star-Club

The Star-Club was a rock music club at Große Freiheit 39 in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, opened in 1962, famous for the Beatles' 1962 residencies and closed in 1969.

Tempodrom

The Tempodrom is a concert and event venue in Berlin, founded by nurse Irene Moessinger as a circus tent in 1980 and rebuilt in 2001 near the former Anhalter Bahnhof.

Waldbühne (Berlin open-air)

The Waldbühne is an open-air amphitheatre in a wooded hollow near Berlin's Olympiastadion, built for the 1936 Olympics and seating about 22,000. It is Germany's largest natural theater.

WUK

WUK, short for Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus, is a self-managed cultural center and concert venue in Vienna, housed in a former locomotive factory occupied by activists and opened in 1981.