Hey Berliners!

This is a week to check before you travel. At five on Monday morning the route through Dreieck Funkturm changes, and it is not expected back until summer 2027. The A100 shuts overnight for four nights, the western Ringbahn is closed today, and the Berlin–Hannover works have begun.

Then the city gets brighter. Food Week starts tomorrow, two film festivals open midweek, and on Friday evening the Festival of Lights switches on for ten nights.

The five practical things are boxed below. Everything else is the fun part.

— Dr. Yassir A. Shuaib

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🧾 MediaMarkt and Saturn knock the VAT off until tomorrow night

About 16% off eligible items; it's the VAT share, not a flat 19%. Online until 23:59 tomorrow; in stores through Monday.

You must be a registered member of myMediaMarkt or mySaturn and signed in. Selected marked items in stock only, with a long exclusion list, Apple, Sonos, PlayStation, and services among them. Delivery isn't discounted.

Member prices worth a look: the Nintendo Switch 2 at €394.12, the Ninja Foodi FlexDrawer air fryer at €133.61, and the 48-inch LG OLED evo C6 at €940.34. Check the live page; several figures circulating this week were already stale. 👉 MediaMarkt · Saturn

⛽ The fuel tax came down on Wednesday

Germany's energy tax on petrol and diesel is cut by 14.04 cents a litre to 31 December, around 17 once VAT is counted. Nobody is obliged to pass it on, so check Mehr-Tanken or the ADAC app before you fill up.

👕 The Germany Away shirt is €60, down from €100

Forty percent off at adidas until 13 October, while sizes last. Can't be combined with other offers. 👉 More info here

🛒 Lidl's new flyer starts tomorrow

Running 5 to 10 October, already online. Offers vary by branch. 👉 This week's flyer here

📦 Amazon Prime Deal Days — Tuesday and Wednesday

Prime members only. 👉 More info here

⚡ Switch electricity and save

Finanztip's worked example: three people, 3,000 kWh, saves about €282 a year moving off basic supply. Yours will differ. Basic supply needs two weeks' notice; the new provider usually handles the switch. 👉 Compare here

1 · The route through Dreieck Funkturm changes at 05:00 Monday; the A115 connector goes, traffic reroutes via Alte Jafféstraße, and it won't be back until summer 2027. 👉 More info here

2 · Separately, the A100 closes overnight Monday to Thursday, 21:00–05:00, between Hohenzollerndamm and Heckerdamm; ramps shut from 20:00.

3 · The western Ringbahn is shut until the end of service. Replacement buses skip Westkreuz: change at Charlottenburg. 👉 Live disruptions here

4 · The U2 and U3 are back. The U1 runs only from Uhlandstraße to Wittenbergplatz every 15 minutes, with full service to Warschauer Straße expected Monday. 👉 Check the U1 here

5 · Berlin–Hannover trains are diverted via Magdeburg and are about 80 minutes slower. This first closure runs to 12 December

🚗 Dreieck Funkturm gets a new route from Monday ⭐

From 05:00 on Monday the A115 connector to Halenseestraße Ost is taken out of service for the Ringbahnbrücke rebuild. Traffic from the A115 reroutes across the AVUS rest area to Alte Jafféstraße and Messedamm. For the A100 north, continue via the Spandauer Damm interchange.

Halenseestraße Ost itself stays open; it's the A115 connector that goes, and the direct link is planned to return in summer 2027.

Expect queues at Alte Jafféstraße and Messedamm at busy times.
👉 The official notice here · DEGES map & details here

🚧 And the A100 closes for four nights
Both directions between Hohenzollerndamm and Heckerdamm, 21:00 to 05:00, on the nights of 5/6, 6/7, 7/8, and 8/9 October. Ramps shut at 20:00. Four separate nights, not a week.

🚇 Today: the western Ringbahn is shut
No S41, S42, or S46 between Beusselstraße and Halensee until about the end of service. Replacement buses skip Westkreuz and transfer at the S-Bahnhof Charlottenburg, Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße stop. The S2 north of Karow and the S3 east of Ostkreuz are also down, back at the same time.
👉 Live disruptions here

🌙 And late-night buses on the U5 and U8
Tonight through Thursday, 22:00 to about the end of service: the U5 between Wuhletal and Hellersdorf and the U8 between Paracelsus-Bad and Gesundbrunnen. Running to 22 October, weekend nights are normal.
👉 BVG track work here

Three warm days, then autumn lands all at once. Wednesday reaches 23°C; by Thursday morning it's 14°C with showers, and it stays there.

The Festival of Lights opens on Friday at 15°C in the rain, and Saturday is wetter still. If you're walking the projections, this is a coat-and-hood week rather than a jacket one.

· Today · 20°C / 8°C · dry
· Mon 5 · 21°C / 8°C · dry
· Tue 6 · 22°C / 8°C · dry
· Wed 7 · 23°C / 12°C · the warmest day
· Thu 8 · 14°C / 8°C · showers, the turn
· Fri 9 · 15°C / 10°C · rain · Festival opens
· Sat 10 · 15°C / 9°C · showers

👉 Full forecast here

🗳️ The three parties met, and the blockers remain

Die Linke, the Greens, and the SPD held their first three-party meeting on Thursday. Five hours, described by all sides as constructive, but no agreement on the conditions for formal exploratory talks, and more preliminary meetings expected.

The sticking points are antisemitism, racism, and organised crime, which the Greens and SPD have made prerequisites for. The Greens' Katharina Dröge said beforehand that those conditions weren't met; the SPD's Martin Hikel wants a membership vote before any negotiations begin.

Berlin still has its outgoing Senate in office. The new House must convene by 1 November.
👉 Provisional results here

🛏️ The cold-weather shelter season has reopened

Kältehilfe began on 1 October with 669 places, rising to 930 secured from November. Use the live guide or hotline rather than a printed address; occupancy is checked daily.
👉 Kältehilfe directory here

🏠 Free rent advice, but use the phone

The Rent Review Office gives free initial advice on suspected excessive rent: 030 213 007 302. The online form still accepts reports, but the authority can't currently process them, so the phone is faster.

A rent more than 20% above the local comparative rent can be reported, though the district still has to assess whether the legal test is met. Neukölln runs free clinics for its own tenants, with English only at certain sessions.
👉 Rent Review Office here

🚆 And Wolfsburg has lost its long-distance stops

One consequence of the Hannover works: Wolfsburg isn't scheduled for long-distance trains through at least December, Stendal loses its ICE stop with replacement buses, and Magdeburg gains three extra ICE services. Regionally, Spandau to Stendal is shut to 12 December.
👉 DB travel notice here

🎪 And one small story that's really a big one

Zirkus Mond is leaving its Greifswalder Straße site after eight years. Reuters reported on Thursday that the developer who let the circus use the land wants it back; the troupe has found somewhere else. It was the example in a wider piece on Berlin's shrinking stock of cheap cultural space.
👉 Where they go next

📄 You can now get a Führungszeugnis without queueing
Since 1 October, the official certificate of good conduct can be requested online and arrives as a PDF in your BundID account. Anyone who's done it the old way will know what that's worth.
👉 Request one here

🖼️ Next Door, Hamburger Bahnhof · from Friday ⭐
Five artists who had studios in the Rieckhallen next door between 2002 and 2013, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Henrik Håkansson, and Tomás Saraceno, are back with new large-scale work, including a 16mm film Dean made with Bruce Nauman.
Opens Friday, €16 or €8 reduced. The opening reception is Thursday, 19:00 to 22:00, free, and no registration. Wheelchair accessible; ask at the desk for the stairlift.
👉 More info here
📍 Invalidenstr. 50 — S+U Hauptbahnhof

⚖️ The Moabit Criminal Court opens its doors — Saturday · 10:00–16:00 · FREE
Europe's largest criminal court complex, open for the ninth time: mock trials in five courtrooms, guided tours, police and forensics demonstrations, and programmes for children.
Bring photo ID, leave large bags at home, and go early — last entry 15:00, and the tour passes are handed out in the main hall while they last.
👉 More info here
📍 Turmstr. 91 — U9 Turmstr.

🖼️ Rubens, Jordaens, van Dyck: Drawing in Antwerp — opens Saturday
More than a hundred Flemish Baroque drawings from 1580 to 1660, by twenty-eight artists — the first survey on this scale at the Kupferstichkabinett in fifty years. Runs to 31 January. €8, or €4 reduced.
👉 More info here
📍 Matthäikirchplatz 8 — U/S Potsdamer Platz

🎧 Tag der Clubkultur — to 11 October
Around 130 events across more than 110 clubs, collectives and initiatives, under the motto Stay Core — about how club culture holds on as costs rise and venues close. Prices vary by event.
👉 Programme here

🎧 Rough Trade's opening party — Thursday
The celebration for their new Neukölln room, trading since September: Dina Summer live, with Mark Reeder and Local Suicide on the decks. Doors 20:00, €37.99.
👉 Tickets here
📍 Ganghoferstr. 10 — S+U Neukölln

🎆 The Festival of Lights opens Friday ⭐

The twenty-second edition, 9 to 18 October, under the motto Colours of Love. Thirty-seven locations, most lit nightly from 19:00 to 23:00, and the outdoor illuminations are free—no ticket, no booking.

Pick one cluster and walk it. Nobody sees thirty-seven in a night — and opening evening is 15°C with rain, so dress for standing still.

🎟️ And one part you have to book

Beyond the Light — Reflections is a thirty-minute 3D show inside the Berliner Dom, 9 to 11 October, quite separate from the projection on the outside.
· Friday — 19:00, 20:15, 21:30
· Saturday — 20:00, 21:15, 22:30

€28, and the Friday 19:00 and Saturday 20:00 shows had already gone by yesterday.
👉 Full programme here · Beyond the Light tickets here

🍽️ Berlin Food Week — Monday to next Sunday

The twelfth edition, themed on longevity: food as a key to a long, healthy life.

The free part is the House of Food, at Bikini Berlin on Friday and Saturday, 10:00 to 20:00 — more than forty makers, producers and small brands, tasting and selling. The rest of the week has its own prices, so check each listing.
👉 Food Week here · House of Food here
📍 Budapester Str. 42–50 — S+U Zoologischer Garten

🍺 And OkSoberfest is a premiere

Germany's first alcohol-free beer festival, at the Kulturbrauerei on Saturday and Sunday: more than a hundred alcohol-free brews, street food and live stages. €12 a day including a free drink, €14.99 for both days, under-16s free — online only, nothing on the door.
👉 Tickets here
📍 Schönhauser Allee 36 — U2 Eberswalder Str.

SUN 4 · TODAY
· 🚇 Western Ringbahn closed Beusselstraße–Halensee all day · buses do not serve Westkreuz
· 🚇 S2 Karow–Bernau and S3 Karlshorst–Ostkreuz interrupted until the end of service
· 🏭 Industrial Heritage Festival · FINAL DAY
· 🌻 Hahneberg Harvest Festival · 10:00–17:00 · FREE · sunflowers, donkeys, herding-dog display
· 🛒 Nowkoelln Flowmarkt · 10:00–17:30 · Maybachufer
· 🛒 Pankow Flea Market · 10:00–17:00 · free
· 🖼️ KINDL · free first Sunday · 12:00–18:00
· 🏒 Eisbären v Nürnberg · 14:00 · Uber Arena
· 🏀 ALBA Women v BC Marburg · 16:30 · Sporthalle Charlottenburg

MON 5 · THE DETOUR BEGINS
· 🚗 05:00 — Dreieck Funkturm route change, until summer 2027
· 🚇 U1 expected back — check BVG
· 🚧 A100 closed 21:00–05:00 · Hohenzollerndamm–Heckerdamm
· 🍽️ Berlin Food Week opens · to 11 October
· 🎼 Ludovic Tézier recital · 20:00 · Staatsoper Unter den Linden
· 🧾 LAST DAY of the MediaMarkt and Saturn VAT campaign — 23:59 online

TUE 6
· 🚧 A100 closed 21:00–05:00
· 💼 Albert Schweitzer Jobtalk · 16:00–17:30 · walk in, no documents needed
· 🌿 Türkenmarkt · 11:00–18:30 · Maybachufer

WED 7
· 🚧 A100 closed 21:00–05:00
· 🎻 FREE Philharmonie lunch concert · 13:00 · Schumann and Ravel in the foyer
· 🎞️ Female Filmmakers Festival opens · Moviemento · to 11 October
· 🎭 Stereophonic · German-language premiere · 19:30 · Schaubühne
· 💻 Droidcon Berlin · 7–9 October · CityCube

THU 8
· 🚧 Final A100 overnight closure · 21:00–05:00
· 🎬 Festival of Animation opens · to 11 October · free praxinoscope event at silent green, 19:00–22:00
· 🏠 Win-Win im Bestand housing conference · 10:00–17:00 · free livestream
· 👮 Police Berlin careers briefing · 16:00–18:00 · free, no registration
· 🖼️ Next Door opening reception · Hamburger Bahnhof · 19:00 · free
· 🎧 Rough Trade opening celebration · doors 20:00 · €37.99
· 🍜 Street Food Thursday · 17:00–22:00 · Markthalle Neun

FRI 9 · THE LIGHTS GO ON
· 🎆 Festival of Lights opens · 19:00–23:00 · 37 locations · FREE
· 🕯️ Beyond the Light · Berliner Dom · 19:00, 20:15, 21:30 · €28
· 🍽️ House of Food opens · Bikini Berlin · 10:00–20:00 · FREE
· 🖼️ Next Door open to the public · Hamburger Bahnhof · €16/€8
· 🎬 Festival of Animation · New Talents I 17:00, opening ceremony 19:00
· 🎷 Jazz in den Ministergärten · from 19:00 · from €24
· 🏒 Eisbären v Wolfsburg · 19:30 · Uber Arena
· 🎭 Stereophonic · 19:30 · Schaubühne
· 🌿 Türkenmarkt · 11:00–18:30 · Maybachufer

SAT 10
· ⚖️ Moabit Criminal Court open day · 10:00–16:00 · FREE · photo ID required
· 🏃 SoVD Inclusion Run · 10:00–15:00 · Tempelhofer Feld
· 🍽️ House of Food · Bikini Berlin · 10:00–20:00 · FREE
· 🖼️ Flemish Master Drawings opens · Kupferstichkabinett · €8/€4
· 🎵 PEOPLE Festival · Funkhaus · from 12:00 · 180 musicians, no fixed line-up
· 🔵 Union v Elversberg · 15:30 · An der Alten Försterei
· 🎵 AL.FESTIVAL Grand Finale · from 16:00 · Festsaal Kreuzberg
· 🍺 OkSoberfest · Kulturbrauerei · 12:00–19:00 · €12, online only
· 🍜 Berlin Ramen Festival · KOMPLEX Berlin
· 🎪 Familiennacht opening · Zitadelle Spandau · 17:00–21:30 · FREE
· 🎭 Stereophonic · 19:30 · Schaubühne
· 🎆 Festival of Lights night two · with Beyond the Light at the Dom, 20:00, 21:15, 22:30 · €28
· 🥬 Winterfeldtmarkt · 08:00–16:00

🎬 Festival of Animation Berlin — Thursday to 11 October

The ninth edition, across City Kino Wedding and silent green: 161 films from 78 countries in the competition programme, plus workshops, exhibitions and industry events.

Check the language label before you book — an animation festival doesn't automatically mean English subtitles.

Tickets €10, or €8.50 reduced, plus the online fee; children's screenings and workshops differ. Thursday has a free praxinoscope exhibition at silent green, 19:00 to 22:00 — the opening weekend's one free event.
👉 Programme & tickets here
📍 Müllerstr. 74 and Gerichtstr. 35 — U6 Leopoldplatz

🎞️ Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin — from Wednesday · Moviemento

The eighth edition, 7 to 11 October: features and shorts by female and non-binary directors from more than twenty countries, with Q&As, panels and community events. All screenings are in the original language with English subtitles.

Among the highlights: By Design, Between You & Me, A Safe Distance, Up & Running, Life Is and No Planet B.
👉 Programme here
📍 Kottbusser Damm 22 — U8 Schönleinstr.

🎭 Stereophonic — Schaubühne · premieres Wednesday ⭐

Thomas Ostermeier directs David Adjmi's Tony-winning play about a rock band falling apart in the recording studio, with original songs by Will Butler of Arcade Fire.

Wednesday's premiere at 19:30, then Friday and Saturday. In German — English-surtitled performances start on 13 November.
👉 Tickets & dates here
📍 Kurfürstendamm 153 — U7 Adenauerplatz

🎭 Deutscher Herbst — Deutsches Theater · 19:00

Christopher Rüping's piece, which moves between Germany's past and its present — including this particular autumn. Two dates this week.
👉 Tickets & dates here
📍 Schumannstr. 13A — S+U Friedrichstraße

🎻 A free lunch concert at the Philharmonie — Wednesday 13:00 ⭐
Matteo Cimatti on violin and Francesco Granata on piano, playing Schumann and Ravel in the foyer. Free, no booking, limited capacity — arrive early. A few seats are held for visitors with a disability pass.
👉 More info here
📍 Herbert-von-Karajan-Str. 1 — S+U Potsdamer Platz

🎵 PEOPLE Festival — Saturday and Sunday · Funkhaus
More than 180 musicians making some 200 unscripted performances across eleven stages, with no fixed line-up and no set times. You turn up and see what happens.
Weekend passes have sold out; Saturday was listed at €129 for midday to one in the morning, or €59 from 19:00.
👉 More info here
📍 Nalepastr. 18–50 — tram 21

🎵 AL.FESTIVAL Grand Finale — Saturday from 16:00
Four stages closing a festival of music and culture from South West Asia, North Africa and their diasporas: Natacha Atlas and Samy Bishai, TootArd and BLTNM Records artists, plus a bazaar and food stands.
👉 More info here
📍 Festsaal Kreuzberg, Am Flutgraben 2 — S Treptower Park

🎷 Jazz in den Ministergärten — Friday from 19:00 · from €24
Seven state representations open their gardens for one night of jazz, the same evening the lights go on.
📍 In den Ministergärten — U2 Mohrenstraße

🎤 J. Cole, The Fall-Off Tour — Wednesday · Uber Arena
Doors 18:00, show 20:00, from €71.50.
👉 Tickets here
📍 Uber Platz 1 — S+U Warschauer Str.

🎹 Ryuichi Sakamoto: seeing sound, hearing time — Hamburger Bahnhof · to 20 June 2027
The first major European retrospective of the composer, exploring sound, time and space through large-scale installations.
👉 More info here
📍 Invalidenstr. 50 — S+U Hauptbahnhof

🖼️ Maurizio Cattelan: NIGHT — Neue Nationalgalerie · to 7 March 2027
The Preis der Nationalgalerie winner's first major solo show in Germany, installed in Mies van der Rohe's glass pavilion — which is half the point.
👉 More info here
📍 Potsdamer Str. 50 — U/S Potsdamer Platz

TODAY
· 🛒 Nowkoelln Flowmarkt · 10:00–17:30 · Maybachufer — back today. Second-hand, art, design and handmade; no new manufactured goods
· 🛒 Flohmarkt Mauerpark · 10:00–18:00 · free · Bearpit Karaoke from 15:00 · carry some cash
· 🛒 Pankow Flea Market · 10:00–17:00 · free · first Sunday of the month
· 🛒 RAW-Flohmarkt · 08:00–17:00 · free · vintage fashion, design and street food
· 🛒 Flohmarkt am Boxhagener Platz · 10:00–18:00 · Friedrichshain
· 🛒 Flohmarkt am Arkonaplatz · from 10:00 — closing time varies by season
· 📚 Antik- und Buchmarkt am Bodemuseum · 10:00–17:00 · around sixty sellers on Museum Island

IN THE WEEK
· 🌿 Türkenmarkt · Tue 6 + Fri 9 · 11:00–18:30 · Maybachufer
· 🍜 Street Food Thursday · Thu 8 · 17:00–22:00 · Markthalle Neun
· 🥬 Winterfeldtmarkt · Sat 10 · 08:00–16:00 · Winterfeldtplatz
· 📚 Antik- und Buchmarkt am Bodemuseum · Sat 10 · 10:00–17:00

⚽ Germany play Greece tonight — 20:45, live on RTL
Klopp's fourth match in charge, away in Thessaloniki. Germany drew 1–1 with the Netherlands, lost 0–1 at home to Greece in Augsburg, then beat Serbia 2–0 in Munich on Thursday: Bischof on 39 minutes, Wirtz on 61. Four points from three, third in Group A2, and tonight is the rematch.

🏒 Eisbären at home twice — today and Friday
Nürnberg at 14:00 today, Wolfsburg at 19:30 on Friday, both at the Uber Arena. The 2026 German champions — third title in a row, twelfth overall. Tickets from €19.
📍 Uber Arena — S+U Warschauer Str., five minutes' walk

🔵 Union are at home on Saturday — Elversberg · 15:30
Their first league match since the 7–0 at Bayern, and the first after the international break. One point from four games going in.
📍 Stadion An der Alten Försterei — S Köpenick, then 10–15 minutes

🏀 And two women's fixtures today
Hertha BSC Women play Hoffenheim II at 14:00 on the Olympiagelände — they've won their last six. ALBA Women host BC Marburg at 16:30 at the Sporthalle Charlottenburg.

⚫ Hertha host Greuther Fürth next Sunday · 13:30 · Olympiastadion
Just outside this week, but worth the diary note.

📋 The listing nobody tells you about

comedyinenglish.de tracks English-language comedy across the whole city and sends a weekly email. It's user-maintained, so not perfect — but it's the only thing that tries to list all of it, and it's more useful than any single night.
👉 Browse here

🎭 Comedy Café Berlin — Neukölln
Berlin's first international comedy stage, improv-led rather than stand-up, in a soundproofed seventy-seat room. Wednesday 20:00 is the open mic, where comedians try material that isn't finished, for €5. Friday 20:30 is The Fishbowl — improv built live from whatever the audience hands over — for €10.
👉 Programme here
📍 Roseggerstr. 17 — U8 Boddinstr.

🎤 Gören am Samstag — Die Göre, Prenzlauer Berg · Saturday 20:30
English stand-up in an intimate basement bar, local acts alongside visiting ones. €10–12.90.
📍 Danziger Str. 64 — M10 Hufelandstr.

👉 Everything else on here

🎪 Familiennacht opens at the Zitadelle — Saturday · FREE ⭐

Theaterfest Wild & Stark launches the sixteenth Family Night inside Spandau's sixteenth-century fortress: theatre, circus, magic, story walks, torchlight tours and a fire show. Doors 16:00, opening ceremony 17:00, running to 21:30. Separate programmes for ages 0–5, 6–9 and 10–13.

It's also the most accessible thing in this issue — step-free access, accessible WCs, a lift, disabled parking, and provision for people with learning disabilities.
👉 More info here
📍 Am Juliusturm 64 — U7 Zitadelle

🏃 SoVD Inclusion Run — Saturday · Tempelhofer Feld · 10:00–15:00

The eleventh edition. From 300 metres to ten kilometres, plus a relay, and explicitly open to runners, walkers, wheelchair and handbike users and skaters, with or without disabilities. No time limit. €3 to €15 depending on distance.

Come in via barrier-free S+U Tempelhof. Same-day entry depends on places left.
👉 Register here

🌻 Hahneberg Harvest Festival — today · 10:00–17:00 · FREE

Sunflowers at the Naturschutzstation: a children's rally, donkeys to pet, live music, storytelling, a straw-bale course and a herding-dog demonstration.
📍 Heerstraße 549 — bus M37 or X49

🎡 Berliner Herbstrummel — Wednesday to Sunday, to 25 October

More than 80 attractions at the Zentraler Festplatz, free to enter. Wednesday and Thursday 14:00–22:00, Friday and Saturday to 23:00, Sunday 14:00–22:00. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
👉 More info here
📍 Kurt-Schumacher-Damm 207 — bus X21 or M21

🐟 Rogacki is back — as a pop-up at Markthalle Neun

The ninety-year-old Charlottenburg delicatessen closed earlier this year. On Thursday it reopened as a pop-up inside Markthalle Neun, with the new operation planning a longer-term return to its own side of the city.

What it was, and is again: a fish counter you eat standing at, with smoked eel, herring and potato salad on a paper plate, and no attempt whatsoever to be fashionable about it.

👉 More info here
📍 Markthalle Neun, Eisenbahnstr. 42/43 — U1/U3 Görlitzer Bahnhof

🎨 Frida – Bobby – Galerie — Neukölln

A gallery that opened on Schillerpromenade on Friday, in the old SP2 tattoo space, and part shop as well: contemporary art and workshops, music and drinks in the evenings, and prints, posters and postcards at prices a person might actually pay.

It's the kind of small opening that tells you more about where a district is going than any retail launch does.

Thursday to Saturday 14:00–19:00, Sunday to 18:00.

👉 More info here
📍 Schillerpromenade 2 — U8 Boddinstr. or Leinestr.

All from the joint portal of Berlin's seven state-owned housing companies, checked on Saturday. Figures are total warm rent. Two need a WBS, two don't say.

💶 €483.78 warm — Spandau · 1 room · 25.8 m² · over-60s only
Eiserfelder Ring 9, under the WohnAktiv scheme. Balcony, lift, cellar, built 1966. Free now.
Read the figure carefully: a mandatory €40 monthly service charge sits on top, so the real total is at least €523.78, with hot water metered separately.
👉 View flat here

💶 €649.77 warm — Lichtenberg · 3 rooms · 61.6 m² · WBS required
Möllendorffstr. 74, eighteenth floor. Balcony, lift, built 1976, and the fitted kitchen and shower may be taken over. From 1 January 2027.
👉 View flat here

💶 €732.80 warm — Spandau · 2 rooms · 44 m²
Wilhelm-Hoff-Str. 23, from 1 November. The listing doesn't state a WBS requirement and gives two different build years — check both before applying.
👉 View flat here

💶 €885.28 warm — Treptow-Köpenick · 4 rooms · 83.6 m² · WBS up to 140
Schönefelder Chaussee 77. Balcony, bathtub, cellar, guest WC, built 2019. Available now.
👉 View flat here

TechMiners — Finance & Operations Associate (f/m/d)
Part-time, 24 to 32 hours, Berlin hybrid with remote in Germany possible. Finance, HR and operations at a tech-consulting scale-up. 👉 Apply here

JOIN — Engineering Manager (m/f/d)
The step from building to leading, at a recruitment-software company. 👉 Apply here

Sensos — Business Development Representative
Fluent German and English both required — rarer on this board than you'd think. 👉 Apply here

VREY — GTM Lead (w/m/d)
Go-to-market lead at an energy-tech startup building software for multi-family buildings. 👉 Apply here

🆓 Three free things this week

Tuesday, 16:00–18:30 — a drop-in Jobtalk about jobs supporting people with assistance needs. No appointment, no CV, no cover letter.
📍 Haus Colmar, Colmarer Str. 5 — U7/U9 Berliner Str.

Thursday, 16:00–18:30 — a Police Berlin careers briefing on entry routes and selection. No registration.
📍 BiZ Berlin Mitte, Kapelle-Ufer 4 — S+U Hauptbahnhof

Thursday, 10:00–17:00 — the Win-Win im Bestand housing conference on home swaps and better use of existing housing. In-person places are full; the organisers stream it, and ask you to register by email.

And if you were born in 2008: DiscoverEU applications close on 15 October. The pass is free for selected applicants; accommodation and food aren't.
👉 Apply here

The Festival of Lights brings its concert series to the Berliner Dom, 13 to 17 October — Alle Farben, Klangkarussell, WestBam and Anja Schneider, inside the cathedral while the lights run outside.

The 7th Ukrainian Film Festival, 14 to 18 October, across independent cinemas under the theme Emergency Spaces. Features, documentaries and shorts, all with English subtitles.
👉 Programme here

Jazzfest Berlin, 29 October to 1 November: the 63rd edition, 24 acts and more than 135 musicians across the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, A-Trane and Quasimodo, closing with a Globe Unity Orchestra sixtieth-anniversary concert.
👉 Tickets here

From 15 October, Deutsche Bahn bans drinking alcohol inside all 5,400 German stations. Drinking on the trains themselves stays permitted.

And Germany play the Netherlands at the Olympiastadion on 16 November — the last Nations League group match, and the national team's final game of the year.

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