Highlights of the Month

Rathausmarkt, 20 ─ 22 Sep: Enjoy this free, three-day music festival as 20 different acts take the stage to rock the city centre.

Various locations, 22 - 29 Sept: One week of climate awareness is a mere drop in the ocean. Yet you've got to start somewhere.

Various locations, May - Sep: Watch classics, cult films and blockbusters at these open air cinemas in Hamburg’s great urban outdoors.

Savoy, 19 - 29 Sep: The realm of imagination - from sci-fi to horror - is at the centre of this riveting film festival.

Bucerius Kunstforum, 7 Jun - 29 Sep: 80 pieces of art negotiate notions of identity and home in a globalised society.

BUNKERHILLGalerie, 28 Sep - 10 Oct: The deconstruction of the nude - one of art's most beloved subjects.

Various locations, Sep - Oct: With beer, brass bands and lederhosen. Hamburg, too, has its offshoot of this Bavarian event.

Various locations, 11 Sep - 13 Oct: Many of the world’s best-selling authors read from the season’s most anticipated works.

City Center, 9 Aug - 20 Oct: Transmedial art or rock and roll? The queer feminist pop-icon presents her first solo art show.

Buchdrucker, 12 Apr - 30 Sep: See Hamburg through the eyes of a French photographer at this small underground exhibition.

Falckenberg Collection, 3 Apr - 3 Nov: 56 video works from 5 decades are presented at Harburg district's finest art space.

Planten un Blomen, 15 Sep - 10 Nov: For the kids, by the kids: this music and theatre festival features many international performances.​​​​​​ 

Neue Flora, 16 Apr - 12 Dec: This cooperation of Stage Entertainment and Cirque du Soleil means another hit musical.

Kunsthalle, 10 May - 22 Sep: The collection of Copenhagen's Ordrupgaard Museum is presented in Hamburg.

Deichtorhallen, 1 Mar - 11 Aug 2019: 60 artists merge visual arts and hybrid multimedia concepts to create something new.

State Opera, 12 Oct: An English-language tour will lead visitors through the workshops, prop room and rehearsal rooms and onto the stage.

Starting in March 2019, Tina Turner’s success story and all the hits can be enjoyed at Operettenhaus on Reeperbahn.