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Christmas and turn of the year

A festively decorated preaching church, an artistically crafted nativity scene and a magnificent Christmas tree next to the altar...

Festive service to bid farewell to Cathedral Preacher Dr. Petra Zimmermann

Petra Zimmermann was a cathedral preacher at the Berlin Cathedral for 17 years! On 17 September 2023, we will say goodbye to her in retirement during a festive service. Cathedral preacher Stefan Scholpp, Bishop Petra Bosse-Huber, the Berlin State and Cathedral Choir, the Girls' Choir of the…

18. International Organ Summer

The summer of music at Berlin Cathedral continues: the 18th International Organ Summer begins on July 7. For two months, the famous Sauer organ at Berlin Cathedral with its 7,269 pipes distributed over 113 stops will be heard every Friday at 8 pm. The performance of the organists at the large…

In the beginning was the Word

Musical reading to commemorate 90 years of book burning - in cooperation with the House of One - on may 10, 2023.

Anna Seghers, Heinrich Mann, Erich Kästner, Nelly Sachs, Lion Feuchtwanger, Kurt Tucholsky, Vicki Baum, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein - nine of more than 350 authors, intellectuals…

Solemn introduction of Cathedral Preacher Stefan Scholpp

Cathedral preacher Stefan Scholpp joins the Berlin Cathedral since march 1, 2023. He will be solemnly inducted into his new office with a festive service on Sunday, march 19, at 10 am. The Berlin Cathedral Choir will perform the Missa Quadragesimalis by Michael Haydn (1737-1806), the younger brother…

Open House

Almost every Berliner and thousands of tourists know the Berlin Cathedral. But do you really know it? Do you know what happens behind the thick walls? What secrets are hidden behind the altar rail and the Kaiser-Empore, in the Hohenzollern crypt and on the dome? How the cathedral choir rehearses and…

Memorial service for Sinti and Roma

500,000 Sinti and Roma from all over Europe fell victim to National Socialist terror. It took a long time for this genocide to find a place in the German culture of remembrance and that of the Protestant Church. In 2020 and 2022, the first Germany-wide memorial services for the murdered Sinti and…