Sun, 5. Jul // 20:00
OSTPOL BERLIN Festival OPENING
Mon, 6. Jul // 16:00
Carte Blanche
Mon, 6. Jul // 18:00
Hungarian Rhapsodies
Mon, 6. Jul // 20:00
The Maribor-Hypnosis
Tue, 7. Jul // 16:00
Schatten eines Blitzes: Poems from Chechnya
Tue, 7. Jul // 18:00
SUROWICA – the Concert
Tue, 7. Jul // 20:00
ZOORAMA
Wed, 8. Jul // 16:00
„Es gibt freundlichere Orte auf diesem Planeten, als …“
Wed, 8. Jul // 18:00
Poesie der erzählten Augenblicke
Wed, 8. Jul // 20:00
Das Echo von etwas, das verloren gegangen ist.
Thu, 9. Jul // 16:00
Between the Sirens (pictures from Odesa)
Thu, 9. Jul // 18:00
Ilma Rakusa: Wo bleibt das Licht
Thu, 9. Jul // 20:00
Katja Petrowskaja: Als wäre es vorbei
Fri, 10. Jul // 16:00
The Berlinskis – a Polish mystery bag
Fri, 10. Jul // 18:00
Magnolias
Fri, 10. Jul // 20:00
HÄUTUNGEN: Jazz & Performance
Sat, 11. Jul // 16:00
Словомузика, Seiten & Saiten, Words & Chords
Sat, 11. Jul // 18:00
Ostashevsky & Rasuleva: ALPHABET LOSTLINGUAL
Sat, 11. Jul // 20:00
Viktor Jerofejew: Die neue Barbarei
Sun, 12. Jul // 20:00
Swinging the East – OSTPOL BERLIN Festival Closing
OSTPOL BERLIN Festival – a multilingual literature festival featuring central and eastern European artists based in Berlin,
5–12 July 2026.
All events are open to the public and held primarily in German with multilingual segments and translations (please check the notes for individual programme items).
Tickets cost €5,- / concessions €3,- per event, available on the door at the daily and evening box office. A Festival Pass (unlimited access to all events) can be pre-ordered for €60,- by emailing info@stadtsprachen.de and collected at the entrance at any time.
Venue: Maschinenhaus (Kulturbrauerei)
OSTPOL BERLIN Festival of Central and Eastern European Artists in Berlin
Europe under tension: In times of war and discord, artists and authors from Berlin, along with their German and international friends, engage in an intense dialogue with the audience, to envision a shared utopia, of multifaceted collaboration beyond what divides us, through an open, intergenerational and cross-genre literary dialogue, that projects a multilateral vision for a new cultural reality. The six-day long OSTPOL Berlin Festival brings together Central and Eastern European Berliners, with German and international colleagues. To enable the defining voices and discourses of these languages in Berlin to secure a lasting place in Berlin’s cultural setting, we contribute our networks with Berlin’s Central and Eastern European literary scenes as well as international contacts and years of experience in organising exemplary multilingual literary events (symposia, festivals, workshops, readings, etc.).
July 5 – 12, 2026 | Maschinenhaus (Kulturbrauerei),
Schönhauser Allee 36, 10435 Berlin
