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Oktoberfest. Photo: © Pixabay
Oktoberfest. Photo: © Pixabay
Waves Vienna, Zak Abel. Photo: © Patrick Muennich
Jewish life and emerging talent. Films within a Jewish or Israeli context, with some of the best recent productions from all around the world, are shown during this special festival in Berlin. www.jfbb.de
International Literature Festival Berlin (11 – 21 September) Contemporary artists from all over the world present new poetry and prose at this exciting literature festival in Berlin. A unique element is that all of the texts are actually read out loud in their original language, with German transla-
Vienna Design Week. Photo: © Katarina Šoškić - Bueronardin, Vienna Design Week
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tions. This festival is truly an absolute must for all literature fans from far and wide. www.literaturfestival.com
13th Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg (18 – 21 September) Hamburg’s infamous red-light district around St. Pauli has become the proud home of Germany’s biggest club festival. Nowadays, the festival is one of the world’s most important meeting places for the global music industry and this year it features more than 900 events spanning a great range of genres, in locations
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around Hamburg’s Reeperbahn. www.reeperbahnfestival.com/en
eBike your Life Festival, Adelboden (21 – 22 September) After last year’s successful first edition, the event returns to Adelboden and is the perfect combination of cycling and great food. On carefully selected trails to Gstaad, Lenk, Adelboden and Zweisimmen, cyclists can look forward to various food stations along the path – but it’s not only the cyclists who can recharge here, their Velo bikes can be plugged