17th Berlin Radio Play Festival of the Independent Scene
17 – 20 Sept 2026
Featuring competitions for the “Burning Microphones”, award ceremonies, discussions, workshops, audio walks, installations and live performances
- Location:
Hanseatenweg - Date:
17 – 20 Sept 2026 - Price:EUR 12 (Reduced: EUR 8)
- Languages: German
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We are living in the red zone. The level meters are stuck at maximum. Overdrive is no longer a fault, but a permanent state – one of deregulation. The radio play is the ideal space to counteract or amplify this overdrive. Here, the voice is allowed to waver; time may stretch or condense. Here, there is room for superimposition, feedback and the uncontrollable. The radio play overdrives reality by remixing it. It twists perception until something breaks through.
The 17th Berlin Radio Play Festival of the Independent Scene explores sounds across various rooms at the Akademie der Künste on Hanseatenweg, bringing them to life. In their live performances, Marc Matter, Ute Wassermann and Joke Lanz, Schorsch Kamerun and Masha Qrella, together with graduates from the Sound Studies and Sonic Arts programme at the Berlin University of the Arts, will give radio plays a spatial dimension and bring them to the stage.
Once again, the festival will centre on the competitions for the Jury Prize, Audience Prize and Funding Prize, the “Burning Microphones” for independently produced radio plays, documentaries and sound art, as well as talks with the creators. The rich supporting programme will also feature installations, interventions, workshops and the presentation of the 2026 Audiowalk Award.
The Berlin Radio Play Festival takes place in cooperation with the Akademie der Künste and is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.