Berlin's open-air cinemas that run every summer

Berlin's summer screens are not pop-ups: most are fixed installations in parks, courtyards and a lido, several of them built into stages that predate the war, and each one runs to a season with a published first and last night. The dates matter more than the programme, because none of these places can start before dusk and none of them survive October. What follows is the seasons, the seating, the capacities and the door details, checked against the venues rather than the listings.

Places in this collection

  • Strandbad Wendenschloss — A lido on the Dahme that added a small screen in 2022 and has kept it every summer since, seating the audience in deckchairs on the sand ra…
  • Freiluftkino Hasenheide — Set into an amphitheatre in the green of the Volkspark Hasenheide, this one screens daily whatever the weather, with up to three showings a…
  • Freiluftkino Rehberge — A 1930s Freilichtbühne in the north of Volkspark Rehberge, renovated in 2008 and fitted out for projection, holding 1,500 under the trees.…
  • Freiluftkino Neue Zukunft — The old screen stood among brick ruins at Pompeji near Ostkreuz until the site had to move; the cinema is now one corner away on Alt-Strala…
  • Freiluftkino Friedrichshain — One of the largest open-air screens in Berlin, sunk into the Volkspark with around 1,500 benched places with backrests and a headline capac…
  • Freiluftkino Kreuzberg — The screen goes up in the rear courtyard of the Kunstquartier Bethanien, where the cinema has run for more than thirty years and remains th…

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