Highlights & Events 2025

Combine a visit to one of Germany's most important wine regions with a top-class musical experience. The Rheingau Music Festival is one of the largest music festivals in Europe and has been offering concerts with outstanding international artists from the classical music scene to jazz and world music every summer for over 30 years. Rheingau's cultural monuments such as Eberbach Monastery, Johannisberg Castle, Vollrads Castle or the Wiesbaden Kurhaus as well as romantic vineyards are the venues for great events. Experience and enjoy a combination of culture, music and wine.

The Museum Island - one of Berlin's main attractions and one of the top museum districts in the world - is a unique urban ensemble and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site for 25 years. To mark its 200th anniversary, the Museum Island will be celebrating this unique location for five years from summer 2025 with special exhibitions, events, open-air exhibitions, concerts and UFA film nights with milestones of early film art in the city's most beautiful open-air cinema.

For two years, the Gendarmenmarkt, one of the most beautiful squares in the heart of Berlin, underwent a lasting restoration. With the Konzerthaus, German Cathedral and French Cathedral, it is home to three of the capital's architectural and cultural highlights. From July 17 to 21, the Classic Open Air will take place here again for the first time: The Konzerthausorchester Berlin, jazz legend Gregory Porter, world star Anna Netrebko and many other music stars will once again play in front of a fantastic historical backdrop on the Gendarmenmarkt.

It is one of the most elaborate and popular light art festivals in the world. Every year in October, the German capital is transformed into a fantastic stage of light with the participation of national and international artists. Magnificent light productions, beautiful building illuminations and impressive light art installations immerse Berlin's landmarks, monuments, houses, streets and squares in a magical world of wonder.

A world-class sporting event: the largest and most important football league in the world, the US National Football League NFL, is coming to Berlin for three regular season games! The first game with the visiting team of the Indianapolis Colts will be played in the fall of 2025 - in the Olympic Stadium, of course.

The Franconian Beer Festival has been held in Nuremberg for over 25 years. This year this authentic event will take place from 18 to 22 June 2025. More than 40 local breweries serve over 100 delicious beer specialties in the beautiful setting of the moat near the Imperial Castle. Guests can also enjoy culinary delights, whether savory or sweet, hearty or light - there is something for every taste. Experience typical German Gemütlichkeit.

The award-winning Museum Deutsches Auswanderungshaus in Bremerhaven, a city that was one of the largest emigration ports in continental Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, presents the history of the people who made their way to the New World. Experience the journey of the German and Eastern European emigrants from their departure to their arrival and the challenges they faced in impressive exhibitions, such as the detailed replica of a row of stores in Grand Central Terminal in New York and real family stories. The museum also offers the possibility of family research.

Autostadt Wolfsburg is celebrating its 25th birthday. Car fans and families can discover automotive worlds in a variety of entertaining ways in pavilions of the Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche and Lamborghini brands on a 28-hectare exhibition area, embedded in a park and lagoon landscape. Take a seat at a racing simulator and experience that real racing driver feeling or master spectacular obstacles on a ride in an off-road vehicle on the Autostadt off-road course. There are also exciting offers and events for children and young people.