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The Reeperbahn Festival is an annual music and industry event in Hamburg that combines concerts, conferences and networking opportunities. The Anchor Prize has been awarded to promising young artists for years. In recent years, the focus has increasingly been on the inclusion of younger target groups and the future viability of the music industry.
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The Reeperbahn Festival will take place from September 15th to 18th in 2027 if budget cuts can be averted.
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Actress Iris Berben received the German Cultural Policy Prize 2026 for her work against anti-Semitism, racism and right-wing extremism. At the award ceremony in the State Library, she emphasized the need to confront anti-Semitism in her own environment and received an emotional laudation from pianist Igor Levit, who described Jewish life in Germany as being renegotiated every day.
The Britpop band Oasis warns against attempted fraud in multi-stage ticket sales for their upcoming tour. Codes are only sent from a specific address and are not transferable.
At the opening of the Kokoschka exhibition in the Bundestag's art forum, Bundestag President Julia Klöckner ironically noted the great press interest, which, however, was primarily due to the arrival of former Chancellor. D. Angela Merkel, who had previously modeled for a portrait of the young Franco-German artist Jérémie Queyras.

Munich's mayor Dominik Krause officially opened the 191st Oktoberfest with two strikes. Accompanied by Prime Minister Markus Söder and numerous celebrities, the festival started in good weather and with safety precautions.
The Christoph Müller Foundation is giving away over 1,500 works of art from the collection of the late patron and former publisher Christoph Müller to public museums. Interested museums can apply online until the end of the year. If there are several interested parties, a jury will decide. These include works by artists such as Hans Baldung, Charles-François Daubigny and Edmund Kesting. Müller died at the age of 86. Parts of his collection had previously been given away.
After 14 years of renovation, the Cologne Opera House and Playhouse as well as the new Children's Opera and Little House venues are opening this weekend with free admission. There is an extensive program with music, dance and participation activities as well as discovery tours. Regular performances begin a few days later with the premiere of “Der Rosenkavalier” on September 27th in the opera house.