Weekend

Right on the Spree in Treptow, Berlin dances as long as the sun shines. ELSE is the seasonal open-air counterpart of Salon zur Wilden Renate, offering house and techno on wooden floorboards with a view of the water.

Süss war gestern on Wühlischstraße has been a fixture in the Boxhagener Kiez for over fifteen years. Upstairs, a bar with sixties furniture, board games, and conversational volume; downstairs, a basement floor with DJs playing electro, house, and indie. As a cult scene pub with club operations, the venue covers both halves of a Friedrichshain evening.

Where Bar 25 once wrote Berlin club history, today the Kater Club stands on the Spree riverbank in Friedrichshain: an open-air club that has made the long weekend from Friday to Monday its principle.

Located on the site of a former dog biscuit factory in Rummelsburg, Sisyphos celebrates non-stop from Friday to Monday, combining techno and house with a labyrinthine outdoor area full of sand, a pond, and art installations.

Where Treptow meets Kreuzberg at Flutgraben, stands one of Berlin's most famous open-air clubs. A wooden deck, weeping willow, and canal water are as much a part of Club der Visionäre as relaxed minimal techno.

Kreuzberg, right by the lock to the Landwehrkanal: Birgit is a beer garden, open-air club, and fairground all in one. Relaxed during the day, at night dancing under the open sky until morning.

The Humboldthain Club in Wedding stands for Berlin club culture with a neighborhood vibe, where techno and house meet table tennis, and the garden becomes the heart of the night on warm summer evenings.

The artist Salvador Dalí was not only surrealist par excellence but also an avowed dandy.