To help further your career in music, we have compiled a selection of the many German players that Danish organisations have had contact with in 2022 and 2023. Danish musicians and others have often asked where to get started in Germany to plan a collaboration, a tour or something else.

In this section you’ll also find a number of specific venues, media, organisations and networks – mostly in Berlin.

If you want more details about the larger German market, you can read Music Export Denmark’s market report (from 2020) here. We have previously published an article with general tips and useful knowledge about Germany here. 

The list of resources below is dynamic and subject to change:

What venues and clubs are there in Berlin for pop, rock and electronic music?

For electronic and club music, Resident Advisor gives the best overview and includes a host of other cities too. The Clubmap has a good list of venues by genre and interesting articles and other ressources.

We present a list of smaller and medium sized venues including underground and DIY-run places, bars with live music, club nights, etc, where you are more likely as an upcoming a smaller artist to get booked:

• 8mm bar
• Anomalie Art Club
• Arkaoda
• An der Autobahn
• Ausland
• Badehaus
• Birgit
• Cassiopeia
• Clash
• Club Gretschen
• Dream Baby Dream bar
• Duncker Club
• FluxBau
• Humboldthain Club
• Kantine am Berghain
• KitKat Club
• Kulturbrauerei
• Lark
• Lido
• Loophole
• Oyoun
• Panke Kultur
• Peppi Guggenheim
• Prachtwerk
• Prince Charles
• Privatclub
• Rauch Haus
• Sameheads
• Schokoladen
• SchwuZ
• Subversiv
• Süs. War Gestern
• Tennis Bar
• Urban Spree
• Villa Kuriosum
• West Germany
• Wild at Heart

What venues and clubs are there in Berlin for jazz?

• Donau 115
• ZigZag
• Yorckschlösschen
• Jazzkeller, Industriesalon Schöneweide
• The Hat
• Quasimodo
• Kunstfabrik Schlot
• B-flat
• A-Trane

What festivals are especially important for showcasing and networking?

• A L’ARME! festival (Berlin – Jazz and Experimental)
• Altonale (Hamburg – mixed genres)
• Cologne Jazzweek
• c/o Pop (Cologne – huge festival for upcoming and international artists. Equivalent to SPOT)
• CTM Festival (Berlin – Club Trans-Mediale: Art and club music)
• Frequenz festival (Kiel – Sound Art)
• Impuls festival (Halle and Leipzig – Art music and sound art)
• Month of Contemporary Music (Berlin – Art music and sound art)
• Pop-Kultur (Berlin – huge festival for upcoming and international artists organised by the Musicboard. Equivalent to SPOT)
• Reeperbahn festival (Hamburg – huge festival for upcoming and international artists. Equivalent to SPOT)
• Rudolstadt Festival (roots- and folk music)
• Time to Listen (Berlin – Art music and sound art)

What radio stations are good places to get exposure?

• Cashmere Radio (Berlin – mixed genre community radio)
• Deutschlandfunk Kultur (The big white buffallo…)
• FluxFM (Berlin – pop, commercial radio)
• Radio Eins (Berlin public radio)
• Refuge Worldwide (Berlin – mixed genre and club music community radio)

What networks and organisations can give me an overview of Berlin or Germany? 

• Berlin Musiccommission (Music Business Network)
• Clubcommission Berlin (Network of clubs)
• Deutsche Jazzunion (Jazz)
• Hamburg Music (Business network)
• Initiative Neue Musik (Berlin – Art Music and Sound Art)
• Jazzbüro Hamburg (Jazz)
• Music Board Berlin (public advisory board for pop, experimental and more)
• Neue Musik Köln/On-Cologne (Art Music and Sound Art)
• Verband für Aktuelle Musik Hamburg (Art Music and Sound Art)