Berliner Festspiele. [October-February] Schaperstrasse 24. 10719 Berlin, Germany. Tel: +49 30 25489-0. Fax: +49 30 25489-111.
The Berliner Festspiele conceive and present a series of individual arts festivals ranging from the Berlin International Film Festival (“Berlinale”) in February to the JazzFest in November. Throughout the year in the German capital, international festivals of film, music, theater, dance, performing arts and literature are presented. The Berliner Festspiele is one of the few festival concepts in Europe which presents all art forms as well as encouraging the creative initiative of young artists.

Dresdner Musikfestspiele. [October-November] Tiergartenstraße 36. 01219 Dresden, Germany. Tel: +49 351 4 78 56-0. Fax: +49 351 4 71 78 96.
Baroque music and Jazz are both based on the contrasts between even period, continuous rhythm, and irregular elements, indeed stark breaks from the underlying evenness. Both feed on the tension created by the anticipated and unanticipated surprise. A further common characteristic is improvisation.
The Dresden Music Festival aims to investigate this open and secret relationship, and reveal how these two styles cross-fertilise. It goes without saying that there will be no shortage of enjoyment at this feast of rhythm, improvisation and swinging musicianship.

Kissinger Sommer. [June] Postfach 2260. 97672 Bad Kissingen, Germany. Tel: +49 971 8071100. Fax: +49 971 8071109.
During the Kissinger Summer Festival, famous stars join young artists to perform symphony concerts, "Liederabende", chamber music, literary readings, theatre evenings as well as open air jazz sessions. The Casino, built to entertain the Royal guests in Bad Kissingen, is one of the most beautiful in Europe.

Mdr Musiksommer. [July] Augustusplatz 9a. 04109 Leipzig, Germany. Tel: +49 341 300 8702. Fax: +49 341 300 8712.
An important regional festival created in 1992 by the Radio Music Department in Leipzig (Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk). The event under the motto "three states in unision" is considered by the radio leadership as a manifestum of their engagement in developing cultural activities in the region which has great traditions in European music history. Among the venues you find historical monuments like the Wartburg castle (admitted to Unesco’s cultural world heritage), churches and castles of the "Bach cities" in the region. The programme – with different thematic guidelines of special concert series – covers a large scale of musical genres : from classical "mainstream" repertoire to the authentic historical performance on period instruments, from oratorio and acapella choir repertoire to world music.

Beethovenfest Bonn. [March-April] Poppelsdorfer Allee 17. 53115 Bonn, Germany. Tel: +49 228 20 10 345. Fax: +49 228 20 10 333. One of the first music festivals of modern Europe, created by Franz Liszt in 1845. The programming focuses the denominators oeuvre, putting music of very different historical periods together with contemporary creation into a special context with this rich oeuvre.

Berlin International Beer Festival. [August] Rienzistr. 34. 10318 Berlin. Tel. (030) 5086822/23. Fax:(030) 5086820 Berlin Tourist Office. Am Karlsbad 11, 10785 Berlin, Germany. Tel: +49 (0) 30 25 00 25. Fax: +49 (0) 30 2500 2424.
An annual celebration of Germans Beer. The wide variety on offer will delight beer lovers. Small independent breweries play a major role in this event.

European Media Art Festival. [May] Lohstraße 45 A. D-49074 Osnabrück. Germany. Tel: + 49 / (0) 541 / 2 16 58. Fax: + 49 / (0) 541 / 2 83 27.

Internationale Musiktage Kloster Schlehdorf. [May] Haus Dominikus, Schlehdorf , Bavaria, 82444 Germany. Tel: 0049-8851-6159624 Fax: 0049-8851-6159625
A new german festival which focusses on Jazz and Worldmusic, The "Internationale Musiktage Kloster Schlehdorf". It takes place from May 11th to May 14th 2000 in a Bavarian nunnery located at the beautiful sea Kochelsee. To our knowledge it's the first German, maybe European Jazz-Festival organized by nuns. Over 60 International musicians, 23 concerts. Swing, Bop, Maisntream, Avantgarde, Worldmusic. Sessions, Workshop

Jazzfest Rottweil. [May] Oeschlestr. 2. 78628 Rottweil Germany. Tel: 0049 - 741 - 22730 Fax: 0049 - 741 - 12673
All styles of Jazz, Blues, Afro, Funk, Latin, Soul etc.

Viersen Jaz Festival. [September] Fachbereich Schule, Kultur und Sport Kultur. Dr. Axel Greuvers. Wilhelmstr. 12, DE-41747 Viersen, Germany Tel: 0049-2162-101463 Fax: 0049-2162-101487

The Africa Festival. [May] The Africa Festival. Kaiserstr. 16, D-97070 Würzburg. Tel: +49/931/15090 Fax: +49/931/15080.
The Africa Festival has been taking place since 17 years and it has become Europe’s biggest festival for African music and culture. In 2004, more than 123.000 people came to Wuerzburg’s Mainwiesen to witness the cultural wealth of Africa and to participate in Africa’s zest for life.