Accessibility

Below you'll find an overview of venue and event accessibility information, including mobility, volume/lighting, reduced tickets, online offerings, and free events. We have a dedicated contact person for questions about visiting CTM Festival as a person with special needs. They can provide information about venue accessibility, or programme details relating to volume, lighting effects (stroboscope), or any other condition that could affect sensitive individuals. Please contact us at accessibility(at)ctm-festival.de for more information.

Preliminary venue accessibility information is available below. It will be finalised in January.

All CTM venues are wheelchair accessible with the following notes or exceptions:

  • Berghain is accessible. If you are unable to wait in line for long periods of time due to a disability, you can bypass the line and ask to be admitted directly at the door. Accessible toilets are available, please contact Berghain staff (bar staff, runners, door staff, or security) to use them. All floors are connected by an elevator, which can be used when accompanied by Berghain’s staff. Please ask door staff for help with the elevator whenever you would like to change floors or move around the club.

     

  • Haus der Visionäre: please follow the signs to the accessible entrance located between Arena and Haus der Visionäre. Heated accessible toilets are located in the entrance courtyard. An area is reserved for wheelchair users to view the concerts.

     

  • RSO.Berlin: the Robus Floor is not wheelchair accessible via the main entrance. Please ask door staff for assistance, they will help you enter via an alternate entrance.

We offer free access for an accompanying person for holders of a »Schwerbehinderten Ausweis mit Kategorie B« card. Please get in touch with us in advance to make arrangements.

Handicapped parking spaces can be found in front of Radialsystem, RSO.Berlin, and Volksbühne, as well as in the courtyard area at Haus der Visonäre.

Persons taking public transit may check the current status of elevators at the subway stops nearest each venue, via the BVG (both in German and English). The CTM Venue Map is also available online.

We encourage you to get in touch with us or the relevant venue staff in advance so that we can help plan your visit. Venue staff can always be asked for help with regards to mobility and elevator usage. Contact information:

Information coming soon.

Access to clubs is 18+.

Youth 16–18 years of age can join events that end before midnight, unaccompanied by an adult at venues: Haus der Visionäre, Radialsystem, Morphine Raum, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, and HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Under 16s are only allowed entry to these when accompanied by a legal guardian.

The Discourse programme, Research Networking Day, and Resynthesising the Traditional finale are accessible to all ages.

Young children should be accompanied by an adult.

Our team shares a wide pool of languages between all of us; please ask our staff if you require assistance in a language other than English and German and we will do our best to accommodate you. Please note that CTM’s daytime Discourse programme and workshops take place in English.

A number of CTM 2027 events are offered free of charge:

  • Discourse talk programme 23.–30.1.2026 at silent green and Grüner Salon

     

  • Research Networking Day, 25.1.2027 at silent green
  • Resynthesising the Traditional lab presentations, 27.1.2027 at Grüner Salon
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Elements of CTM’s daytime Discourse programme are documented in audio/video each year, and we have been sharing as many of the talks, presentations, and discussions as possible via our SoundCloud and YouTube channels after the festival. Certain concerts and performances are also documented.