Live Entertainment Venues

Munich, Bavaria

Olympiahalle is Munich's iconic indoor arena — a 13,766-seat venue in the breathtaking 1972 Olympic Park complex designed by Frei Otto with a revolutionary tensile cable roof structure that is considered a masterpiece of 20th century architecture. As the primary indoor concert venue for one of Europe's wealthiest cities and Germany's most visited tourist destination (home to Oktoberfest), Olympiahalle has hosted virtually every major touring artist visiting Germany, from the Rolling Stones to Metallica to Taylor Swift.

Spiridon-Louis-Ring 21, 80809 Munich

Munich, Bavaria

Strom is Munich's best independent music venue — a 600-capacity Haidhausen club booking adventurous indie, electronic, and alternative touring artists for Germany's most affluent city. Munich's strong economy, university student population, and the creative class drawn by Bavaria's quality of life create a sophisticated music audience that Strom serves with consistent programming above the mainstream German entertainment circuit.

Lindwurmstraße 88, 80337 Munich

Berlin, Berlin

Mercedes-Benz Arena is Berlin's premier indoor entertainment venue — a 17,000-seat arena adjacent to the East Side Gallery that hosts Eisbären Berlin ice hockey, ALBA Berlin basketball, and some of Germany's most attended concerts. Berlin's position as one of Europe's most visited cities, combined with its extraordinary nightlife reputation, creates an entertainment market that the Mercedes-Benz Arena serves for large-format shows that complement the city's world-famous club culture.

Mercedes-Platz 1, 10243 Berlin

Hamburg, Hamburg

Laeiszhalle (now operated alongside Elbphilharmonie) is Hamburg's historic concert hall — a 2,025-seat 1908 Jugendstil masterpiece that serves as the home of the Hamburg Philharmonic and presents classical and contemporary music in one of Europe's finest acoustic environments. Hamburg's extraordinary investment in cultural infrastructure — culminating in the spectacular Elbphilharmonie — makes it Germany's most ambitious concert city outside Berlin.

Johannes-Brahms-Platz 1, 20355 Hamburg

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia

Lanxess Arena is Germany's most commercially successful concert arena — a 20,000-capacity Cologne venue that consistently ranks as Europe's top-grossing arena and one of the five highest-grossing venues in the world for live entertainment. Cologne's central location in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area of 10 million people, Germany's largest urban agglomeration, creates an entertainment market of extraordinary scale that Lanxess Arena dominates as the first-choice venue for every major world tour visiting Germany.

Willy-Brandt-Platz 3, 50679 Köln