If your feet are frosty, put them in a pair of skates and get out on the ice. Until the end of the year, skate on Glice‘s ecological rinks in front of the Dieselhaus restaurant, or shoot your ice stock on the smooth surface and compete against your friends or colleagues. If you fancy a warm drink after your duel on the ice, mulled wine and hearty food await you in the wintery “Forum an der Museumsinsel“. Another sustainable option to embrace winter in a sporty way is curling at the Café am Neuen See. In addition to the atmospheric winter market, which invites you to enjoy homemade cookies and Christmas music before or after a game, try your hand at the Scandinavian precision sport on six covered real ice rinks. It’s not just Neukölln residents who have been eagerly awaiting this reopening: the ice stadium in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Sportpark has finally reopened after two years of renovation. If you want to pirouette to the beat, keep an upcoming Saturday free for the ice disco at Zenner Biergarten, or come every Saturday. The events are curated weekly by various collectives, magazines and brands such as Mit Vergnügen, Motif Wein and Gloria Viagra. The highlight is the selected line-ups from the best Berlin DJs. As always, skates are available on-site, but tickets must be booked in advance. If you want to get up close and personal with the cold, join the Icedippers, who gather every Saturday morning at three (different) Berlin lakes for a collective cold kick (see also our article from 2023 here). The group of professional and amateur ice swimmers gather at Plötzensee, Alt-Stralau and Schlachtensee and warmly welcome anyone who wants to pack their swimming trunks and take the plunge into the cold water.
The seasonal Winterlights exhibition at Dark Matter creates the greatest possible distance from the ice and cold. Although it is open air, the installation of fir trees and light columns forms an atmospheric dome that seems to protect you from the cold and darkness. The collaboration between artist Christopher Bauder and composer Chris Kuijten transforms the outdoor area on Köpenicker Chaussee into a modern winter wonderland, in which the traditional Christmas tree is rotated 180 degrees and illuminated. So get on the ice or under the tree!
Text: Emma Zylla / Photos: Can Wagener, Ralph Larmann, Yulia Roth
Forum an der Museumsinsel, 10117 Berlin–Mitte; map
Curling at Dieselhaus. Book time slots and tracks via mail.
Café am Neuen See Lichtensteinallee 2, 10787 Berlin–Tiergarten; map
Find more info about the curling tracks here.
Eisstadion Neukölln / Werner-Seelenbinder-Sportpark, Oderstr.182, 12051 Berlin–Neukölln; map
Zenner, Alt–Treptow 15, 12435 Berlin–Alt-Treptow; map
Ice Disco Sa, until 24.012024 18h. Get your tickets here.
Icedippers
Find more info about the locations and next dates here.
Dark Matter, Köpenicker Chaussee 46, 10317 Berlin–Lichtenberg; map
Winterlights until 05.01.2024. Get your tickets here.
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