Stadtbad Live! Sommerfest
Raise Your Voices.
Powered by E-WERK Luckenwalde,
Landesmusikrat Brandenburg and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin
On 4 July, from 10:00 to 23:00, E-WERK Luckenwalde invites you to the Stadtbad Live! Sommerfest 2026. This year’s edition of E-WERK’s annual open cultural gathering and community festival, is presented in cooperation with the Brandenburg Landesmusikrat’s State Choir Competition and the DAAD Artist-in-Berlin programme. It features a diverse program that brings together choirs from all over Brandenburg, incredible local and international artists, and regional sports and cultural clubs, showcasing the many possibilities for the cultural repurposing of the iconic Bauhaus Stadtbad. The Stadtbad is set to reopen in 2028 as a vibrant cultural center for everyone, powered by renewable energy. Admission is free, and everyone is welcome. Here’s what awaits you: food & drinks, choir concerts, bands, karaoke, soccer, wrestling, a Stammtisch, guided tours of the E-WERK, an architectural display about the upcoming Stadtbad renovation, a social drawing project, a bonfire, and much more.
State Choir Competition Brandenburg
The State Choir Competition will take place on Saturday 4 July and Sunday 5 July in the historic Turbine Hall of E-WERK Luckenwalde and in Stadtbad Live! Luckenwalde. Organized by the Brandenburg State Music Council in cooperation with E-WERK Luckenwalde, an open call for entries under the motto “Raise Your Voices” attracted diverse choirs from all over Brandenburg who will now present their repertoires on both days to a renowned jury and audiences of the Stadtbad Live! Summer Festival 2026.
Stadtbad Live!
In addition, the DAAD Artist-in-Berlin programme in partnership with E-WERK Luckenwalde will present a performance programme in Stadtbad Live! Luckenwalde, featuring performances by international artists and poets including Melanie Jame Wolf, Sarmen, Merve Emre and Vanessa Onwuemezi.
On the grounds between E-WERK and Stadtbad Live! Luckenwalde a vibrant cultural community festival will take place , organized in cooperation with local clubs and community members.
Featuring: Social Mapping Project by Oscar Murillo in partnership with Das Minsk, Potsdam, Presentation and information stand regarding the Stadtbad’s renovation with architecture studio Hütten und Paläste, Karaoke with Alhambra e.V., Bonfire & performance with artist collective Bündnis Feuer und Flamme, Torwandsoccer with FSV Luckenwalde, Show wrestling by 1. LSC Luckenwalde, Open sing-along with Open Eck, Luckenwalde Kreismusikschule Brassband, E-WERK’s studio residents funk band - Groove Kombinat, Armenian and Persian food and the Stadtbad Live! Bar.
The programme:
E-WERK Luckenwalde Turbine Hall x State Choir Competition Brandenburg
The State Choir Competition will take place on Saturday 4 July and Sunday 5 July in the historic Turbine Hall of E-WERK Luckenwalde and in Stadtbad Live! Luckenwalde. Organized by the Brandenburg State Music Council in cooperation with E-WERK Luckenwalde, an open call for entries under the motto “Raise Your Voices” attracted diverse choirs from all over Brandenburg who will now present their repertoires on both days to a renowned jury and audiences of the Stadtbad Live! Sommerfest 2026.
Turbine Hall
10:00–10:20 Opening
10:30–10:50 Chor Ahrensdorf
10:55–11:05 Gemischter Chor Belzig e.V.
11:15–11:35 V.E.R.Z. Vokalensemble Rechenzentrum
Stadtbad Live x State Choir Competition Brandenburg
Stadtbad Live! Stage
All-day installation „Sammelbecken“ by Stadtbad Architekten Hütten & Paläste
12:30–12:50 “Paljanyzja” Ukrainischer Frauenchor
12:55–13:15 JohannisChor Luckenwalde
13:20–13:40 Chor Cantus Vitalis Eberswalde
13:45–14:05 Birüßa
14:00–14:30 Opening: Mayor Jochen Neumann, Pablo Wendel (E-WERK Luckenwalde), Dr. Jana Buschmann (Landesmusikrat Brandenburg) und Dirk Heinze (FSV 63 Luckenwalde)
14:40–15:10 Polyphonic Laboratory Berlin
15:15–15:45 Christophorus Chor meets Flämingchor
Stadtbad Live Luckenwalde x DAAD Reveries
In addition, the DAAD Artist-in-Berlin programme in partnership with E-WERK Luckenwalde will present a performance programme in Stadtbad Live Luckenwalde, featuring performances by international artists and poets including Melanie Jame Wolf, Sarmen, Merve Emre and Vanessa Onwuemezi.
16:00–16:30 Merve Emre – Talk
16:30–17:00 Vanessa Onwuemezi – Reading
17:15–17:45 Sarmen – REO
18:45–19:45 Melanie Jame Wolf – Oh! Oh! Tonight!
20:00–21:00 Groove Kombinat – Funkband Luckenwalde
21:00–23:00 Alhambra e.V. x Karaoke
On the site
all day long – Stadtbad Bar
12:00–20:00 – Info Point
12:30–20:00 – Armenian - German BBQ
12:30–20:00 – Persian Grill
12:00–20:00 – FSV 63 Luckenwalde – Goal Wall
12:00–18:00 – Oscar Murillo Studio – Social Mapping
14:30–15:30 – 1. LSC Luckenwalde – Show wrestling of the girls' and boys' junior teams
15:30–16:30 – 1. LSC Luckenwalde – Open Wrestling for all
15:30–20:00 – Bündnis Feuer & Flamme – Obvara (Sourdough Distillation)
15:00–16:00 – Guided Tour – E-WERK Luckenwalde
16:00–17:00 – Open Eck – Open Singing
17:45–18:30 – Kreismusikschule Luckenwalde – Brassband
Social Mapping by Oscar Murillo
Starting from 12:00
On the occasion of Oscar Murillo’s exhibition at DAS MINSK in Potsdam, people are invited to take part in drawing sessions held around the country as part of a collaborative artwork. These sessions will form part of an ongoing project titled, Social mapping, a celebration of collective spirit anchored by the exercise of drawing and mark-making.
You and your local community will be free to draw and doodle on blank canvases with pens, pencils, crayons, and biros. At the end of the session the canvases will be collected and sent to Potsdam where they will join material gathered from around the world. Visitors to the museum will be invited to paint on top of these marked canvases in a gathering of voices from around the country.
This event is free to attend and participants of all ages are welcome. All canvas and drawing materials will be provided.
Oscar Murillo: Collective Osmosis
DAS MINSK, Potsdam
14th March - 9th August, 2026
From 14.03.2026 renowned contemporary artist Oscar Murillo will take over the spaces at DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam with his project Collective Osmosis, a celebration of mark-making creating moments of exchange between his paintings, installation works, and the work of Claude Monet. For Murillo, the scientific metaphor of osmosis, the process by which water particles move through a semi-permeable boundary with the aim of reaching a state of equilibrium, can be seen as a model for opening the museum, building bridges between the indoor and outdoor space, between the museum and the city, as well as between Potsdam and the world. The exhibition also marks the first collaboration between DAS MINSK and Museum Barberini, with works by Oscar Murillo on display at both institutions.
Heinzelmann Revival
16:00 as part of the Stadtbad Live! Sommerfest
As part of the Sommerfest, there will be a walk through the E-WERK and to the Heinzelmann. We will visit the site and the energy production facilities, as well as the former coal wagon unloader from the 1950s. The tour will conclude with a trip down memory lane, featuring an ‘open sing-along’ beneath the Heinzelmann.
In addition to this group gathering, there will be a regulars’ get-together with contemporary witnesses and material relating to the ‘Heinzelmann’ oral history project, which is supported by the Brandenburg Society for Culture and History – Platform for Cultural Education Brandenburg. We, the E-WERK team, warmly invite you to take part in this short excursion.
Start: 15:00 at the Stadtbad, 16:00 singing at the Heinzelmann
A shuttle bus connects the Stadtbad Live! Sommerfest with the Werner-Seelenbinder Stadium, where the celebrations marking the 120th anniversary of FSV 63 Luckenwalde are taking place at the same time.
The Stadtbad Live! Sommerfest is an annual event that showcases the diverse cultural possibilities offered by Stadtbad Live Luckenwalde. In 2028, to mark its 100th anniversary, Stadtbad is reopening as a vibrant cultural and event venue for Luckenwalde, powered by CO₂-neutral renewable electricity from the neighboring E-WERK.
