Living Campus
Nils Frahm builds his room here, Boiler Room broadcasts from the halls, and the Funkhaus becomes a global pilgrimage site for musicians, a campus of studios, labels and concerts on the Spree.
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19 moments in this segment.
- - Nils Frahm builds his room. Pianist and producer Nils Frahm builds his celebrated studio inside the Funkhaus, Saal 3 / "the room", and makes it the centre of his work, drawing a generation of musicians to Nalepastraße.
- - "All Melody" - recorded in the Funkhaus. Nils Frahm records his landmark album "All Melody" almost entirely inside his Funkhaus studio, the building's acoustics and history audible in every track. It carries the Funkhaus name around the world.
- - RY X - "Deliverance" live at the Funkhaus. Singer RY X performs "Deliverance" in the Funkhaus halls, part of the wave of artists who make the building a destination for intimate, beautifully-recorded live sessions on the Spree.
- - Boiler Room broadcasts from the halls. Boiler Room stages sessions inside the Funkhaus, beaming DJ and live sets from its halls to a global online audience and cementing the building's place in contemporary electronic culture.
- - MONOM and the 4DSOUND system. MONOM, a centre for spatial sound built around the 4DSOUND system, opens inside the Funkhaus, turning one of the halls into an immersive, three-dimensional listening space.
- - Maarten Vos in the halls. Cellist and electronic composer Maarten Vos plays the Funkhaus, the GDR concert halls turned into a stage for a new generation of experimental performers on the Spree.
- - Live sets on Nalepastraße. The Funkhaus halls become a regular venue for live electronic performances and label nights, the GDR broadcasting rooms reborn as one of Berlin's most atmospheric stages.
- - Empty halls, streamed to the world. During the 2020 lockdowns the Funkhaus's halls host streamed concerts to empty rooms, musicians playing the great spaces alone, broadcast online, an echo of the building's original purpose.
- - Nils Frahm - "Old Friends New Friends". Frahm releases music made across years in the Funkhaus, the building now inseparable from his sound and a destination for musicians worldwide who want to record in its rooms.
- - A Winged Victory for the Sullen - recorded in Saal 1. The modern-classical duo record in Saal 1, drawn like so many others to the room's acoustics, the hall built for GDR symphonies giving its sound to a new century of music.
- - A campus of labels and concerts. The Funkhaus now houses dozens of studios, labels and rehearsal rooms, and runs a full calendar of concerts and festivals, a living music city on the Spree, born from the silent halls of the GDR.
- - A walk back through the radio house. A German-language ARTE short in which Elisabeth Heller, once a music editor on Nalepastraße, leads a tour of the corridors and studios of what was the GDR's largest radio station. It doubles as a portrait of a building slowly refilling with work.
- - Glen Hansard's night on Nalepastraße. Audience footage from Glen Hansard's Funkhaus concert of 20 April 2025, one of the two evenings recorded for a double live album. The band plays an extended medley to a seated hall.
- - A full set on the Spree. A thirty-six minute concert by Liam Mour recorded at the Funkhaus in 2025 and posted by the artist. Representative of the mid-size shows the campus carries between its larger bookings.
- - Harry Styles, live from the Funkhaus. A thirteen-minute performance film shot in the Funkhaus and issued on Harry Styles' own channel alongside a new album. One of the largest-scale pop productions to be staged in the building's rooms.
- - Glen Hansard, 'Don't Settle'. The title track of a double live album recorded over two nights in April 2025 in front of an audience at the Funkhaus. The building is named in the release as the site of the sessions.
- - Making a record in the halls. A documentary short following Glen Hansard and his band through their April 2025 recording nights at the Funkhaus, streamed to mark the release of the first volume. It shows the halls being used as a working recording space for a full album.
- - Saal 1, still the best room in Berlin. Seventy years after it first went on air, Saal 1 remains one of the most sought-after recording halls in the world, film scores, orchestras and pop records still chase the sound Franz Ehrlich tuned into its walls.
- - PEOPLE Festival returns to the Funkhaus. The Michelberger-run PEOPLE Festival announces its return to the Funkhaus for two days in October, spread across the building's halls and rooms. It is one of the recurring events that shaped the site's second life.
