Das Improv festival 2026
September 16 – 20
Berlin, Germany
Featuring
Heinous (NY/LA)
Full Schedule
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Shows
5 days of long form improv shows from over 50 teams from around the world!
Get a Festival Pass for free access to shows and a free headline show ticket, or buy tickets to individual shows.
Workshops
15 workshops covering everything from new forms to character work, for beginners to advanced players!
Headliners
Convoy
Convoy is Alex Fernie, Alex Berg & Todd Fasen and they have been performing their brand of fast-paced and hilarious improv together for 20 years. Their weekly show at Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles was described by Time Out LA as “what can happen when a few players know each other’s brains so well that they function as a very funny one” and was named “Best Improv Show” by LA Weekly. Collectively, they’ve worked in TV on shows like Reno 911!, Dropout’s Very Important People, Childrens Hospital, Terriers, Key & Peele, Last Week Tonight with Jon Oliver, Conan,…
Das Improv Festival 2025
Thanks to the over 50 teams from around the world, including headliners Asian AF, Brooklyn Comedy Collective and Elephants Gerald for a fantastic 2025 festival! Check out pics from the festival below!
Photos by Else Henkes and Lisa Schilha
About the festival
Das Improv Festival started in 2019 and then was forced into hiatus in 2020 for… reasons…
We returned with a bang in 2023, and are now an annual improv festival showcasing high-quality comedic improv, in English, for an international audience. Our focus lies on both grounded and game-based long form improv comedy (including long form musical improv).
Das Improv Festival is now a production of Das Improv Collective zur Förderung von Improvisationstheater e.V. (say that 3 times fast), a nonprofit organization we formed in 2024 to promote the improv and comedy cultural scene in Berlin. As a nonprofit festival, our goal is to grow sustainably, create a fair and equitable place for international improvisers to share their art & vision, and to create a community for comedy performers in Berlin. All of our proceeds go to compensating our festival headliners and producing the festival.
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Code of conduct
We take the safety of our performers and audience seriously! Read more about our Code of Conduct, developed in partnership with Comedy Café Berlin.
Venues
Both of our performance venues are an easy 5 minute walk from one another in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin. Our workshop space is located a short bus or bicycle ride away at Hermannplatz.
Comedy Café Berlin
Our main venue and sponsor organization, home to Berlin’s best alternative comedy shows
Ida Nowhere
Our partner venue, a non-profit artist’s collective
CCB Studios
Our workshop space, provided by Comedy Café Berlin.