Gretchen

Kreuzberg


One of Berlin’s finest music venues has set up in the gorgeous slender-columned and brick-vaulted stables of a 19th-century Prussian regiment. The low-key crowd defines the word eclectic, as does the music, which hops around contemporary trends from electro to dubstep, indie to hip-hop, funk to house. Hosts concerts and DJ sets.


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