Relocation FAQs

KALLE Neukölln, Karl-Marx-Straße 101, 12043 Berlin. In Neukölln, on one of the city’s best-connected high streets. Our campus will be located on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the building.

For most students, our campus will be significantly more accessible than Funkhaus:

• U Rathaus Neukölln: 2-minute walk
• U Karl-Marx-Straße: 3-minute walk
• S+U Berlin Neukölln: 15-minute walk
• BER airport: 30 minutes

For the majority of students the commute to KALLE will be shorter. Neukölln is centrally located relative to where most Catalyst students live and the transport links outside the building are substantially better than at Funkhaus. 

Neukölln, Reuterkiez, Schillerkiez and Kreuzberg are all within easy walking or cycling distance. These neighbourhoods are popular with many international students because of their transport connections and cultural life. Other neighbourhoods such as Friedrichshain, Charlottenburg, Tempelhof and Treptow are just a few stops away on public transport. 

Our Admissions team are happy to share more specific guidance on request. 

All the equipment, room types and gear will move with us and expand at KALLE. From October 2026, the new campus already offers significantly more space than Funkhaus, with a further expansion planned from September 2027. By then, the campus will be 46% larger than Funkhaus.

The most significant upgrades for our student body will be:

• two professional film studios (green screen / sound stage)
• two rehearsal spaces (and two more in 2027)
• an expanded 92 seat cinema (+60pax) and 91 seat theatre (+40pax)
• seven music studios with 24 individual production spaces (including our Dolby Atmos Room)
• 14 hybrid production suites for film & sound
• an expanded Electronic Music lab with performance stage and spatial audio 
• a dedicated, purpose-built home for Etikett Radio
• a dedicated studio for documentary photography
• increased kitchen space in our social area for daily use and events 
• a new social stage for interdisciplinary and public-facing work
• balconies on the street-facing rooms
• for the teaching and administrative teams, we will also have additional office space.

Additionally, in the building we'll have:

• a rooftop area, accessible to our students and teams
• supermarket on the ground floor
• food hall (KALLE Halle) with a coffee shop, bar, food stalls, and public seating area
• KALLE's Music Hall and Winter Garden for special events

This is one of the things we heard most consistently from students, and we are glad to be able to fix it. Kalle Halle is right downstairs: an international food market open seven days a week with 600 indoor seats. There is also an Edeka supermarket on site and a ground-floor café. Around the block there is also Lidl, Penny and DM. And the surroundings are packed with shops, bakeries and cuisine from all over the world.

The creative work our students are engaging in has grown beyond what Funkhaus can support. Film production has expanded to the point where additional studios are necessary. The Acting programme and cross-discipline performance work have consistently outpaced available rehearsal space. Our music students are engaging in entirely new creative practices that need more hybrid set-ups. Our tech teams are running out of space for all the gear and instruments. We need a campus that fits the school we have become.

We have also listened closely to student feedback over the years. As Catalyst has grown, so has the need for more accessible spaces, greater flexibility across studios and rehearsal areas, and a campus more connected to the rhythms of daily student life, socially, creatively and practically. The move to KALLE is, in part, a response to that evolution.

KALLE was an opportunity for us to have a purpose-built space, designed by our own team of experts, and covers the experimental, collaborative and cross-discipline direction our programmes have taken.

We considered more than 80 spaces in Berlin before choosing KALLE. It had everything we had been looking for. Their building also offers us extra amenities such as the music hall and rooftop, opening up more opportunities to host special events in future.

Our creative practices will take on a new dimension at KALLE, and give our students and community more ways to experiment and develop their artistic endeavours.

• The move itself will take place over the course of the summer break
• Week commencing 28 September: all students welcomed to KALLE for registration, programme meetings and inductions
• Week commencing 5 October: teaching begins

We wanted to tell you as soon as our timeline for the Semester A (2026/27) was 100% aligned and confirmed. This gives everyone the rest of the summer to prepare for the transition. We will be updating you as we get closer to the start of the new school year with practical information on access and registration. 

Yes. Our class sizes stay small. Every student’s individual creative journey is still the architecture of what we do. The new campus is being carefully curated, space by space, around those same values. We believe it is part of our duty to provide our students with individual mentorship and spaces to develop their unique creative practice. The new campus makes more of this possible with more studio time, more room to rehearse, more opportunities to showcase and more space to experiment.

The move is planned for the summer break, between August and September. Teaching is structured to begin at KALLE in October. 

Timetables are updated each academic year and are typically shared in the period leading up to the start of teaching. KALLE gives us more flexibility across rooms and studios, which will support scheduling across all programmes. You will receive your timetable at the end of August.

We aim for all facilities to be ready for our October start date (05.10.26) Where any space is temporarily unavailable, alternative provision will be in place and communicated to you in advance.

Everything moves with us: Pulse, the MA Symposium, the Spatial Sound Forum, Etikett Radio, community events, parties, bake sales, cinema clubs, every programme, every partnership, every piece of gear. Everything except the walls. Being part of the wider KALLE building also places us alongside larger public-facing event spaces, including a 600 m² concert venue, the Winter Garden and Alfred-Scholz-Platz directly outside the campus.

Yes. We’re looking forward to beginning the academic year at KALLE with the same community energy, events and student activity that shape life at Catalyst now, alongside new possibilities the space opens up for performances, collaborations and public-facing work.

For anything related to your studies or wellbeing, your programme lead is the first point of contact. For relocation-specific questions, reach us at relocation@catalyst-berlin.com - our leadership and student support team will get back to you.

If you are joining us for the first time this September and have questions about where to live or anything else the move raises, speak to Admissions directly.

The Kalle campus will be ready to visit closer to the start of term, and we will organise visits as soon as we can. In the meantime, you are very welcome to come and see us at Funkhaus. Everything here: the studios, the equipment, the production spaces, and the people, move with us to Kalle. It is still a good way to get a feel for what your day-to-day will look like. Arrange a visit here.

Yes. Over the coming months our teams will be sending out updated information regularly, including a revised Welcome Pack, event and induction details, and general progress updates as we get closer to October.

If anything is unclear in the meantime, you can always reach us directly at relocation@catalyst-berlin.com and we will get back to you.