“I’m still punk as fuck” – I whisper to myself as I reach for my 7-day pill box.

• 40 is the prime of life and still full of punk spirit.
• 40 is pre-menopause and post-midlife crisis.
• 40 is wandering through the world in search of something and taking a holiday until the end of Merz.
• 40 is just the right age to rethink your own taste in music and sort out the old band T-shirts.
• 40 is fighting against right-wing crap and being tired of having to do it even more these days.
• 40 is now!

Send us your musical contributions for the Späti stage!

Your submissions should be punk in some way – which, for us, means an attitude rather than necessarily a specific genre of music. Tell us what you’ve got in mind and what you’ll need to make it happen. Ideally, send us an audio clip – the quality doesn’t matter.

The Späti isn’t an official stage, so unfortunately we can’t help you get a ticket. We hope that people who are already planning to attend the congress will want to contribute here.

We won’t be recording anything.

You can submit your ideas via our Pretalx by 1 November; you’ll receive a response by 1 December at the latest.

You can submit your ideas to our pretalx until November 1, and you will receive feedback by December 1. NB: This is after the official deadline for notification on our main stages.

Submissions close on 2026-11-01 23:59 (Europe/Berlin), 2 weeks, 1 day from now.