Overview

• Organizer Berlin feiert Silvester GmbH suspended all planning after its usual sponsors failed to commit between €500,000 and €1 million in subsidies.
• Public broadcaster ZDF says it is monitoring talks but that its funding alone cannot cover the event’s costs.
• BfS GmbH rejects raising the €20 ticket price to avoid excluding families and low-income attendees.
• Organizers set an end-of-June deadline for securing subsidies and say the lapsed timetable jeopardizes the event’s multi-month planning needs.
• Since 2010 the televised “Celebrate at the Gate” show has drawn 60,000–65,000 people with live music, fireworks and hosts Andrea Kiewel and Johannes B. Kerner.