Find your community

Where Vietnamese speakers in Berlin get advice, meet people, find work and find Vietnamese for their children.

Berlin has one of the largest Vietnamese communities in Germany, centred in Lichtenberg and Marzahn-Hellersdorf. You do not have to work everything out alone. This page lists free, public or non-profit places. Links checked on 5 November 2026; check opening hours before you go.

Where Vietnamese Berliners live

On 30 June 2026, 31,803 Vietnamese nationals were registered in Berlin; 47,929 people have a migration background from Vietnam (Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg, report A I 5 hj 1/26). About half live in two eastern districts: Lichtenberg 14,635 and Marzahn-Hellersdorf 9,412. Then Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg 4,249, Pankow 3,910 and Mitte 3,877.

Advice in Vietnamese, free of charge

• Reistrommel e.V. (Coswiger Straße 5, Marzahn): migration counselling for adults (MBE, phone 030 21758548), social counselling, integration courses with childcare.
• Vereinigung der Vietnamesen in Berlin & Brandenburg e.V. (Herzbergstraße 128–139, Lichtenberg, at the Dong Xuan Center): social counselling, German and Vietnamese courses, help with documents. Details on the Lichtenberg integration page, which also lists further Vietnamese-speaking offers in the district.
• Marzahn-Hellersdorf guide in Vietnamese: lists Caritas migration counselling and the youth migration service (Allee der Kosmonauten 28a) with Vietnamese hours.
• Willkommenszentrum Berlin (Potsdamer Straße 61, Mitte): the Senate's free walk-in counselling; Vietnamese is a standing language. Its directory of counselling centres can be filtered by language.
• Netzwerk Vietnam-Gesundheit: mental-health information in Vietnamese and German, with contacts to specialist clinics at Charité and KEH.
• Embassy of Vietnam (Elsenstraße 3, Treptow): consular section for passports and civil-status matters. Consular matters only, not German law.

Migration counselling (MBE) sites change; confirm by phone before you go.

Meeting people

• Reistrommel runs a children's and youth club on Sundays and the participation project "Tay trong Tay".
• Bürgerinitiative Ausländische MitbürgerInnen (Neustrelitzer Straße 63, Lichtenberg): a monthly Vietnamese parents' café, listed on the Lichtenberg page.
• Dong Xuan Center (Herzbergstraße 128–139, 10365 Berlin-Lichtenberg, tram M8): a large Vietnamese wholesale market with restaurants and shops, also a venue for community events. It is a commercial place.
• Integrationslots:innen: guides in every district who accompany you to offices; Lichtenberg has Vietnamese-speaking guides.
• Online: search Facebook for Vietnamese groups in Berlin. Treat advice in groups as tips, not facts.

Festivals and holidays

• Tết (Lunar New Year) 2027 falls on 6 February 2027. Community celebrations usually take place around Dong Xuan Center; check the announcements of the associations listed above.
• "Sống ở Berlin": Vietnamese-German pop-culture festival. The 2026 edition ran 1–5 July at Dong Xuan Center (market and food area free). The 2027 date is not yet published.
• Karneval der Kulturen: expected 14–17 May 2027 (Pentecost) in Kreuzberg, free. Official dates are not yet published.

Doctors who speak Vietnamese

• KV Berlin Arztsuche: practice entries can show the languages spoken; look for Vietnamese.
• Urgent appointments: call 116117.

Finding work

• Arbeitsagentur Jobsuche: the official job board; register as a job seeker at the Berlin employment agency.
• Qualified in Vietnam? Check recognition first: Anerkennung in Deutschland and Recognition. Apprenticeship: Ausbildung.
• Before signing: offers with fees, housing tied to the job or debts to an agent are warning signs: Scams.

German, volunteering

• Volkshochschulen Berlin and Reistrommel offer integration courses; see Learn German.
• Landesfreiwilligenagentur Berlin: volunteering in every district, a fast way to practise German and meet people.

Vietnamese for children and young people

• Reistrommel children's and youth club (Sundays, Marzahn), see above.
• VHS Lichtenberg: about 30 Vietnamese courses a year, including a track for heritage speakers who want to read and write.
• Erstsprachenunterricht (ESU) of the Berlin Senate: free, voluntary, usually 2 hours a week at public schools. Vietnamese is offered, but there are only very few groups. A group starts once at least 12 children register, so parents at one school can team up. Register via the child's school with the "Interessenbekundung" form; attendance is then binding.
• Vietnamese Sunday schools exist in Lichtenberg according to older press reports; no current official listing found.