In the morning she was greeted with military honors in front of Bellevue Palace, and in the evening she met Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier there again for the state banquet.
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark began her four-day state visit to Germany on Wednesday.
The 81-year-old monarch has a busy schedule ahead of her.
She is accompanied by her son, the 53-year-old Crown Prince Frederik.
On Wednesday, she visited the Charité, where, among other things, she was shown a mobile phone for stroke patients. Margrethe, who has been queen for almost 50 years, also walked through the Brandenburg Gate, accompanied by the outgoing Governing Mayor Michael Müller (SPD). In front of the Neue Wache, the memorial for the victims of war and tyranny, she and the Crown Prince laid a wreath. And she met the Executive Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Margrethe is considered an unusual monarch, not only because she smokes a lot and likes to wear colorful clothes - on Wednesday she wore a dove-blue costume and a hat of the same color.
She is also very interested in art and culture, translated a book by Simone de Beauvoir with her late husband Henrik many years ago and is currently involved in a production for the streaming service Netflix.
Like an old friend
In the evening, Federal President Steinmeier greeted the Queen like an old friend.
He recalled that they had only met five months ago when they remembered the peaceful demarcation between the two countries in 1920 in Northern Schleswig.
At a time when conflicts over borders and territories flared up again in Europe, this demarcation is a shining example "of pacifying a conflict that has divided many generations," said Steinmeier, according to the speech manuscript.
The border between Denmark and Germany “also stands for the great fortune of Germans to be able to call our neighbors friends today”.
The Federal President also recalled that for the first time since 1953 there is a member of the South Schleswig voters' association in the Bundestag who represents the Danish minority.