The team competes in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL), the highest level of play in professional German ice hockey, and is also one of the league's founding members.

Before reunification the team won the East German ice hockey championship 15 times as SC Dynamo Berlin.

The sports club offered a wide spectrum of competitive athletic activities, including track and field, football, swimming, gymnastics, fencing, rowing, boxing and ice skating.

[3] SC Dynamo Berlin trained and played its matches in the large Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle in Prenzlauer Berg during its first years.

Altogether, SC Dynamo Berlin won the East German championship 15 times, the last title coming in 1988.

It was known that the president of SV Dynamo and the head of the Stasi Erich Mielke had been a warm supporter of ice hockey.

[5] The club tried to distance itself from its East German image, under the leadership of Günter Haake and manager Lorenz Funk.

[6] In 1992 the club was renamed again, this time to "EHC Eisbären Berlin" and also introduced the polar bear logo.

However, due to severe financial difficulties, the club had to rely heavily on its junior and other low-tier players and thus regularly finished at the bottom of the standings and struggled to avoid relegation to the 2.

[8] The Anschutz Entertainment Group acquired sole ownership of the Eisbären in 1999, ensuring financial stability.

At that time, the team had already become hugely popular, selling out 28 of 31 home games during the 2003–04 season[8] In 2005–06 and 2006–07, the Eisbären were the German representative at the Spengler Cup in Davos, Switzerland.

With the help of NHL veterans such as Erik Cole, Nathan Dempsey, and Olaf Kölzig, Berlin beat Mannheim in three games.

[10] The fourth DEL title followed in 2009, when the DEG Metro Stars were beaten 3:1 in a best-of-five final play-off round.

[11] A sixth title was won in 2012, after a full-length best-of-five final against Adler Mannheim, with a seventh coming the next year after a 3:1 series victory over Kölner Haie.

[15] SC Dynamo Berlin played its home matches in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle in Prenzlauer Berg during the first years.

The song became a popular tune in German mountain resorts during après-ski parties, and went on to appear on several winter-themed music compilations.