Depending on what else you want to customize, here are two different approaches:
The first one replaces \usetheme{Berlin}
with outer, inner and color themes, Berlin
internally loads while also adding the subsection=false
option to the miniframes
outer theme:
\documentclass{beamer}
\useoutertheme[subsection=false, footline=authorinstitutetitle]{miniframes}
\usecolortheme{whale}
\usecolortheme{orchid}
\useinnertheme{rectangles}
\setbeamerfont{block title}{size={}}
\begin{document}
\section{Section}
\begin{frame}{Title}
Some content.
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Alternatively, you could also define your own headline template based on the original template from the miniframes outer theme:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Berlin}
\defbeamertemplate*{headline}{my miniframes theme}
{%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[colsep=1.5pt]{upper separation line head}
\end{beamercolorbox}
\begin{beamercolorbox}{section in head/foot}
\vskip2pt\insertnavigation{\paperwidth}\vskip2pt
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[colsep=1.5pt]{lower separation line head}
\end{beamercolorbox}
}
\begin{document}
\section{Section}
\begin{frame}{Title}
Some content.
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Both MWEs result in the following output:
