On July 1, 2019 the Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf has been constituted. On August 1, the German Foundation for Monument Protection handed over the key symbolically to the Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf. By mid-2020 Schloss Wiepersdorf will reopen with an interdisciplinary and international residency program.
Portrait Theodor Fontane, 1883, Painting by Carl Breitbach (detail) private property (picture: Bettina Paßmann-Möbis/www.b-pictured.de
Former Wiepersdorf Fellows will be discussing Fontane's influence on their work at HBPG in Potsdam in September and October 2019. (In cooperation with Brandenburgische Gesellschaft für Kultur und Geschichte)
On 17 November, Marcel Lepper, Director of the Literary Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin, is joined in conversation with the authors Gianna Molinari and Georg Klein about romantic ways of thinking and writing at Villa Quandt in Potsdam.
The museum at Schloss Wiepersdorf is closed at the moment and will reopen with a new concept after the refurbishment.
„So war auch ich – und geb es gern zu Buch – In dem berühmten Hause zu Besuch, Wo, oft in Schwermut, selten in Gedanken, Die deutschen Dichter alle Pilsner tranken.“
