We are happy to announce that the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Olga Tokarczuk "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life." Olga Tokarczuk was fellow at Schloss Wiepersdorf in 2002.
Visual artists, composers as well as authors in the fields of literary writing and also in the field of academic writing and research on Romaniticism and questions relating to the history of East and West Germany can apply for a fellowship in 2020 until October 21, 2019.
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.
„Heiße nicht Dichter und nicht Journalist, und Bier der Tränke höchster mir nicht ist. Im Kirschsaft macht’ ich mir bescheiden Mut, hatt’ unter Buch- und Linden gute Wut.“
