Take a look back at Spring Festival 2026 through our photo gallery.

As part of a group fellowship, nine young researchers from the Dresden-based Institute for Saxon History and Cultural Anthropology (ISGV) spent June 3 to 8, 2026, at Schloss Wiepersdorf, dedicating their time to their respective writing projects and interdisciplinary exchange.

Authors Cony Theis and Jürgen Heiter worked on their film "Hallräume" at Schloss Wiepersdorf as part of a group fellowship.

In April, a group of Czech authors and illustrators visited Berlin.

An independent jury has selected 14 fellows from the fields of art and scholarship who will take up three-month residencies at Schloss Wiepersdorf between March and November 2026.

From March 23 to 25, nine exiled authors – all of whom are fellows in PEN Germany’s Writers-in-Exile Program – met for a working stay at Schloss Wiepersdorf.

In 2025, the Schloss Wiepersdorf Cultural Foundation welcomed outstanding scholarship holders, groups, and numerous guests. You can find impressions of the events in the following picture gallery.

New in the media library: The lecture on Wolfgang Heise on the occasion of his 100th birthday, given by Wiepersdorf scholarship holder Lukas Zittlau.

From November 15 to 16, 2025, the association Perspektive hoch 3 met at Schloss Wiepersdorf. In interdisciplinary discussions, the group developed approaches to East German origins.

From September 22 to 27, 2025, a group of eight members of the Junge Akademie met at Schloss Wiepersdorf to reflect on the role that language plays in academic and artistic practice.