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A Flair of Vienna in the GDR

Barbe Maria Linke and Dietmar Linke, pastors and authors, met the Austrian couple Fred and Maxie Wander, both writers, in Wiepersdorf. The Wander couple had moved to the GDR (Kleinmachnow) in 1958. Maxie Wander's book Guten Morgen, du Schöne, was published shortly before her death in November 1977 and became very famous.
Fred Wander came from a Jewish family and was imprisoned in several German concentration camps. He wrote novels, stories, children's books and, together with Maxie Wander, travelogues. His key work is considered to be the novel Der siebente Brunnen.

Video documentation of the event (May 2023):

Reading and talk with Barbe Maria Linke and Dietmar Linke
Moderation: Dr Friederike Frach, CEO Brandenburgischer Literaturrat

Former associates of Matthias Vernaldi were guests in Wiepersdorf from 20-22 October on a group scholarship. Their current project is to review and edit the texts of the writer, GDR civil rights activist and disability activist Matthias Vernaldi with the aim of publishing them in an anthology.

Reading and talk about Peter Hacks

The Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf and the Kleist Museum, Frankfurt (Oder) jointly invited to a talk about Peter Hacks with the authors Matthias Dell and Ronald Weber at Schloss Wiepersdorf. Hacks was a guest there in 1973.

In July, the independent jury decided on the awarding of the fellowships for 2024, which are funded by the state of Brandenburg.

About the workshop on cinema and spirituality organized by Maryam Palizban and Martin Treml in September 2023.

The Humboldt Residency Program started this year with a two-week working phase at Wiepersdorf.

If you are looking for inspiring books for the summer, you might be interested in the new publications by 2023 fellows of Wiepersdorf.

The protest and performance group Pussy Riot spent a few days in Schloss Wiepersdorf.

Video trailer about an escape from Moscow

The filmmaker Ekaterina Erofeeva arrived with her husband, the writer and Putin critic Victor Erofeev, and their two children Maja and Marianna after an adventurous flight from Russia via Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland at night on April 4, 2022 in Schloss Wiepersdorf. Leaving the Moscow apartment, the journey, border crossings, conversations with intellectual friends until the stay and many conversations in Schloss Wiepersdorf Ekaterina Erofeeva recorded with the camera.

A first trailer for the planned film project can be seen here.