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Rethinking Resources: Humboldt-Foundation in Wiepersdorf
The Humboldt Residency Program started this year with a two-week working phase at Wiepersdorf.
New books by Schloss Wiepersdorf Fellows 2023
If you are looking for inspiring books for the summer, you might be interested in the new publications by 2023 fellows of Wiepersdorf.
Pussy Riot in Wiepersdorf
The protest and performance group Pussy Riot spent a few days in Schloss Wiepersdorf.
Liebe Marianna
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.
Zur Alten Schmiede
Theme year „Lebenskunst – Kulturland Brandenburg 2022“
Documentary film in German language
Until its closure a few years ago, the restaurant "Zur Alten Schmiede" was an important meeting place between the villagers of Wiepersdorf and the guests of the castle. On September 24, 2022 the tradition of mutual solidarity was revived for one day in the restaurant “Zur Alten Schmiede” with a cultural and culinary program. Filmmaker Branka Pavlovic accompanied the event on film.
Zeichenstunde
Documentary film, Illustrators in Wiepersdorf
From January 7 to 9, 2022, the illustrators Nozomi Horibe, Yves Haltner, Claudia Schramke, Lea Rommel, Katja Gendikova, Beatrice Davies and Xueh Magrini Troll created portraits of writers who were guests at Schloss Wiepersdorf: The resulting portraits of, among others, Christa Wolf, Sarah Kirsch, Maxie Wander, Anna Seghers, and Volker Braun, as well as the two winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich and Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk, are part of Schloss Wiepersdorf's redesigned museum.
Thank you!
Photographic documentation, Summer festival in Schloss Wiepersdorf
Many thanks to all friends, partners, supporters and guests who joined us for the summer festival in Wiepersdorf last Sunday! Together with a big crowd of visitors we celebrated the relaunch of the residency program, the opening of the newly designed museum and the “Kosmos Wiepersdorf”.
Fellows as of September
In September, we welcome nine new fellows to Schloss Wiepersdorf: Sophia Ato, Said Azh, Róża Biłko, Monika Hau, Uwe Loebens, Julius von Lorentz, Thomas de Padova, Maryam Palizban, Małgorzata Sztremer.
Good Stalin – Reading in four languages
In the summer of 2022, Viktor Yerofeyev and several fellows staying at Schloss Wiepersdorf read Yerofeyev's work "Good Stalin" at the same time, but in different language versions. In this video, they read the first sentences: the writer Fatin Abbas the Arabic, Maryam Aghaalikhani the Persian, guest reader Britta von der Behrens the German and Viktor Yerofeyev the Russian version.
Fellows as of June
In June, we welcome nine new fellows to Schloss Wiepersdorf: Fatin Abbas, Maryam Aghaalikhani, David Bird, Annedore Dietze, Sarah Duffy, Andrea Hensgen, Petra Heymach, Kaila Howell and Antje Vowinckel.