Past events

Thursday,
Of unrest and new beginnings: Stories from Rügen and Wiepersdorf
Schloss Wiepersdorf
Chalk cliffs in Jasmund on the island of Rügen
Jasmund, Island of Rügen © Ansgar Koreng, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Licensing Terms

Writers Sandra Pixberg and Bettina Gärtner, both fellowship holders at Schloss Wiepersdorf, take us on very different journeys through time.

Tuesday,
Vocations – open space: Songs and vocal practices based on poetry
silent green, Berlin
Portrait of the 2025 Wiepersdorf fellowship-holder and composer Ying Wang
Ying Wang © Maria Frodl

DESIRE by Wiepersdorf fellow Ying Wang will be presented on this event as part of Vocations – open space.

Sunday,
100 Years of Wolfgang Heise: The Forgotten Philosopher of the GDR
Schloss Wiepersdorf
Black-and-white photograph showing Wolfgang Heise sitting on a gravestone belonging to the Arnim family, with Erwin Pracht standing behind him.
Wolfgang Heise and Erwin Pracht in Wiepersdorf © Dietrich Mühlberg

Former Wiepersdorf fellow Lukas Zittlau commemorates Wolfgang Heise on the occasion of his 100th birthday, offering an introduction to his life and thought.

Sunday,
Three East German Women Get Drunk and Establish the Ideal State
Schloss Wiepersdorf
The three authors Peggy Mädler, Annett Gröschner, and Wenke Seemann are sitting on a concrete block in front of a Plattenbau building, with a wine glass and a bottle of beer in front of them.
Peggy Mädler, Annett Gröschner, Wenke Seemann © Andreas Rost

Seven Nights in Fast Forward as a Reading Performance, and the question of which drink best suits collective remembrance. With Annett Gröschner, Peggy Mädler, and Wenke Seemann.

Sunday,
Manami Nagahari: Concert
Schloss Wiepersdorf
Portrait of the 2024 Wiepersdorf fellowship- holder and composer Manami Nagahari
© Manami Nagahari

Former Wiepersdorf Fellow Manami Nagahari will present her new composition Mi-Mi-Mi Neunte in Schloss Wiepersdorf

Sunday,
Paula Fürstenberg: Reading and talk
Schloss Wiepersdorf
Excerpt from the book cover Weltalltage (Space Days) by author Paula Fürstenberg
book cover

Wiepersdorf Fellow Paula Fürstenberg reads from her second novel "Weltalltage" (in German).

Sunday,
Film Screening for families: Ponyo
Schloss Wiepersdorf, Tankhalle
Excerpt from the Studio Ghibli animated film Ponyo by director Hayao Miyazaki
Ponyo © Studio Ghibli

The animated fantasy film Ponyo is about tells the story of Ponyo, a goldfish who escapes from the ocean and is helped by a five-year-old human boy.

Sunday,
Heaven's Human Jukebox – we hear what we see
Schloss Wiepersdorf
Pictogram by Gwendolyn Krenkel shows a person leaning over a record player, behind them various recordings hanging on the wall.
© Gwendolyn Krenkel

An infotainment event by and with the artist O.W. Himmel, who is also an archivist of everyday graphic and typographic culture.

Sunday,
Art Workshop for Children
On Sundays in Schloss Wiepersdorf
Colorful children's artwork created at the Wiepersdorf Castle Children's Studio 2025
Children's artwork, photo © Kaj Osteroth

The Schloss Wiepersdorf Art Workshop for Children takes place for the first time in summer 2025, starting in the beginning of August. On six Sundays, children aged 6 to 11 can paint, draw, model and get creative.

Sunday,
Open Studios and Lecture: Christa Wolf and Romanticism
Open Studios from 1:00 pm, Schloss Wiepersdorf
A black-and-white portrait shows German author Christa Wolf at her desk.
Christa Wolf, photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-B0509-0010-004 /, Eckleben, Irene, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons

Like many of her colleagues, the writer Christa Wolf engaged with German Romanticism and its authors in the 1970s. The literary scholar and Wiepersdorf fellow Tabea Lamberti presents this aspect of Wolf's thinking and writing. In addition, the studios of Frauke Eckhardt and Paula Müller will be open to the public.