Past Events

Entkoppelte Gesellschaft

The second event in the ‘Transformation’ series focuses on challenges in the context of the ongoing German-German unification process. Yana Milev, Christoph Tannert and Thomas Krüger will analyse and discuss the question of how the process should be continued in economic, political, social and cultural terms. Their paths in life crossed in the 1980s in the subculture scene of the GDR. They find a common starting point for their conversation in the artistic and intellectual legacy of the GDR, the relationship between artistic production and academic research, and the role of cultural education in times of transformation.

Event in German language

On the occasion of Bettine's birthday

„Herzhaft in die Dornen der Zeit greifen...” Bettine von Arnim in Berlin (1811–1859)
Frankfurter Buntbücher 67, Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, 2020

On 4 April 2021, on the occasion of Bettina von Arnim's birthday, author and editor Dr. Sonja Hilzinger will read from „Herzhaft in die Dornen der Zeit greifen...” (Reaching heartily into the thorns of time...) and then talk with journalist, radio host and author Dr. Dorothee Schmitz-Köster about the modern woman Bettine von Arnim and her life in Berlin.

Event in German language

“Well, let’s see what happens”

Author Martin Gross and media and communications expert Mandy Tröger talk about the book Das letzte Jahr. Aufzeichnungen aus einem ungültigen Land, and the hopes and disappointments in the East German press landscape in 1990. The conversation is moderated by publisher Jan Wenzel

Event in German language

UNESCO World Poetry Day

With Omar al-Jaffal author and journalist, Iraq/Germany | Volker Braun author, Berlin | Nancy Campbell author, UK | Angélica Freitas poet, Brasil/Berlin | Suvi Valli author and translator, Finland | Moderation: Knut Elstermann journalist, Berlin

Online on Facebook, YouTube & #kanalfuerpoesie and here on this website

Wiepersdorf between War and Peace – Video installation

75 years after the Second World War, the Brandenburg documentary film director Sebastian Eschenbach devotes himself to the history of Wiepersdorf and its castle in Lower Fläming.

Ferngespräch: Vielstimmige Stimme und Klangtanz

Alex Nowitz, composer-performer, voice artist, whistling virtuoso, tenor and countertenor, discusses concepts, strategies and examples of his work between solo performance and instrumental theatre, composed structure, improvisation and gesture-controlled live electronics in a live streamed conversation with music curator and cultural manager Matthias Osterwold.