Past Events

World Poetry Day

Reading

The UNESCO World Poetry Day is the occasion to honour poets, revive oral traditions of poetry recitals and promote the reading, writing and teaching of poetry. Since its inauguration 22 years ago, the Haus für Poesie together with its partners has been organising the central event in Germany.

Poets from different parts of the world read their texts in the original – accompanied by German translations. This year, the Hungarian poet and Schloss Wiepersdorf alumnus Endre Kukorelly will be taking part.

"...everything is very doubtful in the countryside." (Achim von Arnim) – Is there another way?

Panel discussion

The problems of agriculture in the Niedere Fläming are of existential magnitude. Common to all interlocutors is that they want to bring life and work in the Niedere Fläming in harmony: Landscape as a home for people and an economic area at the same time. But of course there are different interests – and also complaints about external determination, about losses, about "not being able to do it anymore" and "not being able to go on like this". How can something change? And can we contribute to it?

BETHY TRIO

BETHY TRIO, directed by Tilman Hecker, brings together text fragments by Kathy Acker, Bettina von Arnim, Dodie Bellamy and Sarah Schulman, among others. In a production that aims at the possibility of trans-historicity, the words deal with science and poetry, the individuality of the sexes, and the expressions of overcoming Christian ideals of love, moving between historical periods. With Anna Papathanasiou, Ivan Cheng, FRZNTE (performance), Scott Bolman (lights), Lars Paschke (costumes) and Thorsten Hoppe (sound).

Christmas Concert

We kindly invite you to the traditional Christmas concert in the castle park on the fourth Sunday in Advent. Musicians of the brass quartet of the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt/Oder will play.

Questioning at Point Zero

Online

When Belarus was still a blank spot on the map, there was already an idiosyncratic, heterogeneous cultural scene that created spaces in which ideas of a life that was not controlled took shape. Under the unfavorable conditions of the rigid system, fixated on the Soviet past, a parallel society was able to develop, in niches, invisible to many. The repressions that have swept the country and traumatized society since the crushing of the white-red-white protests have also dissolved these niches. In a conversation with editor Katharina Raabe, Iryna Herasimovich offers insights into this scene.

Reading by fellows of the Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf 2021

Online

This year's fellows of the Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf Iryna Herasimovich, Regina Scheer and Nero Campanella present their works.

"... es steht alles sehr zweifelhaft auf dem Lande." Explorations in Wiepersdorf

Special exhibition by Dr. Iris Berndt

Achim von Arnim (1781–1831) reports in his letters about his work as a farmer and landowner of Wiepersdorf. The art historian Dr. Iris Berndt, a fellow at Schloss Wiepersdorf, is inspired by this to search for traces and builds a bridge to the present. She researches and inquires, photographs and paints. Objects from the collection of the Jüterbog Museum complement the exhibition. It deals with urgent questions of how we deal with the natural riches in nature and landscape.

Phillip Zach: Hunger for Sand

Phillip Zach, 2020 Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf fellow, is showing his film "Hunger for Sand" at Peles Empire in Berlin-Neukölln. The film was partly made during his stay in Wiepersdorf.

Open Studios

Antje Blumenstein, Susanne Gabler and Pablo Schlumberger give insight into their studio work.

Steven Kazuo Takasugi. JNH: Just-noticeably Human

In this event, American composer Steven Takasugi (*1960) will provide insights into his musical language, creative process and current works. Among other things, he will present his piano concerto project scheduled for 2023 in Donaueschingen. Afterwards, Takasugi will talk with current composition fellow Hakan Ulus about perception and his aesthetic approach to music.