Newsletter der Akademie der Künste

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15. Berliner Hörspielfestival (Berlin Audio Play Festival)

Festival

13 Sep – 15 Sep, Hanseatenweg

The Berliner Hörspielfestival (Berlin Audio Play Festival) celebrates the 100th anniversary of audio plays in Germany with two new productions of Zauberei auf dem Sender by radio pioneer Hans Flesch from 1924. In addition to an audio installation, a live performance, an audio play concert, workshops and discussions, the competitions for the coveted “burning mics” take centre stage. Because one hundred years are not enough! In German.  more

Komische Oper Berlin V 2022 © Candida Höfer / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

Candida Höfer
Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2024

Exhibition

14 Sep – 24 Nov, Pariser Platz

Candida Höfer’s oeuvre has developed over five decades and is part of today’s photographic avant-garde. Her large-format works depict public and semi-public spaces like historical libraries, archives, museums and opera houses – places where people meet and communicate, places of memory and knowledge. Höfer is interested in how people are steered, directed or held back by architecture and in how spaces accommodate the visitors they receive.  more

Dani Karavan, Basic Law 49, glass steles and Corten steel strips, 1998/2003, at the Jakob-Kaiser-Haus in Berlin, with the German Bundestag in the background. Photo: © Denise Baumeister

The Freedom of Art: A Fundamental Right and Promise

Academy Discussion

27 Sep, 7 pm, Pariser Platz

In a series of events in autumn 2024, the Akademie der Künste will explore the philosophical and legal framework of artistic freedom. For the opening event on 27 September, Akademie President Manos Tsangaris and Akademie Vice-President Anh-Linh Ngo have invited Amelie Deuflhard (Artistic Director, Kampnagel, Hamburg) and other personalities from the fields of art and politics to discuss these questions.  more