Graphic: Rimini Berlin
Graphic: Rimini Berlin

We invite you to an enjoyable and surprising path of exploration through the Akademie der Künste – filled with unheard music and sound. Small, intimate concert situations in meeting rooms, playful kinetic sound machines, improvisations, lots of violins, musicians on the forecourt, picnics in the Beech Garden and more. A warm welcome to everyone to share the place and the music with us on a long day in May.

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Oleksiy Radynski, WHERE RUSSIA ENDS, Ukraine, 2023, Video still © Oleksiy Radynski
Oleksiy Radynski, WHERE RUSSIA ENDS, Ukraine, 2023, Video still © Oleksiy Radynski

Based on Germany's current deployment of a military brigade in Lithuania, the symposium explores the ongoing militarisation from an artistic perspective. With a focus on the situation in Central Eastern Europe, international artists and scientists will examine the intersections of military, ecological and technological developments and the associated artistic practices in lectures, panel discussions and artistic contributions. In English.

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Insight into the display depot of the Architectural Archives © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Insight into the display depot of the Architectural Archives © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß

The Schaudepot (display depot) provides an exclusive insight into the Akademie der Künste’s outstanding collection of architectural models. The highlights of the collection can be seen in a permanent exhibition with a selection of the more than 750 models from the Architectural Archives by over 50 artists. Temporary exhibitions explore current topics relating to architecture and urban planning. Guided tours in German.

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Paintings on cellar walls
Picture Cellar, in the foreground mural by Harald Metzkes and Manfred Böttcher © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018, photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß

Picture Cellar
Wednesdays, 5 pm

Guided Tour

In the middle of the political “Tauwetter-Periode” (thaw period), the master students of the German Akademie der Künste celebrate carnival in the coal cellar in 1957 and 1958. The murals by Manfred Böttcher, Harald Metzkes, Ernst Schroeder and Horst Zickelbein can be visited as a unique testimony to unofficial art in the GDR and as part of the eventful history of the institution and the building. Guided tours in German.

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Anna Seghers Museum
Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof © photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß

Bertolt Brecht's study, Helene Weigel's conservatory, Anna Seghers' “crow's nest” : Regular tours offer visitors a chance to view the homes and studies of the writer Bertolt Brecht, actress and theatre director Helene Weigel and the writer Anna Seghers, largely kept in their original condition. The tours provide an insight into how these three major international figures in the arts world of the 20th century lived and worked. In German.

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Akademie der Künste at Pariser Platz. Photo © Jeanette Gonsior
Akademie der Künste at Pariser Platz © photo: Jeanette Gonsior

The Akademie der Künste is an international community of artists that currently totals 422 members in its six Sections Visual Arts, Architecture, Music, Literature, Performing Arts, Film and Media Arts. It is an exhibition and event location. Its Archives collectively form one of the most important interdisciplinary archives on 20th century art. Founded in 1696, the Akademie der Künste is one of the oldest cultural institutes in Europe.

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Günter Grass, Mein Lehrer Alfred Döblin, © Günter and Ute Grass Foundation / Steidl Verlag, 2009
Saturday, 24 May
Readings

10 am – 5 pm

Literarisches Colloquium
Am Sandwerder 5
14109 Berlin

Alfred Döblin Prize 2025 Readings in competition

The following have been nominated for the public reading of the Alfred Döblin Prize, donated by Günter Grass: Andrea Rea Arežina, Sophia Merwald, Martin Piekar, Lina Schwenk, Janna Steenfatts and Karosh Taha. The finalists will present their texts to the audience and the experts. In the late afternoon, the jury will announce the recipient of the prize, which will be awarded the following day at the Akademie der Künste. In German.

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KULA Compagnie, Dibbuk – between (two) worlds © kulacompagnie.eu / photo: Felix Grünschloss
Saturday, 24 May
Theatre Guest Performance

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

KULA Compagnie: Dibbuk – between (two) worlds

In its fourth appearance at the Akademie the trans-national KULA Compagnie presents her version of Der Dibbuk, setting the 1920 Yiddish classic into a contemporary, interreligious context. Despite the war’s breaking out during rehearsals, the mutual goal remained: to continue talking and performing with one another, to seek bringing about communication. In Dari, Algerian-Arabic, German, French, Hebrew, Russian and Yiddish with German and English surtitles.

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Günter Grass, Mein Lehrer Alfred Döblin, © Günter and Ute Grass Foundation / Steidl Verlag, 2009
Sunday, 25 May
Award Ceremony

11:30 am

Pariser Platz

Plenarsaal

Alfred Döblin Prize 2025

The Alfred Döblin Prize, donated by Günter Grass, is awarded for a longer prose manuscript in progress. The award winner will be announced the day before in a public reading at the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, where the finalists will present their texts to the audience and experts. In addition to a reading from the winning manuscript and a discussion with the award winner, Jan Kuhlbrodt, winner in 2023, will give a speech on Döblin. In German.

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Große Klausstraße, from the series Häuser und Gesichter, Halle 1983–1985, © Nachlass / estate Helga Paris (www.helga-paris.de)
Tuesday, 27 May
Photographs, Texts, Film

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

Diva in grey

Inspired by Helga Paris’ illustrated book Diva in Grau, published in 1991, the evening is dedicated to different perspectives on the city of Halle that were created between 1982 and 1992. Poet Elke Erb, photographer Helga Paris, cameraman Thomas Plenert and director Thomas Heise show what is, and reveal the traces left in the houses and faces of Halle. With Helke Misselwitz, Hermann Beyer and Jeanette Spassova. In German.

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Brandenburger Tor, free for personal and commercial use
Wednesday, 28 May
Reading and Talk

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenarsaal

The war and the position of literature

“We are at the limit of where words are not enough and have to prove who we really are”, wrote the author Hans Erich Nossack in October 1946 to his colleague Ilse Molzahn, who had lost both her sons in the war. Eighty years later, their correspondence, published for the first time in SINN UND FORM, still provides food for thought on how to write about war and loss, responsibility and guilt. In German.

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Walter-Rossow-Garden, Akademie der Künste at Hanseatenweg © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk
Saturday, 31 May
Festival

4:30 pm – 10 pm

Welcome in – A musical path

We invite you to an enjoyable and surprising path of exploration through the interior and exterior spaces of the Akademie der Künste – filled with unheard music and sound. Small, intimate concert situations in meeting rooms, silence in the concert hall, playful kinetic sound machines, improvisations, musicians on the forecourt to the academy, picnics in the Beech Garden and more. A warm welcome to everyone to share the place and the music on a long day in May.

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Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Sunday, 1 Jun
Guided Tour

11 am – 4 pm

Anna Seghers Museum
Anna-Seghers-Str. 81
12489 Berlin

Sundays at Seghers’

The writer Anna Seghers lived in Berlin Adlershof for almost three decades. Her former flat in an apartment building has been open to the public as a museum since 1985. Most of her apartment remains unchanged. The extensive library can be viewed in the living room and study. In 2025, the Anna Seghers Museum will continue to open every first Sunday of the month from 11 am to 4 pm and offer guided tours in German.

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Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, © Ingeborg Fries, 2021
Wednesday, 4 Jun
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

The Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery) is one of the most famous cemeteries in Berlin – not least because Brecht's last resting place is here. But many of his comrades-in-arms are also laid to rest here. If one were to draw threads between the graves, a densely interwoven web would emerge. The tour aims to trace these lines, references and influences. In German.

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Upcoming

494h 29m 53s
The collection of the n.b.k. Video-Forum, sorted by running time by Karin Sander

Exhibition: 4 Jul – 2 Aug 2025
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Every Artist Must Take Sides – Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson
Exhibition: 14 Nov 2025 – 25 Jan 2026, Festival: 23 – 25 Jan 2026
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