An evening on the artistic method of editing: Ulrich Gerhardt developed an audio piece from Rolf Dieter Brinkmann’s text collages Schnitte (cuts), which aims at acoustic correspondences. Katja Lange-Müller, Kathrin Röggla, Kathrin Schmidt, Katharina Schultens and Ulf Stolterfoht refer to this method in their readings. The short film programme demonstrates that a film can be created without editing and a narrative without narrative montage.

The museums of the Akademie der Künste are taking part in International Museum Day. The original preserved flats of Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel in the Brecht-Weigel Museum in Berlin-Mitte and Anna Seghers in the Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof can be visited with free guided tours. In German.

A look through binoculars into “the world of yesterday”: Sieglinde Geisel talks to editor Gernot Krämer about the novel Gabriele, a literary epochal painting of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Gabriele Radecke provides insights into the Akademie der Künste’s Paul Wiegler Archive, and Max von Pufendorf reads from the first published volume of the estate of the co-founder of the magazine SINN UND FORM. In German.

The resting places of famous women in art and culture are the focus of this guided tour of the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery). It tells of the writers Christa Wolf and Annemarie Bostroem, the artists Beatrice Zweig and Doris Kahane, the opera director Ruth Berghaus and many others. Thematic guided tour in German.

“Through books that will come into being here, I want to help prevent the mistakes of the past from ever being repeated”, Anna Seghers said after she arrived in Berlin in 1947. She had returned as a world-famous author from exile to Germany. For many authors in the young GDR, including Christa Wolf and Heiner Müller, her multi-layered work offered a source of literary inspiration. In German.

After the National Socialists seized power, the director of the Mannheim Kunsthalle Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub was immediately dismissed and was henceforth barred from entering his institute. The explosive family letters between him and his son Felix Hartlaub about the political upheaval in Germany were published in SINN UND FORM in 2017. Editor-in-chief Matthias Weichelt talks about them with the author Durs Grünbein, well-versed connoisseur of Felix Hartlaub's works. In German.