Picture Cellar

Murals by Manfred Böttcher, Harald Metzkes, Ernst Schroeder, Horst Zickelbein

Guided tours
Wed 5 pm
For a maximum of 14 visitors

In German

€ 7.50/5

display depot architecture models

Guided tours
Thur 5 pm

Special themed tours and group tours can be arranged via baukunstarchiv@adk.de.

In German

€ 7,50/5

Tickets for guided tours

Poesiefestival Berlin 2025

Events at the Akademie der Künste

Opening: Berlin Poetry Lecture
Tue 3 Jun 6 pm

Writing Sports
Sat 14 Jun from 2 pm

Poetry talks, readings, book market, Weltklang
Sun 15 Jun from 11 am

In cooperation with the Haus für Poesie

In German and English

Paul Wiegler: Gabriele – A novel from the estate

With Gernot Krämer, Gabriele Radecke

Welcome: Christian Hippe and Sabine Wolf
Reading: Max von Pufendorf
Moderation: Sieglinde Geisel

In cooperation with the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus

In German

€ 6/4

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Famous women

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Anna Seghers and The Power of Words

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

„Erfreut sich die Ausstellung weiterer Unbeliebtheit?“
Moderne Kunst in schwierigen Zeiten

With Durs Grünbein and Matthias Weichelt

In German

€ 10

Alfred Döblin Prize 2025 Readings in competition

With Andrea Rea Arežina, Sophia Merwald, Martin Piekar, Lina Schwenk, Janna Steenfatts and Karosh Taha

Jury: Ekkehard Knörer, Lara Sielmann, Shirin Sojitrawalla

Experts: Leander Berger, Anne Sauer, Jeffrey Trehudic, Isabel Wanger, Laura Weber

In German

€ 9/5

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KULA Compagnie: Dibbuk – between (two) worlds

Based on the play by Salomon An-Ski

Direction: Robert Schuster
Stage design: Sascha Gross
Dramaturgy: Yotam Gotal
Dramaturgical support: Zainab Qadiri
Music: Max Bauer

Coproduction: dasvinzenz Theater, KULA Compagnie

In Dari, Algerian-Arabic, German, French, Hebrew, Russian and Yiddish with German and English surtitles

€ 15/9

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Alfred Döblin Prize 2025

With the Award winner

Finalists: Andrea Rea Arežina, Sophia Merwald, Martin Piekar, Lina Schwenk, Janna Steenfatts and Karosh Taha

Jury: Ekkehard Knörer, Lara Sielmann, Shirin Sojitrawalla

Lecture: Jan Kuhlbrodt

In German

Free admission

Diva in grey

With Helke Misselwitz, Hermann Beyer and Jeanette Spassova

Photographs by Helga Paris and Thomas Plenert

Texts by Elke Erb

Stau – Jetzt geht’s los, Germany 1992, 85 min
Documentary film by Thomas Heise

In German

€ 7,50/5

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The war and the position of literature

With Marcel Beyer, Thomas Ehrsam, Kateryna Mishchenko, Henrik Mrochen, Zalina Sanchez

Moderation: Elisa Primavera-Lévy

Welcome: Gustav Seibt

In German

€ 7,50/5

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Welcome in – A musical path in the Hansaviertel district

With Sofia Borges (percussion), Axel Dörner (trumpet), Malin Grass (violin), Steve Heather (percussion), Benjamin Kautter (violoncello), Carina Khorkhordina (trumpet), Lore Amenabar Larrañaga (accordeon), Liudas Mockūnas (saxophone), Sofia Salvo (saxophone), Nurit Stark (violin), Dragana Tomić (Serbian singing), Kathryn Williams (flute)

Works by Peter Ablinger, Carola Bauckholt, Birke Bertelsmeier, Annesley Black, Nikolaus Brass, Raven Chacon, Huihui Cheng, Sidney Corbett, Dominic Flynn, Sofia Gubaidulina, Liudas Mockūnas, Kirsten Reese, Martin Riches, Daniel Rothman, Iris ter Schiphorst, Annette Schmucki, Sol-i So, Kristine Tjøgersen, Caspar Johannes Walter, Kathryn Williams, Yiran Zhao

Artistic direction: Christopher Fox, Julia Gerlach

Curatorial advisory board: Annesley Black, Nikolaus Brass, Sidney Corbett, Iris ter Schiphorst, Annette Schmucki, Caspar Johannes Walter

Free admission

Sundays at Seghers’

Guided tours at 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm

Admission from 10 min before start

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Pariser Platz 4

Tue – Sun 10 am – 7 pm

In German and English

Free admission

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Aspects of Presence
Art in times of militarisation

Thur 5 Jun from 5:30 pm

Fri 6 Jun from 3 pm

With Nabil Ahmed, Asia Bazdyrieva, Teresa Koloma Beck, Maithu Bùi, Anna Engelhardt, Philipp Goll, Clara Herrmann, Svitlana Matviyenko, Ali Akbar Mehta, Eglė Elena Murauskaitė, Magda Szpecht, Tomas Venclova, Tobias Zielony et al.

Film programme featuring works by Anna Engelhardt, Bjørn Melhus, Oleksiy Radynski, and others

Performance by Lina Lapelytė

In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut in Litauen and the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius

In English

Day ticket: € 7,50/5

Vocations – open space Songs and vocal practices based on poetry

With Julia Rebekka Adler, Andrea Conangla, Tehila Nini Goldstein, Ariane von Graffenried, Rebeka Kupihár, Anna Julian Mendlik, María Negroni, Jascha Nemtsov, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Liina Magnea, Valentin Schuster

Readings and performances in original language with English translation

Cooperation: Haus für Poesie, JUNGE AKADEMIE, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, silent green Kulturquartier and Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf

Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds

€ 9/7

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Akademie Talk: Triggering

With Karin Sander, Simon Steen-Andersen, Johanna M. Keller, Anh-Linh Ngo, Manos Tsangaris et al.

In German

€ 7,50/5

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How Netty Reiling became Anna Seghers

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

In the Amber – On the estate library of Christoph Meckel

With Gila Funke-Meckel, Marit Heuß, Adela Sophia Sabban, Susanne Thier

In cooperation with the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus

In German

Free admission
Registration at bibliothek@adk.de

Summer Party at Brecht House

Music, Guided tours, Readings, Open Archive and more

With Andreas Dresen, Jürgen Kuttner, Helke Misselwitz, students from the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch et al.

In cooperation with the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus

In German

Free admission

Famous women

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Long night of reading by the Alfred Döblin fellows

With Ines Berwing, Fabienne Dür, Karl Wolfgang Flender, Friedrich Klingenhage, Nora Deetje Leggemann, Anna Melikova, Najem Wali and Julia Willmann

Moderation: Nathalie Mälzer

In German

Free admission

Anna Seghers and The Power of Words

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

European Alliance of Academies
Café Climate Paris

With Matteo Barsuglia, Liesbeth Bik, Kirsten Reese, Iris ter Schiphorst, Lucie Taïeb, Cécile Wajsbrot et al.

In German, French and English

In cooperation with the Maison Heinrich Heine, Paris

Free admission

Spanish-German architectural dialogues

With Marta Peris (PERIS+TORAL ARQUITECTES), Regine Leibinger (Barkow Leibinger)

Moderation: Hilde Léon

In Spanish and German with simultaneous translation

Free admission
Registration required

Reserve ticket

Anna Seghers in the circle of her friends

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

KONTAKTE 2025
Festival for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art

Thur 26 Jun, Sat 28 Jun, Sun 29 Jun
Hanseatenweg

Fri 27 Jun
Pariser Platz

With Burkhard Beins, Tony Buck, Teresa Carrasco, Andrei Cucu, Yorgos Dimitriadis, Tony Elieh, Ensemble Ascolta, Heather Frasch, Susanne Fröhlich, Owen Gardner, Emilio Gordoa, GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, Frank Gratowski, Ketevan Hahn, Hainbach, Hanna Hartman, Marisol Jimenez, Mazen Kerbaj, Matthias Koole, Annette Krebs, Magda Mayas, Julia Mihály, Hugo Morales, Niko de Paula Lefort, Maria Pelekanou, Arezou Rezaei, Thomas Schulz, Gerriet K. Sharma, Ming Tsao, Ute Wassermann, Christian Winther Christensen, Raed Yassin, Viola Yip, JD Zazie

In collaboration with DEGEM, FU Berlin, HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin, UdK Berlin, TU Berlin, HfM Saar, SWR Experimentalstudio, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf & Ensemble Ascolta

Funded by Musikfonds e.V.

With kind support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

Ticket prices:
Festival: € 70/50
Concerts: € 10–15/7–9
Installations: Free admission

Tickets for concerts

The Library of the Arts

Library tour

Meeting point: Reading Room 1st Floor

In German

Free admission

Heartfield yesterday?
Heartfield today!

With Katja Erfurth, Michael Krejsa, Helmut Oehring, Manos Tsangaris, Hermann Zwerschke

In German

Free admission