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

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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Diva in grey

With Helke Misselwitz and Hermann Beyer

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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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

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