Event Calendar

For many authors in the young GDR, including Christa Wolf and Heiner Müller, Anna Seghers’ multi-layered work offered a source of literary inspiration.

The Schaudepot (display depot) provides an exclusive insight into the Akademie der Künste’s outstanding collection of architectural models.

Writer Cécile Wajsbrot talks to filmmaker Hito Steyerl about her recently published book Offener Himmel (Open Sky). Steyerl's video work In Free Fall inspired Wajsbrot's novel about a plane crash.

The symposium takes as its starting point the exchange project “Songs of Serpents – Ecopoetic Zones”, which promotes transdisciplinary research at the intersection of art, ecology and ecofeminism.

Anna Seghers found support among her friends, including Steffie Spira and Helene Weigel, with whom she remained close until the end of her life.

For Michael Hamburger, every poem had to be written as if it were the last. This existential view of poetry also shapes his correspondence with Hilde Domin.

The resting places of famous women in art and culture are the focus of this guided tour of the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery).

The murals from 1957 and 1958 can be viewed as part of the eventful history of the institution and building.

The Schaudepot (display depot) provides an exclusive insight into the Akademie der Künste’s outstanding collection of architectural models.