© Natalia Reich
15 May – 15 Jun
Festival

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

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin Adlershof, © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 15 May
Guided Tour

2 pm

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

How Netty Reiling became Anna Seghers

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Bjørn Melhus, FREEDOM & INDEPENDENCE, 2014, film still © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Saturday, 17 May
Audio Play, Readings, Films

8 pm

Cuts Finissage 5-5-5-5 cut
Raimund Kummer / Daniel Ott

With Katja Lange-Müller, Kathrin Röggla, Kathrin Schmidt, Katharina Schultens, Ulf Stolterfoht et al.

Films by Dieter Appelt, VALIE EXPORT, Christoph Giradet and Matthias Müller, Jochen Kuhn, Bjørn Melhus, Marcel Odenbach, Ulrike Rosenbach, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Klaus vom Bruch

€ 10/7

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Paul Wiegler (around 1943), Photographer unknown
Tuesday, 20 May
Archive Presentation, Reading, Talk

8 pm

Brecht-Haus
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

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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Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin Adlershof, © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 22 May
Guided Tour

2 pm

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

Anna Seghers and The Power of Words

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Magazines of SINN UND FORM © Gernot Krämer
Thursday, 22 May
Talk

6:30 pm

Museum Gunzenhauser
Falkeplatz
09112 Chemnitz

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

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

11:30 am

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

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

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

With Helke Misselwitz and Hermann Beyer

Works by Helga Paris, Elke Erb, Thomas Heise, Thomas Plenert et al.

In German

€ 7,50/5

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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’

Guided tours at 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm

Admission from 10 min before start

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

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

Cemetery tour

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

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Liina Magnea © Nathan Ceddia
Monday, 9 Jun
Performance, Music, Reading

6 pm

silent green Kulturquartier
Gerichtstraße 35
13347 Berlin

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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Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin Adlershof, © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 12 Jun
Guided Tour

2 pm

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

How Netty Reiling became Anna Seghers

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Atelier Christoph Meckel, © Gila Funke-Meckel
Friday, 13 Jun
Archive Presentation and Talk

7 pm

Brecht-Haus
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

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

Helene Weigel and Bertolt Brecht in Lidingö, 1939 © unknown
Saturday, 14 Jun
Summer Party

3 pm

Brecht-Haus
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

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

© gezett.de
Wednesday, 18 Jun
Reading and Talk

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Beech Garden

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 Museum, Berlin Adlershof, © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 19 Jun
Guided Tour

2 pm

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

Anna Seghers and The Power of Words

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin Adlershof, © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Tuesday, 24 Jun
Guided Tour

2 pm

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

Anna Seghers in the circle of her friends

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Reading Room Pariser Platz, © Katja Strauß
Friday, 27 Jun
Guided Tour

4 pm

Pariser Platz

Reading Room

The Library of the Arts

Library tour

Meeting point: Reading Room 1st Floor

In German

Free admission


Please find below the Akademie der Künste's digital offers.

Silhouette by Arnold de Florence: Portrait of Heinrich Mann, c. 1910 © Akademie der Künste, Heinrich Mann Collection

DIGITAL

Virtual Exhibition

Heinrich Mann DIGITAL: Life, Work, Legacy – A Transnational Reconstruction

Heinrich Mann’s estate is scattered throughout archives worldwide. Starting from the most important places of activity in his life, the virtual exhibition by the Akademie der Künste Archives tells the story of the estate and presents the “Heinrich Mann DIGITAL” international cooperation project. In German.