Welcome in – A musical path

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

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

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

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

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

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

With Durs Grünbein and Matthias Weichelt

In German

€ 10

Anna Seghers and The Power of Words

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Famous women

Cemetery tour

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

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

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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International Museum Day

Guided tours

Brecht-Weigel Museum
11 am – 6 pm every hour
Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

Anna Seghers Museum
11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm
Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

Free admission

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

How Netty Reiling became Anna Seghers

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Poesiefestival Berlin 2025

Events at the Akademie der Künste

Opening: Berlin Poetry Lecture
Tue 3 Jun 7:30 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

“A little volcano”: Helene Weigel on her 125th birthday

With Johanna Schall, Matthias Braun, Volker Braun, Mina Guschke, Josefa Heinsius, Sabine Kebir, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Claudia Roth, Alexander Stillmark, Çiğdem Teke, Vera Tenschert, Holger Teschke, Maria Wischnewski et al.

In cooperation with the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus

In German

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

A Suitcase for the Archives: German-speaking exile theatre in the Soviet Union

With Andrea Clos and Anett Schubotz

In cooperation with the Stiftung Exilmuseum

In German

Free admission

Anna Seghers in the circle of her friends

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

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