Helene Weigel and Bertolt Brecht in Lidingö, 1939 © unknown
Helene Weigel and Bertolt Brecht in Lidingö, 1939 © unknown

Summer Party at Brecht House
14.6.

Summer Party

The Brecht House opens its doors to celebrate the summer. This year we invite you to a special programme with music on the courtyard stage, lyrical interludes, guided tours and an archive exhibition. We will introduce you to a new side of the great poet: as a writer of letters. With Matthias Brenner, Simon Grote, Jürgen Kuttner, Helke Misselwitz, Masha Qrella, Kristin Schulz, students from the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch et al.

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© Mattis Bettels
© Mattis Bettels

From 26 to 29 June, the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Künste will once again invite you to KONTAKTE. The festival combines current socio-political developments with versatile contemporary sound art in a four-day dialogue. The Akademie buildings at Hanseatenweg and Pariser Platz will be permeated by experimental sound structures and transformed into places of intensive listening.

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Insight into the display depot of the Architectural Archives © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Insight into the display depot of the Architectural Archives © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß

The Schaudepot (display depot) provides an exclusive insight into the Akademie der Künste’s outstanding collection of architectural models. The highlights of the collection can be seen in a permanent exhibition with a selection of the more than 750 models from the Architectural Archives by over 50 artists. Temporary exhibitions explore current topics relating to architecture and urban planning. Guided tours in German.

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Paintings on cellar walls
Picture Cellar, in the foreground mural by Harald Metzkes and Manfred Böttcher © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018, photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß

Picture Cellar
Wednesdays, 5 pm

Guided Tour

In the middle of the political “Tauwetter-Periode” (thaw period), the master students of the German Akademie der Künste celebrate carnival in the coal cellar in 1957 and 1958. The murals by Manfred Böttcher, Harald Metzkes, Ernst Schroeder and Horst Zickelbein can be visited as a unique testimony to unofficial art in the GDR and as part of the eventful history of the institution and the building. Guided tours in German.

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Anna Seghers Museum
Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof © photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß

Bertolt Brecht's study, Helene Weigel's conservatory, Anna Seghers' “crow's nest” : Regular tours offer visitors a chance to view the homes and studies of the writer Bertolt Brecht, actress and theatre director Helene Weigel and the writer Anna Seghers, largely kept in their original condition. The tours provide an insight into how these three major international figures in the arts world of the 20th century lived and worked. In German.

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Akademie der Künste at Pariser Platz. Photo © Jeanette Gonsior
Akademie der Künste at Pariser Platz © photo: Jeanette Gonsior

The Akademie der Künste is an international community of artists that currently totals 420 members in its six Sections Visual Arts, Architecture, Music, Literature, Performing Arts, Film and Media Arts. It is an exhibition and event location. Its Archives collectively form one of the most important interdisciplinary archives on 20th century art. Founded in 1696, the Akademie der Künste is one of the oldest cultural institutes in Europe.

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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

The theme of Anna Seghers’ work is the self-liberation of her literary characters. To what extent does this liberation have biographical features? An approach to the transformation from sheltered daughter to headstrong writer. Guided tour in the writer’s home and study as it was, when she lived there from 1955 until her death in 1983. In German.

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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

The fascinating nature of Meckel's estate library is explored in three contributions: Gila Funke-Meckel talks about “Biographical notes in the weathered inventory”, Adela Sophia Sabban reconstructs “Christoph Meckel's network of living and dead poets” and Marit Heuß presents and discusses the “Dedications Sarah Kirsch – Christoph Meckel”. An event from the series “Schaufenster Archiv”, in cooperation with the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus. In German.

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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

A special programme with music, lyrical interludes and guided tours, readings and an archive exhibition presents Brecht, Weigel and their circle from a lesser-known angle: as letter writers who formed the centre of a world-wide network of colleagues and comrades. The letters of the many artists who found their last resting place in the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery will be read aloud during the “Geisterstunde” (“witching hour”). In German.

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Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, © Stefanie Thomas, 2024
Wednesday, 18 Jun
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

The resting places of famous women in art and culture are the focus of this guided tour of the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery). It tells of the writers Christa Wolf and Annemarie Bostroem, the artists Beatrice Zweig and Doris Kahane, the opera director Ruth Berghaus and many others. Thematic guided tour in German.

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© gezett.de
Wednesday, 18 Jun
Reading and Talk

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Buchengarten

Long night of reading by the Alfred Döblin fellows

During a long night of readings in the Beech Garden, the eight Alfred Döblin fellows of the 2025 class will talk about their current literary projects and read excerpts from their manuscripts in progress. With Ines Berwing, Fabienne Dür, Karl Wolfgang Flender, Friedrich Klingenhage, Nora Deetje Leggemann, Anna Melikova, Najem Wali and Julia Willmann. In German.

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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

“Through books that will come into being here, I want to help prevent the mistakes of the past from ever being repeated”, Anna Seghers said after she arrived in Berlin in 1947. She had returned as a world-famous author from exile to Germany. For many authors in the young GDR, including Christa Wolf and Heiner Müller, her multi-layered work offered a source of literary inspiration. In German.

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Barkow Leibinger, TRUMPF Training centre, Ditzingen, © Simon Menges & Nino Tugushi, Berlin
Thursday, 19 Jun
Lectures and Talk

7 pm

Instituto Cervantes
Rosenstr. 18
10178 Berlin

Spanish-German architectural dialogues

In the event series “Intersections. Architecture of the 21st Century” in cooperation with the Instituto Cervantes, Spanish and German architects engage in dialogues. Marta Peris represents the Barcelona office PERIS+TORAL ARQUITECTES, Regine Leibinger (Barkow Leibinger) from Berlin is a member of the Akademie der Künste. Moderation: Hilde Léon. A contribution to the “Woman in Architecture” festival. In Spanish and German with simultaneous translation.

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Upcoming

Every Artist Must Take Sides – Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson
Exhibition: 14 Nov 2025 – 25 Jan 2026, Festival: 23 – 25 Jan 2026
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