Anna Seghers, who often appeared rather shy and cautious, found support among her friends, whom she trusted unreservedly, with whom she exchanged ideas and laughed unselfconsciously. The writer remained close to the actresses Steffie Spira and Helene Weigel, the author Berta Waterstradt and the politician Lore Wolf until the end of her life. In German.

The Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof is one of the most famous cemeteries in Berlin – not least because Brecht's last resting place is here. But many of his comrades-in-arms are also laid to rest here; many whom he shaped, promoted and inspired or who supported him. If one were to draw threads between the graves, a densely interwoven web would emerge. The tour aims to trace these lines, references and influences. In German.

What can the perception of sound contribute to a reflection on history? How can perspectives on history be expanded and shifted with the help of sound? Louis Chude-Sokei, scholar, author and sound culture expert, has, in cooperation with international musicians and theorists, turned the former Nuremberg Nazi Party Rally Grounds into the matter of an acoustic experiment. He invited the sound artist Yara Mekawei and others to explore the echo of the historically tainted site and to reflect on it with artistic means. In English.

More than 150 artists from over 30 countries will present contemporary poetry. The programme offers evenings on Writing Violence, Writing Identities, Writing Motherhood and Spoken Word Poetry, poetry talks with artists from the Junge Akademie, among others, numerous readings in the Buchengarten, concerts, a poetry market and participatory formats for all age groups. In English and German.

The Anna Seghers Prize 2023 will be awarded to the Haitian author Makenzy Orcel and the German playwright Bonn Park. The prize, endowed with €12,500 per recipient, goes to one author from the German-speaking world and one from Latin America, the cultural region of Anna Seghers’ exile. Like Anna Seghers, the honourees should have the desire to contribute to a fairer, more humane society through the means of art. In German.

The resting places of famous women in art and culture are the focus of this guided tour of the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof 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. In German.