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Eszter Salamon in Sommerspiele (2023), directed by Eszter Salamon, filmed at Berlin Olympic Park in 2021/22, courtesy Eszter Salamon, film still © Marie Zahir
Eszter Salamon in Sommerspiele (2023), directed by Eszter Salamon, filmed at Berlin Olympic Park in 2021/22, courtesy Eszter Salamon, film still © Marie Zahir. Graphic: Rimini Berlin

POWER SPACE VIOLENCE.
Adjunct programme

19 Apr — 16 Jul 2023

Films, talks, concerts, readings

On the occasion of the exhibition, the Akademie der Künste is dedicating a programme of films, talks, concerts and readings to the artistic examination of architectural and ideological remains of National Socialism. It deals with politics of exclusion and repressed memory, the relationship between fascist aesthetics and violence, places of inconsolability and artistic resistance.

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Using numerous models, plans, photographs and films, the exhibition shows planning and building during National Socialist rule from 1933 to 1945. It examines building and biographical continuities and ruptures up to the present. In doing so, it refers not only to the German Reich but also to the occupied territories in Eastern Europe and draws comparisons with other countries during this period.

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Sahej Rahal, Anhad, 2023 © Sahej Rahal
Sahej Rahal, Anhad, 2023 © Sahej Rahal

Broken Machines & Wild Imaginings
2 Jun — 9 Jul 2023

Exhibition

The exhibition “Broken Machines & Wild Imaginings” at the Akademie at Hanseatenweg is a presentation of ten new installations by JUNGE AKADEMIE fellows whose artistic research examines artificial intelligence. These speculative and experimental practices question and materialise how power and ethics are dealt with in the context of AI. Free admission.

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© Heimann + Schwantes
© Heimann + Schwantes

The new issue focuses on how the arts deal with the relationship between power, space and violence: What is a poem in the face of a revolution? What responsibility does Berlin, as the “capital city of exiles”, have towards the émigré artists living here, especially in light of Germany’s history? Can architecture be neutral, and how do spaces affect our behaviour?

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Anna Seghers Museum
Anna Seghers Museum. Photo © Andeas Süß

Bertolt Brecht's study, Helene Weigel's conservatory, Anna Seghers' “crow's nest” : Regular tours offer visitors a fascinating insight into the homes and studies of the writer Bertolt Brecht, actress and theatre director Helene Weigel and the writer Anna Seghers. The Brecht-Weigel Museum in Berlin-Mitte and the Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof are both part of the Akademie der Künste.

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Akademie der Künste at Pariser Platz. Photo © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk
Akademie der Künste at Pariser Platz. Photo © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk

The Akademie der Künste is an international community of artists that currently totals 418 members in its six Sections (Visual Arts, Architecture, Music, Literature, Performing Arts, Film and Media Arts). It is an exhibition and event location. A key component of the Akademie are its Archives, which collectively form one of the most important interdisciplinary archives on 20th century art.

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Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Tuesday, 6 Jun
Tour

2 pm

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

Anna Seghers in the circle of her friends

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.

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Photo: Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 7 Jun
Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

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.

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Hani Mojtahedy and Gascia Ouzounian, Sometimes you just have to give it your attention. © Photo: Jan St. Werner
Wednesday, 7 Jun
Music and Sound Performance

7 pm

History is Listening. Re-Sonifying Nuremberg

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.

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Yugen Blakrok at the 20th poesiefestival berlin 2019 © Mirko Lux
9 – 16 Jun
Festival

24th poesiefestival berlin: no one is an island

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.

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Karen Suender © Frieder Unselt
Saturday, 10 Jun
Award Ceremony

7:30 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenarsaal

Anna Seghers Prize 2023 Makenzy Orcel and Bonn Park

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.

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Photo: Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 14 Jun
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 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.

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Time to Listen: The Ecological Crisis in Sound and Music Festival: 18 Aug – 3 Sep 2023 more