Picture Cellar, in the foreground mural by Harald Metzkes and Manfred Böttcher © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018 / Photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
31 Aug 2022 – 17 Dec 2025
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Guided Tours

Picture Cellar

Murals by Manfred Böttcher, Harald Metzkes, Ernst Schroeder, Horst Zickelbein

Guided tours
Wed 5 pm
For a maximum of 14 visitors

In German

€ 7.50/5

Insight into the display depot of the Architectural Archives © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
5 Nov 2024 – 28 Aug 2025
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Guided Tour

display depot architecture models

Guided tours
Thur 5 pm

Special themed tours, group tours and tours in English can be arranged via baukunstarchiv@adk.de.

€ 7,50/5

Tickets for guided tours

In German

Aerial image of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, 1988/89 © BStU, MfS, HA I, Fo, Nr. 365, Bild 32
8 Jun – 7 Sep
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Presentation

Pariser Platz

Max Liebermann Hall

Pariser Platz 4

Tue – Sun 10 am – 7 pm

In German and English

Free admission

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin-Mitte © Ingeborg Fries, 2021
Wednesday, 13 Aug
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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

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin-Adlershof © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 14 Aug
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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

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin-Adlershof © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 21 Aug
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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

Akademie der Künste at Pariser Platz © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk
Saturday, 30 Aug
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Long Night

6 pm – 2 am

Long Night of Museums

Cooperation: Berliner Museen, Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH

In German

Tickets online
4 – 17 Aug: € 15/12
from 18 Aug: € 23/17
Free admission up to 12 years

Buy ticket (from 4 Aug)

Günter Rohrbach im Gespräch mit den Dramaturgen Gunther Witte und Peter Märthesheimer, 1976. Foto: © Günter Rohrbach
Wednesday, 3 Sep
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Book Premiere and Talk

8 pm

Buchhändlerkeller
Alt-Lietzow 12
10587 Berlin

Einsichten in die Wirklichkeit
Die Fernsehspielredaktion des WDR

With Günter Rohrbach, Martin Wiebel, Torsten Musial

In German

€ 9/5

Helene Weigel on her 64th birthday on 12 May 1964. photo: Vera Tenschert
Saturday, 6 Sep
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Lecture

4 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Haus
Bertolt-Brecht-Straße 30
15377 Buckow

“Showing what is right – without compromise” – Helene Weigel (1900–1971)

Registration: villa@brechtweigelhaus.de

Cooperation: Brecht-Weigel-Haus

In German

€ 12/10 (including guided tour)

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Sunday, 7 Sep
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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

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin-Adlershof © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Tuesday, 9 Sep
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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

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin-Mitte © Stefanie Thomas, 2025
Wednesday, 10 Sep
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Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

What remains – A Search for Literary Traces

Cemetery tour

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

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Staircase in the Akademie der Künste at Pariser Platz, Berlin © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk
Saturday, 13 Sep
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Architecture Tours

3 pm

Open Heritage Day

With Carolin Schönemann, Karin Lelonek

Guided tours in German at 3, 4 and 6 pm

Guided tour in English at 5 pm

Meeting point: foyer

Limited number of participants
Register by 10 September at lelonek@adk.de

Free admission

Gerhart Baum with his daughter and four security officers on a walk in the Cologne city forest in 1978 © J.H. Darchinger/Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 6/FJHD019014
Tuesday, 16 Sep
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Reading, Film, Talk

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Academy Discussion:
The house is on fire – Art, crisis and democracy

With Renate Liesmann-Baum, Durs Grünbein, Andres Veiel and Manos Tsangaris

With readings and film clips

Duration approx. 100 min. without break

In German

€ 7,50/5

© Michael Breyer
18 – 21 Sep
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Competitions, Discussion, Live-Acts

16th Berlin Audio Play Festival of the Independent Scene

10 am – 11 pm

Live stream: DLF Kultur, DAB+, Kanal / Channel „Dokumente und Debatten“

In German

One-day ticket € 12/8

Penelope im Gurkenglas, AI canvas text to image. Kerstin Gnielka, AdK
Tuesday, 23 Sep
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Book Premiere, Reading and Talk

5 pm

Penelope on an odyssee

„Café Antike“
5 pm, Clubraum

Recitations: Markus Ücker

Admission free, registration required: antike@adk.de

Book Premiere
7 pm, Plenarsaal

With Ulrike Draesner, Aris Fioretos, Jonas Grethlein, Karen Leeder

In German

€ 7,50/5

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin-Mitte © Ingeborg Fries, 2021
Wednesday, 24 Sep
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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

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin-Adlershof © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 25 Sep
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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

Plattenbau studio
Thursday, 25 Sep
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Open Studios

6 pm – 10 pm

Hanseatenweg

Ateliers

JUNGE AKADEMIE Open Studios

With the fellows Claudia Durastanti, Éléonore de Duve, Sinan Samanli, Marusya Syroechkovskaya, Saikal Zhunushova

In English

Free admission

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin-Adlershof © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Tuesday, 30 Sep
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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

Michael Krüger © photo Meinen/Suhrkamp Verlag
Tuesday, 30 Sep
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Book Premiere, Reading and Talk

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Michael Krüger Unter Dichtern

With Michael Krüger

Welcome: Kerstin Hensel

Moderation: Paul Ingendaay

In German

€ 7,50/5

Vocations, Andrea Conangla © Andrea Vollmer
Tuesday, 30 Sep
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Performance, Music, Reading

7 pm

silent green Kulturquartier
Gerichtstraße 35
13347 Berlin

Vocations: open space

Entry 6:30 pm

Cooperation: Haus für Poesie, JUNGE AKADEMIE, Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, silent green Kulturquartier, Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf

In German and English

€ 9/7

© Ost-West-Kantine
1 – 4 Oct
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Collective dialogue

Pariser Platz

Black Box

Gesine Danckwart & Katrin Hentschel:
OST-WEST-KANTINE

1 & 2 Oct
6 – 10 pm

3 Oct
4 – 8 pm

4 Oct
6 – 11 pm

Artistic team: Masha Qrella, Fabian Kühlein, Johanna Meyer, Luise Wilhelm, Alexander Wolf 

Contributions by Anja Reich, Anke Stelling, Grit Seymour, Barbara Vinken, Viola Stephan, Annett Gröschner, Peggy Mädler, Wenke Seemann, Iwona Nowacka, Janek Turkowski, Schorsch Kamerun, and many more

A production by Chez Company

Funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds

Free admission

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Sunday, 5 Oct
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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

Musicians of the Trickster Orchestra, photo © Uta Neumann
Sunday, 5 Oct
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Concert

3 pm

Hanseatenweg

Clubroom

Trans-traditional encounter IV: Microtonality

Studio concert

In cooperation with Trickster Orchestra

Musicians: Bassem Alkhouri (kanun, voice), Matthew Bookert (tuba), Hindol Deb (sitar), Tilmann Dehnhard (flutes), Mohamad Fityan (nay, kawala), Grégoire Simon (viola), Azin Zahedi (santoor)

€ 8/6

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin-Mitte © Stefanie Thomas
Wednesday, 8 Oct
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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

The German-Swedish writer Peter Weiss (1916-1982) in front of his archive cabinet in his Stockholm flat, 1966. Photo: © Carlo Bavagnoli / Shutterstock.com
8 Oct 2025 – 18 Jan 2026
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Exhibition

Out of the Box – 75 Jahre Archiv der Akademie der Künste

Tue – Fri 2 – 7 pm
Sat, Sun, public holiday 11 am – 7 pm

€ 10/7
Free admission under 18 years, Tuesdays

An audio guide in German and English is available for the exhibition

Tickets

Opening
Tue 7 Oct, 7 pm
With Wolfram Weimer, Minister of State for Culture and the Media, Manos Tsangaris, Akademie President, Werner Heegewaldt, Director of the Archive of the Akademie der Künste

Free admission

Guided Tours
Tue 5 pm
Fri 5:30 pm
€ 5 plus exhibition ticke

Guided tour for blind, visually impaired and sighted guests
Tue 15 Oct, 5 pm

Guided tours by curators
Sun 12 pm

Workshop talks with Archives staff
Fridays 4 pm
Sundays 2 pm

Guided tours & further offers for school classes, special tours for groups: adk.de/kunstwelten

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin-Adlershof © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 9 Oct
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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

Foto: © Akademie der Künste
Thursday, 9 Oct
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Panel Discussion

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Transformation in retail – Cultural reuse

Welcome: HG Merz

Introduction: Stefan Rettich

Talk with Markus Bader (Raumlabor) et al.

Moderation: Jörn Walter

In German

€ 7,50/5

Cover illustration: Exhibition view ‘NOTHINGTOSEENESS Void / White / Silence’ (Akademie der Künste, 15 Sep – 12 Dec 2021), Hans Haacke, Condensation Cube, 1963-65, © Hans Haacke, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, Photo: Moritz Haase, Berlin
Tuesday, 14 Oct
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Book Presentation

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Das Unbekannte

Reading and talk with Thomas Lehr, Teresa Präauer and Kathrin Röggla

Welcome: Kerstin Hensel

Moderation: Nathalie Mälzer und Cécile Wajsbrot

Sound collage: Johannes Walter

In German

€ 7,50/5

Ingeborg Hunzinger, Block der Frauen (Block of Women, detail), 1995 © Estate of Ingeborg Hunzinger / Photo: Maria Eichhorn
Thursday, 16 Oct
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Presentation

11 am

Rosenstraße 2–4
10178 Berlin

Maria Eichhorn – Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2021

With Yolmaz Dziewior, Maria Eichhorn, Anke Hervol, Rolf Tegtmeier, Manos Tsangaris and guests

In German

Free admission

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin-Adlershof © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 16 Oct
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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

Terms and Conditions, Venice Architecture Biennale, 2025 © Roland Halbe
Thursday, 16 Oct
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Lectures and Talk

7 pm

Instituto Cervantes
Rosenstr. 18
10178 Berlin

Spanish-German architectural dialogues

With Thomas Auer (Transsolar, Stuttgart), Belinda Tato (Ecosistema Urbano, Madrid)

Moderation: Hilde Léon

In Spanish and German with simultaneous translation

Free admission
Registration required

Book your ticket

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin-Adlershof © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Tuesday, 21 Oct
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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

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin-Mitte © Stefanie Thomas
Wednesday, 22 Oct
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Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

Cemetery tour

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

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

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.

Subharchord. Photo © Kai Bienert

DIGITAL

Virtual Exhibition

Music, Makers & Machines

A digital exhibition on the history of the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Künste

Passport issued to Walter Benjamin, Berlin-Grunewald, 10 August 1928. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Walter Benjamin Archiv © Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur, photo: Nick Ash

DIGITAL

Archival Materials

Finds from the Archives

Selected text documents, special objects and works of art from the Archives of the Akademie der Künste representing all artistic disciplines.

Photo: Ellen Auerbach, Airwalk, 1946 (Renate Schottelius during the dance jump over rocks, La Cumbrecita). Modern Print, Argentina © Akademie der Künste, Berlin

DIGITAL

Online Presentation

digital.adk.de – images, sounds, art objects

A digital showcase affords an insight into the extensive holdings of the archives of the Akademie der Künste, which encompasses all art forms, collects and makes accessible the archives of outstanding artists in the German-speaking world.

DIGITAL

Digital Platform

junge-akademie.adk.de – The JUNGE AKADEMIE is online

The transdisciplinary and transcultural online magazine is a space to exhibit and experiment and a digital open studio, offering fellows the opportunity to network with each other and with Akademie members, to develop digital projects and to make the exchange of knowledge visible within the international network.

Der Zauberer John Heartfield [The Magician John Heartfield], 1943. Photo © Zoltan Wegner. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, John Heartfield Archive, No. 610

DIGITAL

Virtual Exhibition

Kosmos Heartfield

The online presentation "Kosmos Heartfield" complements the exhibition "John Heartfield – Photography plus Dynamite".

Graphics: Heimann + Schwantes

DIGITAL

Online Catalogue

Heartfield Online

The graphic oeuvre of the political artist John Heartfield can be explored in a new online catalogue.

Photo © Roman März

DIGITAL

Exhibition

360° Panoramic Tour

The interactive 360° panoramic tour leads through the exhibition “John Heartfield - Photography plus Dynamite” at Pariser Platz.