Newsletter der Akademie der Künste

Judy Chicago, Birth Garment, 2: Flowering Shrub, 1984 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

in the dress of the body and joyful
Lyrical-musical prelude to International Women’s Day

Reading and Music

7 Mar, 7 pm, Pariser Platz

On the eve of International Women’s Day, which is celebrated on 8 March, five poets and a musician approach today’s womanhood and the female body from a variety of perspectives with poems, short prose pieces and musical sounds: from femininities, emancipation and feminism, motherhood, birth and miscarriage, to eroticism, love and desire. With Ulrike Draesner, Kerstin Hensel, Dagmara Kraus, Kerstin Preiwuß, Lara Rüter and Janni Struzyk. In German.  more

Greenspan's Briefcase, © VA Wölfl

Lichtbrechen. The photographer and choreographer VA Wölfl

Video Installation, Lectures, Talks, Photography, Performance

14 Mar, 5 pm, Pariser Platz

Few other artists stand for the productive connections between the visual arts, photography and German dance theatre like VA Wölfl. His work culminates in the choreographies of the NEUER TANZ ensemble (1987–2024). Key works from NEUER TANZ, film, performance as film, performance and photographic works are shown in video installations. Companions from art and science contextualise one of the most successful theatre projects of the last 35 years. In German.  more

Gilles Clément, © Yann Monel

Berlin Art Prize – Jubilee Endowment 1848/1948

Award Ceremony

18 Mar, 7 pm, Pariser Platz

Following the rotation of the six sections of the Akademie der Künste, this year the Berlin Art Prize – Grand Prize is to be awarded in the Architecture Section to the French landscape architect Gilles Clément. The other six art prizes go to Assaf Gruber (Visual Arts), Anton Kolomyeytsev (Architecture), Cassandra Miller (Music), Brigitta Falkner (Literature), Göksu Kunak (Performing Arts) and Pietro Marcello (Film and Media Arts). In German and English.  more

Mely Kiyak, © Svenja Trierscheid

Heinrich Mann Prize 2025 to Mely Kiyak

Award Ceremony

25 Mar, 7 pm, Pariser Platz

The Heinrich Mann Prize 2025 goes to the essayist Mely Kiyak. From the jury’s statement: “Mely Kiyak has become an important intellectual voice in German society. She is dedicated to self-knowledge, political diagnosis and social and institutional criticism. She interweaves precise analyses with radical introspection and an extremely rare sense of absurdly beautiful comedy expressed in political statements.” Award ceremony in German.  more