The writer Anna Seghers lived in Berlin Adlershof for almost three decades. Her former flat in an apartment building has been open to the public as a museum since 1985. Most of her apartment remains unchanged. The extensive library can be viewed in the living room and study. In 2025, the Anna Seghers Museum will continue to open every first Sunday of the month from 11 am to 4 pm and offer guided tours in German.

The Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery) 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. 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.

Taking the current deployment of a German brigade to Lithuania as a starting point, the symposium addresses contemporary militarisation from an artistic perspective. Focusing on the situation in Central and Eastern Europe, international artists and scholars explore the intersections of military, ecological and technological developments – as well as related artistic practices – through lectures, panel discussions and artistic contributions. An event in the context of “Widerstand der Ästhetik” (Resistance of Aesthetics). In English.

“Vocations – open space” will once again open its doors in 2025 on four evenings, providing a space for radically open and transdisciplinary experiments at the intersection of music, sound, and poetry. Vocations invites poets, musicians, and audiences alike to engage in creative exchange – whether on stage, over a drink between performances, or as a way to round off the evening. Readings and performances in original language with English translation.

Everything that exists triggers something that follows. / Triggering means setting something in motion, get things moving. / What do the arts trigger? Do artists have control over what their work triggers – / in individual cases and as a result, in individuals and in a social context? / We ask them specifically about what they want to trigger – / and initiate various artistic interventions. With Cornelia Jentzsch, Karin Sander, Simon Steen-Andersen, Johanna M. Keller, Anh-Linh Ngo and Manos Tsangaris. In German.