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© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018, Foto: Andreas FranzXaver Süß
In the middle of the political “Tauwetter-Periode” (thaw period), the master students of the German Akademie der Künste celebrate carnival in the coal cellar in 1957 and 1958. The works by the master students Manfred Böttcher, Harald Metzkes, Ernst Schroeder,... moreabout: Picture Cellar
© (c) Centrum Judaicum, M. Billeb
After the atrocities of the Holocaust, only a few thousand Jews lived in the eastern sector of Berlin. Over the next few years, many emigrated abroad or to the West. However, some returned from exile after the war for political and ideological reasons... moreabout: Hammer, compass, Star of David? Jews in the GDR.
© SPSG / Wolfgang Pfauder
On November 1, 1539, Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg received communion in both forms at St. Nikolai in Spandau, and Brandenburg became Protestant. As Elector Prince, Joachim had met the reformer Martin Luther in Wittenberg. His mother was an early... moreabout: Renaissance and Reformation
© Maxim Gorki Theater - 2024
A man receives a fatal diagnosis. He will die before his daughter is born. So he tries to record a tape for her and asks himself if it is even possible to preserve something beyond one’s own death. What will remain of him? Disappointments? Sins? Wounds?... moreabout: Alles wird schön sein.
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst
The collections of the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst (Asian Art Museum) have a number of Korean hanging scrolls, screens, oil paintings and textile paintings that are to be presented to the public for... moreabout: The Scent of Ink
© Tammo Walter
Many dance artists from the non-Western world achieved great success on the European theatre stages of the early 20th century, but were soon forgotten because they did not fit into the traditional Western canon. Amanda Piña’s most recent dance work hosts... moreabout: EXOTICA – On the Brown history of European dance
© Benjamin Zibner
© Promo
In der Musik, im Schlager, Chanson, Pop- und Rock geht es um Menschen. Um Gefühle und Erinnerungen, die sich mit Liedern verbinden: An die Fahrt in den Urlaub, an die erste Liebe oder Trennung, an den ersten Rausch, die letzte Zigarette. Mit Musik haben... moreabout: Vom Urknall bis zum Mauerfall
© Mirko Stockmann
Louder, harder, faster - in the 1980s, heavy metal fascinated young people all over the world. moreabout: Heavy Metal in the GDR
© Asenla Jamir
With the exhibition “Naga Land. Voices from Northeast India”, the Humboldt Forum draws attention to the Indian state of Nagaland. Here, and in the neighbouring areas, live the Nagas – an umbrella term for more than 30 different ethnic groups that, despite... moreabout: Naganess. Perceptions of the self and the other - Themed tour in German
© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Foto: Alexander Schippel
Atmospherically illuminated facades, international specialities and high-quality arts and crafts: from 1 December, visitors can end their visit to Schloßplatz in Berlin-Mitte with roasted almonds, tree carvings, Feuerzangenbowle and gift items for the... moreabout: Winter market Schloßplatz Berlin Mitte
© Museum Pankow / Foto: Eric Müller
The social hardship suffered by large sections of the population as a result of the First World War and inflation hit children and young people particularly hard. Many remain without education or employment. With the entry into force of the "Law on the... moreabout: New beginnings and reforms
© Stiftung Berliner Mauer, Fotograf: Mahmoud Dabdoub
Mahmoud Dabdoub's pictures are everyday and street photographs of a world that no longer exists today. Dabdoub came to the GDR from Lebanon in 1981 and studied photography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. In the following five years, he shot... moreabout: Everyday life in the GDR
© Arno Declair
Richard is hideous. Born prematurely, he is a deformed, hobbling, hunchbacked cripple who, on the battlefields of the Wars of the Roses – which flared up after the death of Henry V – served his family and above all his brother, Edward, well. Now Edward... moreabout: Richard III
© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Foto: Robert Paul Kothe, lautten compagney Berlin
The ballad opera "Polly" by Johann Christoph Pepusch and John Gay was written in 1729 as a sequel to "The Beggar's Opera", which had been celebrated as a sensation in London in 1728. Due to political turmoil, however, it was not premièred until 1777.... moreabout: Punta versus Polly. How to decolonise the Beggar's Opera?: Musical Belongings IV lautten compagney BERLIN meets Caribbean Punta Music
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