A panel discussion with Brygida Helbig, Marko Martin, and Ira Peter
Focusing on a hotspot, on a European Capital of Culture – or on a city that we believe deserves to be a Capital of Culture. For a good decade and a half, city writers, who are at least as diverse as the places they report on, have been doing this for almost half a year at a time.
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COLLAGE Ira Peter, Brygida Helbig, Marko Martin
Eastern Central Europe in seemingly small pieces – over the years, a large and colorful picture emerges, spanning almost the whole of Eastern Europe, with diverse experiences of urban cultures and city characters flowing together, but above all different perspectives from curious and attentive scholarship holders.
Invited are three of them to talk about how they experienced their host cities, what this fellowship meant to them, and what experiences and insights they would like to share today:
- Brygida Helbig, currently reporting from Szczecin,
- Marko Martin, who was in the cultural capital of Wrocław in 2016, and
- Ira Peter, who was able to experience the Ukrainian Black Sea metropolis of Odessa in the spring and summer of 2021, during the smoldering conflict with Russia, a year before its attack on the whole of Ukraine.
PROGRAM
Welcome: Dr. Gundula Bavendamm, Director of the Documentation Center for Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation
Dr. Harald Roth, Director of the German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe, Potsdam
Panel discussion: Brygida Helbig, Marko Martin, and Ira Peter
Moderator: Christina Tilmann, journalist
FURTHER INFORMATION
Admission: 6:30 p.m.
Language: German
FREE ADMISSION
REGISTRATION REQUIRED: +49 (0)331 20098-0 or deutsches@kulturforum.info
Dates
October 2025
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