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A Literary Stroll Through Berlin-Mitte with Anneke Lubkowitz

Caspar David Friedrich’s “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog” depicts a man. Anneke Lubkowitz knows this is no coincidence—and has set out to track down the women who have been systematically overlooked in the history of hiking.

On July 3, the Mitte Museum invites you to a special evening event: Lubkowitz will present her book *Rebellinnen zu Fuß* (Women Rebels on Foot) and combine the reading with an actual walk through Berlin. The reading begins at 6 p.m. at the Mitte Museum in Wedding—a neighborhood that Bettina von Arnim vividly described in her socially critical writings of the 1840s. Starting at 7 p.m., the group walk will continue along the streets she once documented as a poor neighborhood, heading toward Mitte to the bookstore Golda books and more, where the second part of the reading will take place at 8 p.m.

Lubkowitz’s book brings together eleven women writers—including Sophie von La Roche, Mary Shelley, Else Lasker-Schüler, and Annemarie Schwarzenbach—who discovered walking as a form of self-assertion and engagement with the world. Her focus is not on the experience of nature as an end in itself, but on women’s walking as a political and literary practice.

Anneke Lubkowitz, born in 1990, studied literature in Berlin and Edinburgh and earned her doctorate with a dissertation on nature writing. Her anthology *Psychogeografie* was published in 2020. She lives in Münster.

The event is free of charge. Individual sessions may also be attended separately. Registration is requested: kontakt@goldabooks.de.

Please remember to wear appropriate clothing and bring water for the walk.

IN GERMAN

Dates
July 2026
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