Erna Arnhold - world traveler and art collector from the Tiergarten district

However, she was often not to be found at home: Before and after the First World War, she traveled all over the world. She documented her travels in photographs, newspaper articles, non-fiction books and radio talks; she also built up a collection of East Asian artifacts.

Her second great passion was the history of 'Old Berlin', which she communicated in radio broadcasts and in a major book on "Goethe's Berlin Relations" (1925). in 1939, she fled Nazi Germany for exile in California; she returned to West Berlin in the 1950s.


Erna Arnhold was a pioneer in many fields. The lecture will paint a vivid picture of her life and work.


Dr. Kathrin Wittler is a literary scholar who researches and teaches at the Free University of Berlin.


Admission and participation free of charge.
No registration required.


(IN GERMAN)