Thirteen texts and thirteen photographs encapsulate experiences from palliative care: intense moments of life, proximity to death and mortality, and artistic expressions of hope for what is to come.

In the face of death, life becomes more concentrated. Palliative care physician Marlies Reulecke repeatedly experiences touching moments of intense vitality in her work: sometimes loud, sometimes quiet, sometimes humorous, sometimes sad. In her texts, she recounts these moments and honors both the life and death of the people she accompanies. At the same time, her stories invite us to approach the topic of mortality and to meet it with openness and courage.

The artist Jens Reulecke responds to these texts with his art. His works explore the theme of transition, but direct our gaze beyond memory and transience to what is to come, to the still uncertain. What follows us posthumously appears here as an energetically charged space—as hope in the face of death.

PROGRAM

Fri | February 20 | 7:00 PM Exhibition Opening
Welcome: Pastor Andrea Richter, Marlies Reulecke, Jens Reulecke
Performance Moments: Gudrun Doberenz, Jens Reulecke, Gerhard Uebele

Sun | February 22 | 5:00 PM Worship Lab – Performance DISAPPEARANCE
Jens Reulecke, Susi, Elle, Leo, Rumo, Alex

Wed | February 25 | 8:00 PM Lecture and Discussion “Death as a Transition?”
Conceptions of Afterlife in Christianity
Prof. Dr. Andreas Rauhut

Sat | February 28 | 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM Workshop “Assisted Suicide” (
Carmen Dietrich, Dr. Matthias Gockel, Angela Labonda, Dr. Marlies Reulecke, Ulla Rose, Home Care Berlin e. V., Julia Zeiske)

Registration requested at: marlies.reulecke@refo-moabit.de

Wed | March 4 | 8:00 PM Dance Meditation “Losing”
Sarah Nadge

Sun | March 8 | 5:00 PM Contemplative Service “…and that’s why dying is a gain for me”
Rudolf Kemmer, Marlies Reulecke, Jens Reulecke

Wed | March 11 | 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM GOING I – Farewells
Jens Reulecke

Wed | March 18 | 8:00 PM Benefit Concert with Reading for the Hospice and Palliative Care Association
Welcome: Anne-Susanna Dreßke, Managing Director of the Hospice and Palliative Care Association
Cello & Voice: Veronika Otto
Reading of the exhibition texts: Uta Kirchner, Jens Reulecke

Tue | March 24 | 6:30 p.m. “Ex and Hopp(s) – or is there electricity in the afterlife?”
A theatrical experiment with a living subject
Theater-Hospice Group of the Schöneberg Neighborhood Center

Wed | March 25 | 8:00 p.m. Sound performance “Nothing & Everything”
in cooperation with “exploratorium berlin”
Miriam Bondy (voice, percussion, various sounds), Rosmarie Jäger (piano), Kerstin Kaupat (glockenspiel, various instruments), Beatrice Oettinger (horse violin), Jens Reulecke (various instruments), Sophia Waldvogel (flute)

Wed | April 1 | 8:00–9:30 p.m. Meditative Weaving – Loss and New Beginnings in the Weave of Life
Doro Böcker, Social Worker and Family Grief Counselor

Fri | April 3 | 5:00 p.m. Good Friday Service – Performance “There Is No Escape”
Jens Reulecke

Wed | April 15 | 8:00 p.m. Receiving Dance Meditation I
Sarah Nadge

Wed | April 22 | 8:00–9:30 p.m. Sound Journey
Frank Dinkel, Katharina Lüdeking

Wed | April 29 | 8:00 p.m. Performance “Discover”
Barbara Gockel, Therapy Dog Charlie, Jens Reulecke

Wed | May 6 | 8:00–9:30 p.m. WALKING II – Unknown Terrain
Jens Reulecke

Wed | May 13 | 8:00 p.m. Dance Meditation II
Sarah Nadge

Wed | May 20 | 8:00–9:30 pm Closing Event – Performance “Empty Space”
Ingo Reulecke, Jens Reulecke, Katharina Resch

Admission to the exhibition is 30 minutes before the event begins.

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