Gaze up at the starry sky during the talks at the planetarium. Or listen to well-known authors as they read from their books, bringing them to life. You’ll find a wide range of talks on a variety of topics at the Urania, for example.
Lectures & Readings © GettyImages_miniseries Lectures & Readings A world of diversity! 30 years of education for human rights and against discrimination Lectures & Readings The rise in far-right and racist violence in the 1990s, including the attacks in Hoyerswerda, Rostock-Lichtenhagen, Mölln and Solingen… Read more
Lectures & Readings © (c) Willi van Hengel / Nadja Felscher Lectures & Readings 04/11/2026 Abgrund-Symphonie – Wort. Klang. Zumutung. Lesung Lectures & Readings 04/11/2026 With ‘Abgrund-Symphonie’, Willi van Hengel and Nadja Felscher bring a lyrical and dramatic cascade of words to the stage – accompanied by… Read more
Top Event Lectures & Readings © Niels Peter Jensen Top Event Lectures & Readings ABOVE THE CLOUDS - Niels Peter Jensen. Top Event Lectures & Readings TV host, extreme athlete, and adventurer Niels Peter Jensen takes you on an expedition that he himself can barely put into words—and that’s… Read more
Lectures & Readings © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Dietmar Gunne Lectures & Readings Academy discussion series: Madonna - Queen of Heaven and Mother of God Lectures & Readings She is queen, mother, intercessor, and ideal—hardly any other figure in art history has been portrayed in such a variety of ways as the… Read more
Art © Succession Brancusi - All rights reserved / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 Art Academy lecture series: Modern sculptures Art This lecture series explores Brancusi’s (1876–1957) formal language and artistic development. Read more
Lectures & Readings © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt Lectures & Readings Academy Lecture Series: Ovid's *Metamorphoses* Lectures & Readings From the invention of the pan flute to the story of King Midas or the abduction of Europa, from the Deucalion Flood to Aeneas’s flight from… Read more
Lectures & Readings © Anne Hufnagl Lectures & Readings Achilles: Death has a long breath Lectures & Readings In the third Berlin crime novel, Achilles' detective, Peer Pedes, is unwillingly drawn into an ultramarathon along the route of the Berlin… Read more
Lectures & Readings © Jan-Erik Nord Lectures & Readings 09/12/2026 Across the U.S. in a Trabi Lectures & Readings 09/12/2026 In 2024, communication designer Jan-Erik Nord drove a Trabant along Route 66 as part of a charity campaign for a seriously ill child. Read more
Lectures & Readings © Fabian Schellhorn Lectures & Readings Adania Shibli: Täuschung Lectures & Readings One of Palestine’s most important female authors is presenting her long-awaited new novel—a complex exploration of experiences of violence… Read more
Lectures & Readings © Motiv: Vilhelm Hammershøi, Åbne døre [Open Doors], Öl auf Leinwand, 1905. © The David Collection, Kopenhagen. Fotografie: Pernille Klemp Lectures & Readings Adrian Daub: »›Noch‹, ›Nicht mehr‹, ›Endlich wieder‹: Kollektive Zeitwahrnehmung und Verbotsdiskurse« Lectures & Readings This lecture series explores the ambivalence of prohibitions and examines their relevance to current social debates. In his opening lecture… Read more
Lectures & Readings © Kristina Rössler-Lehnhoff Lectures & Readings Adventure Meets History — Kristina Rössler-Lehnhoff reads from Her Book “The Secret of La Botte” Lectures & Readings A journey is always an adventure. Antonella Turrini, a well-educated woman from northern Italy, is well aware of this. But what if she is… Read more
Lectures & Readings © Viktor Weber Lectures & Readings Affordable Housing in Spandau Lectures & Readings In the run-up to the Berlin House of Representatives elections on September 20, 2026, the Spandau Protestant Church District is hosting a… Read more
Lectures & Readings © African Book Tour 2026 – Readers Gonna Read Lectures & Readings 06/10/2026 AFRICAN BOOK TOUR 2026 Lectures & Readings 06/10/2026 This summer, from June through October, the “African Book Tour” series will bring five authors to Berlin’s libraries for public readings. Read more
Lectures & Readings © Hito Steyerl Lectures & Readings After the Crash. Cécile Wajsbrot and Hito Steyerl Lectures & Readings Writer Cécile Wajsbrot talks to filmmaker Hito Steyerl about her recently published book Offener Himmel (Open Sky). Steyerl's video work In… Read more
Lectures & Readings © Ai Weiwei Studio Lectures & Readings Ai Weiwei: On Censorship Lectures & Readings Invisible, invasive, and largely unnoticed, subtle forms of censorship are creeping into our democratic world. Censorship is a global force… Read more
Lectures & Readings © Promo Lectures & Readings 12/10/2026 AKADEMIE FORUM: AARON COHEN Lectures & Readings 12/10/2026 Gustav Mahler is credited with the oft-quoted saying: ‘A symphony must be like the world; it must encompass everything.’ Building on this… Read more
Lectures & Readings © Promo Lectures & Readings AKADEMIE FORUM: MARY FULBROOK Lectures & Readings Despite an extensive body of research on the Holocaust—from largely policy-oriented, perpetrator-driven studies, through to integrating the… Read more
Lectures & Readings © Promo Lectures & Readings AKADEMIE FORUM: OFER WALDMAN Lectures & Readings A circle of children, two girls running around them, fighter jets thundering past on the horizon. The game is called “Black Sheep.” These… Read more
Lectures & Readings © Mark Hurek Lectures & Readings 13/10/2026 Alev Doğan: Verbunden. Warum echte Verbundenheit nicht verlorengehen darf Lectures & Readings 13/10/2026 (Reading in German: 'Connected. Why True Connection Must Not Be Lost') Read more
Lectures & Readings © Alexander TeskeWilnow; Anja Reichprivat Lectures & Readings 06/10/2026 Alexander Teske and Anja Reich in Conversation: The "Weekly Children." Early Separation—Late Consequences Lectures & Readings 06/10/2026 Jan Josef Liefers talks about his ketamine therapy. Sandy Graf was given up for adoption by her mother, and Bernd Liebenau only came home… Read more
Lectures & Readings © Hanna Fasching Lectures & Readings 13/11/2026 ALEXANDRA STANIĆ Lectures & Readings 13/11/2026 Drawing on her own migration story—growing up between Frittatensuppe and Ćevapčići—her journey of queer self-discovery, and her rise to… Read more
