Conferenze & Letture

Lectures & Readings

© Maxim Gorki Theater - 2025, FOTO Nazek Armenakyan, Untitled from the series Red, Black White, 2021

Lectures & Readings

09.05.2025

Hier sind Löwen

Lectures & Readings

09.05.2025

Katerina Poladjan’s novel Hier sind Löwen (Here Are Lions) is a poetic investigation of the art of book restoration. At its centre is an old Bible, which was the only memento the siblings Anahid and Hrant had after they fled deportation.

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Maxim Gorki Theater: Studio Я Maxim Gorki Theater: Studio Я

20:30

https://www.gorki.de/de/hier-sind-loewen
Lectures & Readings

© Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

Lectures & Readings

09.05.2025

Wo ist? - BONUSMATERIAL: Die Talkshow zum laufenden Programm

Lectures & Readings

09.05.2025

Would you die for Germany? Finally, it's getting to the core. Times are getting tougher, the invisible dangers are almost impossible to grasp, and they have to ask themselves:

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Volksbühne - Roter Salon Volksbühne - Roter Salon

21:00 – 23:00

https://www.volksbuehne.berlin/#/de/veranstaltungen/wo-ist-bonusmaterial-die-talkshow-zum-laufenden-programm
Films

© Jean Charles Counet

Films

09.05.2025

Darkness There and Nothing More

Films

09.05.2025

How can anyone deal with the trauma left behind by war? In her debut film, Tea Tupajić asks this and other painful questions and sets off in search of answers and a moment of hope.

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- International
Haus der Berliner Festspiele - Kassenhalle Haus der Berliner Festspiele - Kassenhalle

22:00

https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/theatertreffen/programm/2025/rahmenprogramm/darkness-there-and-nothing-more

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Workshop

© tic / Detlef Fleischer

Workshop

10.05.2025

Free Comic Book Day

Workshop

10.05.2025

May 10th is Free Comic Book Day: Whether it's educational comics, heroic adventures, or coming-of-age stories, Free Comic Book Day will once again showcase the great diversity of the comic world in 2025. Selected comic publishers will provide over twenty…

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Janusz-Korczak-Bibliothek Janusz-Korczak-Bibliothek

10:00 – 15:00

https://www.berlin.de/stadtbibliothek-pankow/bibliotheken/janusz-korczak-bibliothek/veranstaltungen/
Workshop

© Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin

Workshop

10.05.2025 + 1 additional date

bauhaus_lab: Line and surface in motion

Workshop

10.05.2025 + 1 additional date

Based on Wassily Kandinsky's teaching at the Bauhaus and his book "Point and Line to Surface", the participants experiment with lines and move them further. Using outlines from Kandinsky paintings freely, they develop moving images or GIF files.

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- Free of charge
- Bauhaus & Modernism
Bauhaus-Archiv Bauhaus-Archiv

11:00 – 12:30

https://www.bauhaus.de/de/programm/6405_bauhaus_werkstatt/
Workshop

© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Valerie Schmidt

Workshop

10.05.2025 + 3 additional dates

Feuer! Eine zündende Idee

Workshop

10.05.2025 + 3 additional dates

You will go on a journey of discovery in the museum following the trail of fire. Who had the brilliant idea to use fire and when? What inventions and myths do people owe to fire?

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- Children
- Teenager
Neues Museum Neues Museum

11:00 – 13:00

https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=147655
Workshop

© Ghaidaa Kotb

Workshop

10.05.2025

Stucco carving and stained glass

Workshop

10.05.2025

Do you enjoy being creative? Want to learn more about Islamic art? Are you interested in stucco carving and colored glass? Then you've come to the right place!

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- Teenager
- International
Haus Bastian - Zentrum für kulturelle Bildung Haus Bastian - Zentrum für kulturelle Bildung

11:00 – 17:00

https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=150082
Workshop

© tic / Ingolf Peter

Workshop

10.05.2025

Tiny Forests: Local biodiversity and climate adaptation

Workshop

10.05.2025

Tiny forests, also known as microforests, are small, densely planted forests that serve as climate buffers, carbon reservoirs and green oases in urban areas.

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Heinrich-Böll-Bibliothek Heinrich-Böll-Bibliothek

11:00 – 18:00

https://www.berlin.de/stadtbibliothek-pankow/bibliotheken/heinrich-boell-bibliothek/veranstaltungen/
Workshop

© David von Becker

Workshop

10.05.2025 + 2 additional dates

Ideas for Shaping the Future of Democracy

Workshop

10.05.2025 + 2 additional dates

What will democracy look like in the future? In the Futurium Lab there is the opportunity to deal with the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for all people.

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Futurium Futurium

12:00 – 17:00

https://futurium.de/de/open-lab-wochenende/family-open-lab-zukunftsideen-fuer-die-demokratie
Lectures & Readings

© the artists / Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Jacopo La Forgia

Lectures & Readings

10.05.2025 + 4 additional dates

Queer feministisch betrachtet

Lectures & Readings

10.05.2025 + 4 additional dates

Contrary to heteronormative interpretations, this tour is dedicated to the various queer connections in the Hamburger Bahnhof.

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- LGBTI
- Führung im Museum
Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

12:00 – 13:00

https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=149399
Films

© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Julia Nickel

Films

10.05.2025 + 1 additional date

In Our Own Images - Crafting and building: Toy Cars, Boats, Seat Mats

Films

10.05.2025 + 1 additional date

The Ye'kwana live in the Amazon rainforest. The boys show you how they carve an arrow and arch. The children from Papua New Guinea weave a seat mat and children from a village in Cameroon build a toy car. What did you last build yourself? What would you like…

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Humboldt Forum: Saal 3 Humboldt Forum: Saal 3

13:00 – 13:30

https://www.humboldtforum.org

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Lectures & Readings

© the artists / Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Jacopo La Forgia

Lectures & Readings

10.05.2025 + 4 additional dates

Queer Feminist Perspective (ENGLISH)

Lectures & Readings

10.05.2025 + 4 additional dates

Contrary to heteronormative readings, this tour is dedicated to the various queer connections in Hamburger Bahnhof.

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Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

13:00 – 14:00

https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=149395
Workshop

© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Marcus Glahn

Workshop

10.05.2025 + 2 additional dates

Farbwerkstatt

Workshop

10.05.2025 + 2 additional dates

The pictures in the picture gallery tell stories in color. What design or technical tricks can you learn from the old masters, and what new ones can you invent? You experiment with pigments, watercolors or pastels.

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- Children
Gemäldegalerie Gemäldegalerie

14:00 – 16:00

https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=148091
Workshop

© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Foto: Valerie von Stillfried

Workshop

10.05.2025

Hanging scrolls, folded books and the art of telling stories

Workshop

10.05.2025

Around the stupa, a traditional Buddhist structure, there are register-like reliefs that tell stories. Roll-outs such as Patuas and Thangkas have a similar narrative structure. Inspired by this, children and adults create their own scroll pictures and…

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- Children
- Free of charge
Humboldt Forum: Werkräume Humboldt Forum: Werkräume

14:00 – 17:00

https://www.humboldtforum.org
Workshop

© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Valerie Schmidt

Workshop

10.05.2025 + 2 additional dates

Vom Selfie zum Kaiser: Selbstporträts

Workshop

10.05.2025 + 2 additional dates

Act like the Roman emperors! Dream yourself into foreign worlds! Decipher secret messages! Take a look at ancient buildings! Children and their adult companions explore the museums on their own and with a task. Equipped with tools, props and cameras, the…

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- Children
- Teenager
Altes Museum Altes Museum

14:00 – 16:00

https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=148480
Lectures & Readings

© Fotonachweis: Werner Zellien, 1992 / Courtesy Fonds de Dotation Christian Boltanski

Lectures & Readings

10.05.2025

Shared Memory – Talk on “The Missing House” (1990) by Christian Boltanski

Lectures & Readings

10.05.2025

This year, the Hamburger Bahnhof received the work The Missing House (1990) by Christian Boltanski as a donation. The installation is located in the gap between buildings at Große Hamburger Straße 15/16 in Berlin-Mitte.

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- Contemporary Art
- History of National Socialism
Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

15:00 – 18:00

https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=150141
Films

© Maxim Gorki Theater - 2025

Films

10.05.2025

History Makers: Shorts from a new generation

Films

10.05.2025

After reaching a near fatal collapse following the breakdown of the Soviet Union, Armenian cinema has gradually restored its footing thanks in large part to the vitality of the non-fiction genre. Embracing the liberties of low-budget filmmaking, a circle of…

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- Film events in Berlin
- International
Maxim Gorki Theater Maxim Gorki Theater

16:00 – 18:30

https://www.gorki.de/de/history-makers-shorts-from-a-new-generation
Lectures & Readings

© Promo

Lectures & Readings

10.05.2025

Wolfgang Bosbach and Ulli Potofski: “52, one year, two lives”

Lectures & Readings

10.05.2025

Wolfgang Bosbach & Ulli Potofski "52, One Year, Two Lives" A reading and talk. Two people, born in the same year, engage in intense conversation.

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- Politics & Society
Schlosspark Theater Schlosspark Theater

16:00

https://www.schlossparktheater.de/produktionen/wolfgang-bosbach-ulli-potofski-52-ein-jahrgang-zwei-leben.html

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Lectures & Readings

© Jasmin Schuller

Lectures & Readings

10.05.2025

30 Jahre Dogma

Lectures & Readings

10.05.2025

30 years of the Dogma Manifesto. With the Dogma Manifesto in 1995, Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg advocated for a new kind of film that defied the technical possibilities of filmmaking.

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- Free of charge
Deutsches Theater Berlin: Rangfoyer Deutsches Theater Berlin: Rangfoyer

16:30

https://www.deutschestheater.de/programm/produktionen/30-jahre-dogma
Reading

© visitBerlin, Illustration Klio Karadim

Reading

10.05.2025

Bertha von Suttner: The Chess of Agony | Book premiere

Reading

10.05.2025

"Chess of Torment" is a key novel in the work of Nobel Peace Prize winner Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914), in which she brought together everything she was committed to throughout her life.

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- Literature
Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum

17:00 – 19:00

https://www.muehlenhaupt.de/aktuelles/bertha-von-suttner-schach-der-qual
Films

© Maxim Gorki Theater - 2025, Fotos: Garegin Papoyan

Films

10.05.2025

Bon Voyage

Films

10.05.2025

A fully equipped and renovated airport stands on the outskirts of Stepanakert, the capital of Artsakh. But due to an embargo by Azerbaijan, no planes can fly and in or out. The airport stuff duly maintains the daily chores of upkeep, languidly waiting for the…

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- International
- Film events in Berlin
Maxim Gorki Theater Maxim Gorki Theater

19:00 – 21:15

https://www.gorki.de/de/bon-voyage