Newsletter der Akademie der Künste

Top: Sonja vom Brocke © Ronald Dick / Bottom: Dieter Langewiesche © Markus Scholz for Leopoldina

Lion Feuchtwanger Prize 2024:
Dieter Langewiesche
Weiskopf Wedding Prize 2024:
Sonja vom Brocke

Award Ceremony

7 Jul, 6 pm, Pariser Platz

The Akademie der Künste’s Lion Feuchtwanger Prize goes to the historian Dieter Langewiesche. The new Weiskopf Wedding Prize, awarded for the first time in 2024, goes to the poet Sonja vom Brocke. Anh-Linh Ngo, Vice-President of the Akademie der Künste, will give the welcoming address at the award ceremony with the two award winners and the laudators Friedrich Wilhelm Graf and Tobias Lehmkuhl.  more

24th Poesiefestival Berlin 2023 © Mirko Lux

Poets’ Corner

Readings

14 Jul, 3 pm – 5 pm, Hanseatenweg

Every summer, poesiefestival berlin finds venues for poetry all over the city. This year, poets from the Literature Section will be reading at a special edition of Poets’ Corner at the traditional Sunday afternoon reading in the Akademie’s Buchengarten. With Volker Braun, Ann Cotten, Ulrike Draesner, Ursula Krechel, Monika Rinck and Kathrin Schmidt. In German.  more

Vision of a new utilisation concept for Galeries Lafayette as main location for the Berlin Central and Regional Library (ZLB). © Render Vision

Akademie Discussion: On the question of the cultural reutilisation of the Galeries Lafayette department store in Berlin

Talk

15 Jul, 7 pm, Pariser Platz

The event is dedicated to the debate about the redevelopment of Galeries Lafayette as the new home of the Berlin Central and Regional Library (ZLB) – and takes up the Architecture Section’s discussions on how to counter the desolation of city centres and public spaces with new cultural offerings. With Dominique Alba, Joe Chialo, Volker Heller, Regine Keller, Anh-Linh Ngo, Katharina Schultens, Manos Tsangaris.  more

© Manos Tsangaris

Akademie Discussion: On the offbeat...and its social power in the arts

Talk

17 Jul, 7 pm, Pariser Platz

The Akademie Discussion is dedicated to the offbeat, the useless and the difficult to understand as a driving force of artistic creation. Especially in times when algorithms favour the popular, the easily accessible, it is worth exploring the “sound of the centre from the margins”. In a diverse arrangement of talks and contributions, participants are invited to get involved through artistic means.  more

© Michel Jimenez / Estudio Fortuna

Valeska Gert Guest Professorship
Amanda Piña: To Bloom () Florecimiento

Concluding Presentation

19 Jul, 7 pm, Hanseatenweg

Amanda Piña explores oceanic movements encoded in dance and sound: the movements of ancient species, ocean currents, diasporas and migrations. She explores water as a flowing entity and the ocean as a realm of ancestral knowledge, as well as expressions of embodied knowledge of the First Nations and Afro-diaspora that flourished in Abya Yala, the American continent. In English.  more