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Peter Pfankuch, 18. März 1940; photo: private

Privileged discrimination:
The diaries of Peter Pfankuch

Book Premiere

15 Jan, 7 pm, Hanseatenweg

Peter Pfankuch (1925 – 1977), architect and member of the Akademie, grew up in Berlin during the National Socialist era. The young man’s life was characterised by increasing marginalisation, as he was considered “half-Jewish”. Pfankuch documented his life on a daily basis in diaries and letters from the age of 14. The editor and Pfankuch’s daughter, Susanne Pfankuch, is in dialogue with historian and Antisemitism researcher Wolfgang Benz. In German.  more

Exhibition view “draw love build / sauerbruch hutton tracing modernities”, © Jan Bitter

Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century

Talk

18 Jan, 7 pm, Hanseatenweg

To mark the closing of the exhibition “draw love build / sauerbruch hutton tracing modernities”, there will be a round table discussion dedicated to sustainable building and providing insights into the future of architectural practice. Welcome: Matthias Sauerbruch. Talk with Annette Gigon, Louisa Hutton and Regine Keller. Moderation: Katharina Matzig. In German and English.  mehr

Untitled (Wind), 1953, 1990, Photo by Giulia Baresi and Giorgia Palmisano, Courtesy of Archivio Conz, Berlin 2024

GO concrete: A Eugen Gomringer matinée

Reading, Film, Happening

19 Jan, 12 pm, Pariser Platz

As the founder of Concrete Poetry, Eugen Gomringer has been changing the language of literature and visual art for decades. Guests and companions, such as Ulrike Draesner, Nora Gomringer, Robert Kudielka, Michael Lentz, Ulf Stolterfoht and Hubertus von Amelunxen, will create a lively matinée for the artist using Gomringer’s poetic texts, prose fragments and own works in the border area of text and image. In German.  more

Exhibition view “draw love build / sauerbruch hutton tracing modernities”, © Jan Bitter

Paths to the Future

Talk

19 Jan, 4 pm, Hanseatenweg

To mark the closing of the exhibition “draw love build / sauerbruch hutton tracing modernities”, there will be a talk with partners from sauerbruch hutton providing insights into the future of architectural practice. With Peter Apel, Sibylle Bornefeld, Jürgen Bartenschlag, Tom Geister, Vera Hartmann, Falco Herrmann, Andrew Kiel, Julia Knaak, Lina Lahiri, Mareike Lamm, Jonas Luther, David Wegener, Juan Lucas Young. Moderation: Anh-Linh Ngo. In German and English.  mehr

Blank placard dance, replay, reenactment by Anne Collod of Anna Halprin’s Blank Placard Dance (1967), Audience format of HAU Hebbel am Ufer as part of “Tanz im August” 2017; photo © Susanne Foellmer

Dance makes Berlin – An event by and for dance

Discussion Forum

1 Feb, 2:30 pm, Pariser Platz

Dance decisively shapes Berlin’s cultural life and is a driving force for change on and off the stage: in how and where we move, in art, and in society. Dance creates utopias, demands participation, writes history(ies). Actors from the field of dance and its surroundings discuss the impact and potential of dance – and consider the visions for and concrete needs of dance in Berlin and beyond – and how we will realise them.  more