The Anna Seghers Museum opens on the writer's 125th birthday with special tours.
Special tours at 11 am, 12 pm, 1 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm
Admission from 10 min before the start
Limited number of participants
Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de
“When you write, you must write in such a way that you sense the possibility behind the despair and the way out behind the downfall.”
Anna Seghers, from: Selbstanzeige, 1931
The Anna Seghers Museum is opening on the writer's 125th birthday with special tours. Since 1985, Anna Seghers' former apartment in a tenement building in Berlin-Adlershof has been open to the public as a museum. The writer lived on Volkswohlstraße, renamed Anna-Seghers-Straße in 1984, for almost three decades. Her estate library, comprising around 10,000 volumes, and many personal mementos are housed in the living and working rooms, which have been preserved in their original state.
The cultural centre Alte Schule is situated only about a five-minute walk from the museum. At 4 pm, there will be a reading from her work Post ins Gelobte Land (Post to the Promised Land), which focuses on a little-known aspect of her Jewish identity and emigration. The event invites visitors to reflect on Seghers' commitment to freedom and humanity and to honour her literary work.
The reading is part of the event series “From History to the Present – Places of Historical and Political Education in Treptow-Köpenick”.
Visits to the museum are possible with a guided tour at the following times: 11 am, 12 pm, 1 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm.
Due to limited space, admission begins approximately 10 minutes before the tour.