Former associates of Matthias Vernaldi were guests in Wiepersdorf from 20-22 October on a group scholarship. Their current project is to review and edit the texts of the writer, GDR civil rights activist and disability activist Matthias Vernaldi with the aim of publishing them in an anthology.

In July, the independent jury decided on the awarding of the fellowships for 2024, which are funded by the state of Brandenburg.

About the workshop on cinema and spirituality organized by Maryam Palizban and Martin Treml in September 2023.

If you are looking for inspiring books for the summer, you might be interested in the new publications by 2023 fellows of Wiepersdorf.

The protest and performance group Pussy Riot spent a few days in Schloss Wiepersdorf.

Video trailer about an escape from Moscow

The filmmaker Ekaterina Erofeeva arrived with her husband, the writer and Putin critic Victor Erofeev, and their two children Maja and Marianna after an adventurous flight from Russia via Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland at night on April 4, 2022 in Schloss Wiepersdorf. Leaving the Moscow apartment, the journey, border crossings, conversations with intellectual friends until the stay and many conversations in Schloss Wiepersdorf Ekaterina Erofeeva recorded with the camera.

A first trailer for the planned film project can be seen here.

Theme year „Lebenskunst – Kulturland Brandenburg 2022“

Documentary film in German language

Until its closure a few years ago, the restaurant "Zur Alten Schmiede" was an important meeting place between the villagers of Wiepersdorf and the guests of the castle. On September 24, 2022 the tradition of mutual solidarity was revived for one day in the restaurant “Zur Alten Schmiede” with a cultural and culinary program. Filmmaker Branka Pavlovic accompanied the event on film.