Past events

Sunday,
Three East German Women Get Drunk and Establish the Ideal State
Schloss Wiepersdorf
The three authors Peggy Mädler, Annett Gröschner, and Wenke Seemann are sitting on a concrete block in front of a Plattenbau building, with a wine glass and a bottle of beer in front of them.
Peggy Mädler, Annett Gröschner, Wenke Seemann © Andreas Rost

Seven Nights in Fast Forward as a Reading Performance, and the question of which drink best suits collective remembrance. With Annett Gröschner, Peggy Mädler, and Wenke Seemann.

Sunday,
Manami Nagahari: Concert
Schloss Wiepersdorf
Portrait of the 2024 Wiepersdorf fellowship- holder and composer Manami Nagahari
© Manami Nagahari

Former Wiepersdorf Fellow Manami Nagahari will present her new composition Mi-Mi-Mi Neunte in Schloss Wiepersdorf

Sunday,
Paula Fürstenberg: Reading and talk
Schloss Wiepersdorf
Excerpt from the book cover Weltalltage (Space Days) by author Paula Fürstenberg
book cover

Wiepersdorf Fellow Paula Fürstenberg reads from her second novel "Weltalltage" (in German).

Sunday,
Film Screening for families: Ponyo
Schloss Wiepersdorf, Tankhalle
Excerpt from the Studio Ghibli animated film Ponyo by director Hayao Miyazaki
Ponyo © Studio Ghibli

The animated fantasy film Ponyo is about tells the story of Ponyo, a goldfish who escapes from the ocean and is helped by a five-year-old human boy.

Sunday,
Heaven's Human Jukebox – we hear what we see
Schloss Wiepersdorf
Pictogram by Gwendolyn Krenkel shows a person leaning over a record player, behind them various recordings hanging on the wall.
© Gwendolyn Krenkel

An infotainment event by and with the artist O.W. Himmel, who is also an archivist of everyday graphic and typographic culture.

Sunday,
Art Workshop for Children
On Sundays in Schloss Wiepersdorf
Colorful children's artwork created at the Wiepersdorf Castle Children's Studio 2025
Children's artwork, photo © Kaj Osteroth

The Schloss Wiepersdorf Art Workshop for Children takes place for the first time in summer 2025, starting in the beginning of August. On six Sundays, children aged 6 to 11 can paint, draw, model and get creative.

Sunday,
Open Studios and Lecture: Christa Wolf and Romanticism
Open Studios from 1:00 pm, Schloss Wiepersdorf
A black-and-white portrait shows German author Christa Wolf at her desk.
Christa Wolf, photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-B0509-0010-004 /, Eckleben, Irene, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons

Like many of her colleagues, the writer Christa Wolf engaged with German Romanticism and its authors in the 1970s. The literary scholar and Wiepersdorf fellow Tabea Lamberti presents this aspect of Wolf's thinking and writing. In addition, the studios of Frauke Eckhardt and Paula Müller will be open to the public.

Saturday,
Seen from afar - Literature Festival in Buckow
Buckow
Event poster for a collaborative event with the Brecht-Weigel-Haus entitled “Read from Afar”
Event poster

At the end of the program Seen from afar - Encounters in Brandenburg, a literature festival will take place in Buckow. Matthias Nawrat, who was a scholarship holder at Schloss Wiepersdorf in 2024, will also be taking part.

Thursday,
Games and Play in "the Journal of Luxury and Fashion" – Lecture
Schloss Wiepersdorf
Lady with a yo-yo from the Journal of Luxury and Fashion, 1791
Lady with a yo-yo, 1791

An illustrated evening lecture by Dr. Barbara Steingießer on the Journal of Luxury and Fashion (1786–1827), which, with its hand-colored prints, was Germany’s first illustrated magazine and at the same time the country’s first regularly published lifestyle and fashion periodical.

Sunday,
MUSETHICA – Chamber Music at Schloss Wiepersdorf
Schloss Wiepersdorf
a portrait photo of the ensemble with their instruments
Ensemble Finale © Yakir Shukrun

In cooperation with the Brandenburg Summer Concerts, a Musethica session will take place for the first time in the Niederer Fläming and Jüterbog region from June 7 to 15, 2025. During this week, the Musethica association will bring two international string ensembles to the area to perform over 20 chamber music concerts in social institutions. The week will conclude with a public concert by the musicians at Schloss Wiepersdorf on Sunday, June 15.