World Poetry Day

Reading

The UNESCO World Poetry Day is the occasion to honour poets, revive oral traditions of poetry recitals and promote the reading, writing and teaching of poetry. Since its inauguration 22 years ago, the Haus für Poesie together with its partners has been organising the central event in Germany.

Poets from different parts of the world read their texts in the original – accompanied by German translations. This year, the Hungarian poet and Schloss Wiepersdorf alumnus Endre Kukorelly will be taking part.

BETHY TRIO

BETHY TRIO, directed by Tilman Hecker, brings together text fragments by Kathy Acker, Bettina von Arnim, Dodie Bellamy and Sarah Schulman, among others. In a production that aims at the possibility of trans-historicity, the words deal with science and poetry, the individuality of the sexes, and the expressions of overcoming Christian ideals of love, moving between historical periods. With Anna Papathanasiou, Ivan Cheng, FRZNTE (performance), Scott Bolman (lights), Lars Paschke (costumes) and Thorsten Hoppe (sound).

Questioning at Point Zero

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When Belarus was still a blank spot on the map, there was already an idiosyncratic, heterogeneous cultural scene that created spaces in which ideas of a life that was not controlled took shape. Under the unfavorable conditions of the rigid system, fixated on the Soviet past, a parallel society was able to develop, in niches, invisible to many. The repressions that have swept the country and traumatized society since the crushing of the white-red-white protests have also dissolved these niches. In a conversation with editor Katharina Raabe, Iryna Herasimovich offers insights into this scene.

"... es steht alles sehr zweifelhaft auf dem Lande." Explorations in Wiepersdorf

Special exhibition by Dr. Iris Berndt

Achim von Arnim (1781–1831) reports in his letters about his work as a farmer and landowner of Wiepersdorf. The art historian Dr. Iris Berndt, a fellow at Schloss Wiepersdorf, is inspired by this to search for traces and builds a bridge to the present. She researches and inquires, photographs and paints. Objects from the collection of the Jüterbog Museum complement the exhibition. It deals with urgent questions of how we deal with the natural riches in nature and landscape.