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Bjørn Melhus, FREEDOM & INDEPENDENCE, 2014, film still © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

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Audio Play, Readings, Films

17 May, 8 pm, Pariser Platz

An evening on the artistic method of editing: With an audio piece by Ulrich Gerhardt, developed from Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's text collages Schnitte (cuts), with readings by Katja Lange-Müller, Kathrin Röggla, Kathrin Schmidt, Katharina Schultens and Ulf Stolterfoht, and with short films by Dieter Appelt, VALIE EXPORT, Christoph Giradet & Matthias Müller, Jochen Kuhn, Bjørn Melhus, Marcel Odenbach, Ulrike Rosenbach, Zbigniew Rybczyński and Klaus vom Bruch.  more

KULA Compagnie, Dibbuk – between (two) worlds © kulacompagnie.eu / photo: Felix Grünschloss

KULA Compagnie: Dibbuk – between (two) worlds

Theatre Guest Performance

24 May, 7 pm, Hanseatenweg

In its fourth appearance at the Akademie the trans-national KULA Compagnie presents her version of Der Dibbuk, setting the 1920 Yiddish classic into a contemporary, interreligious context. Despite the war’s breaking out during rehearsals, the mutual goal remained: to continue talking and performing with one another, to seek bringing about communication. In Moroccan-Arabic, Persian, German, French, Hebrew, Russian and Yiddish with German and English surtitles.  more

Große Klausstraße, from the series Häuser und Gesichter, Halle 1983–1985 © Nachlass / estate Helga Paris (www.helga-paris.de)

Diva in grey

Photographs, Texts, Film

27 May, 7 pm, Hanseatenweg

Inspired by Helga Paris’ illustrated book Diva in Grau (Diva in grey), published in 1991, the evening is dedicated to different perspectives on the city of Halle that were created between 1982 and 1992. Poet Elke Erb, photographer Helga Paris, cameraman Thomas Plenert and director Thomas Heise show what is, and reveal the traces left in the houses and faces of Halle. With Helke Misselwitz and Hermann Beyer. In German.  more

Brandenburger Tor, free for personal and commercial use

The war and the position of literature

Reading and Talk

28 May, 7 pm, Pariser Platz

“We are at the limit of where words are not enough and have to prove who we really are”, wrote the author Hans Erich Nossack in October 1946 to his colleague Ilse Molzahn, who had lost both her sons in the war. Eighty years later, their correspondence, published for the first time in SINN UND FORM, still provides food for thought on how to write about war and loss, responsibility and guilt. With Marcel Beyer, Thomas Ehrsam, Kateryna Mishchenko, Henrik Mrochen, Zalina Sanchez et al. In German.  more

Walter-Rossow-Garden, Akademie der Künste at Hanseatenweg © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk

Welcome in – A musical path in the Hansaviertel district

Festival

31 May, 4:30 pm – 10 pm, Hanseatenweg

We invite you to an enjoyable and surprising path of exploration through the interior and exterior spaces of the Akademie der Künste – filled with unheard music and sound. Small, intimate concert situations in meeting rooms, silence in the concert hall, playful kinetic sound machines, improvisations, musicians on the roof, picnics in the Beech Garden and more. A warm welcome to everyone to share the place and the music on a long day in May.  more