Akademie President Jeanine Meerapfel talks with sociologist Natan Sznaider, who teaches in Tel Aviv, about the relationship between anti-Semitism, criticism of Israel and racism, antagonistic world views and the dangers of political rhetoric. The basis for the discussion is Sznaiders' book Fluchtpunkte der Erinnerung, in which he anchors this debate in a larger historical and sociological framework. In German.

The Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof is one of the most famous cemeteries in Berlin – not least because Brecht's last resting place is here. But many of his comrades-in-arms are also laid to rest here; many whom he shaped, promoted and inspired or who supported him. If one were to draw threads between the graves, a densely interwoven web would emerge. The tour aims to trace these lines, references and influences. In German.

Combining discourse formats and artistic interventions, the 2023 edition of transmediale “a model, a map, a fiction” explores ideas of technological scale, its instrumentalisation, and effect. The festival's exhibition in Halle 3 features the work of Alan Butler and Simone C Niquille and interrogates the technical and socio-political implications of computer-vision technologies through CGI production and simulation making.

The 36th edition of transmediale festival takes place at Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, and various locations throughout Berlin. The five-day festival “a model, a map, a fiction”explores how scale reconfigures relations, politics, and affects our emotions. Taking place over four days, the festivals discourse programme brings together over a hundred international artists, researchers, performers, and thinkers for a series of conversations, lectures, panels, performances, demos, film, and workshops unfolding around the topic of scale.

In the presentation “Performance and Agency in Decoloniality: Queering The Archive”, dance studies students at the FU Berlin will show the results of their seminar work with curator and director Ong Keng Sen from Singapore. Here, a decolonial perspective that questions predominantly Eurocentric production of knowledge forms the background for the creation of “unhappy archives”, which will be presented and shared with the audience. In English. 

The theme of Anna Seghers’ work is the self-liberation of her literary characters. To what extent does this liberation have biographical features? An approach to the transformation from sheltered daughter to headstrong writer. In German.