With talks and introdcutions by Esther Buss, Matthias Dell, Christoph Hochhäusler, Birgit Kohler, Jan Künemund, Anne Küper, Sebastian Markt

Panel discussion with Marko Martin (writer, Berlin), Kateryna Mishchenko (essayist, Berlin), Volker Weiß (historian, Hamburg), moderated by Shahrzad Eden Osterer (journalist, Munich). Introduction: Fabian Bechtle and Leon Kahane

The panelists discuss how conceptions of “the East” are bound up with the historical, social, and cultural conflicts of our time. To what extent are projections onto “the East” part of a political tradition in Germany, and what role does art play within it?

In German, free admission

Music performance by Shaul Dahan (artist, Jerusalem) and Shlomo Pozner (artist, Berlin)

During Sukkot (the Feast of Tabernacles), this performance merges ancient liturgical chant with experimental noise music, exploring the space where prayer sounds like music and words become tone.

Free admission

Film screening followed by a discussion, conceived and moderated by Dr. Lea Wohl von Haselberg (Professor of Jewish Film and Audiovisual Memory, Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Potsdam)

The film Adamah links the experience and trauma of the Shoah with the hope of a new beginning. Avodah, by contrast, envisions a social utopia in which labor becomes the engine of a shared future. How do these historical images resonate today, amid new traumas, social polarization, and the culture wars over memory?

With Dr. Isabelle Graw (Professor of Art History and Art Theory, Städelschule – Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main), Schorsch Kamerun (theater director and singer, Hamburg), Dr. Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk (historian, Berlin), Masha Qrella (singer and songwriter, Berlin), representatives of the clubs Conne Island (Leipzig) and ://about blank (Berlin), among others.

Conceived and moderated by Andreas Fanizadeh (chief correspondent for cultural affairs, taz, Berlin)

In the 1990s, bands, intellectuals, and antifascist activists joined forces as Wohlfahrtsausschüsse (“welfare committees”). United by the attempt to defend antiauthoritarian ways of life in Rostock, Dresden, and Leipzig against farright scenes, participants discuss what can be learned from this history and where we stand today.

In German, free admission; the event will also be livestreamed

The event is a cooperation with taz.

“La Haluca” (“The Pioneer Woman”) refers to a historical text by the Bosnian-Jewish writer Luna Laura Papo Bohoreta (1891–1942), which artist Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* takes up in her performance. The Haluca emerges as a projection figure in which Jewish self-determination and feminist emancipation intertwine.

Free admission

Finissage of the exhibition Projections Onto the East at n.b.k.

Conducted by Marlies Rossmann in cooperation with Florian Hein, at the invitation of Jasmin Werner (artist, Berlin)

Free admission