TD Berlin
2. / 5. & 6.05.2025
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The ‘’Berliner Briefe‘’ by Susanne Kerckhoff (1918-1950) are an unrelenting examination of 12 years of National Socialism and the consequences of the Second World War. A woman living in devastated post-war Berlin writes to her Jewish childhood friend, who emigrated to Paris during the Nazi era, and writes an unsparing self-interrogation of a German about guilt and responsibility. In this almost lost work, Susanne Kerckhoff also describes everyday life in the ruins of Berlin in direct and touching observations.
Published in 1948 in the midst of the Nuremberg Trials, the ‘’Berliner Briefe‘’ address the issues of followership, repression and the Germans’ defence against guilt for the crimes. Kerckhoff asks about the necessary intellectual reorientation in the light of fundamental humanitarian issues and their conditions.
Inspired by a reading and historical context, the epistolary novel becomes the starting point for 10 artists to question history in the prism of the present from their biographical perspectives. With a view to their artistic working and living environments, they illuminate Kerckhoff’s poetic and ethical position.
2.05.2025, 19:00
Talk Dr. Hanno Hochmuth, Reading Katja Gaudard, Interview Tamar Grosz and Peter Wawerzinek, Music Jens-Karsten Stoll, Video Alica Minar, moderated by Heike Albrecht
5.05.2025, 19:00
Talk Peter Graf, Reading Katja Gaudard, Interview Melika Akbari aka likabari, Atif Mohammed Nour Hussein and Cheick Mamadou Bhoye Jungermann aka Gigo Flow, Music Gigo Flow Video Alica Minar, moderated by Heike Albrecht
6.05.2025, 19:00
Talk Dr. Hanno Hochmuth, Reading Katja Gaudard, Interview Gennadij Desiatnik and Jeanno Gaussi, Music Jens-Karsten Stoll, Video Alica Minar, moderated by Heike Albrecht
Conzept Heike Albrecht
The production is part of the city-wide theme week 80 Years of the End of the War – Liberation of Europe from National Socialism on the initiative and funded by the State of Berlin, realised by Kulturprojekte Berlin with numerous partners.
Foto Heike Albrecht
