May 2025
Ruth Ur is the New Director of Stiftung Exilmuseum
British curator and art historian Ruth Ur is the new Director of Stiftung Exilmuseum Berlin starting 1 June, 2025
Current
News
Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 7 pm
Nirgendwo ist mein Zuhause (Nowhere Is My Home)
Book presentation and reading with Delschad Numan Khorschid who talks about fleeing from Irak and about his exile in Germany
Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 7 pm
German Exile Theatre in the Soviet Union 1935–1937
Original objects from the Performing Arts Archive of the Academy of Arts visit the Exilmuseum
April 25, 2025
Kristin Feireiss-Commerell is mourned
The Exilmuseum Berlin Foundation mourns the loss of Kristin Feireiss-Commerell, who passed away unexpectedly on April 20, 2025.
February 27 – April 24, 2025
#myExilemuseum – Photo Competition Exhibition
The submissions to the photo competition #myExilemuseum will be on display at our lab space for two months.
Thursday, March 20, 2025, 7 pm
A Suitcase for the Archives – Artists in Exile
John Heartfield, Ellen Auerbach, and David Ludwig Bloch and their exiles in London, Palestine, and Shanghai
Thursday, January 30, 2025, 7 pm
A Suitcase for the Archive: Heinrich Mann
The Akademie der Künste provides an insight into Heinrich Mann's working library, which accompanied him into exile
November 2024
Photo Competition: The Winners
Who are the three winners of the photo competition #myExilemuseum?
Monday, November 18, 2024, 7 pm
100 Years Klaus Mann in Berlin
Book premiere of “Klaus Mann - Berlin war meine Stadt!” An event organized by the Klaus Mann Initiative Berlin e.V.
Thursday, November 14, 2024, 7 pm
News from Exile
Writing on Art and Exile from the Archives of the Akademie der Künste 1933–1945
Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 7 pm
Literatures in Exile
Reading and Panel Discussion with exiled authors Najat Abed Alsamad and Taqi Akhlaqi
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Photo Competition: #myExileMuseum
A workshop and photo competition for young people who had to flee their home country
Coming up: Sept 6 –Nov 1, 2024
Exhibition: Children in Exile
Children of artists and intellectuals in exile 1933–1945. An exhibition in cooperation with Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Thursday, October 17, 2024, 7:30 pm
Berlin – Portbou. In the footsteps of Walter Benjamin
Documentary film screening and discussion
Friday, September 20, 2024
International Children's Day
As a part of the 'Children in Exile' exhibition program: workshops, tours for families and more!
September 6, 2024
Opening Speech by Anh-Linh Ngo
For the opening of the exhibition "Children in Exile", the vice-president of der Akademie der Künste Anh-Linh Ngo held a moving speech
Friday, September 6, 2024, 7 pm
Opening: Children in Exile
We are pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition “Children in Exile”!
Application until August 15, 2024
Exile Visual Arts Award
The Exile Visual Arts Award honours works by artists with exile experience that visualise essential questions such as identity, belonging or foreignness.
Wednesday, June 12, 2024, 8 pm
The worlds of Hugo Simo
Banker, social democrat and pacifist - Hugo Simon was a man of many facets. The lecture is part of the series "Rediscovered. The fate of private collections in Germany after 1933"
Thursday, June 6, 2024, 7 pm
Hans Keilson – Always a New Life
Book presentation and talk on the eventful life story of psychoanalyst Hans Keilson, with author Jos Versteegen and literary scholar Marita Keilson-Lauritz
Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 7 pm
„Just ask!“ – Learning from the Past for the Future
The German Exile Archive 1933-1945 of the German National Library and the Stiftung Exilmuseum Berlin invite you to try out the digital interactive interview format.
May 17–23, 2024
Exile Promenade
The performative audio walk leads to places of historical and current exile in Berlin, which interweave with the exile biographies of the three protagonists as well as with different eras of migration.
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 7 pm
Narrating Exile: Volha Hapeyeva
Volha Hapeyeva is one of Belarus’ most famous poets. Discussion and reading from her recent volume of poetry Trapezherz
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 6–10 pm
Exiled Writing – Writing Exile: Literature between Escape and Attachment
Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) Literary Salon on exiled writing with one of today's most insightful and young literary voices: Senthuran Varatharajah
Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 7 pm
"Nothing but Culture”: The Pringsheim Family and Its Collections after 1933
Lecture about the unique collections of the Pringsheim Family - as part of the lecture series “Wiedergefunden. Privatsammlungen in Deutschland nach 1933”
German Theatrical Release on March 28, 2024
Free Ticket Lottery Marking the Theatrical Release of One Life
Lottery for 3 x 2 free tickets for the German theatrical release of One Life – a film that takes up a central topic of exile: the Kindertransporte.
Thursday, March 7, 2024, 7 pm
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
Documentary about the emigrants Alfred Lion and Frank Wolff, who founded the legendary jazz label Blue Note in New York. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the director Eric Friedler
From March 1 to June 2, 2024
Exile Exhibition at Haus Kunst Mitte
In the exhibition “RUPTURES: Artists in Berlin Exile” at Haus Kunst Mitte, Stiftung Exilmuseum was invited to design a room. In this space, we illuminate the subject of “waiting” on the way into exile and in exile.
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Portraits of Exiles: A Donation from Peter Stein
Filmmaker Peter Stein, who was a guest at Werkstatt Exilmuseum in December, has now made a highly generous donation to Stiftung Exilmuseum: eleven of the most famous portrait photographs taken by his father Fred Stein, including photographs of Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Bertolt Brecht, and Thomas Mann.
Thursday, February 15, 2024, 7 pm
Farkhondeh Shahroudi: Exile from Iran
Performance of the artist Farkondeh Shahroudi and podium discussion on the situation in Iran
Thursday, December 14, 2023, 7 pm
Out of Exile: The Photography of Fred Stein
Screening of the prize-winning documentary and subsequent discussion with the director and son of the photographer
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 5 pm
85 Years since the Kindertransporte
Commemoration of the Kindertransporte from Germany to the UK in 1938/39
Starting November 9, 2023
Sky is no one's ground
Exhibition of Iranian artist Farkhondeh Shahroudi who received the Exile Visual Arts Award 2023
Thursday, October 26, 2023, 7 pm
Dispersed into Exile: The Lost "Mosseum"
The art collection Rudolf and Emilie Mosse was auctioned off under Nazi pressure in 1934. The traces of several works lead to the United States, Israel, and to Berlin’s Museum Island ...
October 2023
Interview with André Schmitz
Video of the chairman of the board of Stiftung Exilmuseum André Schmitz who talks about the idea behind Exilmuseum
October 9, 2023
The Finale of the Days of Exile
The climactic conclusion of the first Berlin “Days of Exile” was a symphony concert at Deutsche Oper Berlin. REad the opening address by our patron, former German president Joachim Gauck.
Montag, 09. Oktober 2023, 19 Uhr
Benefizkonzert zugunsten des Exilmuseums
Die Deutsche Oper erinnert an ehemalige, ins Exil gezwungene Mitarbeiter - und beim Ticketkauf können Sie für das Exilmuseum spenden.
Thursdays from September 14–October 5, 2023
Tour of Werkstatt Exilmuseum
Throughout the Days of Exile we offer once the week participatory conversational tour of Werkstatt Exilmuseum.
Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 7 pm
Beyond Borders: A Conversation on Art and Exile
Discussion with journalist Yasmin Merei and poet Ghayath Almadhoun
September 15–24, 2023
Audio installation: Der Reisende (The Passenger)
An immersive audio installation based on the novel by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz – with the voices of Samuel Finzi, Bjarne Mädel, Maja Schöne, and Bernhard Schütz!
September 8–October 9, 2023
Days of Exile 2023
For the first time, the Days of Exile will take place in Berlin: 4 weeks, 50 events on the topic of exile throughout the city.
September 8, 2023
Exile Visual Arts Award for Farkondeh Shahroudi
Iranian artist Farkondeh Shahroudi receives the Exile Visual Arts Award 2023, which is worth 10,000 euros.
08. September 2023
Rede zum Exil von Herta Müller
Herta Müller eröffnete die Tage des Exils in Berlin mit der "Rede zum Exil". Hier finden Sie den kompletten Text zum Nachlesen.
Friday, September 8, 2023
Days of Exile: Opening
The Days of Exile are coming to Berlin! The opening event is a Long Night of Exile at the Akademie der Künste.
Saturday, August 26, 2023, 6pm–2am
Long Night of Museums
We are taking part in the Long Night of Museums for the first time - and have prepared a special program with lots of music!
Friday, July 21, 2023, 4 pm
Informationsturm am Anhalter Bahnhof
A six-meter-high information tower at Anhalter Bahnhof bring attention to the project in planning for the site.
Thursday, July 6 2023, 7 pm
Concert Performance
Ukrainian musician Iryna lazer aka Mavka engages with the war in her home country.
Sunday, July 2, 2023, 11 am
Jonas Reise - Reading and Hands-On Tour
Book presentation of Peter von Becker's novel at Literaturhaus Berlin, followed by a hands-on tour for children and adults at Werkstatt Exilmuseum.
Friday, June 30, 2023, 5 / 6 pm
Summer Fest at Li-Be: Exile Literature
The friends' association of Literaturhaus Berlin invites you to this year’s summer fest – and we also open our doors.
Monday, June 19, 2023, 7 pm
Olga Grjasnowa: Narrating Exile
Writer Olga Grjasnowa discusses subjects such as the meaning of background, arrival in a new society, and what it means to speak several languages.
Application until June 19, 2023
Exile Visual Arts Award
The Exile Visual Arts Award honours works by artists who visualise essential questions in exile such as identity, belonging or foreignness.
June 9, 2023, 7 pm
The Train Station as a Place of Flight and Exile
Reading, conversation, app presentation
in cooperation with Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin and Museum Friedland
May 2023
Anhalter Bahnhof Revisited
Berlin's Anhalter Bahnhof is being brought back to life! Discover the architecture and stories of the nearly vanished building with an immersive 360-degree tour.
May 17, 2023, 7 pm
I Never Said Goodbye: Women in Exile
Photographer Heike Steinweg will be organizing this evening’s event with the help of the women she portrayed who live in Berlin in exile.
May 12, 2023, 7 pm
Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher. Biography of a Couple
Reading and discussion to mark the book’s publication with author Barbara von Bechtolsheim and Thomas Sparr, Suhrkamp-Verlag
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From Werkstatt to Exilmuseum: Background, Insights, and a Look Forward
Video of the opening event for Werkstatt Exilmuseum
May 6, 2023, 3 pm
"The Body Is HERE, but the Heart Is THERE"
Dance workshop dealing with motifs of departure, transit and arrival
21. April 2023
Vortrag von Aleida Assmann
Lesen Sie den Vortrag von Aleida Assmann zur Veranstaltung "Kein Land, nirgends?"
April 21, 2023, 7 pm
No Country, Nowhere?
Book presentation and conversation with Aleida Assmann, Sajjad Jahan Fard, and Harald Roth
28. März 2023
Schreiben von Staatsministerin Claudia Roth
Die Staatsministerin für Kultur und Medien Claudia Roth spricht sich für die Bestrebungen des Exilmuseums aus.
March 25-26, 2023
Opening of Werkstatt Exilmuseum
On our big opening weekend, you can expect a rich program with guests such as Burghart Klaußner, Ilija Trojanow, and Pavlo Arie. Come and celebrate with us!
January 26, 2023
Archives Seminar: Resistance from Exile
Students of the TU Berlin worked with archival materials of Exilmuseum.
January 11, 2023
Christoph Stölzl is mourned
We were very sad to learn of the sudden death of our founding director Prof. Dr. Christoph Stölzl.
December 21, 2022
Leasehold Contract
A huge step towards the Exilmuseum: After long negotiations, the leasehold contract for the property at Anhalter Bahnhof was notarized.
November 11, 2022
zdf aspekte about Exile
Freedom gained - home lost. A feature about life in exile. Presenter Katty Salié met Herta Müller at the Werkstatt Exilmuseum.
October 14, 2022
Watch Podium Discussion
"Auf dem Weg zum Exilmuseum – Flucht und Exil damals und heute"
A talk with Herta Müller, Bjeen Alhassan and Christoph Stölzl
October 15, 2022
Open House: Werkstatt Exilmuseum
A milestone to be celebrated: The foundation is moving and invites to a very special event in the yet unrenovated house.
July 9 – August 17, 2022
Exhibition: PLACE
An architectural exhibition on the designs of Dorte Mandrup – in collaboration with Exilmuseum.
June 8 – July 7, 2022
Public Participation
The plans for the museum at Anhalter Bahnhof can be commented.
March 2, 2022
Max Reinhardt – Berlin and Exile
Cornelia Vossen is a guest speaker at an event in the framework of the exhibition "Berlin Global".
September 18, 2021
Exile Then – Exile Now
Now online: video recording of the panel discussion at Anhalter Bahnhof
At Anhalter Bahnhof
Beneath the Surface
Diggers arrived at Anhalter Bahnhof ready to explore the grounds.
The Journey Continues
Exhibition Dismantled
After five months of exhibition, the former housing containers find a new home.
Only until October 31, 2021
Exhibition ZU/FLUCHT
In just a few days our open-air exhibition "ZU/FLUCHT" at Anhalter Bahnhof Berlin will come to an end.
September 3, 2021
Transnational Memory in Digital Space
En event by the NS-Dokumentationszentrum Munich with curator Cornelia Vossen
August 11, 2021
Short Film: 13 Square Meters
A short documentary about Berlin's shelters for refugees
July 24, 2021
Museumhood / Urban Gardening
The Exilmuseum would like to get to know its new neighbors. Gardening together is a good way to start.
June 26, 2021
Workshop: Furniture Building
Anyone who enjoys working with their hands or is willing to learn is invited.
June 12, 2021
Exhibition Opening: ZU/FLUCHT
A collaborative Exilmuseum exhibition on
flight and exile, in the past and today
April 23, 2021
Visit by Berlin's mayor
Berlin's mayor Michael Müller, learned about the planning of the Exilmuseum.
Summer 2021
berlinHistory App
Anhalter Bahnhof and Exilmuseum are now included in the berlinHistory app
Driven x Design Award Programs
Berlin Design Awards 2021
Honors for Dorte Mandrup's architectural design for the Exilmuseum
"Tempohome" Exilmuseum 2020/21
Student Seminar
Collaboration with TU Berlin for an exhibition project at Anhalter Bahnhof
Sept 29 – Oct 17, 2020
Exhibition of Designs
Exhibition of all designs submitted at the architectural competition for the Exilmuseum building
September 15, 2020
Bundesverdienstkreuz
Founding director Christoph Stölzl was awarded the Great Federal Commander’s Cross of Merit
The Architectural Competition 2020
Announcing the Winner
Danish architect Dorte Mandrup wins first prize in the design competition for the new Exilmuseum building.
Blog ENTWICKLUNGSSTADT
Interview about the Exilmuseum
Interview with Meike-Marie Thiele on the Blog "Entwicklungsstadt Berlin"
February 2020
Interim Presentation
Interim presentation in the architectural competition for the Exilmuseum.
November 18, 2019
At the Federal Foreign Office
Presentation for ambassadors from all over the world
September 2019
Claus-Dieter Krohn is mourned
Stiftung Exilmuseum mourns the passing of its advisor, exile researcher Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Krohn.
May 12, 2019
Background Report
Detailed background report on the Exilmuseum in the "Tagesspiegel"
Joachim Gauck
Patron of the Exilmuseum
former German President Joachim Gauck supports our project by becoming a patron alongside Nobel Prize laureate Herta Müller.
Oktober 29, 2018
Record proceeds for the Exilmuseum
At the auction of Bernd Schultz's private art collection, a sensational 6 million Euro were raised.
Oktober 17, 2018
Days of Exile
Making exile comprehensible: Herta Müller and Christoph Stölzl were guests at the Hamburg Days of Exile.
The first interview for the museum (2018)
Georg Stefan Troller
The first interview for the Exilmuseum with none other than journalist Georg Stefan Troller
Oktober 25/26, 2018
Auctions to benefit the Exilmuseum
Art auction of the Bernd Schultz collection
September 14, 2018
Archives and Museums of Exile
Visiting the annual conference of the Society for Exile Research
