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We will be opening Werkstatt Exilmuseum with a two-day program of events. All those interested are cordially invited with tours of the building, brief workshops, theater performances, film screenings, readings, and conversations to gain initial insights on the museum as it emerges. That is the idea behind Werkstatt Exilmuseum: to offer a space to actively experience and participate in the process of the future museum’s emergence at Anhalter Bahnhof.

Saturday, March 25, 2023

2 / 3 / 4 pm
Guided tours with participative elements at the Lab

5 pm: „Stories from Exile #1“
What is the connection between the experience of exile then and now? Pavlo Arie xplores this by comparing his own texts about his flight from Ukraine in 2022 with excerpts from Lion Feuchtwanger's novel "Exile".

Theater performance by and with the Ukrainian playwright and theater director Pavlo Arie and the actor Oliver Kraushaar
Duration: ca. 30 min followed by drinks and conversation
In cooperation with Berliner Ensemble

7 pm: The People vs. Fritz Bauer
(Regie: Lars Kraume, 2015, 105min)
The lawyer Fritz Bauer himself was an exile as a Nazi persecutee. After his return to Germany, he tirelessly fights to bring the perpetrators to trial - and faces further exclusion ...

Film screening and subsequent discussion with the lead actor Burghart Klaußner and Rainer Rother, artistic director, Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek
Opening the film series “Exile in Film” in collaboration with Deutsche Kinemathek

Sunday, March 26, 2023

2 / 3 / 4 pm
Guided tours with participative elements at the Lab

5 pm: „Stories from Exile #2“
In this performance Pavlo Arie, Lili Epply and the Ukrainian singer Mavka describe how they experienced the day the war broke out in Ukraine in 2022. Mavka sings Brecht songs and relates them to her own experience of flight. A touching, painfully intimate production.

Theater performance by and with the Ukrainian playwright and theater director Pavlo Arie, the singer Mavka and the actress Lili Epply
Duration: ca. 30 min followed by a reception
In cooperation with Berliner Ensemble

7 pm: „Nach der Flucht“
In his 2017 essay "After the Flight," author Ilija Trojanow, who fled Bulgaria with his parents as a child, recounts the fundamental experience of exile very poetically and intimately: "There is life after the flight. But the flight continues to have an effect, for a lifetime."

Reading and conversation with the writer Ilija Trojanow and Nadine Kreuzahler
Start of the series “Writing about Exile” in cooperation with the Körber-Stiftung, Hamburg

All events held in German

Free admission
Location: Fasanenstraße 24, 10719 Berlin
The building is unfortunately not barrier-free.