CULTURE AGAINST FORGETTING - Reading of "The Aesthetics of Resistance" by Peter Weiss

A reading from Peter Weiss's "The Aesthetics of Resistance" with prominent artists and actors will commemorate the victims on January 26 at 3 p.m. in the Sophienkirche in Berlin-Mitte as part of the "Culture Against Forgetting" event series (January 24-26, 2025) and in the run-up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day, millions of people who were murdered in the Holocaust are remembered worldwide. The reading "The Aesthetics of Resistance – Peter Weiss 100" is based on a text version by Arved Schultze, which was created for the festival at HAU Hebbel am Ufer (2016), curated by Aenne Quiñones.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day was established by the United Nations in 2005 and commemorates the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on January 27 each year. "KULTUR GEGEN DAS VERGESSEN" (Culture Against Forgetting) is a series of events taking place from January 24 to January 26, 2025, at various locations in Berlin to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27. The series is the brainchild of author and actor Andreas Lechner, who, together with renowned artists such as Josef Bierbichler, Nina Kunzendorf, and Samuel Finzi, keeps historical memory alive.

Contributors:
Nina Kunzendorf, Samuel Finzi, Bernhard Schütz, Mark Waschke, Hermann Beil, Anne Ratte-Polle, Florian Karlheim, Nils Bruno Schmidt, Gerry Jochum, Cynthia Buchheim, Mario Mentrup, Susanna Kraus, Andreas Pietschmann, Andreas Lechner, and others.

Tickets: €26, reduced €6 plus fees
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Organizer:
KULTUR GEGEN DAS VERGESSEN was created in collaboration with Förderverein Sophienkirche e.V., Hebbel am Ufer, Leonine Studios, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, Film & Mischwaren, Suhrkamp Theater Verlag, X Verleih AG, Franz Meiller Stiftung, Neue Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, Tucholsky Buchhandlung, Kino in der Kulturbrauerei, and many other supporters.
Media partner: Berliner Zeitung

Graphics (©) Förderverein Sophienkirche