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An ensemble from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) presents itself with an unusual trio line-up at the second 'Notturno' evening of the season on 1 February. Works for transverse flute, violoncello and fortepiano by Haydn, Kozeluch and Weber are on the programme in the Deutsch-Römer-Saa

The West Berlin painter Peter Grämer had dug through the ruins in the 1960s - his widow Christine Weber has now handed over 1500 objects, mainly ceramics, but also bronze, iron and stone. The Martin-Gropius-Bau, which is so well-known in Berlin today and was long used as a museum of arts and crafts,

The ideas competition for the Museum of the 20th Century at Berlin's Kulturforum came to an end this Friday with the selection of ten winning designs. The teams of architects and landscape architects responsible for the award-winning designs have thus qualified to take part in the realisation compet

The winners of the 2015 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition will be presented to the public in three festive concerts at the University of the Arts in mid-January From 14 to 16 January, the best students at German music academies in the fields of viola, trumpet, clarinet and vocal ens

One year ago, the collector Erich Marx died at the age of 99. Around 200 invited guests honoured the great collector and patron today at a memorial service at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin, the museum whose creation and success Erich Marx had significantly supported with the

On 1 April 1924, the colourful bust of Queen Nefertiti was presented to a wider public for the first time in a museum setting, in a newly designed section of the permanent exhibition of the Egyptian Collection in the Neues Museum. The bust was found in Tell-el-Amarna in 1912 as part of a scientific

The 2021 Annual Report of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has just been published. SPK President Hermann Parzinger writes in the editorial that the past twelve months have been characterised above all by "a longing for normality". Despite the pandemic-related impositions, many visitors onc

Europe's colonial heritage plays a major role in current social discourse. The Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory (BGAEU), founded on the initiative of Rudolf Virchow in 1869, curates a historical teaching collection of human skulls and skeletons, which was mainly compiled by

Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz succeed in joint acquisition - thanks to Kulturstiftung der Länder and Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung The "Karlsruhe Sketchbook" by Caspar David Friedrich is staying in Germany! The Klassik Stiftung We

Today, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel will open the "Expedition Future" exhibition train in Berlin. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, answers the question of why we are researching and preserving evidence of past cultures in carriage 11, which is dedicated