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  1. The Songs of the Germans: What is really behind the SPK's initiative? (28.07.2016)

    Replace the “Song of the Germans”? Do away with the national anthem? Just sweep unity and justice and freedom under the carpet of history? No, that is not what the Foundation is trying to do, even if some of the media have given the story that slant. First, a little back-story: 2016 is the 175th ann

  2. The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz as an Employer

    The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz as an Employer As a public employer, the Foundation offers attractive conditions such as individual regulation of working hours, opportunities for professional development and salaries in accordance with the rules for civil service. The Tarifverträge des öffent

  3. The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz in Research Associations

    The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz in Research Associations The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz is an active member of several interdisciplinary research associations. This enables it to develop and expand its own potential. The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage F

  4. The Whole World on One Island (24.02.2017)

    For the first time outside of the Villa von der Heydt: At their 2017 yearly press conference at the Altes Museum, the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz demonstrated that all sights are set on the Humboldt Forum and highlighted the theme of digitalization. Long before the actual opening of the Humbol

  5. The Whole of Bach in One Mass (20.10.2017)

    Conductor Ton Koopman on the Mass in B Minor, a treasure of the Staatsbibliothek that now also belongs to the Memory of the World – performed in three concerts by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Stored at a constant temperature of eighteen degrees Celsius with fifty percent humidity in the vault

  6. The Wreckage of Culture (25.02.2022)

    SPK President Hermann Parzinger on long-standing cultural relations with Russia and the fatal consequences of the Ukraine war SPK President Hermann Parzinger wrote this text earlier this week. We aren't going to update it, even if events have overtaken it, because it deals with the possibilities of

  7. The importance of interconnected collections: Xingú representatives visit the IAI (04.11.2024)

    Exchange with indigenous representatives from the Brazilian Amazon region of Xingú at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) On October 18, 2024, indigenous representatives of the Waurá and Kuikuro from the Brazilian Amazon region of the Rio Xingú visited the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI). Au

  8. The spring issue of the Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte is on the theme of colonial goods (19.02.2021)

    The range of colonial goods is as diverse as their places of origin. The spring issue of the Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte traces the ups and downs of their history to the present day. “Colonial goods have it all,” write the editors Ulrike Gleixner, Alexandra Kemmerer, Michael Matthiesen, together

  9. Theo Eshetu and the Dahlem Museums on documenta14 (14.08.2017)

    Video artist Theo Eshetu has been following the move of the Dahlem museums into the Humboldt-Forum for a documentary film he is making. At documenta 14, he is showing Atlas Fractured, an expansive installation that projects video onto a banner which originally hung over the entrance to the Dahlem mu

  10. They Call Him “Mohammed Concrete” (29.07.2016)

    Mohammed's home, Syria, lies in ruins, but he still believes in the future. To symbolize it, he has made a wing of concrete for the exhibition "daHEIM – glances into fugitive lives", now showing at the Museum Europäischer Kulturen. Mohammed Concrete's home lies in ruins. Rubble covers the ground on