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Bring on the good life: on 14 September 2025, the Kulturforum Berlin celebrated its annual summer festival – both indoors and outdoors. With guided tours, workshops, concerts and, of course, the legendary open-air buffet

Holger Ehrhardt is a professor of German studies at the University of Kassel, specialising in the ‘Works and Influence of the Brothers Grimm’. His research frequently takes him to Berlin, as this is where the estate of the two giants of fairy-tale literature, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, is held. In thi

On 18 July 2024, a ceremony was held at the plaster casting workshop of the Berlin State Museums, attended by the Ambassador of the Republic of Guatemala, H.E. Jorge Alfredo Lemcke Arevalo, to mark the handover of two replicas to the Guatemalan Museo Comunitario Yalambojoch. The plaster casts of obj

Holger Ehrhardt is a professor of German studies at the University of Kassel, specialising in the ‘Works and Influence of the Brothers Grimm’. His research frequently takes him to Berlin, as this is where the estate of the two giants of fairy-tale literature, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, is held. In thi

On 18 July 2024, a ceremony was held at the plaster casting workshop of the Berlin State Museums, attended by the Ambassador of the Republic of Guatemala, H.E. Jorge Alfredo Lemcke Arevalo, to mark the handover of two replicas to the Guatemalan Museo Comunitario Yalambojoch. The plaster casts of obj

My Berlin began with Heinz Berggruen - professionally and emotionally. When I became President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in February 1999, one of my first encounters was with Heinz and Bettina Berggruen in the Stüler Building, in the Berggruen Collection. It was friendship at firs

Foundation restituted over 350 works of art and more than 2000 books - Magazine shows in reports, interviews and portraits how the provenance of objects is researched and how fair and equitable solutions are found Washington was a revolution". This is how US diplomat Stuart Eizenstat describes the c

- The spoken word prevails - Salutations, In the long shared history of Germany and Russia, the past 20th century was undoubtedly a special one with very dark but also brighter days. There was unimaginable suffering and inconceivable crimes that emanated from German soil and were committed in German

Recently, Dr Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of the Republic of Egypt, sent a letter to Prof Dr Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, requesting the return of the bust of Nefertiti. The letter is not signed by the Prime Minist

Today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously appointed Dr Elisabeth Tietmeyer as the new Director of the Museum of European Cultures of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage. She has already been Deputy Director of this museum since Octo