Summer School

As part of Performing Exiles there will be a “Summer School” from 16 to 28 June 2025. This will offer workshops, seminars and mentoring. The participants will see the performances and guest productions in the festival programme and visit artistic initiatives and cultural institutions in Berlin that operate across a wide range of disciplines and contexts. Under the direction of Christoph Gurk, the two-week “Summer School” will focus on the concept of ‘freedom’. On one hand, this is essential to maintaining any kind of democracy. At the same time, it has been instrumentalised by populist and neofascist forces for explicitly anti-democratic purposes – especially in the last decade. A public presentation of the participants’ current work and research at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele will complete the programme.

With

Gürsoy Doğtaş, Julia Grosse, Amir Reza Koohestani, Juliane Rebentisch, Olga von Schubert and more.

Christoph Gurk – Artistic direction