Academy Discussions / Academy Dialogues
Academy Discussions 2015 – 2024
From 2015 to 2024, the then Akademie President Jeanine Meerapfel was responsible for the series of discussions on artistic, political and cultural-political themes. In a total of 24 events, she questioned artists, politicians, scholars and journalists about current events and how to tackle them. Topics included the political situation for artists in various countries around the world, the catchwords “integration”, “community of values” and “flood of refugees”, cultural film funding, art and AI, the climate catastrophe and the Last Generation, the future of public broadcasting and the shift to the right in Germany.
The [and ...] stood for insights into the creative output of the invited artists, whose works were presented in short video clips before and after the discussions.
23rd Academy Discussion
Shift to the right in Germany
10 October 2023
22nd Academy Discussion
Culture-free zone? The future of public broadcasting
4 September 2023
21st Academy Discussion
Climate catastrophe and Last Generation
24 April 2023
20th Academy Discussion
Content versus Film
13 February 2023
18th Academy Discussion
Russia and Ukraine – Artists Talk about War and Peace
5 April 2022
17th Academy Discussion
German Film Abroad – a Laughing Stock, a Marginal Phenomenon, a Dream for the Future?
8 February 2022
16th Academy Discussion
About Cinema Landscapes and Streaming Worlds
9 February 2021
15th Academy Discussion
Against the Destruction of the Open Society
14 September 2020
14th Academy Discussion
What are Film Festivals for?
12 February 2020
13th Academy Discussion [and ...]
Art + AI: ?
18 September 2019
12th Academy Discussion [and ...]
Funding for Art Films Now!
5 February 2019
11th Academy Discussion
Anti-Semitism in Germany – Still, Again?
16 October 2018
10th Academy Discussion [and ...]
Turkey of the Artists
8 March 2018
9th Academy Discussion [and ...]
Long Live the Cinema! The Situation of Cinema in Germany
6 February 2018
8th Academy Discussion
Europe: From the Economic Union to a Republic?
16 May 2017
7th Academy Discussion
Wounded Europe II
The internal wounds
7 March 2017
6th Academy Discussion
Wounded Europe I
The external wounds
5 October 2016
5th Academy Discussion [and …]
“Heimat” today
8 June 2016
4th Academy Discussion [and …]
What do we think? Integration, a Community of Shared Values, Streams of Refugees
1 March 2016
3rd Academy Discussion [and ...]
Mafalda and Eternauta Save the World. The Critical Art of Argentinian Comics
11 November 2015
2nd Academy Discussion [and …]
Cuba – quo vadis? Cuban Artists in Times of Change
5 October 2015
1st Academy Discussion [and …]
Artists in Greece: Survival in Stormy Weather
1 September 2015
Academy Discussions 2006 – 2015
In 2006, the then Akademie President Klaus Staeck initiated a series of discussions and chaired it until 2015. In a total of 62 events, he discussed topics with guests such as changes in copyright laws, the cultural mission of the public broadcasting stations, the role of art in the social upheavals of 1968 and 1989, the design of Berlin’s Museum Island, the murder of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya , the power and influence of Google, the condemnation of the death penalty, the global threat of climate change, poverty in Germany, Europe’s refugee policy, and the situations of the threatened artists Ai Weiwei and Roberto Saviano.
Academy Dialogues
From 2017 to 2023, the then Akademie President Jeanine Meerapfel entered into an intensive dialogue with renowned personalities from the arts, sciences, politics or cultural policy. Afterwards, the audience was invited to contribute to this exchange on current issues. Guests included the historian and prejudice researcher Wolfgang Benz, the social scientist and author Hazel Rosenstrauch, the then Senator for Culture and Europe Klaus Lederer, the architect Wilfried Wang, the author Max Czollek, the visual artist Anna Schapiro, the author Deborah Feldman, the film director Peter Lilienthal, the rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, the sociologist Natan Sznaider and the media scientist Lea Wohl von Haselberg.
Academy Dialogue: Discussion with Max Czollek, Anna Schapiro and Jeanine Meerapfel
Desintegration and Empathy
30 October 2019
Academy Dialogue: Discussion with Peter Lilienthal, Deborah Feldman and Jeanine Meerapfel
Unorthodox Thinking
4 September 2018
Academy Dialogue: Discussion with Jeanine Meerapfel, Klaus Lederer and Wilfried Wang
Sham Palace/Seesaw/Barn
17 October 2017
Academy Dialogue: Discussion with Hazel Rosenstrauch and Jeanine Meerapfel
How to Deal with Complexity
4 September 2017
Academy Dialogue: Discussion with Jeanine Meerapfel, Monika Grütters and Stefan Kraus
The Future of Museums
2 May 2017
Academy Dialogue: Discussion with Wolfgang Benz and Jeanine Meerapfel
Those Who Do Not Remember Repeat Their Mistakes
17 January 2017