Almuth Berger
Almuth Berger, born 1943 in Tangermünde/Elbe, studied theology at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1961 to 1966 and was a pastor in Magdeburg and Berlin from 1976 to 1990. She co-founded peace groups and and participated in peace work at the Federation of Protestant Churches and is co-founder of the initiative group “Rejection of the practice and the principle of demarcation” and of the citizen movement “Democracy now”. In 1988, she co-founded one of the first non-governmental meeting centres for foreigners and residents called “Cabana”. She was a delegate of the working group “Foreigners” at the Central Round Table of the GDR. At the suggestion of the Round Table, she was appointed State Secretary and Commissioner for Foreigners at the Council of Ministers of the GDR on 1 March 1990, and Commissioner for Foreigners of the State of Brandenburg from April 1991 to November 2003.
As of March 2019.
Past Events
Palast der Republik
Day 3: New Alliances
with Boris Buden, Naika Foroutan, Srećko Horvat, Thomas Krüger, Lorenzo Marsili, Vijay Prashad, Bénédicte Savoy, Anna Stiede, Karen Taylor, Margarita Tsomou & Yanis Varoufakis
in the evening: “Musikpalast”with Astronautalis, Tyondai Braxton, Buke and Gase, Anna Calvi, Cantus Domus, Arone Dyer, Andi Haberl (The Notwist) & Kaj Duncan David, Anja Plaschg (Soap&Skin) & stargaze
Palast der Republik
Day 2: 1989/2019 - Come Together
with Boris Buden, Naika Foroutan, Bernd Gehrke, Alexander Giesche, Andrej Holm, Srećko Horvat, Anetta Kahane, Thomas Krüger, Bojana Kunst, Antonia Majaca, Irene Misselwitz, The Performance Bar, Vijay Prashad, Jörg Roesler, Andreas Siekmann, Jan Sowa, Gabriele Stötzer, Margarita Tsomou, Jeremy Wade, Anna Zett a.o.
in the evening: CHEAP
Palast der Republik
Day 1: Re-Vision
with Almuth Berger, Tatjana Böhm, Susan Buck-Morss, Boris Buden, Augusto Corrieri, Bernd Gehrke, Trajal Harrell, Max Hertzberg, Pan Daijing, Bénédicte Savoy, Bernhard Schlink, Technosekte + Henrike Naumann u.a.