Kultursymposium Weimar 2023

Programme Highlights

The interdisciplinary festival programme included lectures, discussions, interactive formats and artistic contributions. The full timetable can be found here. Here are some selected programme highlights of the festival:

Artistic Contributions

Four people stand next to each other on a bridge.

Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek

The concert by Derya Yildirim & Grup Şimşek brought the sounds of Anadolu Psych Revival to the opening night in Weimar.

Woman is sitting in front of a computer.

Cyber Elf

The lecture-performance provided an insight into the work of digital activists who expose fake news and fight Russian trolls.

You Know That You Are Human

An exhibition by artists from Ukraine and Berlin seeking to condemn Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine as a cultural breach.

Die Nibelungen

The theatre play about the dragon slayer, Siegfried, is one of the outstanding works of the European heroic epic.

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Interactive Formats

People stand on a moving platform to keep balance.

Democracy

The work symbolically invited participants to balance our fragile democratic community through a moving platform.

Small play figures hold up protest posters with writing on them.

Welcome to Belarus

The role-play explored the relationship between trust and mistrust in authoritarian societies.

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Online magazine Zeitgeister
Trust in Society, Politics & Media

Viele kleine Bilder von Menschen sind zu einem Mosaik zusammengefügt. Die Menschen unterscheiden sich in Alter, Herkunft und Geschlecht. Mit schwarzer Schrift und blauem Hintergrund steht Generationsfragen auf dem Bild. © Goethe-Institut / TAU Zeitgeister is the culture magazine of the Goethe-Institut. It addresses global issues and invites e.g. authors, experts and activists to join a worldwide discussion of culture and society. The current Zeitgeister series homes in on the functions and importance of trust in society, politics and the media.

Discussions & Talks

Installation in response to the 2020 US presidental election

Photo (detail): © picture alliance/Goldmann

Between Facts and Fiction

A discussion about trust and responsible journalism as well as dealing with fake news.

People protest for "Black Lives Matter".

Voices of Change

A discussion about trust, activism and the hope for a better future.

One person stands on the hands of another.

(Inter)personal Trust

A discussion about trust as a fundamental aspect of all (interpersonal) human relationships.

Das Blaue Sofa

Bertelsmann's literary forum will invite four well-known authors from Germany to talk about trust as a theme in their books.

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The Radio Programme
TrustFM

Viele kleine Bilder von Menschen sind zu einem Mosaik zusammengefügt. Die Menschen unterscheiden sich in Alter, Herkunft und Geschlecht. Mit schwarzer Schrift und blauem Hintergrund steht Generationsfragen auf dem Bild. © Goethe-Institut / TAU With a mixture of radio-artistic contributions, conversation formats, as well as performative interventions, the special radio program TrustFM accompanied and reflected on the Kultursymposium Weimar for five hours on May 10th and 11th.