Programmes

With exhibitions, talks, readings, films and educational programmes, our programmes create spaces for encounters, exchange and new perspectives. Various programme series connect the history of exile from 1933 to 1945 with questions of our time and invite visitors to reflect on democracy, belonging and social cohesion.

From Here – Fasanenstraße and Exile

With the exhibition "From Here," the Exilmuseum begins to engage with the building, the street and the neighbourhood in which it is being created. We are collecting the stories of people who once lived here and who, persecuted by the National Socialists, had to flee into exile. Visitors are invited to share their knowledge about people from the street and thus contribute to the ever-growing collection.

From Here

Stories of Exile from Fasanenstraße

Portrait of a Street

Portrait of a Street

About the mural by illustrator Carlo Stanga

From Fasanenstraße to Auschwitz

From Fasanenstraße to Auschwitz

With historian Atina Grossmann

Embassies of Exile

Life in exile is always connected to at least two countries. This international perspective shapes the Exilmuseum. For the programme "Embassies of Exile", it works with embassies in Germany and abroad. This creates new partnerships and a global network.

The series focuses on largely overlooked figures from the arts, literature and academia who found refuge from the National Socialists in the respective partner country. Each event is individually conceived, whether as a lecture, reading, concert, film screening or conversation with descendants.
The events take place at various locations in Germany and abroad: at the embassies themselves, in cultural institutions, academic institutions or at the Exilmuseum.

The programme was developed by Ruth Ur and Thomas Sparr. It is funded by the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung.

Speechless in Sweden?

Panel discussion

Speechless in Sweden?

With Aris Fioretos and Deniz Utlu

"The ground is burning beneath our feet."

Book presentation

"The ground is burning beneath our feet."

A Jewish family between Berlin, Santiago de Chile and the Litzmannstadt Ghetto

Einstein's Time Machine: The Life and Work of Composer Julia Kerr

Reading and Music

Einstein's Time Machine: The Life and Work of Composer Julia Kerr

Event at the Einstein House in Caputh

Education and Mediation

The Exilmuseum sees educational outreach as one of its central tasks and as an essential part of its social responsibility. Drawing on the experiences of people who fled Germany between 1933 and 1945 to escape National Socialism, the museum opens up spaces for historical learning, critical engagement and shared reflection on the present.

Our education and outreach programmes are aimed at people of all age groups, with different experiences and perspectives. Workshops, guided tours and participatory formats create opportunities to acquire knowledge, develop questions and enter into dialogue with one another. The education programme is continuously expanded and developed further.

Ein Foto von drei Koffern jeweils umrandt von einem Ring. Auf jedem Koffer steht je ein Gegenstand: Ein Spielzeugauto, ein Katzen-Stofftier und ein Hunde-Stofftier

Roots in the wind

Educational programme for children and school classes

At the ruins

In 2025, the Exilmuseum Foundation launched a new exhibition series featuring artistic installations at the ruins of the portal to the historic Anhalter Bahnhof. The installations engage with the site and its history, while also bringing the concept of exile from history into the present. The projects aim to strengthen Anhalter Bahnhof as a vibrant place of remembrance and culture.

The series is kindly supported by Deutsche Bahn AG and the Heinz
and Heide Dürr Foundation.

I Don't Have Another Land

Art installation

I Don't Have Another Land

by Nathan Coley

Media cooperation with Ullstein Bild Collection

Media partnership between the Exilmuseum Foundation and ullstein bild

With the opening of the exhibition From Here in and about Fasanenstraße, two institutions are joining forces, having found one another through photography and its history. Today’s Ullstein photographic collection at ullstein bild traces its origins back to Ullstein Verlag, founded by Leopold Ullstein in 1877, and will therefore celebrate its 150th anniversary next year, while also looking back on an eventful history. Since then, photographs have been collected, produced, commissioned, preserved and printed at Ullstein: for publication in the successful Ullstein magazines and newspapers, with groundbreaking consequences for the history of photography.

With the rise of National Socialism and the rupture of 1933, the Ullstein family, numerous employees, as well as the company’s photographers entered periods of flight and exile. This exile of people who had lived and worked in Berlin for many years writes its own, new stories. “Loss and new beginnings, uncertainty and departure, persecution and survival” are themes of both the Exilmuseum Foundation and ullstein bild.

<p>Fasanenstraße 24, 1980</p> — Fasanenstraße 24, 1980, Photo: ullstein bild – Harry Hampel

<p>Rudolf Breitscheid, 1919</p> — Rudolf Breitscheid, 1919, Photo: ullstein bild

<p>Synagoge in der Fasanenstraße, 1930</p> — Synagoge in der Fasanenstraße, 1930, Photo: ullstein bild