Special exhibition Between Latvia and Germany. The Baltic artist Johann Walter-Kurau "The joy in painting nature begins only when the eye starts to see – behind the objects themselves – the melodic structure of the colors and the fine connections in the architecture of the forms," wrote the Baltic painter Johann Walter alias Walter-Kurau (1869 Jelgava/Mitau - 1932 Berlin), known...
Musical Rendition Ein Lied geht um die Welt (A Song Goes Around the World) / Die tote Stadt op. 12 – Glück, das mir verblieb (The dead city – Joy, that remained to me) Hans May (music), Ernst Neubach (text) / Erich Wolfgang Korngold (music), Paul Schott (text) / Richard Resch (tenor), Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau (piano)
Indexing project Projekt zur Tiefenerschließung des Teilnachlasses Max Herrmann-Neiße ("Project for the Deeper Indexing of the Partial Estate of Max Herrmann-Neisse") He was one of the best-known writers in Berlin during the Weimar period and later a prominent face of exile poetry – yet Max Herrmann-Neisse was largely forgotten after his early death. In order to remedy this, the Martin Opitz Library has opened up a partial estate for posterity, including...
Indexing project Securing the estate of Richard Wagner Since May 2015, Richard Wagner's estate has been catalogued and organized according to scholarly and archival criteria as part of a two-year project. It has now been generally accessible since October 2017.
Travelling exhibition The Schaleks – a Central European Family / Schalekovi – středoevr+ opská rodina A war correspondent, an artistic witness of the Shoah, a resistance fighter and escape helper, a judge in the Hanussen trial and an activist of the German minority – all from one German-Czech-Jewish family.
