„Kultur gegen das Vergessen“ Supporterticket

Access to all events in the Sophienkirche. In the Tor218 Artlab gallery & bar with registration and confirmation by email.

“Culture against that Forget“
Supporter ticket: 50€

You have access to all events in the Sophienkirche and the Tor218 Artlab gallery & bar. (Except: “Shoah” in the Babylon cinema)

Inquiries for the events in the Artlab by email: [email protected]. Reservations confirmed by email upon receipt. Places are limited. Inquire about the event in the subject line.

Events:

Gallery & Bar Tor218 Artlab:
Torstr. 218 - 10115 Berlin - Mitte

Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
Opening: 6 p.m. with reception for sponsors and supporters
Martin Feifel - Kafka
Start of the theater performance: 7:00 p.m. (until around 8:30 p.m.)
The following is the theater audience is invited to the vernissage of the exhibition opening by Peter Burchia.

Tuesday, January 27th, 2026 - 7:30 p.m.
"No closed season for Jews"
By and with: Rafael Seligmann
Reading: Almut Zilcher
Moderator: Sophia Spiliotis
Start: 20 p.m.
Entry: 7:30 p.m.

Sophienkirche: upon presentation of the supporter ticket
Große Hamburger Str. 29-30, 10115 Berlin

Saturday, January 24th, 2026 - Sophienkirche,
7:30 p.m. (from 7 p.m Admission)
Sonat Vox and Angela Winkler

Friday, January 30th, 2026 -
8:00 p.m.
Concert and performance
Yuriy Gurzhy and Mariana Sadovska
Spatial conception: Anna Mesniankina

CULTURE AGAINST THAT FORGETTING

CULTURE AGAINST FORGETTING is an interdisciplinary, international cultural initiative that has been implemented in Berlin since 2025 as a regular series of events by Andreas Lechner. The focus is on the question of how remembrance culture can be shaped in the 21st century – beyond ritualized forms. The answer is: as a lively, multi-voiced, sensually experienced and politically relevant examination of history and the present. Remembrance is understood as a public process - artistic, social and open to exchange.

This claim was already noticeable in January 2025. To mark the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism, exhibitions, film screenings and readings took place in Berlin. The reading from Peter Weiss’ Aesthetics of Resistance in the Sophienkirche was particularly intense. Andreas Lechner commented: "In times of increasing right-wing ideologies and growing anti-Semitism, the project wants to create spaces in which art not only entertains, but also awakens."

Events such as the film screenings The Investigation of RP Kahl and Josef Bierbichler's film Two Men in Suits met with a great response and marked the start of a movement, memory as the present and resistance understands.

From 2026, CULTURE AGAINST FORGETTING will appear together with Progress through Art e.V. and with the support of the Remembrance, Responsibility and Future Foundation (EVZ) and in Baden Württemberg with the Berthold Leibinger Foundation, Stiftung Wüstenrot, Stolpersteine and HotelSilber in Stuttgart.

The project is also becoming more international: cooperation with the Ukrainian Institute illuminate the Jewish history of Ukraine; with locomotive material! Theater Stuttgart involves young people in participatory theater formats. Further partnerships are being planned.

CULTURE AGAINST FORGETTING combines artistic excellence with social responsibility. It does not seek a closed narrative, but rather opens up spaces for reflection, contradiction and exchange. Memory is not the past alone - it is the present, resistance and cultural practice.