The Oderbruchmuseum invites you to the opening of the season on 7 March at 11 a.m. at Altranft Castle.
The five authors of the new workshop book NACHBARSCHAFT will read from their texts, which they wrote together with around 25 people in the Oderbruch region. There will be clever, thought-provoking and cheerful insights into living together. The presentation of the museum's 10th workshop book will be accompanied by music from Sören Birke on the harmonica.
Sören Birke (*1966 in Stralsund) is a cultural and theatre scholar, cultural manager and musician. He began as a self-taught blues harmonica player in 1982, learnt the violoncello, the Jew's harp in 1996 and the duduk in 2000. Since 1983, he has been travelling in Germany, the USA, Australia, Poland and Armenia as a live musician at major festivals and with renowned musicians. He has worked and performed with Dirk Michaelis, Blues & Loose, Robin Hemingway, Engerling, the 17 Hippies, Gerd Conradt, Spiridon Schischigin, Magda Piskorczy and Lutz Glandien, published books, CDs and a film and is a co-initiator of the Musik 2020 Berlin campaign.
At 1 pm, the Bildersalon will present the extensive picture series "Brücken. Places of German-Polish Neighbourhoods" by Holger Herschel and Jürgen Danyel. Both have been travelling on the bridges over the Oder between Hohensaaten and Frankfurt (Oder) and have spoken to and photographed people in whose everyday lives a bridge between Germany and Poland plays an important role.
From 12 noon to 2 pm, Kai Kreutzmann will be offering baked bread and cake on site at the Fischerhaus. Anyone passing by is also invited to take a look inside the Fischerhaus, which has undergone an interior refurbishment in recent months thanks to LEADER funding. The house was renovated by the Drei Schilde company from Eberswalde to make it bright and welcoming, but you can still see from the individual coloured and plastered windows that you are in a very old house. Nora Scholz awaits you and will be happy to show you the rooms, where group workshops can now take place again.
At 3 pm, you are invited to a concert with Heike Mildner in the castle cellar. In her songs, hearts are swallowed and ghosts are banished, dissidents rummage through the archives and double grain and magic tea help against the mischief of the world. Heike Mildner finds catchy melodies for her lyrics, which she sings with a warm alto voice to the guitar. Heike Mildner learnt the violin as a child, later the guitar, studied musicology and cultural studies in Berlin, moved to the countryside and has lived on a farm on the edge of the Oderbruch since 2018. Heike Mildner released her second solo CD "doppelt gewendet" in 2024, which was recorded in the Acoustic Sound Studio in Oderbruch. The title "Nicht willkommen" was number 1 on the song best list in October 2024.
Every day of the programme also offers something to learn and participate in. To open the season, Mathilde will be showing how to make animated films from 12 noon to 4 pm. Come and join us! Admission is free.
When and where?
Saturday, 7 March 2026 | 11 a.m.
Oderbruch Museum in Altranft Castle
Am Anger 27, 16259 Bad Freienwalde OT Altranft
More info
Phone 0 33 44 - 33 39 11
info@oderbruchmuseum.de
Further events can be found at
www.kulturerbe-oderbruch.de/veranstaltungen