Literary scholar and opera dramaturge Prof. Dr. Tina Hartmann (University of Bayreuth) will give a lecture entitled “Patriarchy and the Triumph of the Female Voice: Ingeborg Bachmann's Novel ‘Malina’ – an Opera Libretto for the Bachmann Year” on Tuesday, January 27, at 6:00 p.m.

On Monday, 26 January at 6.15 pm, PD Dr. Christian Dietrich (Institute for Regional History at the Saxony-Anhalt State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology) will be a guest at the interdisciplinary Jerzy Giedroyc Research Colloquium. In his lecture "Security Mission: Friendship between Nations. State Security, People's Police and Labor and Educational Migration to the GDR (1972–1990)", he will talk about how the GDR authorities dealt with foreign students and contract workers.

Prof. Dr. Gangolf Hübinger and Prof. Dr. Rita Aldenhoff-Hübinger (both Viadrina) will be guests at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) on Monday, 26 January at 6:00 p.m. Together with Academy President Prof. Dr. Christoph Markschies and Stefan Rebenich (University of Bern), they will talk about "Mommsen's Berlin Networks".

On Monday, January 26, 4:15 pm, Dr. Amelie Kutter (Viadrina) will give the lecture "The governmentality of sustainability transition. The case of Peatlands". The case study on the sustainability transformation of peatlands in Brandenburg concludes the English-language lecture series "Beyond Sustainability: Humanities and Social Sciences Perspectives on the Ecological Crisis" from the Viadrina Institute for European Studies.

Under the motto "Public Rehearsal", the multi-award-winning film and television actor Jörg Schüttauf and the Hamburg actor and theater producer Holger Umbreit invite you to a Ringelnatz program at Frankfurt's Theaterhaus Kleist Forum on 25 January. In it, they will dedicate themselves to the amusing texts of the poet and cabaret artist, who traveled all over Germany and neighbouring countries for engagements and readings during his life, and combine them with their own rehearsal and touring experiences.

Chambers of Industry and Commerce in Berlin and Brandenburg call for action on the i2030 rail infrastructure program - The chambers of industry and commerce in Berlin and Brandenburg have reacted with disillusionment to the federal government's response to a minor question from the Green parliamentary group in the Bundestag on the i2030 infrastructure program. The answer makes it clear that the further financing of central rail projects, including the reconstruction of the Potsdam main line and the extension of several S-Bahn lines, is not secured.

Jens Warnken, President of the Cottbus Chamber of Industry and Commerce, comments on the Brandenburg government crisis on behalf of the State Working Group of Chambers of Industry and Commerce in Brandenburg: "From the point of view of the business community, talks with the CDU on the formation of a new state government must now start immediately so that the government crisis in Brandenburg can be overcome quickly ... "

The Protestant parish of Eisenhüttenstadt is showing the exhibition "Women in Divided Germany" in the community center from 13 February to 3 July 2026. The division of Germany has been history for over three decades. But many clichés about women from East and West Germany persist to this day. Where do these attributions come from? And how much is really behind them? The exhibition explores these questions.

The Frankfurt (Oder) Music School invites you to two public preparatory concerts for the "Jugend musiziert" competition. The concerts will take place on Thursday, January 29 and Tuesday, February 10, both at 6 p.m. at the music school. Pupils from the music school who are taking part in this year's competition will present their program in front of an audience and gain important performance experience in the process.

A heartfelt interpretation of "The Little Prince", the famous book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, awaits the audience on January 24 at Frankfurt's Theaterhaus Kleist Forum. A powerful narrative meets incredibly poetic images that are created live in front of the audience in sand, painted by one of the most virtuoso sand artists of our time.