George Abungu is a member of the International Team of Experts. An archaeologist, he has been director of Okello Abungu Heritage Consultants in Nairobi since 2002. He has served as director general of the National Museums of Kenya, and vice president of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). As a member of the Standing Committee for Museum Definition, Prospects and Potentials, he participated in the development of the draft resolution for the new version of the ICOM museum definition of 2019.

Priya Basil is an author and activist. In her book Gastfreundschaft she combines stories about her family’s Indian and Kenyan traditions, her British heritage, and life in Germany into a passionate plea for hospitality in Europe. She is co-founder of the Organisation Authors for Peace, a member of the advisory council at the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights and initiator of the campaign for an official continent-wide Europe-day holiday. Her new book, In Us and Now – Becoming Feminist, will be published in German in spring 2021.

Ketan Bhatti is a composer, drummer and crossover artist working between different genres and cultural worlds. His works range from contemporary chamber music, through to experimental musical and dance theatre, to electronic hip-hop based productions. Along with his brother Vivan Bhatti, he has composed music for theatrical productions by Nuran David Calis since 2003, and for the urban Berlin dance company Flying Steps since 2009. Ketan founded the Trickster Orchestra together with Cymin Samawatie in 2013 as a chamber orchestra for contemporary, trans-traditional soundscapes and experimental development methods.

David Blankenstein is curator of the Impressions. The Humboldt Brothers exhibition, which will be open to Humboldt Forum visitors from 2021. He studied History of Art and Museum Studies in Berlin and Montreal, and has been researching the Humboldt brothers for around ten years. In 2019 he curated an exhibition on Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin as well as an exhibition on Alexander in Havana.

Stefan Danziger is a German stand-up comedian. Born in the GDR, he and his family attempted to escape to the FRG. Unfortunately, however, in his words, they ‘took a wrong turn’ and lived for some years in the Soviet Union. In 2006 he moved to Berlin-Wedding and worked as a city guide. Since 2011 he has been using his experiences as comedy material on stage in Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Edinburgh, Krakow and Warsaw in German and English. His performances shine a light on history and the stories behind it, as well as cultural contradictions and the absurdities of everyday life.

Hartmut Dorgerloh has held the post of general director of the Humboldt Forum since June 2018. Prior to this, he was general director of the Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg from 2002 to 2018. He is a monument conservator and cultural manager, and holds a doctorate in History of Art. He has taught as honorary professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2004 and has been a regular lecturer at the University of Bern since 2007.

Lavinia Frey has been managing director of the Programme and Projects department for the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss since 2018. Prior to that, she served for two years as director of culture and managing director of Humboldt Forum Kultur GmbH. A graduate historian, she has worked as a director, choreographer and dramaturge on various international stages and for ten years she headed a concept agency for cultural events.

Monika Grütters is now in her second term as Minister of State, and has held the post of Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media since 2013. A politician for culture and member of the CDU, she is a long-standing member of the German Bundestag and previously of the Berlin House of Representatives. Following a professional career in press and public relations for cultural institutions, since 1999 she has held the post of honorary professor of cultural management at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Eleonora Gotopo is a singer, composer, orchestra conductor and educator. She studied, taught and conducted orchestras in the renowned venezuelan program for children and youth El Sistema. Now based in Berlin, her last projects include a dance collaboration on Amanda Piña’s piece Dance & Resistance, Endangered Human Movements, performed in HAU Berlin; composing the Soundtrack for the Angolan film Para lá dos meus passos premiered at Encounters (South Africa) and Cinedans (Amsterdam), and her solo artist debut: her song Malembe.

Diana Guzmán is director of the Museo Etnográfico Regional Indígena – ENOSIMAR – in Mitú, Colombia, and teaches at the Escuela Normal Superior Indígena María Reina. Since 2017, she has been involved in the Ethnologisches Museum’s collaborative project Sharing Knowledge as an expert on the collections from her region of origin, and has twice visited the museum and the city.

Alfred Hagemann has been head of History of the Site at the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss since 2018. An art historian, he previously spent many years as a staff member at the Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg, including as curator of the 2009 Schönhausen Palace permanent exhibition, the 2012 Friederisiko exhibition at the New Palace in Potsdam and the Frauensache exhibition at the Charlottenburg Palace in 2015.

Lars-Christian Koch is an ethnologist and ethno-musicologist, and holds responsibility for the collections of the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst. From 2003 to 2018 he was head of the Department of Media and Music Ethnology, Visual Anthropology and the Phonogramme Archive at the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. He is also associate professor of ethno-musicology at the Universität zu Köln and honorary professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

Uta Kornmeier is curator for science and research at Stiftung Humboldt Forum. Holding a MA degree in Museum Studies from the University of London she earned her PhD in art history from Humboldt University Berlin. She worked as a researcher and academic coordinator at the University of Oxford amongst others, and most recently at Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin. Apart from her academic career, she worked as an exhibition curator for artistic and research-based projects.

Kathrin Lange has worked as a member of the Commission of Experts for the reconstruction of the Berlin Palace façade since 2010, and since 2017 as principal restorer for the Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg (SPSG). She is a stone sculptor with a diploma in restoration, and since 1991 has worked as a specialist in sculptural restoration for the SPSG, where she took over the management in 2006.

Antoinette Lepper has been a curator at the department for the History of the Site at the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss since 2018. Following her studies in History of Art, Classical Archaeology and Ethnology, she worked as a research associate at the Haus der Geschichte in Bonn and the Jüdisches Museum Berlin. From 2010 to 2017 she worked as a freelance exhibition curator and publicist.

Lisa Noggler and Maria Prantl are the „Ausstellungsmacherinnen“ („exhibition makers“). With their cultural agency based in Schwaz and Vienna, they plan and manage projects in the cultural scene and design exhibitions, educational programmes and thematic outdoor tours. Together they have worked for the Vienna Technical Museum, the vorarlberg museum and the Wien Museum.

Gorch Pieken is scientific director at the Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr (Centre for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr) in Potsdam. From May 2018 to December 2020, he was (partially) seconded to the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as senior curator for the Humboldt Lab.

Judith Prokasky has been curator for the History of the Site department at the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss since the beginning of 2014. A cultural and art historian, she has worked in the museum field for 20 years, predominantly in the areas of power, representation and propaganda.

Clemens Rynkowski is a composer, thereminist and musical director. He lives in Berlin and works transdisciplinarily for orchestra, chamber ensembles, film, dance, theatre and music theatre. Previous positions: Berliner Ensemble, Bayerische Staatsoper München, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken, Nationaltheater Weimar, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Goethe-Institut Ramallah. Lectureships at the universities of Weimar, Rostock, Erfurt.

Mitri Sirin is a radio and TV presenter. He has worked on rbb’s rbb aktuell, and in 2009 began working as a news presenter for ZDF. He has presented ZDFheute, ZDFwochen-journal, and political current affairs programmes such as the Wie geht’s Deutschland? coverage of the 2014 European elections. He currently co-moderates the ZDF-Morgenmagazin programme alongside Dunja Hayali and Harriet von Waldenfels.

Paul Spies has been director of the Stadmuseum Berlin since February 2016, and is principal curator for the State of Berlin at the Humboldt Forum. He was born in the Netherlands in 1960. A graduate in History of Art and Ancient Archaeology, he founded D’arts – an art-historical consultancy bureau – with two colleagues directly after his graduation. He worked there for 21 years, until he was appointed director of the Amsterdam Museum in 2009.

Wolfgang Thierse was President of the German Bundestag from 1998 to 2005 and Vice President from 2005 to 2013. In October 1989, Thierse joined the Neues Forum political movement, and became chair of the SPD party in the GDR in 1990. From March to October 1990, he was a member of the GDR’s first freely elected Volkskammer. He was deputy chair of the SPD until 2005 and until 2009 he was a member of the federal executive committee of the SPD. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss.

Tim Trantenroth has created numerous Art in Architecture projects, as well as various murals, including work for the Berlinische Galerie in 2009. He is the creator of the mural in the Humboldt Forum’s stair hall, which echoes the façade structure of the Palace of the Republic. After his studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, he participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and trade fair events both in Germany and other countries, and his work can be found in a number of international collections.

Andrea Wulf is a member of the Programme Advisory Board, supporting the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss in its programme development. Since studying History of Design at the Royal College of Art, she has been working as a non-fiction author and journalist. Her best-selling book The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt has been awarded 15 prizes internationally.

What’s On? – Livestream

Artistic direction Lavinia Frey Realisation and overall direction Kobalt Kreation GmbH Scenography Gitti Scherer Dramaturgical assistance Maren Lawendel, Margarita Kähm Production Philipp Hochleichter, Judith Haase, Fränze Czaja Music, among others Sound installation Mixture, Resident Music Collective, Musical direction and composition: Ketan Bhatti and Clemens Rynkowski © By courtesy of Bosworth Music GmbH, Recording manager and mix: Jan Brauer, Sound assistance: Ole Breuer Kosmograph Alan Prohm, Andreas König Participants (in alphabetical order) George Abungu, Priya Basil, Ketan Bhatti, David Blankenstein, Stefan Danzinger, Hartmut Dorgerloh, Lavinia Frey, Monika Grütters, Diana Guzmán, Lisa Noggler Gürtler, Alfred Hagemann, Lars-Christian Koch, Uta Kornmeier, Kathrin Lange, Antoinette Lepper, Gorch Pieken, Maria Prantl, Judith Prokasky, Eleonora Gotopo, Clemens Rynkowski, Mitri Sirin, Paul Spies, Wolfgang Thierse, Tim Trantenroth, Andrea Wulf Many thanks to Akademie für Theater und Digitalität, Christian Römer

Locked In and Out

Written and narrated by Priya Basil German translation by Beatrice Faßbender Film editing by Maike Egger-Hädler Image and Archive Research by Verena Stahl Cinematography by Priya Basil, Matt Aufderhorst

360° – Open to all

Dramaturgy and programme coordination Kai-Britt Albrecht Production Judith Haase Panoramas & films Direction: Bettina Borgfeld, Panorama photography and film: Axel Schmidt, Andreas Bremer, Image editing and montage: Andreas Bremer, Axel Schmidt, Trailer: Bettina Borgfeld, Andreas Bremer, Axel Schmidt Participants (in alphabetical order) David Blankenstein, Hartmut Dorgerloh, Alfred Hagemann, Uta Kornmeier, Judith Prokasky Sound installation Mixture Resident Music Collective Audio guide (excerpts from the media guide) Thanks to Maike Voelkel and Johanna Kapp for the spontaneous unpacking of the „Kurfürsten“ as well as to the security staff

Let’s take a look-see

With Stand-up-Comedian Stefan Danziger Text Stefan Danziger, Janina Rook Direction Janina Rook Dramaturgy Andrea Rieder Dramaturgical assistance Margarita Kähm Camera Benedict Sicheneder Camera and sound assistance Rosemarie Strehlitz, Martin Thormann Editing Gunther Kreis Programme coordination Andrea Rieder Production Judith Haase Many thanks to the participants: Tarek Ibrahim, Dirk Riedner as well as to our colleagues of the Humboldt Forum Service GmbH Özkan Caliskan, Marcus Cremers, Michael Gramentz, Rayk Selge, Machmut Tekim