On Friday evening (1 June, 6.00 p.m.) Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, alongside the President of the Akademie der Künste, Klaus Staeck, will open the conference "Perspektive Europa".
During the two-day conference organized jointly by the Federal Foreign Office and the Akademie der Künste as part of Germany's EU Presidency, ten major European and extra-European representatives of the arts, culture and literature will discuss, hold readings and give lectures about Europe. Among those participating are Nobel Literature Prize holders Wole Soyinka and Imre Kertész, author Assia Djebar and actor Mario Adorf. The shared aim of the organizers is to launch the discourse on Europe, since the perspective of Europe and the view of European issues changes according to one's distance from Europe.
The TV journalist Sandra Maischberger and the President of the Europa-University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, Gesine Schwan, will chair the varied programme. The event will close in a musical vein late on Saturday night with a concert by KALAF with jazz and hip-hop from Angola and Portugal.
Venues:
Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz 4
Hotel Adlon, Unter den Linden 77
Commerzbank, Pariser Platz 1
DZ Bank, Pariser Platz 3
Dresdner Bank, Pariser Platz 6a
Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Pariser Platz 7
Tickets for the event can be purchased at 7 euro / concessions 5 euro on the Akademie der Künste website www.adk.de/europa. Further details on the lectures, discussions, readings and concert can be found on the above website and on those of the Federal Foreign Office, www.diplo.de and www.eu2007.de.
