10.30-12 a.m.
How do I know what is true?
Interactive thought experiment
With the philosopher Romy Jaster
How do opinions arise from world views? How do we make the judgment that something is "true"? The philosopher Romy Jaster, who researches fake news, follows the path from opinion to judgment in a thought experiment that she has designed and carried out. The audience becomes part of this process through voting.
11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Books & Breakfast
Texts, music and recipes from enlightened women for a (late) breakfast
With journalist Dorothee Nolte and food from eßkultur
Accompanied by musical interludes on the piano by Mathis Bereuter
Dorothee Nolte reads and comments on excerpts from texts by important women of the Enlightenment. The dishes served (for a fee, €9) come from recipe books from the Enlightenment period and are explained by Birgitt Claus from eßkultur.
12-13.30
Lunch hour with Amo
Reading and discussion
With the cultural scientist Ottmar Ette
Ottmar Ette's recently published novel "Mein Name sei Amo" is dedicated to the thinker "without a fixed abode" Anton Wilhelm Amo (around 1700-1784). His mysterious poodle accompanies him through all stages of his life, from his enslavement to his academic rise as a philosopher in Sanssouci and Halle. A conversation with the author about the first German-speaking black philosopher of the 18th century. Bless Amada will read excerpts from the novel.
2-4 p.m.
Enlightened Berlin around the DHM
Historical-philosophical city tour
With the author Michael Bienert
The walk with the author Michael Bienert takes you to places of the Enlightenment: from the DHM to the Gendarmenmarkt - where Frederick II had a work by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire burned and set a sign of tolerance with the French Cathedral - to the Berlin State Library - where Kant's writings, among others, were edited - and to the Academy of Sciences, where philosophers from all over Europe came together in the 18th century.
4-5.30 p.m.
Paths to public reason
Historical-philosophical panel discussion on the enlightened public and the public of the Enlightenment
With the German scholar and historian Elisabeth Décultot and the philosophers Ursula Goldenbaum and Rahel Jaeggi, moderated by Julia Voss
The Enlightenment saw the emergence of new public spaces, such as newspapers and political societies. The three academics discuss their characteristic features and talk about processes of opinion formation and emancipation as well as the transformation of the public sphere. They shed light on what constitutes an enlightened public sphere - from the 18th century to the present day.
6.30-8.30 p.m.
Evening meal with Micromégas
Reading and discussion
With the writer Angela Steidele, the literary scholar Steffen Martus and the actress Maryam Zaree
In Voltaire's story Micromégas, the eponymous giant travels from the planet Sirius to Earth and explores the human race. As a parting gift, he leaves them his "Book of Truth" - but its pages are empty. Maryam Zaree reads and moderates.
Angela Steidele and Steffen Martus present their view of the story, the explorer and his findings.
This will be accompanied by a dinner à la Enlightenment (for a fee, €5): Pea quiche and brown bread with anchovy butter.
