How do young people think about Heinrich von Kleist in times of the Ukraine war, the climate crisis and the devastating earthquake in the Turkish-Syrian border region?

21 students of painting at weißensee kunsthochschule berlin have explored Kleist's works under the keyword 'betrayal'. Picking up motifs from his texts associatively, they created works from very different perspectives and in various techniques or media.

The newly created works will be presented for the first time in the Kleist Museum. The seminar was led by Professor Nader Ahriman and the artists Helen Feifel and Julia Herfurth.