"So far from paradise. Martha Liebermann".
Reading with Sophia Mott
Sunday, 18 January 2026, 12 to 1.30 pm
Event room in the Galerie der Gegenwart

This ticket entitles you to attend the event only and is not valid as an admission ticket to the Kunsthalle.
€ 16,- including processing fee.

Sophia Mott unfolds Martha Liebermann's moving life story with haunting narrative power and at the same time traces the Liebermann family history in flashbacks.

Berlin 1941: Martha Liebermann, the widow of painter Max Liebermann, fights to leave Nazi Germany with the support of numerous influential friends. She has long since had to say goodbye to her paradise on Wannsee, as well as to her daughter Käthe and granddaughter Maria, who have emigrated to the USA. Now she is threatened with deportation. A desperate race against time begins ...

‘As long as the works are not destroyed, there is still hope for other times to come.’ Martha Liebermann

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