200 Jahre Braille-Schrift »Der ewige Tanz«

Anniversary evening with panel discussion and reading

18.30 - 19.30 Panel discussion
Thomas Kahlisch, Beate von Malottki
Moderation: Matthias Nagel

When blind people read, their fingers glide gently over a large collection of dots. For everyone else, these dots look like hieroglyphics. But behind this is a system that was devised by a person 200 years ago. We are talking about Braille. But who was this Louis Braille? And what revolution did his Braille cause? And what significance does it still have today in an ever-growing digital world? We want to address these and other questions on this evening to mark the 200th anniversary of Braille.
Thomas Kahlisch has been Director of the German Center for Accessible Reading (dzb lesen) since 1999. As a blind person himself with a doctorate in computer science, he is committed to the field of accessible information and communication. Beate von Malottki has been blind since the age of six and learned Braille at the age of ten. She studied Eastern European history and Slavic studies at the universities of Marburg, Hamburg and Krakow. She then worked in radio documentation at Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden. Since 2008, she has been a lecturer for Braille in the Department of Education for the Blind and Visually Impaired at the Heidelberg University of Teacher Education. Matthias (Matze) Nagel is an expert on inclusion in the arts and culture sector. He studied Media Economics in his Bachelor's degree and Media Management in his Master's degree at the Stuttgart Media University. He has been working as a blind author and editor for audio descriptions since 2018. He curated the exhibition "Blind Date with Stuttgart" at StadtPalais - Museum für Stuttgart.

19.30 - 20.00 Break with reception

20.00 - 21.00 Reading & discussion
The eternal dance
Steffen Schröder
Moderation: N.N.
Reading from Braille: Sonja Prinz

Summer 1928: Anita Berber lies weakened in a Berlin hospital. She had just been a star, embodying the new era on stage and in dozens of films, living and loving excessively. Until the hostilities in Vienna, in which a dark future loomed ... Anita Berber thinks back to her path to divine dance, to the great Fritz Lang and the ambitious Marlene Dietrich, who soon copied Anita's style. While friends - such as Otto Dix, who painted her - visit her, Anita Berber searches for the decisive wrong step on her path. Steffen Schroeder tells the story of Anita Berber's exciting life, between self-determination, the greatest freedom and risk. She died at the age of just twenty-nine. Steffen Schroeder is an actor and writer. He was a member of the ensemble at Vienna's Burgtheater before following Claus Peymann to the Berliner Ensemble. He has appeared in numerous television series and feature films, such as "Der Rote Baron". In 2023, he was a fellow at the Stuttgarter Schriftstellerhaus. His novel "Planck oder Als das Licht seine Leichtigkeit verlor" (2022) was a great success. Steffen Schroeder lives with his family in Potsdam.

The book "Der ewige Tanz" will be published in Braille for the evening.

The event will be accompanied live on stage by the HörMal! audio description team - Tomke Kopp and Florian Eib.

Accompanying program at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Sunday 23.11. 1 - 2 & 2 - 3 p.m.
Exhibition tour with Stefanie Alber
Interactive and inclusive art tour through the exhibition Anita Berber. "Orchids"
During the guided tour through the collection, works of art from the collection are made tangible for all the senses using activating materials.

Admission:
Anniversary evening at the Literaturhaus Admission: 14/12/7 euros
Combined ticket Literaturhaus & Kunstmuseum admission 19/17/12 euros
Exhibition only, remaining tickets at the box office in the Kunstmuseum: 6 euros

An event organized by Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverband Württemberg e.V. (BSV) / Bezirksgruppe Stuttgart and Literaturhaus Stuttgart, in cooperation with Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels / Landesverband Baden-Württemberg e.V.

Supported by the Cultural Office of the State Capital Stuttgart and the Berthold Leibinger Foundation

Accompanying program
Stuttgart Book Weeks from 13 - 30.11.
Information stand and exhibition on "Braille". A small but fine selection of books printed in Braille and current audio books.