{"id":167255,"date":"2026-07-01T16:40:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/?post_type=event&p=167255"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:41:00","slug":"telling-the-story-of-europe-beyond-borders","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/talk\/telling-the-story-of-europe-beyond-borders-167255\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling the Story of Europe – Beyond Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Evening with Michael P\u00e4rt, Anita Raja, and Prodromos Tsinikoris<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Europe is not a fixed place. It is a story that is constantly being rewritten\u2014in languages that translate one another, in sounds that cross borders, in biographies that unfold between two or more homelands. This story encompasses flight and new beginnings, migration and putting down roots, loss and transformation. It is not always comfortable, but it is alive, and it is told by people who are willing to listen more closely.<\/p>\n

The recipients of the 2026 Goethe Medal are among these people. The Estonian composer Arvo P\u00e4rt, the Italian translator and cultural mediator Anita Raja, and the Greek-German theater director Prodromos Tsinikoris have each demonstrated in their own way through their work how experiences of living on the margins can give rise to forms of understanding.<\/p>\n

What connects a composer who made exile in Berlin his home, a translator who made German-language literature accessible to an Italian audience, and a director who grew up in Wuppertal as the child of Greek migrant workers and now shapes the European theater scene? It is the conviction that culture emerges where borders are understood not as barriers but as thresholds.<\/p>\n

On August 26, Anita Raja, Prodromos Tsinikoris, and Michael P\u00e4rt, director of the Arvo P\u00e4rt Foundation, will come together for the first time and exclusively as part of the award ceremony for a public discussion, two days before the presentation of the Goethe Medal in Weimar. In Hall 1 of the Humboldt Forum, they will speak with Shelly Kupferberg about art, language, exile, memory, and the question of how Europe can be portrayed today.<\/p>\n

For more information on the Goethe Medal and this year\u2019s laureates, please visit the Goethe-Institut\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Afterward, all guests are cordially invited to a reception.<\/p>\n

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