Crossroads# Literature meets Art

The Hamburger Bahnhof - National Gallery of the Present, a building with an eventful history as a train station building and transport museum, is now a museum for contemporary art. Located on the former border between East and West Berlin, it sees itself as a place for exchange and the creation of new perspectives.

In 2025, the Literaturhaus Berlin will also stop at the Hamburger Bahnhof as part of its “Li-Be for the City” tour. “Crossroads#” symbolizes the interfaces at which creative people from different disciplines and backgrounds meet to provide new impulses for social developments - a common feature of art and the city of Berlin.

The new reading series in the museum will be kicked off by writer Helene Hegemann and artist Daniel Richter. Over the course of the year, Lena Gorelik, Cemile Sahin and Tonio Schachinger, among others, will have their say at “Crossroads#” and let their works meet art.


PROGRAM

Thursday, February 20, 2025, 6 p.m.
Crossroads#1
Helene Hegemann meets Daniel Richter to talk about pictures and books - and the relationship between reality and art

Her medium is the word, his are pictures. In the “Crossroads#” series of events, the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Literaturhaus Berlin bring together the writer Helene Hegemann and the painter Daniel Richter. A conversation about art, books and influences, on this side and beyond the boundaries of genre.


Thursday, April 3, 2025, 6 p.m.
Crossroads#2
Cemile Sahin meets Tonio Schachinger


June 2025
Crossroads#3
Literature meets art for children and young people


Thursday, November 20, 2025, 6 p.m.
Crossroads#5
Lena Gorelik

Admission to all events is free, registration is not required.


(IN GERMAN)