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5th Wannsee Workshop, November 20-25, 2017:<\/h5>\n

\u201e"Thou shalt not toe the line!" \u2013 it was no coincidence that this slogan appeared on the slate board in the Green Salon, the art space of the wannseeFORUM, at the end of November. The theme of this year's wannseeWERKSTATT, from November 20th to 25th, was "Traces," and the nearly 50 participating young people explored traces of all kinds during the artistic workshop seminar: traces in the snow or sand, traces of historical events, invisible traces left by influential people or events within us \u2013 or indeed, the verb "to trace," the tension between staying on track and straying from it.<\/p>\n

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In 2017, the annual wannseeWERKSTATT once again offered art-loving 9th-grade students a welcome opportunity to engage intensively with an artistic medium away from the everyday school routine and, in doing so, to get to know art, themselves, and others better. Young people from the Bettina-von-Arnim-School<\/a> In the M\u00e4rkisches Viertel district, students from Kurt Schwitters School<\/a> In Prenzlauer Berg, the two school groups grew together well over the course of the week.<\/p>\n

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This year's artistic program included workshops in experimental film (led by Katja Pratschke), painting and drawing (Felix Pestemer), comics (Tobias Deicke), circus theater and acrobatics (Angelika Jost), and sculpture (Markus Zimmermann). In these parallel workshops, participants developed their own unique approaches to the seminar theme "Traces" and translated their artistic explorations into diverse artworks, films, and performances. Following a long-standing tradition, the results of the workshop work were presented publicly at the wannseeFORUM at the end of the seminar. A gratifying number of guests from Berlin's central district and the far north of the country made their way to Wannsee to experience the final exhibition \u2013 well-deserved recognition for the young artists who had dedicated themselves so wholeheartedly to their artistic endeavors. The successful collaboration with the two schools will continue next year.<\/p>\n

Photo impressions from the seminar:<\/h6>\n

wannseeWERKSTATT 2017: "Spuren"<\/a>