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Berlin, 24.05.2013 | Die Initiatoren der Berliner Stiftungswoche, darunter die Schering Stiftung, laden Sie herzlich zu einer Podiumsdiskussion am 5. Juni 2013 mit Wolfgang Schäuble im Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin ein. In gut zwei Wochen diskutiert der Bundesfinanzminister mit jungen Europäern über die Zukunft Europas abseits der Finanzkrise. Ein spannendes Format, mit dem die Berliner Stiftungsrunde einen wichtigen Beitrag zur aktuellen Diskussion liefert.

26.04.2013, Berlin/ Munich | We all know the role that viral infections have on our health. On account of continuously increasing globalization and world travel, this day and age bears witness to how new viruses can quickly spread. Nevertheless, the fight against viral diseases is not impossible. It is the mission of the Global Virus Network (GVN) to foster global collaboration in the fight against viruses and to educate the next generation of virus researchers, which is greatly needed. The next meeting oft he GVN takes place from May 30 until June 1, 2013, at the Technical University Munich.

25.04.2013, Berlin | “There was a moment when I said to myself: ‘Okay, it won’t be very long now before I die, and now I will face up to this situation.’ I turned, as it were, in a different direction, towards leaving. This is surprisingly very liberating.” This quotation by the Viennese writer Ilse Helbich forms the starting-point of the music theater TURNING TOWARDS LEAVING. The choir project sees itself as a tale, told with musical means, from the unknown country of aging, based on texts by Ilse Helbich and musical memories of older people.

22.04.2013, Berlin | As part of its efforts to promote young talents, the Ernst Schering Foundation has participated in the “Germany Scholarship” program of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research since the 2012 summer term. Together with Berlin’s Humboldt University (HU Berlin), it is now launching a pilot project: starting in the 2013 summer term, HU Berlin for the first time will offer two Germany Scholarship theme courses. As part of a year-long tutorial, 15 bachelors or masters degree students from different disciplines will work together on an interdisciplinary project. The Ernst Schering Foundation supports the theme course on Aging and Age. The Humboldt University Foundation and their sponsors support a theme course on “Sustainability & Global Justice.”

03.04.2013, Berlin | Im März 2013 sind die zwei Kunstkataloge "System und Sinnlichkeit. Die Sammlung Schering Stiftung" und "Carsten Nicolai | syn chron" erschienen, auf die wir Sie gern aufmerksam machen möchten.

28.03.2013, Berlin | In her exhibition, “Anästhetiker” the The-Hague and Cologne-based German artist Evelina Rajca (*1984) shows experimentally to what extent the density and aggregate state of matter influences the presumed presence or absence of options for action. “Anästhetiker” – a neologism coined from “aesthete” and “anaesthetic” – is a complex mixed media installation specifically created for the Project Space of the Ernst Schering Foundation.

28.02.2013, Berlin | For five years, the Ernst Schering Foundation has been collecting contemporary drawings and prints in cooperation with the Museum of Prints and Drawings of the Berlin State Museums. Opening on March 20, 2013, at 6 p.m., the exhibition System and Sensuality. The Ernst Schering Foundation Collection – Contemporary Art from Tom Chamberlain to Jorinde Voigt for the first time will present all the drawingsacquisitions made since 2008. The exhibition will show ninety, mostly non-figurative and (in the broadest sense) minimalist works, most of which date from the past decade.

25.02.2013, Berlin | In 1999, two parents murdered both their children in a hotel room in Aalst (Belgium). In court, they said: “We only wanted what was best for them.” Both parents were declared criminally liable and sentenced to life imprisonment. Is it possible to put yourself into the shoes of such extreme figures? Can we see things from the perspective of people and figures whose actions we disapprove of? When is it helpful or necessary to take this perspective? When is it helpful or necessary to take this perspective and why do insights into crimes fascinate reader and theatre- and cinemagoers?