Artists with a clear focus It felt a bit like a hacienda in Mexico in the hermitage on Rietzer Berg, says artist Paul-Hermann Gruner. He didn’t spend the whole day relaxing. He had a clear roadmap for his ten-day writer-in-residence fellowship. He got up early every morning, enjoyed the morning freshness and drank his coffee. […]
Get into the flow of writing here Elisabeth Huber has experienced something in her life that she wants to process in her first autobiographical novel. She cared for her grandfather for 10 years. Until his death. Elisabeth is now 36 years old. The scenes have already been written. She had to do this to clear […]
Always with photos and camera in tow Nigerian artist and photographer Nseabasi Akpan was our guest at the end of April. In his luggage was a large collection of photographs by himself and artist friends he had met along the way. This resulted in a pop-up photo exhibition in our bunker on Rietzer Berg. For […]
If you walk through the landscape park with your eyes open and let your gaze wander a little longer over the future pond in the lower part of the park, you will notice that something has changed there. An art installation has been created there by the hands of artist Vincenzo Fiore Marrese. During his […]
“I want to capture the essence of the forest, that you breathe in it and smell the forest when you walk in it.” Freelance artist Birgit Rakette took this quote by van Gogh as her motto during her stay at the artist hermitage. Her time in the nature of Rietzer Berg was supposed to be […]
The composer and performer of experimental music, Richard Scott, was a guest at our hermitage on Rietzer Berg. We gave him the chance to start his sabbatical with a three-week stay in the remote nature of Rietzer Berg. The native Briton lives in Berlin and was eager to get out of the city. In Berlin, […]
The author Felix Geiser had long been planning to write at such a remote place. He is looking forward to completing his first novel and used his time in the hermitage to give his story the final touch. The Berlin based writer arrived with the goal to get done as much as possible. However, the […]
Ben has been an actor for 25 years and after a long stay in California, he again lives in Germany, in his chosen home Berlin. He spontaneously moved into the Hermitage for two weeks with his dog Gizmo after hearing about us through a fellow actress. Ben arrived without expectations, rather with the hope of […]
Ada Bienkowska lives with her family in Warsaw. She speaks German and Polish as her mother tongue and moved into the Hermitage for 3 weeks with her husband and son. She found the Hermitage through the site Literaturport.de and the ad came as if on cue. Of her time here, she says, “It was magical!” […]
At the end of May the artist Ute Safrin spent 10 days in our Hermitage. Ute studied sculpture in her adopted city of Berlin and had applied to us last year. She wanted to use the time at the Hermitage to try out a new material. It has succeeded in this to the fullest extent. […]
