Open Roberta AG
LEGO Mindstorms in action
In our Open Roberta AG, you will learn to write programmes that control or observe something in the real world quickly and without any prior knowledge. With the help of LEGO Mindstorm EV3, we build small robots that you can control with the graphical programming language NEPO. So: build the LEGO, attach the sensor, plug in the software and off you go, only your idea counts!
Every Thursday (except during the holidays), 15:30 - 17:00
Participation free of charge
From 10 years
Registration at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 or at service@museen-dresden.de
Soldering point AG
The cool creative lab
Build your own robot? No problem at Lötpunkt, the cool creative lab. Here you can experience electronics up close. You can quickly and easily solder electronic devices together from components, whether it's a mini torch, a moisture indicator for the flower pot, a glowing heart for grandma's birthday cake, an anemometer or even a small robot.
Every Thursday (except during the holidays), 3:30 - 5:30 pm
Participation free of charge
From 12 years
Registration at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 or at service@museen-dresden.de
Jewish life in German film after 1945 – a critical overview
Small film academy in the Ernemann VII B museum cinema
The Filmakademie examines representations of Jewish life in German film after 1945. In the introductory lecture, the political and ideological contexts in which the selected films were made and the respective historical narratives will be explained, namely for the immediate post-war period (1945-49), for the GDR, the FRG and for the period after reunification.
The focus is less on a uniform "Jewish identity" than on historically changing attributions and visibilities that have emerged in each case in the field of tension between the politics of remembrance, defence against guilt, state ideology and social self-assurance. The selected and presented films show Jewish figures not only as individuals, but also as projection surfaces of the respective social confrontation with National Socialism, persecution and post-history.
- Lecture with numerous film examples by Dr Karsten Fritz and Markus Jüngling
- Admission € 3
- Booking online or at the visitor service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)
Marriage in the shadows
Museum cinema Ernemann VII B
Director: Kurt Maetzig, Germany 1946, 104', Actors: Paul Klinger, Ilse Steppat a.o.
The famous actor Hans Wieland marries the Jewish Elisabeth Maurer. After the Nazis come to power, their marriage increasingly becomes the target of marginalisation and agitation. Maetzig's first feature film, a milestone in German post-war cinema, tells a moving story of impossible love under National Socialism, professional opportunism and the moral failure of a society that turns away. An appeal for humanity.
- Film introduction: Dr Karsten Fritz
- Admission € 7
- Booking online or at the visitor service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)
Book launch and artist talk
Thomas Bachler. Heliographies
Dr Agnes Matthias, research associate at the Deutsche Fotothek in Dresden, will talk to Thomas Bachler about the technique of heliography and the development of photography.
The process will also be demonstrated in practice.
The two will also present their new publication: "Thomas Bachler. Heliographies" with texts (German/English) by Dr Agnes Matthias and Thomas Bachler, 2026
Family tinkering – My luminous paper object
13:30 to 17:00
Today at MACHwerk you can make your own paper object and light it up. Whether it's a jellyfish or a tetrahedron, come along and show us what you can conjure up from tracing paper, LEDs and copper tape!
- Museum admission
Open Roberta AG
LEGO Mindstorms in action
In our Open Roberta AG, you will learn to write programmes that control or observe something in the real world quickly and without any prior knowledge. With the help of LEGO Mindstorm EV3, we build small robots that you can control with the graphical programming language NEPO. So: build the LEGO, attach the sensor, plug in the software and off you go, only your idea counts!
Every Thursday (except during the holidays), 15:30 - 17:00
Participation free of charge
From 10 years
Registration at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 or at service@museen-dresden.de
Soldering point AG
The cool creative lab
Build your own robot? No problem at Lötpunkt, the cool creative lab. Here you can experience electronics up close. You can quickly and easily solder electronic devices together from components, whether it's a mini torch, a moisture indicator for the flower pot, a glowing heart for grandma's birthday cake, an anemometer or even a small robot.
Every Thursday (except during the holidays), 3:30 - 5:30 pm
Participation free of charge
From 12 years
Registration at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 or at service@museen-dresden.de
The call
Museum cinema Ernemann VII B
Director: Josef von Baky, FRG, 1949, 104 min, Actors: Fritz Kortner, Rosemarie Murphy and others.
The emigrated Jewish philosopher Professor Mauthner is offered a position at a German university and returns full of ideals. But he encounters rejection, mistrust and covert anti-Semitism. The film, with Fritz Kortner in the leading role, is a key work of the post-war period. It dissects the divided attitude of the Germans and the immense gap between those who stayed and those who had to leave.
Followed by a film talk
Markus Jüngling talks to historian Prof. Dr Marita Krauss about the background to the film Der Ruf, the artistic personality of Fritz Kortner and the experiences of Jewish remigrants in West Germany.
- Admission € 7
- Booking online or at the visitor service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)
Family tinkering – Brush robots and Ozobots
13:30 to 17:00
Today at MACHwerk you can build your own little brush robot or get to know our mini robots Ozobots and the language in which they communicate!
- Museum admission
Stars
Club cinema in the Lingnerschloss
Director: Konrad Wolf, GDR, 1959, 92', Actors: Sascha Kruscharska, Jürgen Frohriep, Erich S. Klein a.o.
Bulgaria 1943: German Wehrmacht soldier Walter falls in love with the Jewish woman Ruth, who is waiting with other fellow sufferers to be transported to a camp. Wolf's poetic and deeply humanistic film, a German-Bulgarian co-production, tells of the impossibility of love and individual humanity in the face of the bureaucratic cruelty of the Holocaust. An early plea for compassion and civil courage.
- Club cinema in the Lingnerschloss
Bautzner Str. 132
01099 Dresden - Admission from 18:30, with music by Annett Otto and Gennadi Nepomnischi before the film
- Film introduction: Dr Karsten Fritz
- Admission 7 €
- Reservation at clubkino@lingnerschloss.eu
The SET card game and arithmetic sequences
Maths in conversation
SET is a card game with 81 cards in which you have to find three cards that fulfil certain rules as quickly as possible from the cards on display. In this lecture, we will look at versions of this card game with even more cards and come across a mathematical problem involving so-called arithmetic sequences. Of course, we will also talk about this problem and examine current mathematical research results.
Lisa Sauermann is a mathematics professor at the University of Bonn and conducts research in the field of extremal and probabilistic combinatorics.
The discussion with Andreas Thom will also focus on her day-to-day research and her career to date.
- With Prof Dr Andreas Thom (TU Dresden)
- Guest: Prof Dr Lisa Sauermann (University of Bonn)