Poet in Residence

Theodor Fontane and Kurt Tucholsky already made the Prussian royal seat Rheinsberg accessible in their literature. Since 1995, the poets in residence have continued this tradition and have placed Rheinsberg on the intellectual map of Germany.

Previous Poets in Residence

An overview of the previous poets in residence.

In January 2020 the book "Here Prussia should be nice. Fifty poets in residence of Rheinsberg invent a poetic province".

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Online reading

23 June 2020, at 7:30pm

listen to the video: Ron Winkler, the 51st poet in residence

58. Poet in Residence

Massum Faryar

August to December 2023

Massum Faryar was born in Herat, Afghanistan, in 1959 and came to Germany in the 1980s. He studied German and political science in Munich and did his doctorate in these subjects at the Freie Universität Berlin. In 2015 his first novel "Buskaschi or My Mother's Carpet" was published. He received the Alfred-Döblin-Stipendium for his work on it.

All 57 sheet-fed printings of Rheinsberg are available in the museum shop.

Portrait of Massum Faryar. He is leaning against a railing on which he is resting one arm. He rests his head on it. He wears a black jacket and a gray peaked cap. — Photo: Neda Navaee

Scholarship for literature

»Poet in Residence«

Every year the museum awards the scholarship "poet in residence in Rheinsberg" to two authors. The authors find inspiration and peace for writing in a beautifully located apartment with a view of the castle park. The museum's own edition "Rheinsberger Bogen" presents the texts of the poets in residence in first publications.

Guiding principle of the museum

At the center of our work is collecting, preserving, researching, and presenting materials on the life and work of Kurt Tucholsky.
In accordance with our social task, we work actively with Tucholsky as a model for the spirit of tolerance and understanding.
By focusing on Kurt Tucholsky and the literary publications of the Weimar Republic, we place ourselves in the Enlightenment and democratic tradition that addresses the intellectual standards and everyday problems of modern humanity. The guideline of our activity is always the international ICOM code of ethnics for museums.

Prices + guided tours

Museum and gallery:

adults: 4,- Euro
reduced: 3,- Euro
Family ticket: 8,- Euro
(2 adults with children up to 14)

School classes,
per student: 1,- Euro

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We stand with Israel

Kurt Tucholsky was of Jewish descent. The museum has been working on Jewish topics for over 30 years, has researched and documented the life of Tucholsky's friend Else Weil, who was murdered in Auschwitz, has been working with the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk for years, initiated the laying of stumbling blocks in Rheinsberg and much more – a clear commitment to the right to exist of Jews and the State of Israel is important to us as part of our own cultural identity.

Kurt Tucholsky Literature Museum