The Hans Fallada Society organizes the annual Hans Fallada Days around Fallada's birthday (21 July) in the village of Carwitz in the Feldberg Lake District.
Friday, 17.07.2026
16.00 hrs
Opening of the 35th Hans Fallada Days
by Christian Winterstein, Chairman of the Hans Fallada Society e. V.
Hans Fallada Museum Carwitz, Barn Hall
afterwards:
"Rudolf Ditzen from the perspective of forensic psychiatry"
Lecture by the psychiatrist Dr. Jan Armbruster
"'Little man - what now?' - from manuscript to global success"
Presentation of the Hans Fallada Museum's new special exhibition with Patricia Fritsch-Lange and Dr. Stefan Knüppel
35 years of the Hans Fallada Society and 25 years of the reopening of the Hans Fallada Museum
Lecture by Dr. Wolf Karge
20.00 hrs
"Indigestione ed altre sensibilità" - "Of stomach pains and other sensitivities"
Commedia dell'Arte production by the ensemble "Celeste Sirene", with Christiane Gerhardt and Niels Badenhop
Hans Fallada Museum Carwitz, Barn Theater
Saturday, 18.07.2026
3.00 pm
CHILDREN'S EVENT
"Whirlwind and little dreams"
Performance by the "Krimmelmokel Puppet Theater", freely adapted from Hans Fallada's "Story of the Murkelei"
Hans Fallada Museum Carwitz, barn hall
3.30 pm
"Every man writes for himself" - "Memories of a good-for-nothing"
Reading with the author and musician Anatol Regnier
Carwitz village church
7.00 pm
"Everyone dies for themselves"
Play by the KantTheater Berlin
Hans Fallada Museum, Barn Theater
10.00 p.m.
"Altes Herz geht auf die Reise" (D 1938, 85 minutes)
Film screening as part of the 21st Carwitz Museum Night
afterwards (around 23.30 hrs): Bonus film "Wenn du mich verläßt, bin ich verloren" (Documentary, D 2026, 30 minutes)
Hans Fallada Museum Carwitz, barn hall or inner courtyard
Sunday, 19.07.2026
10.30 a.m.
Tribute to Hans Fallada on his 133rd birthday
Old cemetery Carwitz
1.30 pm
"Anger is a bright star"
Reading with the author and Fallada Prize winner Anja Kampmann
Hans Fallada Museum Carwitz, Barn Hall
4.00 pm
Literary-musical garden tour
with museum director Dr. Stefan Knüppel and Johanna Wildenauer
Hans Fallada Museum Carwitz, Garden
