Start­ing at 7:00 p.m.

In 360°-Panorama by Yade­gar Asisi, Wit­ten­berg dur­ing the Reform­a­tion comes to life. Immersed in an elab­or­ate light and sound pro­duc­tion, you will exper­i­ence — across 15 by 75 meters — not only how Mar­tin Luth­er put his theses into action, but also the daily lives of the people of Wit­ten­berg, their work, their hard­ships, and their celebrations. 

8:00 p.m. & 9:00 p.m.

Guided tour of the pan­or­ama (max. 25 par­ti­cipants per tour)

Wheel­chair-access­ible 

Fam­ily house in the former Glöck­ner­stift, back build­ing, large out­door din­ing area—from 7:00 p.m.

SPON­TANEITY – CRE­ATIV­ITY – INI­TI­AT­IVE
Cook­ing – nation­al and inter­na­tion­al buf­fet
Philo­soph­ic­al roundtable, chess club, lit­er­at­ure circle, and peace committee

Wheel­chair-access­ible

Augusteum - start­ing at 7:00 p.m.

Spe­cial Exhib­i­tion
»Buch­stäb­lich Luth­er. Facetten eines Reformators«

Augusteum - 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Exhib­i­tion for the Whole Fam­ily
It Was the Monk!

7:15 PM & 8:00 PM — 30 minutes each: Spe­cial guided tours for fam­il­ies
Join us for an excit­ing tour and hear many won­der­ful and funny stor­ies from the life of Mar­tin Luth­er and his fam­ily — even his dog Tölpel is there…
For chil­dren ages 6 and up; an accom­pa­ny­ing adult is required
(max. 25 people per group)
 

Luth­er­hof - 7:45 PM, 9:30 PM & 11:00 PM

Mon­sieur Makes Art! – Humor in Black and White
The multi-award-win­ning pro­gram ​“Mon­sieur Makes Art!” is, without exag­ger­a­tion, def­in­itely a high­light! And like a jour­ney to anoth­er time.
With the clown Mon­sieur, you’re trans­por­ted back to the begin­ning of the twen­ti­eth cen­tury. Pian­ist Nora Born accom­pan­ies him on a mini­ature grand piano, per­fectly cap­tur­ing the
silent film atmo­sphere. Mon­sieur is grim, dances on a tightrope, juggles, and manip­u­lates all sorts of things — and espe­cially the audi­ence. Entirely word­less, visu­ally stun­ning, impress­ive, and hil­ari­ous!
 

Luth­er­hof - 7:00 PM, 8:45 PM & 10:15 PM

Lasca Fox – A Fest­iv­al on Two Wheels
What if Daft Punk, Jamiroquai, Tame Impala, Helge Schneider, and Prince played a fest­iv­al togeth­er — on a bicycle trail­er, per­formed by a single per­son? Then it’s high time for a con­cert by LASCA FOX.
The Ber­lin-based enter­tain­er presents a rolling one-man show with the LASCA FOX MOBIL: Speak­ers, lights, fog machine, instru­ments — set up in just a few minutes, powered by sol­ar energy. Com­pletely emis­sion-free. And he even travels by bike: Since
2022, over 12,000 kilo­met­ers — from Ber­lin to Fin­land.
Here, sus­tain­ab­il­ity isn’t just a prom­ise — it’s the show itself.
 

Wheel­chair-access­ible

Museum – start­ing at 7:00 p.m.

Per­man­ent Exhib­i­tion
Phil­ipp Mel­anch­thon. Life – Work – Impact.

Spe­cial Exhib­i­tion
Cranach and Melanchthon

Garden – start­ing at 7:00 p.m.

Black­bird — Pop, Rock, Sing­er-Song­writer
These two top-tier, in-demand musi­cians present a won­der­ful, rous­ing mix of their own songs and pop­u­lar songs by well-known artists and bands. They cap­tiv­ate audi­ences with their nat­ur­al charm and soul­ful per­form­ances. The pas­sion with which they play touches the heart, and their joy­ful enthu­si­asm is simply con­ta­gious.
 

Wheel­chair-access­ible
Pub­lic restroom for people with dis­ab­il­it­ies available 

Start­ing at 7:00 p.m.

Ton_​Kollektiv
from Leipzig has been per­form­ing since 2022 with an unusu­al sound: Instead of an elec­tric bass, a tuba provides warm, rich depth and a dis­tinct­ive tone. With drums, piano, gui­tar, trum­pet, and trom­bone, their sound blends big-band aes­thet­ics with mod­ern pop, funk, jazz, and blues. At the heart of it all is Kezia Editha Christy, a sing­er and song­writer whose stage pres­ence gives the even­ing its char­ac­ter. In addi­tion to cov­ers, they per­form ori­gin­al com­pos­i­tions that con­tin­ue to expand their rep­er­toire. The pro­gram takes you through an even­ing full of music: from Amy Wine­house, Aretha Frank­lin, and Michael Jack­son to soul and funk clas­sics, cul­min­at­ing in an ​’80s med­ley fea­tur­ing Major Tom — and a party to wrap it all up.
 

Wheel­chair-access­ible
Pub­lic restroom for people with dis­ab­il­it­ies available

Start­ing at 7:00 p.m.

MABU & his crew
The second hip-hop jam as part of Wit­ten­ber­g’s ​“Erleb­n­isnacht.” Enjoy live graf­fiti by Igel, a DJ set by DJ CUTastrophe, and, of course, free­style and live rap per­form­ances by Wit­ten­ber­g’s MABU and his guests from Cent­ral Ger­many.
 

Wheel­chair-access­ible

On the street - 7:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m.

Fash­ion Show
Wollkul­tur Wit­ten­berg presents a fash­ion show fea­tur­ing exclus­ive knit and crochet pieces, com­ple­men­ted by eleg­ant fash­ion from Boutique Car­line. Exper­i­ence hand­made designs and styl­ish fash­ion in a fash­ion show across Collegienstraße!

Wheel­chair accessible

Front Build­ing - 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM 

Per­man­ent Exhib­i­tion
Cranach’s World – An Exhib­i­tion on the Life and Work of the Cranach Fam­ily
Ground floor and some rooms on the 1^st floor open

7:00 PM 
Short guided tour of the per­man­ent exhib­i­tion 
 

1^st Floor - 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM 

Spe­cial Exhib­i­tion
From Ruins – Ewa Trafna and Eva Jepsen-Föge

8:00 PM 
Short guided tour of the spe­cial exhibition

9:00 PM
Flash­light tour (Please bring a flash­light!) 
 

Art Court­yard - 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM 

3 Farben Blau (3 Shades of Blue)
The courtyard’s artis­ans open their shops
 

Court­yard — 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM 

Art Court­yard with music 

Lim­ited access­ib­il­ity for wheel­chair users (cobble­stone pavement)

Start­ing at 7:00 p.m.

Exhib­i­tion
Sci­ence in the Spot­light
Exper­i­ence a night of sci­ence and dis­cov­ery! Start­ing at 7:00 p.m., the exhib­i­tion at the futurea Sci­ence Cen­ter opens its doors and invites every­one to explore the world of chem­istry through inter­act­ive exper­i­ences. Our new exper­i­ment­al show starts every 30 minutes — immerse your­self in spec­tac­u­lar chem­ic­al reac­tions, sur­pris­ing phys­ic­al effects, and inter­act­ive tech­nic­al high­lights. Become a research­er your­self and mar­vel at aston­ish­ing exper­i­ments. Here, sci­ence comes alive, becomes tan­gible, and sur­prises. An exper­i­ence for young and old alike — join us and exper­i­ment along!
 

Wheel­chair accessible

7:30, 8:30, 9:30, and 10:30 p.m. 

Axel Deder­ing 
is a magi­cian who cre­ates magic­al moments up close with his close-up magic. Without a stage and right in the middle of the audi­ence, he per­forms aston­ish­ing feats right before the eyes of the vis­it­ors — some­times even in their own hands. Sur­pris­ing, per­son­al, and often very humor­ous moments invite you to mar­vel, laugh, and join in the fun. 

Wheel­chair-access­ible

Start­ing at 7:00 p.m.

Fla­menco Vivo 
can be trans­lated as ​“vibrant fla­menco” or ​“live fla­menco.” The group is an ensemble of top-tier artists from five coun­tries. The focus is on spir­ited, express­ive dance. Vir­tu­oso gui­tar play­ing and pas­sion­ate singing merge with it on stage to form an impress­ive whole. Fla­menco Vivo moves the audi­ence through the sens­it­ive inter­play of baile (dance), toque (gui­tar), and cante (singing), into which the viola con­stantly weaves new timbres.

Cayetana de Ronda and Bar­bara Cieslewicz (dance), as well as sing­er Car­men Celada, who also guides the audi­ence through the even­ing with short stor­ies about the art of fla­menco, Azusa Krist (viola), and fla­menco gui­tar­ist Pet­ros Sar­hosid­is. 
 

Lim­ited access­ib­il­ity for wheel­chair users (lawn and cobblestones)

7:30, 8:30, 9:30, and 10:30 p.m.

Hub Hilden­brand 
A con­cert by Hub Hilden­brand is more than just a con­cert. It is a space. 
​“My music is pray­er” (Hub Hilden­brand) 
The Ber­lin-based gui­tar­ist and sing­er cre­ates his own music­al lan­guage bey­ond words. With his unmis­tak­able gui­tar play­ing and a voice without a fixed lan­guage, he leads us into a world of deep mel­an­choly, archa­ic long­ing, and inner vast­ness. 
His music explains noth­ing — it invites exper­i­ence. 
​“A world of sound that devel­ops an almost hyp­not­ic pull.” (Deutsch­landra­dio Kultur)

Wheel­chair accessible

7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Glaube.Zweifel.Kunst. Auf­bruch in die Mod­erne
(Faith. Doubt. Art. A Jour­ney into Mod­ern­ity)
39 works by 13 inter­na­tion­ally renowned artists: Ernst Bar­lach, Käthe Koll­witz, George Grosz, Max Beck­mann, and oth­ers. The art­works explore the human ten­sion between faith and doubt by cit­ing or par­ody­ing bib­lic­al motifs, adapt­ing them in their own unique ways, and open­ing up entirely new per­spect­ives for viewers.

Wheel­chair accessible

Start­ing at 7:00 p.m.

Per­man­ent Exhib­i­tions
The City’s Crown Jew­els and a City Mod­el (Ground Floor)

Wittenberg’s City His­tory – Through the Cen­tur­ies (1^st Floor)

Riemer’s World (2^nd floor) 

Guided Tours

2^nd floor - 7:00 p.m.

Riemer’s World ​“Over­view of the Juli­us Riemer Nat­ur­al His­tory and Eth­no­logy Exhib­i­tion” 
(Nils Seethaler, start­ing on the ground floor by the Uli statue) 
 

Ground floor - 8:00 p.m.

Spe­cial Exhib­i­tion ​“Diversity in Tra­di­tion and Change: Minor­it­ies and Eth­nic Groups of Europe” 
(Nils Seethaler, starts on the ground floor by the Uli statue)

1^st Floor - 9:30 PM

Wit­ten­berg City His­tory – Through the Cen­tur­ies ​“Objects from 700 Years of Wit­ten­berg City His­tory – A Selec­tion” 
(Désirée Baur, staff mem­ber of the Muni­cip­al Col­lec­tions, start­ing at the tick­et office on the ground floor) 

Ground Floor — 10:30 p.m.

Guided Tour of the Crown Jew­els – ​“Selec­ted Objects and a City Mod­el” 
(Désirée Baur, staff mem­ber of the Muni­cip­al Col­lec­tions, start­ing at the city model)

Wheel­chair-access­ible

Mon­as­tery Church – start­ing at 7:00 p.m.

A unique present­a­tion of Wittenberg’s fas­cin­at­ing and one-of-a-kind his­tory – from Albrecht the Bear to Mar­tin Luther. 

8:45 p.m.

Guided tour of the unique present­a­tion 
(Désirée Baur, staff mem­ber of the City Col­lec­tions, start­ing at the dis­play / entrance to the Mon­as­tery Church) 

7:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m., 10:00 p.m. & 11:00 p.m. 

Lucina’s Light — a Spec­tral Sym­phony
Light poetry meets con­tem­por­ary cir­cus: A fairy-tale jour­ney through lumin­ous worlds and illu­sions that trans­form the entire stage into an inter­act­ive dreamland. 

Wheel­chair-access­ible

7:30 p.m.

Organ tour with Chris­toph Hagemann

8:00, 9:00, and 10:00 p.m.

Diana Ezer­ex
Diana Ezer­ex makes empathy aud­ible. Her music is pop with an edge — dir­ect, unvar­nished, and mov­ing. Her lyr­ics high­light con­tra­dic­tions, address uncom­fort­able truths, and sim­ul­tan­eously cre­ate space for hope. She brings this per­spect­ive to the stage and to over 60 con­certs in cor­rec­tion­al facil­it­ies across Ger­man-speak­ing coun­tries. Her mul­ti­fa­ceted, mov­ing voice ranges from del­ic­ate to power­ful, invit­ing listen­ers to observe, empath­ize, and reflect. The songs take a stand: against exclu­sion, for belong­ing and accept­ance. Live, they unfold their full power — access­ible, rous­ing, uncom­prom­ising — oscil­lat­ing between big hooks and quiet moments, between sharp edges and empathy. 

11:00 PM

Organ music for the night

Wheel­chair-access­ible

East Hall – start­ing at 7:00 p.m.

“Wil­helm Schmied (1910 – 1984) – For­got­ten Treas­ures: City­scapes and Landscapes”

Wil­helm Schmied was a prom­in­ent paint­er and graph­ic artist who was born in Dresden and found his artist­ic home in the Mans­feld region. After com­plet­ing a voca­tion­al appren­tice­ship and fur­ther artist­ic train­ing, he developed as a self-taught artist in the GDR, gain­ing increas­ing recog­ni­tion from the 1950s onward.

His works, char­ac­ter­ized by indus­tri­al land­scapes, city­scapes, and depic­tions of work­ing people, power­fully reflect the con­nec­tion between people, work, and the envir­on­ment. Schmied always remained close to the people, opened his stu­dio to the pub­lic, and was deeply com­mit­ted to sup­port­ing emer­ging artists.

He received numer­ous awards for his work, includ­ing the Nation­al Prize of the GDR and the Art Prize of the GDR. Today, he is regarded as an import­ant rep­res­ent­at­ive of Ger­man art after 1945. 
 

West Hall – start­ing at 7:00 p.m.

“Cranach’s Heirs – 30 Years of the Youth Art School”

This year, the Youth Art School of the Cranach Found­a­tion in Wit­ten­berg is cel­eb­rat­ing its 30^th anniversary.

The exhib­i­tion fea­tures works by former stu­dents who are now act­ive artists. It is com­ple­men­ted by a ret­ro­spect­ive on the his­tory of the Youth Art School, insights into cur­rent courses, as well as paint­ings, graph­ic works, and sculp­tures from the archives.

The Youth Art School teaches far more than just artist­ic tech­niques: it fosters per­cep­tion, cre­ativ­ity, tech­nic­al skills, and per­son­al devel­op­ment. In an increas­ingly digit­al and func­tion­al world, art cre­ates spaces for human­ity, com­munity, and demo­crat­ic coex­ist­ence. For three dec­ades, the Youth Art School has been firmly rooted in Wit­ten­berg and has had an impact far bey­ond the city limits.

West­halle — 7:30 PM, 8:30 PM, 10:00 PM & 11:00 PM

The Old Town Hall meets mod­ern cir­cus art

Mod­ern cir­cus art trans­ports the audi­ence to anoth­er world full of fantasy and wonder.

Hand­stand acro­bat­ics meets con­tor­tion, music meets dance, the old meets the mod­ern, the real meets the dreamlike.

With hand­stands and body con­trol, Eleni-Char­lotte Hed­drich sparks the audience’s ima­gin­a­tion and invites young and old alike to dream. 

Rats­saal, 2^nd Floor – 8:00 PM, 9:00 PM & 10:00 PM

Sideshow Char­lat­ans

Two show-offs pos­ing as psych­ics: A charm­ing impres­ario presents a hand­ful of attrac­tions, all embod­ied in the incred­ibly gif­ted and multi-tal­en­ted Ms. Thompson. She inflates her head like a bal­loon, reads minds, trans­mits touch, brings the strongest men to their knees, and sum­mons pol­tergeists. These are fake mir­acles by real con artists in a cab­in­et of curi­os­it­ies full of bizarre illusions.

Sia and Thomas Thompson (England/​Germany) present feats in their multi-award-win­ning sideshow magic revue that are rarely, if ever, seen on Ger­man stages. These are clev­er routines with subtle humor, leav­ing the audi­ence won­der­ing at the end wheth­er it’s all real or ​“just” a styl­ishly staged hoax by two excep­tion­ally ori­gin­al magicians. 

Not wheel­chair access­ible
Pub­lic restroom for people with dis­ab­il­it­ies avail­able at the rear

Start­ing at 7:00 p.m.

Spiel fin­d­et Stadt!
Wit­ten­berg plays table ten­nis and foos­ball in the Mar­ket Square

start­ing at 7:00 p.m.

Radio Brock­en
In the his­tor­ic Mar­ket Square, the Radio Brock­en Warm-Up Pro­mo­tion Team awaits you with the best hits for Sax­ony-Anhalt, ensur­ing the per­fect start to this year’s Wit­ten­berg Exper­i­ence Night.

Fire­bird
The sym­bol of Wit­ten­ber­g’s Night of Exper­i­ences
Presen­ted by Vit­or Gar­cia de Almeida

Magic of Light and Stars
Grand, impress­ive, dazzling, and fas­cin­at­ing — as if from anoth­er world

Por­trait-Format Duo
Queens of Hearts – Coquet­tish, red on red, and always in search of love.
Illu­mina – Fig­ures from the world of light move dance-like through the grounds.

Imanuel Immer­grün
An over­sized garden walk­ing act, 240 cm tall, col­or­ful, and full of life!

Mirimah, Stilt Artist from Wit­ten­berg
As her fire­bird Phoenix, she rises in the dark­ness. With a flam­ing dress, play­ful sparks, and glow­ing red wings, she swirls through the night with a magic­al glow. 

Old Town Train
The Old Town Train takes you com­fort­ably from the Tour­ist Inform­a­tion Office to the Luth­er House and back to the Castle Church.

Depar­ture times from the Tour­ist Inform­a­tion Office, Schlossplatz 2:
8:00 PM, 9:00 PM, 10:00 PM & 11:00 PM 

Lim­ited access­ib­il­ity for wheel­chair users (cobble­stone pavement)