Dahlem vs LIGNA Audiowalks

Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of science and go on a journey in time through “Germany’s Oxford”, now the Dahlem Campus in Berlin. Ten stations tell stories about the former research institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (now the Max Planck Society) and about the people who made pioneering discoveries there. Only rarely over the course of history have so many Nobel Prize winners lived and worked in a world created for them. On your tour you will experience the special atmosphere that characterises Dahlem and its campus to this day. You will travel through time and space, meet the past in the present, and gain a lively impression of outstanding achievements of modern research. Accompany Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner as they discover nuclear fission and listen to the story of their unusual friendship that survived two world wars and a regime of terror. Get to know Albert Einstein as a brilliant scientist, good friend and empathic physics teacher for the kids of Berlin. Find out more about the “German nuclear bomb”. Discover which role the physicist Werner Heisenberg played in the bomb’s development during the Nazi period, and why it was never made. Meet chemists Fritz Haber and Clara Immerwahr, who lived for their research and whose marriage ended in tragedy. Get to know imperial court architect Ernst Eberhard von Ihne, and find out why the research institutes he designed look like mansions.

This is a smartphone app that allows you to listen to and participate in audiowalks created by the group LIGNA. The app presents a changing lineup of productions to listen to and engage with as a single person, as well as in groups. LIGNA consists of the media and performance artists Ole Frahm, Michael Hueners and Torsten Michaelsen. In performative interventions and mass choreographies, they have been exploring the possibilities for action of collectives that associate themselves in a dispersed and temporary manner since 2002. In doing so, they develop different models of media use. LIGNA's works have been awarded several national and international prizes.