A BRIDGE TO THE FUTUREAudio Walk for Brücke-Museum 



Commissioned by: Brücke-Museum Berlin
Launch: 15.12.23
Location: Six addresses in Friedenau, Berlin
Link to Audio Walk



Concept and direction
| Po:era - Lucas Lacerda & Daniel Weyand
Sound direction | Samaquias Lorta
Sound engineering | Elliot Duke Jensen
Script | Po:era in collaboration with Gabriel Alves De Carvalho
Amaral, Florian Bade, Yamundao Bah, Nathalie Tafelmacher, Gabriel Valladao Silva 
Script consulting | Rafael Leal
Voice actors | Matilde Keizer (as Emy Frisch), Sebastian M. Weißbach (as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner), Oliver Kanders (as Erich Heckel), Michaela ‚OIM‘ Schwarzenauer (as Emma Ritter)
Research | Isabel Fischer, Valentina Bay, Antonia Moldenhauer


A BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE was developed in cooperation with the research team of the Brücke museum in Berlin. The audio walk (available for free online) takes the audience to six addresses in Friedenau where the Brücke artists lived, as well as their friend, the painter Emma Ritter, and Emy Frisch, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff’s future wife and the photo documentarian of the group. From their perspective, we learn more about the people behind the art of the Brücke group and how they challenged the conventions of their era outside of their artistic work.

Across six chapters, the audio walk draws on historical facts to tell fictionalised stories that could have occurred at the different locations in one way or another. Based on classic radio play formats, the scenes are embedded in an accompanying narrative that not only contains information about each of the addresses and tips for the walk through Friedenau, but also repeatedly makes links back to the present day and situates the accomplishments of the artists’ group in contemporary discourses.

The group of expressionist artists named Brücke was founded in Dresden on 7 June 1905 and dissolved in Berlin on 27 May 1913. Its founding members, the architecture students Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Fritz Bleyl, were self-taught and aimed to revolutionise art together.Berlin shaped the life and work of the Brücke artists in many different ways. The digital project Brücke in Berlin follows their traces in the city and connects their works with the real locations.