Hello 2025! We are particularly looking forward to these new exhibitions, books, films and plays this year

This first fashion exhibition at the Musée du Louvre inpresents 65 contemporary designs in dialogue with fashionable masterpieces from art history. From Byzantium to the Second Empire, a poetic interplay of textiles, decoration and historical robes unfolds across 9,000 square meters. An ingenious, aesthetic work of art. That has never happened before... (louvre.fr, 24.1. – 21.7. 2025)

This impressive show shows, through 60 female modern artists (1910–1950) in the Lower Belvedere Vienna, how groundbreaking women have contributed to recent art history. Included are such important names as Hannah Höch, Tamara de Lempicka and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. (belvedere.at, 18.6. – 12.10.25)

From spring 2025, the Helmut Newton Foundation will be showing how important the now iconic instant camera was for star photographer Helmut Newton to take his personal “notes”, especially during shootsbe seen. (helmut-newton-foundation.org, 7.3. – 17.8.25)

Sandra Hülser's directorial debut with Tom Schneider at the Neuen Theater Halle is a two-person masterpiece that breaks language boundaries and gender roles - based on oneby Kleist. (buehnen-halle.de, Premiere am 17.4.25).

Bertolt Brecht's sermon parody in poem form from 1926 is going on a major tour of Germany in 2025 as a one-man piece with Lars Eidinger, including in the Elbphilharmonie. To evade his acting magic? As always, impossible. (Dates at eventim.de)

In the bestselling author's new novel (), four women on different continents want more visibility, love and self-determination. Chiamaka, the travel writer, reflects on her lost dreams between Nigeria and the USA. Zikora, a successful lawyer in Washington DC, recognizes the closeness to her own mother as a single mother. Omelogor, a banker in Nigeria, leaves her job to study and empower women in the United States. Kadiatou, Chiamaka's housekeeper, fights for justice after being harassed. The US author Adichie, who was born in Nigeria in 1977, tells the existential experiences of these women in a captivating and clever way and sheds light on the small but significant moments of their lives. An impressive portrait of female strength and solidarity in a challenging world! (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "Dreamcount", S.Fischer, from 4.3.25, 28 euros)

The English edition (“The Safekeep”) was in the final for the Booker Prize 2024. Now the young Dutch woman’s provocative debut is finally being published in German. A brilliantly written story set in the summertime Dutch countryside of 1961. About desire, ghosts from the past and an unexpected act of revenge. Between Isabel, her brother and his fiancée Eva... (Yael van der Wouden, “In Her House”, Gutkind Verlag, from January 30, 2025, 24 euros)

Alice and Peter, both students of Analytical Magic at Cambridge, are linked by a strong rivalry. When their professor unexpectedly dies in an accident, they must undertake the task of traveling to the underworld to save their mentor's soul. Access to Hell is straightforward, but surviving there – and getting along – proves far more difficult. Discover the most surprising love story of the year in bestselling author RF Kuang's captivating new novel. (RF Kuang, „Katabasis“, Eichborn, ab 26.8.25, 26 Euro)

A lot has been said about Bob Dylan. But never like this:The music legend plays so movingly, he sings and makes music himself (just like the rest of the cast) and thus really highlights the rise of the young folk singer in New York in the 1960s.

The new spy film by Steven Sonderburg promises great cinema again! Starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender as a secret service couple who are put to the test...

Caroline Wahl's bestseller about young Tilda and her touching search for meaning between studies, work and family chaos. With a great cast: from Luna Wedler to Jannis Niewöhner to Laura Tonke.