This week’s guest in the podcast studio is the young artist and performer Begüm Erciyas. After venues at Karl-Marx-Hof and Fillgraderstiege, her Letters from Attica will be appearing at the Meiselmarkt and Rossauer Lände from Wednesday to Sunday. In conversation with Clarissa Stadler, she explains why she feels the letters that the prisoner Sam Melville wrote 50 years ago have never been more topical. She talks about the intimacy that only voices are capable of creating and the practical laboratory scheduled to take place during the September portion of the Festwochen – specifically, in a forest.

There’s still so much to discover during this first half of the Festwochen. In the third Festwochen supplement – published in co-operation with DER STANDARD – read all about the forthcoming programme highlights and new venues to be discovered in the capital.