Salon Sophie Charlotte

The Salon Sophie Charlotte is a public evening event to which the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences has been inviting every year since 2006 on the penultimate Saturday in January in the academy building on Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt .

The salon is named after Sophie Charlotte Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg (1668–1705), Queen of Prussia, who, together with Gottfried-Wilhelm Leibniz, initiated the founding of the then Electoral Brandenburg Society of Sciences in 1700, which later became the Royal Prussian Academy of the Sciences emerged. Sophie Charlotte, who had a great passion for philosophy , ran free-spirited salons on her estate in Lietzow near Berlin , which, as a social meeting point for discussions, readings or musical events, formed a counter-world to strict Prussian etiquette .

The Salon Sophie Charlotte of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy is organized every year with a different thematic focus. On this occasion, the academy building is featured on all floors with artistic-scientific contributions such as discussion groups, lectures, music and performances by academy members, academy employees and prominent guests. The academy regularly invites partner institutions to participate in the salon with their own programs.

subjects

2006: Kick-off event
2007: Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe
2008: Do you really know Prussia?
2009: Evolution welcomes your children
2010: Escape from astonishment?
2011: love in return. Patrons and Donors of Science and the Arts
2012: Artifacts. Knowledge is art - art is knowledge
2013: Science and love
2014: Europe - a place of the future
2015: Moved into the light
2016: Do we live in the best of all possible worlds?
2017: rebellions, revolutions or reforms?
2018: is language a weapon?
2019: Measure and measure

Individual evidence

^ Sophie Charlotte, Queen in Prussia - The History of Berlin - Association for the History of Berlin eV - founded in 1865. Accessed on March 27, 2019 .
↑ Siegfried Wollgast and Hermann Klenner: Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, Volume 110 (2011) Contents: Siegfried Wollgast On the European roots of the Society's constitution in Berlin in 1700 Hermann Klenner Leibniz's memoranda of March 26, 1700 "a societatem scientiarum et artium zu fundiren "and the regulations of the royal Prussian" Societät der Wissenschaften alhier "of June 3, 1710 . tape 110 (2011) . trafo Verlag Berlin, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89626-955-3 , p. 194 .

[1] Sophie Charlotte, Queen in Prussia - The History of Berlin - Association for the History of Berlin eV - founded in 1865. Accessed on March 27, 2019 .

[2] Siegfried Wollgast and Hermann Klenner: Meeting reports of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin, Volume 110 (2011) Contents: Siegfried Wollgast On the European roots of the Society's constitution in Berlin in 1700 Hermann Klenner Leibniz's memoranda of March 26, 1700 "a societatem scientiarum et artium zu fundiren "and the regulations of the royal Prussian" Societät der Wissenschaften alhier "of June 3, 1710 . tape 110 (2011) . trafo Verlag Berlin, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89626-955-3 , p. 194 .