December 1, 2025, 7 p.m., doors open at 6:30 p.m.
On the occasion of World AIDS Day on December 1, 2025, we cordially invite you to the event “Druck machen!” (Make an impact!) – an evening that combines remembrance, dialogue, and artistic engagement.
World AIDS Day is a day of remembrance and resistance. It reminds us that HIV still exists and that prevention, education, and solidarity remain as important as ever. The “Druck machen!” project continues this tradition and asks: How can intergenerational exchange contribute to successful HIV prevention today and in the future, reduce stigma, and prepare us for future new pandemics?
World AIDS Day: More than just remembering!
World AIDS Day (December 1) is a day of mourning. At the same time, it is also a day of resistance, when we remember that the virus lives on and threatens human lives. Commemorating the victims of the disease together therefore connects the past and the future: remembrance and prevention belong together.
For younger people, the early days of HIV/AIDS are now a distant memory. For many older people, however, the political struggles for information, prevention, and self-determined protection are still vividly remembered. How can dialogue between the generations help to keep the virus at bay?
“Spread the Word, not the Virus!”
At the invitation of the IWWIT campaign of Deutsche Aidshilfe, design students at the Berlin University of the Arts are collaborating with Professor Franziska Morlok and curator Michael Annoff on an intergenerational publication project. The project “Druck machen!” (Make an impact!) recalls the possibilities of prevention and communication in an era of analog design, when information, unlike the disease, could not yet be reproduced virally.
The focus of the evening is on intergenerational dialogue.
Moderated by Michael Annoff, Eugen Januschke (Schwules Museum), Jonathan Gregory, and Ahmet Sitki Demir (IWWIT team) will talk with people from the queer and positive communities about how, despite different biographical backgrounds, HIV/AIDS can be remembered and how this helps us to successfully prevent HIV today and in the future, reduce stigma, and prepare ourselves for future new pandemics.
The project seminar “Druck machen!” (Make an impact!), Luka Löhner, Lea Verholen, Jonas Gerber, and Prof. Franziska Morlok will present what they found in the museum’s archives. Birol Işık will recall, among other things, the work of the AIDS Danışma Merkezi. Hava Erica Zeytin reports on her intergenerational exchange with Tsepo Bollwinkel. Lexie Fosså (YouthWork team at Berliner Aids-Hilfe) talks to Jonathan Gregory (IWWIT) about the motivation to get involved in AIDS support as a young person.
The evening will be rounded off with a performance by Vivienne P. Lovecraft.
The event will be held in German. Admission: free!
“Druck machen!” is a project of the German AIDS charity IWWIT’s prevention campaign in cooperation with curator Michael Annoff, the Schwules Museum Berlin, and the Berlin University of the Arts.
IWWIT is funded by the Federal Institute for Public Health.
Image: Archive research in the Schwules Museum