04. Dec 2025

150 years of Rilke and a new Rilke documentary!

Today, December 4, 2025, Rainer Maria Rilke would have turned 150 years old. Just in time for this birthday anniversary, Thomas von Steinaecker’s new film “RILKE – You Must Change Your Life” is now available to watch in the ARTE media library.

Rilke is often referred to as a genius of poetry. However, he almost failed in his magnum opus, the “Duino Elegies,” which were to become the sum total of his work. In his documentary, Thomas von Steinaecker uses the elegies as a pivot to reveal not only Rilke’s work, but also his character, his creative drives, the time in which he lived and worked, and finally the fascination he continues to exert to this day.

Now available in the ARTE media library.

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Maria Willer

is music journalist and was formerly, before founding the “3B-Produktion GmbH”, editor and presenter at the radio broadcaster “Klassik Radio” since 2003. Apart from her journalistic activities she has founded the “Musikkindergarten Hamburg”. Before working for the radio she was trainee as print journalist. In this way Maria Willer’s train of medial thinking spreads from the reader to the listener as well as to a film audience. Important for her is that stories reach out to human beings – whichever media is used.

Bernhard von Hülsen

Hat vor Gründung der „3B-Produktion GmbH“ ein knappes Jahrzehnt für die „AVE Gesellschaft für Fernsehproduktion“ Magazine, Talks, Dokumentationen, Reportagen und zunehmend junge Formate produziert. Vor seiner Produzentenlaufbahn promovierte er als Kollegiat der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft zu deutsch-französischem Kulturtransfer und volontierte am Deutschen Historischen Museum. Er ist stark in der Musikszene verankert und hat hier über Jahre Akzente gesetzt.