The artists wrote this short programmatic text, which is supposed to be a handout for interested parties, to describe the intention of their artistic work. The text "Unser Programm" describes the artists’ future actions only indirectly, and rather call on the "youth who carry the future" as the "new generation" to join their idea of "a life in freedom". In an almost polite and reserved manner, they called for a rejection of the "established, older forces" in order to emphasize their clearly avant-garde attitude in the next sentence: "Everyone with an urge for direct and unadulterated creation belongs to us. What we had to get away from was clear to us - where we would end up, however, was less certain," Heckel recalled later (Hans Kinkel, Erich Heckel 75 Jahre alt. Ein Gespräch, in: Das Kunstwerk XII, 1958/59, issue 3).
The program of the artist group "Brücke" exists in different, typographically distinguished versions in machine typesetting. This copy in a kind of cursive script with the handwritten addition "Sitz" probably belongs to a first series. The sheet preserved in the Brücke Museum in Berlin, on the other hand, has an ornate title and a kind of typesetting common for the time, as well as the signet stamp "KGB," which Schmidt-Rottluff and Heckel had frequently used for the artist group's correspondence in 1906/07. [MvL]