Event archive

Current programme

  • Exhibition

China is not far! 35 Years – Fall Of the Wall / Tiananmen

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2024 marks the 35th anniversary of both the peaceful revolution in the GDR and the crackdown against the democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

  • Vorplatz Axel Springer SE
all day
  • Theatre

SEID DOCH LAUT! (BE LOUD!)

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Site-specific performance about the GDR opposition group “Women for Peace”.

  • Stasi Headquarters - Campus for Democracy
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  • Exhibition

Birgit Kleber “The Wall”

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Photo exhibition at Kommunale Galerie Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.

  • Alte Feuerwache
all day
  • Exhibition

China is not far! 35 Years – Fall Of the Wall / Tiananmen

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2024 marks the 35th anniversary of both the peaceful revolution in the GDR and the crackdown against the democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

  • Forecourt of the Berlin House of Representatives
all day
  • Theatre

School of Dictators

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A play by Erich Kästner

  • Ballhaus Prinzenallee
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  • Exhibition
  • Panel discussion
  • Tour
  • Talk
  • Music
  • Theatre
  • Workshop

Pussy Riot – ‘Riot Days’ – a multimedia punk rock show

Programme highlight on the evening of the one-day democracy festival on the Campus for Democracy.

  • Stasi Headquarters - Campus for Democracy
all day
  • Film screening

Berlin Wall Film Festival

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On November 9, the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Mauerfilmfest#35 will show over six hours of short films on the topics of building the Wall, fear and mistrust, everyday life with the Wall as well as the fall of the Wall and transformation.

  • Filmtheater Colosseum
various
  • Tour

Marienfelde 1989

Special tour with contemporary witnesses, the refugee center after the fall of the Wall.

  • Refugee Center Museum Marienfelde
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  • Video installation

Video Cubes

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The Federal Government is participating in the celebrations by means of film screenings.

  • entire event route
all day
  • Exhibition

The Path to Freedom

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Set along the open-air installation, the exhibition explores the historic background to the Peaceful Revolution.

  • various
all day
  • Installation

Open-Air Installation

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Thousands of signs and posters will be presented along the path of the former Berlin Wall.

  • entire event route
all day
  • Tour

Guided tours

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Discover new perspectives on the Peaceful Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

  • entire event route
all day
  • Panel discussion
  • Theatre

THE GDR NEVER EXISTED

Themed day with talks and theater performance

  • Berliner Ensemble
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  • Installation

WALL TO TABLE

An art installation by Meike Ziegler

  • Berlin Wall Memorial
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  • Music

STONES

Concert New Music by Christian Wolff

  • Samariterkirche
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  • Talk
  • Music

Zimmerstraße event stage

Contemporary witnesses and young journalists discuss freedom while historians invoke the memory of those who died at the Wall and the significance of Checkpoint Charlie. All this followed by some jazz from the Bürgermeister Trio and a choir concert by the Berliner Kneipenchor.

  • Zimmerstraße
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  • Talk
  • Music

Schiffbauerdamm event stage

In the talks taking place here, representatives of the post-unification generation will share their personal experiences. For example, musical highlights will be provided by the band SIND and by Mark Reeder, who will draw on songs and their own experiences to recount the story of youth and resistance in divided Berlin. Of course, there will […]

  • Schiffbauerdamm
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  • Music
  • Theatre

Kapelle-Ufer event stage

Music acts: Gerhild, Berliner Kneipenchor, SingSisySing, Mavka, Sofia Portanet, Sebastian Krumbiegel. New interpretations of Wolf Biermann songs by Lina Maly, Moritz Krämer, Romano and Bonaparte will build a bridge from the past to the present. A theatre performance “Seid doch laut” (Be loud) will take a look back at the GDR opposition group “Frauen für […]

  • Kapelle-Ufer
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  • Puppet theatre
  • Workshop

Children’s Tent on Ebertraße

Berlin’s MACHmit! Museum invites children aged 3 and up to make colourful revolutionary candles and help celebrate the Peaceful Revolution in a creative way. Frau Puppendoktor Pille – Ms. Puppet Doctor Pill, a beloved children’s character in the GDR – will have some stories and rhymes on hand to make it a special experience amid […]

  • Kinderzelt an der Ebertstraße
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  • Talk
  • Music

Niederkirchnerstrasse event stage

Conversations with activists currently campaigning for freedom, human rights and democracy worldwide. Followed by an unforgettable musical experience: Faravaz.

  • Niederkirchnerstraße
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  • Talk
  • Reading
  • Music

Ebertstraße event stage

The stage platform offers insights into freedom movements and cultural changes: Ewa Maria Slaska and Monika Wrzosek-Müller talk about their experiences with Solidarność, the ChorWerk Potsdam sings songs for peace, and Oktoberfrühling 1989 shows GDR protests. Dieter Schumann and Jochen Wisotzki will also discuss their film Flüstern & SCHREIEN and the underground music scene in […]

  • Ebertstraße
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  • Talk
  • Live-Speaking

‘Let us in!’

Live speaking and contemporary witness talks at Checkpoint Charlie

  • between Asisi-Panorama and Checkpoint Charlie
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  • Tour

Ask the Artist at the East Side Gallery

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Moderated tour with artists of the East Side Gallery

  • East Side Gallery
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  • Participatory project
  • Video installation

The Travelling Memory Lab. Remembering Revolution | Shaping Democracy

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Every weekend from 5.10.2024 to 10.11.2024, the mobile memory lab tours the city and records its video messages!

  • Berlin Wall Foundation
various
  • Reading

Prison poetry

Guided Reading

  • Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen
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  • Exhibition

A weight falls from my heart

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Exhibition by Eva von Schirach

  • Evangelische Pfingskirche
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  • Tour

Commemorating 35 years of the Peaceful Revolution 1989/90 in Potsdam

At 3 p.m., a dialogical city tour with contemporary witness Hans-Georg Baaske will start from the Lindenstraße Memorial to Luisenplatz, the site of the major demonstration onNovember 4, 1989.

  • Stiftung Gedenkstätte Lindenstraße
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  • Tour

Marienfelde 1989

Special tour with contemporary witnesses, the refugee center after the fall of the Wall.

  • Refugee Center Museum Marienfelde
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  • Talk

Palace get-together. Table talks on a vanished venue

Program for the exhibition “Blown away. The Palace of the Republic is present”

  • Humboldt Forum
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  • Tour

Tour at the East Side Gallery

Art compact

  • East Side Gallery
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  • Talk

Suddenly free? Political prisoners and the fall of the Wall

Talk with contemporary witnesses (in german)

  • Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen
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  • Talk

Reflecting on a different GDR

Visions of citizens’ movements, the church and the CDU on the evening of the fall of the Wall

  • Evangelische Akademie zu Berlin
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  • Talk

Turning points. Humboldt-Universität after 1990

Talk with contemporary witnesses Hildegard Maria Nickel and Ulrich Miksch with Historian Mitchell Ash.

  • Humboldt Forum
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  • Talk

Palace get-together. Table talks on a vanished venue

Program for the exhibition “Blown away. The Palace of the Republic is present”

  • Humboldt Forum
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  • Panel discussion
  • Music

Theme Days. Transform!

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Theme days for the exhibition: “Hin und weg. The Palace of the Republic is present.”

  • Humboldt Forum
various
  • Exhibition

Cellars Rooms and Cellar Dreams

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Exhibition of comics by Dirk Moldt, the cartoonist of the former environmental papers, published by the legendary opposition Environmental Library.

  • Zionskirche
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  • Theatre

Heiner Müller – Quartett. Material

A memory with Corinna Harfouch, Oscar Olivo and others

  • Humboldt Forum
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  • Tour

(Fragments of) memories

The Tour explores the Palace of the Republic along the history of selected objects.

  • Humboldt Forum
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  • Lecture

Lecture ‘Tunnel 57 und der Tod des Grenzsoldaten’

Lecture on the events of October 3rd to 5th, 1964 by Dietmar Arnold (Berliner Unterwelten e.V.), live broadcast via YouTube.

  • Berliner Unterwelten e.V.
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