Partner & Team
“35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall” is a project is created by Kulturprojekte Berlin in cooperation with various institutions and partners on behalf of the Federal State of Berlin with support from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
Thanks
A special thanks to everyone who played a role in designing and supporting the project:
Project advisory board
Marianne Birthler, Frank Ebert, Dr. Anna Kaminsky, Prof. Dr. Axel Klausmeier, Tom Sello, Dr. Stephan Stach and Sebastian Zilm
Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion
Joe Chialo, Dr. Christine Regus, Katja Böhme and Clemens Teske
Senate Chancellery of Berlin and the Governing Mayor
Kai Wegner and Christine Richter
Main partners
Berliner Beauftragter zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Stiftung Berliner Mauer, Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft, Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur
Partners & supporters
The Berlin House of Representatives, Admiralspalast, Aktionstag gegen Brustkrebs „ICH BIN DABEI!“, Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Deutschland e.V., Axel Springer Freedom Foundation, Imran Ayata, Ballhaus West | Agentur für Kampagnen GmbH, BAW-Garten, Berbus Alliance, Berliner Feuerwehr, Berliner Sparkasse, Berlin Partner, Bezirksamt Mitte, Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), Bibliothek am Wasserturm, The Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany, The Federal Press Office, Bündnis Hermsdorf steht vereint, Campus for Democracy, Chamäleon Theater, DAM United AG, DDR Museum, The Bundestag, German Spy Museum, Dong Xuan Center Berlin, Ellerhold Aktiengesellschaft, Evangelische Kirche Berlin-Brandenburg- schlesische Oberlausitz (Martin Vogel, Christine Stier), Evangelisch-methodistische Kirche – Christuskirche Kreuzberg, Familiensportfest im Olympiapark Berlin, Feuerstein GmbH / Molotow, FEZ I Freizeitpark Berlin Wuhlheide, Filmpark Babelsberg, Flussbad e.V., Förderverein Obersee & Orankesee e.V., Förderverein Zionskirche e.V., Futurium, Genusskombinat GmbH, Gesamtverband Kommunikationsagenturen GWA e.V., Gethsemanekirche- Ev. Kirchengemeinde Prenzlauer Berg-Nord, Gewobag Wohnungsbau-AG, Gitschiner 15 I Ev. Kirchengemeinde Heilig Kreuz – Passion, Gropius Bau, The Hagedorn Group, Sönke Hallmann, Hanf Parade 2024 Berlin, Hertha BSC Berlin, Hinze Stahl GmbH, Ilg-Außenwerbung GmbH, Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum & grafische Sammlung Hans Pels-Leusden e. V., Neila Kemmer, The Sounding Museum Berlin, Kompagnon Letters – Sebastian Karbowiak, Kulturzug, Landeskriminalamt Berlin, Landes sportbund Berlin, Lollapalooza Berlin, MACHmit! Museum, Mihai. media solutions GmbH, Modulor GmbH, Museumsdienst Berlin, Museum für Werte, Musicboard Berlin GmbH, MWB Berlin – Mathias Westebbe, Marc Naroska/ Naroska Design, Holger Nawrocki/Nawrocki Alpin, Neubau Gerüstbau GmbH, Park Inn by Radisson Berlin Alexanderplatz, Pflegewerk SRK Senioren centrum Kurfürstendamm, Polizei Berlin, Polizei-Sport-Verein Berlin e.V., PRG Berlin, Ann-Kathrin Reichardt, Hans Reitz, S-Bahn Berlin GmbH, Schildkröte GmbH, Senatsverwaltung für Mobilität, Verkehr, Klimaschutz und Umwelt, Seyffert mit Himmelspach GmbH (SMITH), Spantech GmbH, Stadtmuseum Berlin, Stage Entertainment GmbH, Stasi museum Berlin, Stiftung Berliner Leben (Urban Nation Festival), Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Stiftung wannseeFORUM, Strandbad Tegelsee gGmbH, Ströer CORE GmbH & Co. KG, SV Rot-Weiß Viktoria Mitte 08 e.V., Technische Jugendfreizeit- und Bildungsgesellschaft (tjfbg) gGmbH, tetris Modulbau GmbH, Textilfundus – Anik Celikaslan, Sebastian Thaut, Time Security e.K., Turnverein Waidmannslust e.V., Uber Arena – Anschutz Entertainment Group Development GmbH, vierC print+mediafabrik GmbH & Co. KG, visitBerlin, Weißenseer Integrationsbetriebe GmbH, WeWork Companies LLC, Wohnstift Otto Dibelius, Zeppelin Rental GmbH, Zweite Heimat Agentur für Live-Kommunikation GmbH and many more
A very special thank you to everyone who displayed their creative commitment to freedom and democracy by designing their own unique signs and posters as well as to everyone who participated in the Band for Freedom.
Team
Executive managers
Simone Leimbach and Moritz van Dülmen
Project coordinator
Clara von Schell
Project management team
Stephanie Richter and Josefine Krüger
Executive production management
Gerald Ponesky
Participation project & installation
Idea & concept
Gerald Ponesky, Simone Leimbach, Moritz van Dülmen
Organisation & management: Participation project
Frauke Stuhl with Judith Klein, Martje Nemitz, Luise Pestalozza as well as Adeline Fröhlich-Vogelsang, Dina Wimmer, Ida Mittag, Ilia Petin
Signs & posters project
COMPACT TEAM GMBH: Heiko Stark and Jacqueline Ponesky (Project management)
Hikmat Aladday, Kani Alavi, Stefan Behr, Stefan Blei, Martina Darlong, Hanaa El Degham, Sarah Drescher, Moritz Eickworth, David Eis, Steven Förster, Simon Maximilian Frenz, Sarah Nevada Grether, Daria Gulenko, Leighty Julia Hanrahan, Jacqueline Held, Doreen Herzog, Malou Herzog, Hannes Hohgraeve, Maximilian Jacobi, Leo Jia, Danny Kästner, Ulrika Koch, Lucas Konrad, Anna Kurby, Jürgen Laarmann, Tim Laube, Farina Lenker, Mia-Cosima de Lima, Maria Link, Anna Lorenzut, Conor McNally, Nina Medea, Michele Mende, Bastian Morbes, Armin Mostoffi, Luca Müller, Hannah Neumann, Edna Niclas, Joschka Pabel, Sarina Panahideh, Inese Pavlova, Sebastian Pfau, Anja Ponesky, Katja Ponesky, Jessica Preuß, Oliver Regahl, Henoch Richter, Katja Keya Richter, René Richter, Ben Ritter, Heidi Sauermann, Hanah Schieb, Jennifer Schild, Sophie Schlaaf, Hannah Schrief, Mario Schmidt, Verena Schulz, Paul Schütz, Dan Seifert, Ariane Siebdrath, Sascha Syed, Daniela Teichert, Selina Thüring, Vincent Urban, Nicole Utzki, Fabian von Wachsmann, Georg Walther, Joshua Weihe, Maryna Werner, Christine Meinecke-Wohlthat, Thomas Wiese, Heike Witte, Dan Wittke, Igor Zaidel, Raik Zepuntke
Mise-en-scène & organisation: Installation
Nathalie Schmitz with Eva Bullermann, Teresa Egger,
Jonas Fischer, Philip Ottenottebrock and Jörn Waldhelm
as well as PRETECTA – GESELLSCHAFT FÜR MESSE- UND EVENTBAU MBH: Daniel Bielawny, Dagmar Goeske, Janine Hoffmann, Christine Klein, Peter “Pit” Kowalski, Selcuk Kuscu, Anja Krotzek, Tina Maurer, Michael Mietzke, Richard Mietzke, Thomas Pampuch, Friedrich Wilhelm Schöneweiß, Timo Scziegel, Dieter Willner
Exhibition: “The Path to Freedom”
Research concept
Melanie Eichler, Bernadette Schendina and Dr. Bjoern Weigel
Research assistants
Madeleine Hartmann, Tobias Schlage, Lena Schott, Angelika Kranz
Project advisory board
Marianne Birthler, Frank Ebert, Dr. Anna Kaminsky, Prof. Dr. Axel Klausmeier, Tom Sello, Dr. Stephan Stach
Research consulting
Dr. Susanne Muhle, Dr. Ann-Kathrin Reichardt, Sebastian Zilm
With contributions from
Dr. Marcus Böick, Jost Kaiser, Dr. Anna Kaminsky, Michèle Mateschk-Delhaes, Dr. Ulrich Mählert, Dr. Gerhard Sälter
Creative management: Exhibition
Nathalie Schmitz
Exhibition production
Helen-Sophie Mayr
Art direction
Ines Ebel
Exhibition design
Daria Fürst
Exhibition graphics
Nathanaël Hamon, Florian Jorzick, Carolin Mantke
Exhibition architecture
NOIBAU Daniel Krause, Toni Kunau, Camilla Preuss, Alina Wilkending
Exhibition construction
NEW WAVE KREATIVMANUFAKTUR: Marie-Luise Stein, Winand Winands
Translation
The Hagedorn Group
Event & film programme
8 + 9 November
Finn Lösekann, Angelika Reiss, Patrick Slawinski with
Ulrike Brase, Canan Cön, Stefan Lisson (Events)
as well as Martha Westhoff with MOJA FILM: Adam Janisch
(Video content: Installation)
Festival for Freedom 9 November
Idea & concept
Gerald Ponesky, Simone Leimbach, Moritz van Dülmen
with Björn Döring and Sven Sören Beyer
Coordinators
Patrick Slawinski and Finn Lösekann
Band for Freedom
BUERO DOERING: Björn Döring with Marieke Riediger, Nadja Zehrlaut, Andreas Hartmann, Mai Le, Josephine Schöde, Anna Oberschmidt, Johannes Dam, Lisa Stolzenburg, Thomas Bartz, Claudia Vercrüße, Anais-Elena Woggon, Yusuf Sahilli, Daniel Lindenblatt and ROCKIN’1000: Fabio Zaffagnini, Michele Telaro, Francesca Robbiati, Ambrogio Ferrario, Martina Pieri, Giulia Piticco, Matteo Chichiarelli, Laura Nicoli
Mise-en-scène & direction
phase 7 performing.arts: Sven Sören Beyer, Peter Brix with Jennifer Naffin and Hendrik Schenk as well as Florian Affeldt, Janik Albrecht, Julius Blem, Steffen Herrmann, Tilo Krause, Malika Keck, Astrid Möller, Marco di Noia, Miriam Schmitt, Till Vanish
STUDIO EIGENGRAU: Hajo Rehm, Daniel Bandke
Publication: “Hold Freedom up High”
Publishers
Moritz van Dülmen and Simone Leimbach
Concept
Matthias Dell and Ester Cara
Editorial team
Matthias Dell and Ester Cara with Luise Budde
Art Direction
Ines Ebel
Production
Till Hurlin
With contributions from
Sabine Adler, ChatGPT, Alexander Cumming, Max Czollek, Matthias Dell, Mirko Drotschmann, Knut Elstermann, Anne Fromm, Cornelia Geißler, Annett Gröschner, Robert Ide, Elisabeth Jäckel, Basil Kerski, Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk, Thomas Krüger, Daniel Kubiak, Nils Markwardt, Sebastian Müller with Büro für Leichte Sprache Sag’s einfach!, Özgür Özvatan, planpolitik, Ulrike Poppe, Bert Rebhandl, Thomas Sachsenmaier, Valerie Schönian, Pascal Siggelkow, Greta Taubert, Ofer Waldman, Jessica Wedekind, Kai Wegner, Bjoern Weigel, Peter Wensierski, Maria Wiesner, Evelyn Zupke
Photo series with images by
Christian Schulz, Kai Wiedenhöfer
Cover photo & visualisations
Harf Zimmermann
Additional photographers
Jonas Berndt, Fabian Brennecke, Marcus Glahn, Yanina Isla, Pauline Ruther, Melanie Sapina
Image editors
Tobias Laukemper with Melanie Eichler
Design: Berlin maps
Ole Häntzschel
Draft: Topological Berlin map
Peter Staub
Editors: Poster presentation “Hold Freedom up High!”
Frauke Stuhl, Judith Klein, Martje Nemitz, Luise Pestalozza, Dr. Bjoern Weigel
Collaboration global perspectives
Axel Springer Freedom Foundation
Project advisory board
Marianne Birthler, Frank Ebert, Anna Kaminsky, Axel Klausmeier,
Tom Sello, Stephan Stach, Sebastian Zilm
Proofreading
Sönke Hallmann
Translation
The Hagedorn Group
Book design: English translation
Florian Jorzick
Printed by
Mohn Media Mohndruck GmbH, Gütersloh
Communication & marketing
Till Hurlin, Christof Lootze with Lina Elisabeth Berger, Carina Buelta Rodriguez, Gregor van Dülmen, Vivien Gidde, Nancy Henze, Alexander Krupp, Florian Lutz, Natalie Meves, Katharina Neubürger, Katharina Öz, Claudia Relota, Janet Riedel, Antje Schröder, Silvia Winkler as well as Ilona Schäkel and SteinbrennerMüller Kommunikation (Kristian Müller, Kathrin Steinbrenner) and Daniel Fritzsche (Sponsoring)
Graphics & design
Ines Ebel with Daria Fürst, Julius Greger, Nathanaël Hamon, Florian Jorzick, Caro Mantke, Roman Roth
Project photography & visualisations
Harf Zimmermann
Photographers
Fabian Brennecke, Yanina Isla, Angela Regenbrecht, Alexander Rentsch, Yves Sucksdorff
Production team
Larah Quirin with Anja Henkel, Andreas Berg, Eva Beyer, Hana Hermann, Katrin Müller, Etienna Schultz
Tech team
IVV INGENIEURBÜRO FÜR VERANSTALTUNGSMANAGEMENT (Jan Wasserfuhr, Lars Mindach, Ludger Klaus) and Reik Witzmann with Erik Russ, Alex Höhn as well as
BÄRLIN TEAM EVENTDESIGN GMBH: Dan Wittke, Stefan Blei, Georg Bünger, Lisa Dietze, Daniel Eichhorn, Lucas Konrad, Anna Kurby, Lara Kurby, Paulina Kündgen, Michelle Mende, Joschka Pabel, Ruben Plachy, Santiago Relanzon, Dirk Schattauer, Dan Seifert, Vincent Urban, René Weigel
Administration & finance
Katrin Dohne, Vivienne Noda Bautista, Cathrin Brinkman
with Felix Künzel, Janina Mielke, Kien Nguyen, Judith Oberdoerster, Kerstin Spychalski, Dieter Stendell, Anne Wittkopp, Benjamin Zeiske
Special events & protocol
Lisa Fisel, Silke Müller, Anita Reichel
Project assistants
Mario Arnold, Dorett Auerswald, Andreas Fritzsche, Arne Glaß, Heinz Knauf, Lucca Meinke, Alina Petith, Clemens Poser, Andreas Schulze, Mathias Schwarz, Norbert Strache, Paolo Stolpmann