Architecture
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| 5 EUR / 2,50 EUR |
| Please book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the Foyer. |
| 16 years and older |
| German |
| Ground Floor, Hall 3 |
| Part of: WeSearch |
The site on which the Humboldt Forum stands has a long history. With its historistic architecture and its exhibitions and collections, it can be understood as a memorial palace in several respects. But which past and which stories are remembered? Who remembers and tells stories here? This is constantly changing and causing ever new debates.
While the building opened only in summer 2021, it is reminiscent of older layers of memory. On the one hand, there is the Berlin Palace, which stood here from the mid-15th to the mid-20th century; on the other hand, there is also the Palace of the Republic, which is only just present in memory due to its absence from this place. So how much old, how much new is there in the Humboldt Forum? And how much monarchical-Prussian, how much GDR and how much colonial memory? Which conflicting and contradictory memories and narratives does it evoke and which pasts does its present repress?
Participants
is an architectural historian and exhibition curator of a number of exhibitions on cultural history. Since 2018, he has been head of the department History of the Site at the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss. In the Humboldt Forum, this department presents four permanent exhibitions on the history of the site, and publishes and researches on its historical relevance.
is a historian and consultant for inclusive and intercultural education at the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Eastern Germany. Among other topics, she has worked on the “Memory Landscape of the German-German Border” and urban history, particularly on dealing with the legacy of the GDR in Berlin’s city centre.
studied urban and regional planning at the Technical University of Berlin with a focus on heritage conservation. Her research and teaching expertise lies in Berlin urban history and in the study of identity and heritage constructions in public spaces. Since 2020, she has worked as an outreach curator for the Stiftung Berliner Mauer. Her dissertation Recht auf Erbe in der Migrationsgesellschaft – a study of places of remembrance of Berliners of Turkish origin – was published by Urbanophil Verlag in February 2023.
holds a PhD in philosophy, and was a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin. Today she works as a cultural journalist, such as, among other things, as an editor and presenter of the philosophy programme Sein und Streit on Deutschlandfunk Kultur and as a columnist for Zeit Online and Radio Bremen.