From turning maneuvers and the accompanying soundtracks
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| Admission: free admission |
| Suitable for: 6 years and older |
| Which languages: German |
| Part of: Palace Bar |
| Belongs to: Blown Away: The Palace of the Republic |
It’s getting musical. A round of music bingo is on the program. But before the guessing round of the melodies begins, everything revolves around the GDR in its final stages and the upheaval of the 1990s.
In the first part of the PalastBar, academics and experts will speak in Pecha Kucha format. This means that they give short presentations, each lasting only 6 minutes 40 seconds, on their findings – from the activities of the Treuhand to the events in the Palace of the Republic after its closure in September 1990.
In the second part of the evening, everyone can join in with the music bingo of the greatest hits from East and West, from rock to pop.
This PalastBar aims to revisit some events, to encourage reflection and to be entertaining. That this can succeed is also down to her: the evening will be hosted by Lea Streisand, one of Berlin’s best-known voices.
Participants
Dominique Falentin has been working at the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss since mid-2022. She is part of the curatorial exhibition team Blown Away: The Palace of the Republic and the associated program team. She is an art historian and has been in Berlin since 2012. She studied at Freie Universität, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin. In 2019, she wrote her master’s thesis on the Palace of the Republic in the culture of remembrance and analyzed the topic on the basis of exhibitions which been showed in 2019.
Dr. Christian Rau is a contemporary historian. He has been working as a research assistant at the Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin (Berlin Research Department) since 2014. He researches the social, cultural and gender history of the GDR, the political history of divided and united Germany, the history of trade unions, the history of protests and the history of democracy. In his last two monographs, he dealt with the role of trade unions in the transformation process of the East German economy after 1990 and with the history of East German labor disputes in the 1990s using the example of the Bischofferode hunger strike.
Lea Streisand (*1979 in East Berlin) is known for her Radio Eins column “war schön jewesen” on rbb. She writes novels as well as columns and essays for the taz, Berliner Zeitung and Jüdische Allgemeine, among others. In winter semester 22/23, she took over the poetry lectureship at Paderborn University.