Berlin history workshop

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The Berlin History Workshop eV (BGW) tied when it was founded in 1981 at the then new historical movement in Scandinavia and the US, with the terms "grave-where-you-stand" and history from below is connected. Two principles have shaped the work of the BGW since its foundation: The power to interpret history should not be left to the rulers and sciences, everyone has something to tell and contribute to the image of history. Becoming aware of the historical context of one's own biography and the day-to-day opportunities to participate in shaping the past and present evokes political self-efficacy as the basis of democratic life.

history

The BGW was founded on May 25, 1981 in the Blauer Salon of Berlin's Mehringhof and soon moved into a shop in Schöneberger Goltzstrasse. 49, in which the association will still have its seat in 2020. Founding members were 25 people, u. a. Thomas Lindenberger , Susanne zur Nieden , Diethart Kerbs , Udo Gößwald, Martin Düspohl, Andreas Ludwig , Gisela Wenzel .

In projects and working groups, people of all ages and professions worked together for several years, including many history students and historians. One focus of the work of the BGW was placed on the Nazi era, about which the parents and grandparents' generation had remained silent until then.

As in Berlin, history workshops were set up all over the FRG in the 1980s . The BGW was the initiator and in charge of organizing the exchange between local and regional researchers in the new history movement: network meetings took place. In 1983 a nationwide umbrella organization - the Geschichtswerkstatt eV - was founded, which published the new magazine Geschichtswerkstatt (since 1992 WerkstattGeschichte ). In 1984 the 1st History Festival was organized in Berlin (West) and held as a conference lasting several days.

For more than 30 years, the steamship group of the BGW has been discovering big and small stories along the Berlin waterways with its historical city tours by ship and is the result of an "invention" at the history festival in 1984, when the supporting program was the first trip on the (West) Berlin Waterways was carried out.

The oral history method was further developed with each project; the biographical testimonies (biographical interviews, photos and documents) form the main component of today's archive of the BGW in Berlin-Schöneberg, which is expertly managed.

Since it was founded, there has been an evening round of discussions for those interested in newcomers every first Monday of the month. In addition to intensive project work, events and city tours are organized. Most of the work at BGW is voluntary.

In 2001 the research work and activities of BGW were recognized by former Polish forced laborers. Gisela Wenzel received the gold medal of the Association of Poles Damaged by the Third Reich. On March 13, 2014, Gisela Wenzel was honored for her work in numerous projects on everyday and local history, e.g. B. honored with the German Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for the workers' quarter “Rote Insel” and the Nazi forced labor in Berlin and in memory of Julius and Annedore Leber . The thematic development of the association and the movement can be found in the chronology of the projects and publications.

Projects

  • 1981/82: Series of events with a survey of contemporary witnesses From campfire to jukebox
  • 1983: Securing evidence of everyday life and resistance in Berlin in the thirties and 50 years of the National Socialists' seizure of power
  • since 1984: Historical sightseeing tours by ship in (West) Berlin, since 1990 all over Berlin, since 1991 with AG on women's history
  • 1984: amateur theater group Oberwasser and Tiefgang
  • since 1986: Street names: Rosa-Luxemburg-Brücke (named Rosa-Luxemburg-Steg in 2012 ), Aviation District in Tempelhof
  • 1983–1987: The Rote Insel in Berlin-Schöneberg and Der Wedding. Berlin after the war and The Lindenhof
  • 1987–1990: Mobile Museum - changing exhibitions at several locations in a former BVG bus: Euthanasia campaign T4-Die Mordzentrale in Tiergartenstraße 4 , street names , Russians pictures 1945 , contagious measures. An exhibition on how society deals with AIDS , from Krenz to Kohl , arbor, parcel, colony
  • 1988: Jews on the Kurfürstendamm
  • 1987–1989: The August experience in 1914
  • 1987–1990: Jewish life in Wedding
  • 1988–1991: Jews in Kreuzberg
  • 1989: Danckelmann-Kietz and presentation of the exhibition Rote Insel in the Museum Arbeiterleben around 1900 in East Berlin's Husemannstrasse (Prenzlauer Berg, May 1989), with accompanying events
  • 1990–1993: Labor immigration to West Berlin 1961–1993
  • since 1994: Nazi forced labor - Berlin-Niederschöneweide, Czech female forced laborers, everyday forced labor in Berlin and Brandenburg 1939–1945, Polish civil slave labor, Berlin company list, memorial plaque initiatives, Dreilinden, Fehrbellin, opening of the Berlin-Schöneweide Documentation Center in autumn 2006, contemporary witnesses App 2013, memorial plaque Wilhelmsaue 40
  • 2000–2020: Forced labor at Bosch - three books, three exhibitions and a website on the use of forced laborers and concentration camp prisoners in the two largest armaments companies of the Bosch Group: Dreilinden Maschinenbau GmbH, Kleinmachnow, and ELFI / Trillke-Werke, Hildesheim
  • since 2002: the Lichtenrade history workshop, founded in 1984, continues to work as a project group in the BGW, with a focus on the Nazi era

In addition to continuing work in the city ​​tours , Nazi forced labor and Lichtenrade projects , there are regular campaigns, tours, workshop discussions, series of events and the like. a. on the topics of Berlin street names, memorial sites, commemoration of people such as B. Rosa Luxemburg , Paul Löbe , Rio Reiser , Rudi Dutschke , Benno Ohnesorg , Annedore and Julius Leber . and

Publications

All of the following publications have been issued by the BGW.

  • Media package on the maintenance occupations in Berlin 1981/1982. Self-published, Berlin 1982. Co-editor: Diethart Kerbs
  • ... adjust history, uncover the unknown ... Documentation of local historical projects in the Federal Republic of Germany and in West Berlin on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the transfer of power to the National Socialists, self-published in 1983.
  • Project: forensics. Everyday life and resistance in Berlin in the 30s. Elefanten Press Verlag, Berlin 1983. Editing: Karl-Heinz Breidt, Andreas Ludwig , Kurt Schilde
  • Securing evidence in Schöneberg in 1933. Rote Insel - Lindenhof - Jewish Switzerland. Self-published, Berlin 1983. Editing: Eva Brücker
  • Securing evidence of resistance and everyday life under fascism in Charlottenburg. Elefanten Press Verlag, Berlin 1983
  • Passages. History on the Landwehr Canal. Self-published, Berlin 1984. Author: Jürgen Karwelat
  • The Lindenhof. Investigation of neighbors and their changes after the National Socialist seizure of power. Self-published, Berlin 1985
  • From the campfire to the jukebox. Youth cultures 1900 - 1960. Elefantenpress Verlag, Berlin 1985. Authors: Christa Jančik, Gerhard Kluchert, Andreas Sander, Kurt Schilde , Eva Brinkschulte, Ulrich Meyer, Andreas Mischok, Winfried Sträter ( dietermetzger.tk ).
  • Moabit Island. A three-quarter round trip by ship. Self-published, Berlin 1986. Author: Jürgen Karwelat
  • Landing in Berlin. City history on the Landwehr Canal and the Spree. Verlag Dirk Nishen, Berlin 1987. Authors : Susanne Köstering, Andreas Schleicher, Manfred Gailus , Cornelia Carstens, Gisela Hahn, Jürgen Karwelat , Christa Jančik, Thomas Lindenberger , Carsten Seefeldt
  • The red island of Berlin-Schöneberg. Fragments of a city's history. Verlag Dirk Nishen, Berlin 1987. Authors: Meike Eggert, Dieter von Buxhoeveden, Detlev Davids, Andreas Sander, Klaus Hesse, Uwe Clement, Lutz Birkholz, Christian Knapp, Hans-Michael Flämmig, Gisela Wenzel , Barbara Dankwortt, Herbert Böpple, Gerlinde Böpple, Wolf-Jürgen Haßdorf, Fred Wilhelm, Eva Brinkschulte, Hildegund Wolff, Uta Gerdes, Heike Papenthin, Kai-Torsten Illing, Martina Przewieslik, Rolf Amman, Jutta Bratz ( table of contents PDF).
  • Wedding - close to the limit. Living on in Berlin after the war. Verlag Dirk Nishen, Berlin 1987. Authors : Siegfried Heimann , Axel Kuhn, Angelika Rix, Susanne zur Nieden , Ray Rosdale, Dagmar Hartung-von Doetinchem, Dorothea Führe-Behringmeier, Heinz Rein, Heinrich Marvin, Sabine Hillebrecht, Ursula Schröter, Klaus Leuchtmann, Roland Schwarz, Andreas Hallen, Thomas Lindenberger , Erika M. Hoerning, Wolfgang Bohleber, Harry Lange, Wolfgang R. Ritter
  • It was a very closed society here. The Lindenhof. Verlag Dirk Nishen, Berlin 1987. Authors: Michael Meyer, Eva Brücker, Katia David, Roswitha Breckner, Christian Düntsch, Manuela Goos, Karl Bubenheimer, Gabriele Lang, Ursula Pasche, Jürgen Kerber, Andreas Ludwig , Gabriele Kienzl, Hannelore Gallin
  • The nation as an exhibit. Planning, criticism and utopias for the founding of museums in Bonn and Berlin. History workshop, issue 11 (1987). VSA publishing house. Authors : Sabine Weißler, Michael Wildt , Lutz Niethammer , Jürgen Habermas , Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm , Albert d'Haenens, Gert Zang , Frank Thomas Gatter, Volker Wünderich, Claus F. Stolberg, Andreas Ludwig
  • Berlin's southern shores. City history on Neukölln canals. Self-published, Berlin 1988. Authors: Cornelia Carstens, Gisela Hahn, Klaus Handke
  • Down by the river. A Historical Guide to Sightseeing along Berlin's Waterways. Publisher Dirk Nishen. Berlin 1988. (English translation of the guide from Landgang in Berlin )
  • Russen-Bilder, Berlin 1945. Self-published, Berlin 1988. Authors: Andreas Hallen, Brigitte Marquardt, Detlev Davids
  • Dead ends. No turning option for Berlin street names. Publisher Dirk Nishen. Berlin 1988. Authors: Jürgen Karwelat, Hans-Peter Richter, Margret Luikenga, Gisela Hahn, Claudia von Gélieu , Bernhard Müller, Cornelia Carstens, Sabine Werth
  • Berlin city map from 1946. Reprint of the original edition. Document of a missed coming to terms with the past in the Berlin cityscape. Self-published. Berlin 1988. Plan, folded and rolled. Co-editors: Jürgen Karwelat , Bernhard Müller
  • Postcard series. Self-published, Berlin 1988
  • ... as if it had never been. Jews on Ku'damm. Self-published, Berlin 1989. Author: Michael Weiß
  • August 1914. A people goes to war. Verlag Dirk Nishen, Berlin 1989. Authors: Herrad-Ulrike Bussemer, Michael Reiter, Monika Bönisch, Susanne Rouette, Helmut Bräutigam, Gerhard Ille, Henrick Stahr and others. a.
  • Around the Klausenerplatz. Historical tour through a Charlottenburg district. Self-published, Berlin 1989. Author: Frauke Bollow u. a.
  • Erna Proskauer: ways and detours. Memories of a lawyer. Verlag Dirk Nishen, Berlin 1989. Collaboration: Sabine Berghahn , Christl Wickert
  • The red island. On the history of the Berlin working-class district. Verlag Dirk Nishen, Berlin 1989 (improved edition, reprint 2008)
  • Right on the doorstep. Berlin-Lichtenrade under National Socialism. ASF, Berlin 1990. New edition 2005. Authors: Andreas Bräutigam, Monika Fenuzau, Thomas Quilitzsch, Lutz Sand, Dagmar Schneider, Sönke Schneidewind, Rainer Weitzel, Ruth Zantow, Petra Heidebrecht
  • Jews in Kreuzberg. Finds… fragments… memories…. Verlag Hentrich, Berlin 1991. Authors: Christine Roig-Bogner, Christine Zahn, Walter Zadek, Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm , Anneli Loerbroks, Maren Krüger, Eike Geisel , Andreas Ludwig , Dietlinde Peters, Michael Kreutzer, Helmut F. Braun, Julius H. Schoeps , Christoph Hamann, Stefan König
  • From the upper tree to the lower tree. City history on the Spree. Self-published, Berlin 1991. Authors: Cornelia Carstens, Martine Däuwel, Manuela Dörnenburg, Ute Fabian, Gisela Hahn, Gabriela Holdt, Jürgen Karwelat , Roselinde Knarr
  • Others are great, we are looking for profile. Archive concept of the Berlin history workshop. Self-published, Berlin 1991. Authors: Roswitha Breckner, Frauke Bollow, Eva Brücker, Cornelia Carstens, Sonja Miltenberger, Elke Mocker, Bernhard Müller.
  • ... we are no longer foreigners. Immigrant workers in Berlin 1961–1993. Self-published, Berlin 1993. Authors: Henrick Stahr, Cord Pagenstecher a. a.
  • Always follow the women! Walk on the Landwehr Canal on the history of women in Berlin. Self-published, Berlin 1993. Authors: Cornelia Carstens, Margret Luikenga, Manuela Dörnenburg, Gisela Hahn-Hantke, Anita Hermannstädter, Angelika Rix, Heike Stange, Ursula Schröter
  • The other social memory. The documentation center for everyday and regional history of the Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt eV. in: Werkstatt Geschichte [set internal link] 8 (1993), pp. 17-23. Authors: Eva Brücker, Frauke Bollow ( werkstattgeschichte.de PDF).
  • Everyday culture, subjectivity and history. On the theory and practice of everyday history. Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 1994. Authors: Geoff Eley, Anna Davin, Albrecht Burkardt, Carola Lipp, Hans Medick , Karin Hartewig, Gabriele Rosenthal , Alf Lüdtke , Detlef Stender, Susanne zur Nieden , Ronald Berg, Roswitha Breckner, Frauke Bollow , Elke Mocker, Adelheid von Saldern , Bernward Dörner, Norbert Haase, Manuela Goos, Eva Brücker, Alfred Georg Frei , Axel Doßmann ( table of contents PDF).
  • I fear people more than bombs. From the diaries of three Berlin women 1938–1946. Metropol Verlag, Berlin 1996. Authors: Angela Martin, Claudia Schoppmann
  • New passages. City history on the Landwehr Canal. Self-published, Berlin 1998. Editing: Jürgen Karwelat, Gisela Hahn-Hantke, Monika Sonke
  • They lived in Wedding. Life paths of Jewish citizens. Metropol Verlag, Berlin 1998. Authors: Annegret Bühler, Dorothea Führe, Gisela Hahn-Hantke, Andrea Lefevre, Ursula Schröter, Heike Stange
  • Total stake. Forced labor in Berlin 1943 - 1945. Czech contemporary witnesses remember. Self-published, Berlin 1998. Authors: Cord Pagenstecher u. a.
  • Women on the Spree. A walk through history. be.bra Verlag, Berlin 1999. Authors: Cornelia Carstens, Stefanie Höver, Stephanie von Ow, Heike Stange, Rita Wolters, Manuela Dörnenburg, Gisela Hahn-Hantke, Anita Hermannstädter, Susanne Köstering, Margret Luikenga, Angela Martin, Kerstin Ohms, Gislinde Schwarz, Ursula Schröter, Monika Sonke, Pomona Zipser
  • Madness. Memories of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. Self-published, Berlin 1999. Authors: Jürgen Karwelat , Marcel Munte
  • Two ministries in historical surroundings. The Federal Ministries for Economics / Technology and for Transport / Building and Housing at Invalidenpark in Berlin-Mitte. Self-published, Berlin 1999. Author: Jürgen Karwelat
  • After the women. A walk on the Landwehr Canal. be.bra Verlag, Berlin 2000 (abridged, improved edition of "Immer den Frauen nach", Berlin 1993)
  • Forced labor in Berlin 1940–1945. Experience reports from Poland, Ukraine and Belarus. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2000. Authors: Cord Pagenstecher u. a.
  • Return to Berlin . A documentation of the visit of 19 former forced laborers from Lodz in May 2000 , Berlin 2000
  • I saw the name Bosch. Polish women as concentration camp prisoners in Dreilinden Maschinenbau GmbH. Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2002. Bilingual: Polish and German. Author: Angela Martin
  • Make history understandable. Encounter between former Polish forced laborers and young people from Berlin in Lodz from April 12-16 , 2003, Berlin 2003
  • Fehrbellin labor education camp. Forced laborers in the Gestapo prison camp. Brandenburg Historical Hefts of the Brandenburg State Center for Civic Education 17, Potsdam 2004. Authors: Cord Pagenstecher, Daniela Geppert, Gabriele Layer-Jung ( political-bildung-brandenburg.de PDF).
  • Walls, projections, freedom of travel. Berlin - Schengen, 1989 - 2004. Furthur. Aspects of Movement Theory, Volume 2 (January 2005). Self-published, Berlin 2005. Co-editor: Institute for Nomadology. Authors: Cord Pagenstecher u. a.
  • Pattern of remembering. Polish women as concentration camp prisoners in a Bosch camouflage factory. Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2005. Editors: Angela Martin, Ewa Czerwiakowski
  • The red island. Berlin-Schöneberg. Fragments of the city's history. Self-published, Berlin 2008 (extended new edition of the 1987 publication)
  • Hidden in the woods. Armament - Exploitation - Violence / W niemieckim lesie. Zbrojenia - wyzysk - przemoc . An exhibition in the House of Encounter with History, Warsaw. Curator: Angela Martin, design: Hanna Sjöberg
  • No place of freedom. The Tempelhofer Feld 1933–1945. Self-published, Berlin 2012. Authors: Andreas Bräutigam, Beate Winzer, Kurt Schilde, Angelika Königseder, Hans Coppi, Mirko Assatzk, Thomas Irmer, Matthias Heisig ( table of contents ).
  • Resistance to National Socialism in Berlin. Self-published, Berlin 2014. Authors: Geertje Andresen u. a.
  • e.g. Bosch. Forced labor in the Hildesheim forest . A website of the Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt ( http://www.zwangsarbeit-bosch.de/ ). Authors: Angela Martin, Ewa Czerwiakowski
  • There was never that much beginning ?! After the end of the war in Berlin 1945. Self-published, Berlin 2016. Authors: Jürgen Karwelat, Peter Kersten, Klaus Mancke, Angela Martin, Rita Pawlowski, Andreas Petersen, Barbara Schieb, Regina Szepansky, Hartmut Topf ( berliner-geschichtswerkstatt.de PDF) .
  • e.g. Bosch. Forced labor in the Hildesheim forest . Relaunch of the website with a detailed chapter about the view of the Germans ( http://www.zwangsarbeit-bosch.de/ ). Authors: Angela Martin, Ewa Czerwiakowski
  • What to do? = Čto delat '? Berlin-Russia since the October Revolution: Aspects of a Complicated Relationship, self-published, Berlin 2018. Authors: Andreas Bräutigam u. a.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Self-description of the BGW and Cornelia Siebeck about the movement
  2. ↑ 30th anniversary - Berlin history workshop. In: berliner-geschichtswerkstatt.de. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Michael Wildt : The great history workshop battle in 1992 or: How workshop history came into being (PDF).
  4. ↑ For the history of the steamship group s. Hanno Hochmuth: Neighborhood history. Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg in divided Berlin. Wallstein Verlag, Berlin 2017, p. 159 f.
  5. ^ Polish medal for Gisela Wenzel. In: berliner-geschichtswerkstatt.de. January 14, 2008, accessed November 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit for Gisela Wenzel - Berlin history workshop. In: berliner-geschichtswerkstatt.de. May 11, 2014, accessed November 16, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Berlin forced labor companies. In: berliner-geschichtswerkstatt.de. May 1, 2000, accessed November 16, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Speech by Prof. Dr. Günter Morsch on the 10th anniversary in 2016
  9. ↑ Free app on Nazi forced labor in German and English
  10. ^ Chronicle of the Berlin history workshop (PDF file). In: berliner-geschichtswerkstatt.de. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Dates of the Berlin History Workshop - Berlin History Workshop. In: berliner-geschichtswerkstatt.de. November 26, 2019, accessed November 16, 2019 .