FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum
 Entrance to the museum |
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| place | Berlin-Kreuzberg, Adalbertstrasse 95A |
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| opening | 1990 |
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District Office Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-017216 ISIL DE-MUS-017216 |
The FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum (until April 2013 Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg District Museum) houses an archive on the history of both Berlin districts, changing exhibitions on regional and district history and a permanent exhibition on urban development and migration history. It is part of the Department of Culture and History of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg District Office and is located at Adalbertstraße 95a in Kreuzberg .
history
Museums
The Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg District Museum was created in 2004 through the merger of the Kreuzberg Museum and the Friedrichshain Local History Museum.
In 1978 the Association for Research and Presentation of the History of Kreuzberg eV was founded in Kreuzberg , from which the Kreuzberg Museum for Urban Development and Social History emerged in 1990. The museum was founded in the course of the 750th anniversary celebration in West Berlin (1987), through which the district received funding for the permanent management of a district museum. Krista Tebbe, director of the Kreuzberg Art Office, appointed her colleague Martin Düspohl as the museum's founding director. Düspohl was a co-founder of StattReisen Berlin eV and worked for years on projects at the Berlin History Workshop. Düspohl and Tebbe had the goal of combining local everyday history with larger historical contexts in the new museum.
The Friedrichshain Local History Museum was established at the end of the 1980s as part of the Friedrichshain Cultural Office. Until 2004 it was located in the old fire station at Marchlewskistraße 6 in Friedrichshain.
As a result of the reunification of Berlin and the formation of the new district , the administration decided to merge the two previous local museums. In 2004, the premises in Friedrichshain were given up and the collections of the two museums were merged, and it was named District Museum Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . As an exhibition and event location, the building on Adalbertstrasse continued to be called the Kreuzberg Museum.
On April 12, 2013, the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg District Museum was renamed FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg-Museum.
Martin Düspohl headed the museum from its founding until February 2017. Since February 2017 he has been a member of the curatorial team of the Berlin exhibition in the Humboldt Forum, which is currently under construction . The new director of the museum has been the migration researcher Natalie Bayer since January 2018.
Museum building
The Kreuzberg Museum has been located in a former factory building on Adalbertstrasse since 1990. The multi-storey brick building with spacious rooms was built in the early 1920s on the courtyard of a residential building for the production of furniture ( Reinicke & Fähnrich ) and wire fences ( Ritzmann, owner Wildenhayn ). Furniture production was specialized in upholstered furniture until 1930, the wire fence factory existed until the end of World War II and was managed by the owner's wife. The factory building was completely refurbished and modernized before it was converted, and the open areas on which the residential buildings still stood until 1970 were greened. A glass stair tower with an elevator system complemented the building, which is also barrier-free .
Exhibition areas and events
History is made in the permanent exhibition . Berlin at Kottbusser Tor is about urban development after 1945, especially about the protest movement and urban redevelopment in Kreuzberg SO 36 . The area around Kottbusser Tor , named after a former postal district ( Südost 36 ), was the focus of urban renewal for a good 40 years until 2003 . The often ailing Wilhelminian-style buildings were to be torn down and replaced by buildings such as the New Kreuzberg Center. In the 1970s and 1980s, initiated by the alternative movement and the squatter scene , a broad protest against this form of urban renewal was formed.
The permanent exhibition was created in cooperation with around sixty local residents and is based in part on their memories and impressions.
Following the closure of the Mathesie photo studio, which had been located at Adalbertstrasse 11 since 1945, the Kreuzberg Museum received the archive of the photographer Charlotte Mathesie .
Since January 2012, the FHXB Museum has been showing the exhibition local talks. city - migration - history: from halleschen to frankfurter tor on the second and third floors. The focus of this exhibition is the history of specific, everyday places in the district as places of migration. Migration is seen as an integral part of the history of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. As part of the exhibition on- site talks , visitors and interested parties are invited to record their own stories in the museum's recording studio and thus expand the content conveyed.
In the changing special exhibitions on regional history, the topic of migration is always the focus. In 2017 and early 2018, the museum showed the exhibition Other Homes: Origin and Migration Routes of Drug Sellers in Berlin Parks, which the artist Scott Holmquist developed for the museum at the invitation of the museum. Members of the CDU tried to officially prevent the exhibition shortly before the opening. The project received a great deal of national and international media attention and brought an unprecedented number of visitors to the museum.
The special location of Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain directly on the Berlin Wall and the merger of the two former western and eastern districts are also discussed.
On the ground floor of the five-storey building there is a historic typesetting and printing shop that are used for student workshops and adult education courses. In addition, the museum organizes educational offers for children, young people and adults and thematic city tours.
The X-Berg-Tage are organized for young people, during which young Kreuzbergers, including those with a Turkish and Arab migration background, guide visitors through the museum and their district.
Web links
- FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum homepage
Individual evidence
- ^ Sophie Perl, “Berlin's District Museums: Traces of Alternative History Work in Two Neighborhood Institutions” (MA thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, 2012)
- ^ Museum profile
- ↑ Press release of the BA Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
- ↑ FHBX - Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum
- ↑ Everything a few sizes larger: Martin Düspohl is moving to the Humboldt Forum in Berlin Week on March 3, 2017
- ↑ Press release of the BA Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
- ↑ Adalbertstrasse 95 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1925, IV, p. 10.
- ↑ Adalbertstrasse 95 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1930, IV, p. 10.
- ↑ House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany (ed.): Women objective. Photographers 1940 to 1950 , Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-87909-752-6 and ISBN 3-87909-754-2 , p. 137 f.
- ^ Website of the exhibition Other homeland: Origin and migration routes of drug sellers in Berlin parks
- ^ Minutes of the District Assembly
- ↑ You should never question me. Drug dealers in Berlin: A Berlin exhibition glorifies them as heroes of a difficult everyday life in FAZ from December 19, 2017, page 11.
- ^ Exhibition on dealers in Berlin: Drug dealers in the Museum In taz.de from November 21, 2017.
- ↑ Museum Portal Berlin
- ↑ Project presentation X-Berg-Tag ( memento of the original from March 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 2.3 ″ N , 13 ° 25 ′ 6.9 ″ E