Nineties berlin

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nineties berlin is a multimedia exhibition that wason viewat the Alte Münze in Berlin-Mitte from August 4, 2018 to December 28, 2019. The exhibition covers 1500 square meters and shows the decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall and provides information about the changes in the city of Berlin. Topics are changes in the political, social, musical, artistic and subcultural sectors in Berlin in the nineties. On December 4, 2019, nineties berlin was nominated by the European Museum Forum for the European Museum of the Year Award 2020.

It was designed by the DDR Museum in Berlin. nineties berlin is operated by the DDR Kultur UG, whose shareholders are Muson GmbH and DDR Museum Berlin GmbH.

Exhibition setup

nineties berlin has six permanent exhibition rooms and an additional room for temporary exhibitions.

Heartbeat of Berlin

The tour of the exhibition begins with a dark entrance tunnel, which is supposed to represent a club entrance. Deep bass can be heard and felt, symbolizing the heartbeat of Berlin.

Berlin Iceland

A 286 square meter panoramic screen gives a visual and thematic overview of the decade. You can see original photo and video recordings, which u. a. show the night the wall came down , the veiled Reichstag and the Love Parade . In the middle of the room is a large piece of furniture in the shape of a divided Berlin. The model is divided by a "border strip". There are photos that the GDR border troops took of the Berlin Wall in 1988/89 .

Berlin Heads

Interviews with protagonists of the city of Berlin in the 90s are played on 14 large video steles. Each of the films with the contemporary witnesses is divided into different topics. In showcases behind the steles are historical objects that were made available by the interviewees.

The interviewees are Taner Bahar (hip-hopper), Marcus Becker (civil engineer), Ben de Biel (photographer, club owner), Michael S. Cullen (historian), Sven Friedrich (formerly hooligan ), Gregor Gysi (politician), Inga Humpe (Musician), Andreas Jeromin (former squatters), Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt (punk rock musician), Danielle de Picciotto (artist), Andreas Schlüter (police officer), Stefan Wolle (historian), WestBam (DJ) and, more recently, Flake Christian Lorenz (musician - Rammstein).

Feel the wall

The overcoming of the SED dictatorship through the Peaceful Revolution is the subject of the “Feel the Wall” room. For this purpose, an accessible installation was built on twelve original parts of the wall. Here, visitors get information about how the Wall came about, what happened to the Wall after 1989 and why there are hardly any parts of the Wall in the Berlin cityscape today.

Fear the Wall

The 140 victims of the Berlin Wall are presented in this room . Each name is posted on a wall. The names are juxtaposed with 140 Kalashnikov models as symbols for the constant death threats when attempting to escape.

Lost Berlin

The centers of the Berlin underground and techno movement are represented in the “Lost Berlin” labyrinth. They are symbolic of Berlin's music and club culture. The following institutions / locations are presented in a total of six dead ends:

At the end of the labyrinth designed by the artists Stefan Schilling and Gustav Sonntag is a mirrored room with an interactive sound machine with all the hymns of the Love Parade .

Exhibition elements

Multimedia elements

The multimedia elements include:

  • A 270 degree projection screen: 55 meters long, 5.20 meters high, 286 square meters in area
  • 14 steles with interviews with 55 inch screens, combined with sound showers and, alternatively, headphones
  • 6 large touchscreens in "Lost Berlin"
  • "Guide Bot" - the in-depth tour on your own smartphone (loaner at the cash desk)

Components

A model of the divided Berlin is integrated in the “Berlin Island” room, where visitors can sit down and watch the film on the 286 square meter screen. East and West Berlin are separated by the border strip, a white passage that shows photos in the direction of East and West Berlin, which the GDR border troops took of the Berlin Wall in 1988/89 .

Twelve original parts of the Berlin Wall can be seen in the “Feel the Wall” room. Behind the wall construction there are staircases up to a "viewing platform" like the one that existed in West Berlin with a view of the GDR capital. The “Fear the Wall” room is located under the stairs. The installation there symbolizes the reappraisal of what happened on the Berlin Wall after the fall of the GDR.

The labyrinth “Lost Berlin” was designed by the artists Stefan Schilling and Gustav Sonntag, both of whom lived and worked in the Kunsthaus Tacheles . The work of art is composed of graffiti , painted pictures and lettering. The path to each of the six dead ends is specially tailored to the institutions.

Audio guide

A free audio guide (Guide Bot) can be called up by the visitor on their own smartphone. It was developed for nineties berlin and provides 200 informational texts in German and English about the exhibition and about individual objects.

The old coin

 Old coin at Molkenmarkt Berlin-Mitte
Old coin at Molkenmarkt Berlin-Mitte

The Alte Münze is a former mint on the banks of the Spree . The building complex is located in one of the capital's oldest historical quarters and has been a listed building since the 1980s. Since the 1930s, coins in different currencies have been minted here: from the Reichsmark to the currency of the GDR to the D-Mark and the euro. The State Mint gave up the production site at the turn of the year 2005/06. Projekt030 GmbH has been managing the historic building since 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Isabel Metzger: Techno in Berlin: "Once upon a time, it was poor and sexy" . In: Spiegel Online . August 4, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 25, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Looking Back to the '90s, When Berlin Was the Height of Cool . ( nytimes.com [accessed October 25, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Nominations 2020 - EMYA2020 in Cardiff - The European Museum of the Year Award. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  4. ^ Exhibition in the DDR Museum: Subculture in Berlin in the 90s . ( zdf.de [accessed October 25, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Imprint . In: nineties berlin . ( nineties.berlin [accessed October 25, 2018]).
  6. ↑ About techno, clubs and temporary use . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed October 24, 2018]).
  7. ^ Gunnar Lützow: HipHop, squatters, Helmut Kohl: On the trail of Berlin's wild nineties . In: Berliner Zeitung . ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed October 25, 2018]).
  8. ↑ The 90s in Berlin: "colorful, loud and unique". August 9, 2018, accessed October 25, 2018
  9. ↑ Josie Le Blond: 'So much cooler back then': exhibition recreates Berlin techno club culture. August 19, 2018, accessed October 25, 2018 .
  10. ↑ FOCUS Online: Berlin: Old coin: Berlin gets' ne new wall . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on October 25, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Back to the 90s . In: MOZ.de . ( moz.de [accessed October 25, 2018]).
  12. ^ Nineties Berlin: A trip to Berlin's 90s . In: neoavantgarde . September 24, 2018 ( neoavantgarde.de [accessed October 25, 2018]).