Events by the DDR Museum

Events with GDR reference

We organise regular events in the DDR Museum's conference room. Focusing on a range of themes relating to life in East Germany, they include readings, concerts and panel discussions.

If you are interested in organising an event in cooperation with the DDR Museum, please contact our content team with your ideas by email: inhalt@ddr-museum.de.

You can browse through past events in our event archive.

Participation is free of charge. The events take place in German.

Location

Conference room DDR Museum
Sankt Wolfgang-Str. 1
10178 Berlin

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13.01.26

18:00

Filmpremiere »Orte Ost«

The DDR Museum visits the Industriesalon Schöneweide

The DDR Museum invites you to the premiere of its new film project »Orte Ost« (Places East). Historian Dr Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk guides…

21.01.26

18:00

Event accompanying the special exhibition

The GDR was (not) broke

With the monetary union on 1 July 1990, the Deutschmark came to the GDR – a long-awaited event for many, but one that also had far-reaching…

11.02.26

18:00

Photographic book presentation

Forgotten Future

The social change in the East associated with the end of the GDR and German reunification has many facets and faces: the new political conditions…

04.03.26

18:00

Book presentation

What influences young East Germans today?

Nora Zabel explores East–West differences and East German identity.

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25.03.26

18:00

Exhibition opening

A country in a container

At midnight on 2 October 1990, not only did the GDR cease to exist, but its symbols also suddenly lost their validity. State coats of arms, medals…

08.04.26

18:00

film screening and discussion

The Wild West in the East

The state initially struggled with the Wild West, before a new exhibition was even launched in 1985 at the Karl May Museum in Radebeul near…

22.04.26

18:00

Lecture and discussion

40 years since Chernobyl

On 26 April 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster shook the world – the extent of the disaster only became known days later. The SED regime,…

06.05.26

18:00

Book presentation with film clips

A life dedicated to nature

Author and Michael Succow biographer Christiane Grefe has set herself the task of capturing Michael Succow's »adventure of life«…

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17.06.26

18:00

Book launch with author presentation

Coveted Soviet Italians

While the GDR's two-stroke engines were always looked down upon, the various Lada series, with their four-stroke engines, enjoyed a leap of…