Events

Event Archive

The DDR Museum's Event Archive

The DDR Museum regularly offers free events in its own conference room. Here you can find past events and search for a topic in the search field. 

You can find the video recordings of the discussions, book presentations, exhibition openings etc. in the respective event.

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15.11.25

18:00
Reading

Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk reads »Freiheitsschock«
As part of Berlin Freedom Week from 8 to 15 November 2025, the DDR Museum invites you to a special evening with historian and journalist Dr…
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12.11.25

18:00
Lecture with Book Presentation

The Palace of Culture for the Maxhütte
The Kulturpalast of VEB Maxhütte Unterwellenborn had been a place for grassroots cultural work with theatre, singing clubs and art circles since…
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22.10.25

18:00
Lecture with Object Presentation

GDR repair society?
Whether RG28 or Schwalbe – GDR products were considered robust and some of them are still in use today. At the same time, a sense of…
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15.10.25

18:00
Caricature Competition

Heinz Jankofsky Caricature Competition
Heinz Jankofsky (1935-2002) was one of the most famous caricaturists of the GDR. His trademark was his endearing, always slightly clumsy,…
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01.10.25

18:00
Film Premiere with discussion

Construction site of unity
Democracy can be so simple in theory: The majority decides where the scales – in this case a 50 metre long walk-in bowl – lean. So…
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17.09.25

18:00
Book Premiere

What happened to East German Rock?
Bands such as the Puhdys, Karat and Silly were stars in the GDR and also toured internationally. After reunification, however, the scene was on…
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30.08.25

18:00
DDR Museum + Conference room DDR Museum

Long Night of the Museums
In the programme: DEFA film screening »Seven Freckles«, guided tours of the exhibition, exhibition truck of the Eisbären Berlin...
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01.07.25

18:00
Keynote speech

Finally money from the West
The Peaceful Revolution reached its provisional conclusion with the fall of the Berlin Wall in autumn 1989, but when can we talk about German…
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11.06.25

18:00
Picture lecture with book presentation

Digedags and Abrafaxe
»Old series« or »new series«? This was often not only a generational question, but also a question of faith for the real…
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28.05.25

18:00
Lecture and discussion with object presentation

Digital GDR
Nobody had a computer at home in the GDR? Not true, of course. This year, the KC 85/1 small computer is just as old as the GDR as a whole: it was…
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23.04.25

18:00
Book presentation

The three-cylinder in a two-stroke engine
Lars Leonhardt is currently probably the most recognised expert on Wartburg automobiles from Eisenach. In his in-depth lecture on the development,…
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26.03.25

18:00
Scenic reading

Revolt of the smock aprons
Scenic reading »From the group book of Christiane P.«. What memories do you have of growing up in the GDR? How did a group council…
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12.03.25

18:00
Lecture

Escape across the Baltic Sea
The surveillance of the GDR's sea border. An event to accompany the special exhibition. Behind the beach idyll lay a system of border…
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19.02.25

18:00
Lecture and discussion

Treasure Hunters
The GDR and the raw materials issue. There was a lack of many things in the GDR. But one issue was particularly precarious: apart from lignite and…
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29.01.25

18:00
Picture presentation

The garages of East Germany
A photographic search for clues. Garages had at least a double meaning in the GDR. They provided a home for the expensive and long-waiting vehicles,…
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11.12.24

18:00

Picture lecture »The Berlin Cathedral«
A building in the heart of the city.
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06.11.24

18:00

Music programme »Love between East and West«
Musical-literary programme to mark the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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10.10.24

18:00

Award ceremony and opening of the exhibition »Heinz-Jankofsky-Caricature-Competition«
Opening of the exhibition with the award winners.
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24.09.24

18:00

Workshop »35 Jahre Mauerfall – Haltet die Freiheit hoch!«
Poster campaign to join in and design.
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18.09.24

18:00

Lecture and dialogue »Courage for freedom«
Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk presents his new book »Freiheitsschock«.
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24.08.24

18:00

Long Night of Museums
The DDR Museum presents itself under the motto »Come in and Coming Out«.
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21.08.24

18:00

Picture lecture »Gulf Stream to the East«
How the Beetle, Golf and Bulli came to the GDR.
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24.07.24

18:00

Opening of the special exhibition »The Baltic Sea«
Holiday destination, border region, place of longing - opening of the special exhibition in cooperation with SUPERillu.
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03.07.24

18:00

Lecture with objects »GDR versus FRG«
A look back at six german-german football matches.
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05.06.24

18:00

The long shadow of Stalin
The Soviet memorials in Berlin and democratic society
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24.04.24

18:00

When does the past begin?
»About collecting the present in historical museums«
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22.05.24

18:00

Dazzlers, Winners, Six-Cylinders
GDR car racing in the fifties
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28.02.24

18:00

In a catamaran through Siberia
An expedition through the vastness of the Soviet Union.
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21.02.24

18:00

Popvideos made in the GDR
Musician IC Falkenberg and author Heike Sittner in conversation.
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24.01.24

18:00

The Drushba Route
The largest construction site in the GDR in Thomas Billhardt's pictures
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