Scheunenviertel ohne Legenden- Berliner Spurensuche
Historical city tour, 120 min, German, aged 16 and over
What was the Ruhleben emigration station used for? Where was there a Yiddish theater in Berlin? And who initiated a pogrom in the Scheunenviertel during the Weimar Republic?
„No Eastern Jew goes to Berlin voluntarily“ wrote Joseph Roth in 1927, referring to the Jews who fled the anti-Semitic violence in Eastern Europe and often settled in the impoverished Scheunenviertel. The district south of the Volksbühne has long been used to mystify the „Berlin shtetl“. We dare to take a look behind the facades and explore Eastern Jewish lifeworlds between the demand for authenticity and the pressure to assimilate, between solidarity, illegalization and violence up to extermination under National Socialism. In doing so, we will address some of the questions that we also encounter in current debates on migration.
The tour starts at the ramp at the entrance to the Volksbühne and ends about 120 minutes later in Gormannstraße.
Barriers
- The tour is conducted in German spoken language
- There is only limited seating available during the tour. Participants stand or walk most of the time.
- Suitable for people with wheelchairs
- An assistant can be brought along free of charge (please send us a short email: festiwalla@theater-x.de)
Content warning: Explicit violence is only addressed at the end of the tour (expulsion, death, genocide), at the beginning it is also about political violence and the flight of many people around 1900.
Credits: Historical city tour with Stefan Zollhauser
