Traces of change: Tempelhofer Feld from 1945 to the present day

Floating e.V. invites to explore the history surrounding the former Tempelhof Airport in the context of the liberation in 1945. The traces of the war will be researched through artistic activities to counteract forgetting and the misappropriation of history.

2 - 4 p.m.: Kids Uni: “Photographic research around the field” and exhibition

With Lena Düspohl and Ute Lindenbeck

The Floating Kids Uni invites you to explore the surroundings photographically and create an exhibition together in which their discoveries are presented and discussed.

From 8 years

3 - 5 pm: Mapping the stories of contemporary witnesses

With Sarah Bovelett and Silja Teresa Huppertz

We are taking this day as an opportunity to collect, sift through and sort stories, photos, drawings and other materials. People from the neighborhood are invited to fill and design this map of memory with us.

4 - 6 p.m.: Remembrance walk at Tempelhofer Feld - traces of Nazi crimes

With Drea Berg, landscape architect

We will go in search of traces at Tempelhofer Feld and visit places where serious crimes were committed during the Nazi era - places that are still barely visible in the public consciousness today. The stops include the former Columbia concentration camp and the little-known forced labor camps associated with Tempelhof Airport and Berlin church communities.

5 - 8 p.m.: Cooking together and “discursive dinner”

With Über den Tellerrand e.V.

In the evening, we come together to experience history through our senses while cooking and eating together. The focus will be on an ingredient that was grown in the neighborhood 80 years ago - a silent witness to local everyday culture. While eating together, we reflect on the experiences and perspectives of the day and ask ourselves what the historical traces tell us about today's conflicts. How does memory - including the gaps - influence the way we live together?

8 - 10 p.m.: Film program

In the preliminary program, excerpts from films about two athletes who were active in the neighbourhood and took a clear stance against the Nazi injustice system will be presented. Both, the wrestler Werner Seelenbilder and the boxer Johann Rukeli Trollmann, were murdered by the National Socialists.

Tempelhof Central Airport | Karim Aïnouz | 2018

Tempelhof Airport in Berlin - the largest architectural monument in Europe - stands for the monumental self-staging of the National Socialists, but has also become a symbol of freedom thanks to the airlift of 1948/49. Since fall 2015, some hangars and the field have been used as accommodation. Syrian Ibrahim and Iraqi Qutaiba dream of finally arriving with more than 2,000 refugees. Impressive visual compositions sensitively document their lives, which are characterized by uncertainty, confusion, suffering, light-heartedness and longing. Architecture and seasons lend their reality a surreal face. The portrait of a city within a city - and at the same time one of Europe between utopia and crisis.