On November 10, the democracy festival “Revolution! - and then?” will take place at the ”Stasi Headquarters. Campus for Democracy”. Visitors can expect a varied program of theater, films, guided tours, exhibitions, talks and music. Parts of the open-air installation “Hold up freedom!” from November 8 and 9 along the course of the Wall will also be exhibited there. We invite you to exchange ideas about the commitment to democracy, coming to terms with injustice and human rights during the Peaceful Revolution and today.

Program highlights:

11:00: Insta-photowalk (registration at: einblick-ins-geheime@bundesarchiv.de)

12:30: Sample file talk / Introduction to the sample file collection of the Stasi Records Archive

13:00: Access to Secrecy. Guided Tour in English (no registration required)

13:30: Combined tour of the Stasi Museum and the exhibition “Insight into Secrecy” (registration at: einblick-ins-geheime@bundesarchiv.de)

13:30: Guided tour of the Archive of the GDR Opposition (registration at: einblick-ins-geheime@bundesarchiv.de)

14:00: Guided tour with the GDR civil rights activist Tim Eisenlohr through the open-air exhibition “Revolution and the Fall of the Wall” (no registration required)

14:00: Autumn '89 in the eyes of the Stasi. Talk with Dr. Martin Stief and Prof. Dr. Daniela Münkel

14:30: Curator's tour of the special exhibition MAUERPAUER (no registration required)

15:00: Guided tour of the archive of the GDR opposition (registration at: einblick-ins-geheime@bundesarchiv.de)

15:00: Discussion with contemporary witnesses

15:30: Guided tour “The end of the Stasi” (registration at: einblick-ins-geheime@bundesarchiv.de)

16:00: Guided tour of the open-air exhibition “Revolution and the Fall of the Wall” with GDR civil rights activist Tim Eisenlohr (no registration required)

16:00: Theater play “Monika Haeger - Inside Stasi”

16:30: Sample file talk / introduction to the sample file collection of the Stasi Records Archive

17:00 “What's going on in the East?” Workshop & participatory discourse format (no registration required)

17:00: Flashlight tour (no registration required)

17:00: Access to Secrecy. Guided Tour in English (no registration required)

18:00: Start of stage program, concert by the band “Treptow”

19:00: Talk on the commitment to democracy and human rights

Hans Narva (contemporary witness, fall in Beijing)

Zhou Fengsuo (student leader on Tiananmen Square 1989)

Nino Dolidze (Georgian civil rights activist)

Leopoldo Lopez (Venezuelan opposition leader and co-founder of the World Liberty Congress)

moderated by Dr. Hannah Neumann (Chairwoman of the Board of the Campus for Democracy Association)

20:00: Pussy Riot - “Riot Days” - a multimedia punk rock show on the history of the band, protest and imprisonment in Russia

All day: Special tours on the Stasi and opposition in the GDR, films, workshops and special exhibitions. The children's rights bus of the MACHmit! museum for children will be on site and offer creative workshops.

The action day is a cooperation between the Federal Archive - Stasi Records Archive, the Robert Havemann Society, Kulturprojekte Berlin, the Axel Springer Freedom Foundation, the Berlin Commissioner for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship and is produced by buero doering.

Translated with DeepL