Between two systems: Growing up in the late GDR
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| 10 EUR, reduced 5 EUR |
| Please book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the Foyer. |
| Tickets will be released in the month before the event. |
| Duration: 90 min |
| 12 years and older |
| German |
| Berlin Exhibition, 1st floor |
| Belongs to: BERLIN GLOBAL |
In the tandem guided tour at BERLIN GLOBAL, social scientist, contemporary witness and member of the Perspektive3 association Amanda Groschke describes her view of the events of German-German contemporary history.
In dialogue with visitors, she talks about everyday scenes from her childhood and life in the late GDR as well as from her youth in the newly reunified Germany of the 1990s and about Berlin. In particular, she discusses memories of the revolutionary year of 1989 and the associated upheavals in the lives of the ‘third generation of East Germany’.
Amanda Groschke talks about the separation of her father and grandfather during the construction of the Wall in August 1961, the church as a place of freedom, her love for the puppets of the Czech puppeteer Josef Skupa “Spejbl and Hurvínek” and her father’s record collections. She also talks about the family’s escape plans in the summer of ’89.
The event is held in German.
The format
The tandem guided tour involves two people. An educator and a Berlin expert guide you through selected exhibition areas. The invited expert determines the subject matter. The experts will bring their own varied professional and personal backgrounds into the conversation and they may be a midwife, artist, small-scale female entrepreneur, biologist, historian, archaeologist, psychologist, female fire fighter or restorer. People who work as volunteers or who have provided curatorial support in the exhibition will also be invited. This makes every tandem guided tour individual and unique.
Participants
Amanda Groschke, born in Hoyerswerda in 1978 and raised in Cottbus, has lived in Berlin since 1999. She studied social sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin. The memory of the past, the formation of identity and the telling of successful stories – this is how she opens up new possibilities for shaping social change, e.g. as a member of the Perspektive3 association. In addition to her involvement in civil society, she also works as an education officer at the Heinrich Böll Foundation Schleswig-Holstein.
Perspektive3 is an independent association that promotes dialogue and engagement in the relationship between East and West. The organisation focuses on the European perspective. The Perspektive3 team consists of East and West Germans who take up socio-political issues relating to the ‘Third Generation East Germany’ in the fields of culture, education and science and realise them in the form of events and projects.
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