Overnight, the population of Berlin doubled in 1920. By the incorporation of neighbouring, previously independent cities and communities created one of the largest cities in the world. The Märkische Museum will be presenting a comprehensive special exhibition to mark the occasion from August 2020.
Märkisches MuseumOne of the most urgent challenges in metropolitan coexistence was the housing issue. Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf showed these developments in a special way: In conjunction with reform movements, the land market, and the building industry, a housing policy field of action had already developed in the two decades before the cities were incorporated. The exhibition shows the rise of the housing issue in the surroundings of the present district.
Museum Charlottenburg-WilmersdorfThe exhibition presents Lichtenberg's mayor Oskar Ziethen, who from the beginning of his term of office in 1896 was interested in joining the municipality that was developing into a city and, despite the rejection of his proposal by the Berlin City Council, remained an active advocate of the intertwining of the core and cycling municipalities of Berlin. Whether first in special-purpose associations and later in the process of creating a large municipality. In 1924, he was honoured with the appointment as the 100th town elder of Berlin.
Museum LichtenbergFrom A for Alice Salomon College to Z for forced labour (Zwangsarbeit) during the Nazi era: the exhibition outlines the eventful history of the relationship between Marzahn-Hellersdorf and Berlin in historical and contemporary examples.
District Museum Marzahn-HellersdorfHow has Neukölln changed since it was incorporated into Greater Berlin in 1920? The exhibition uses eight striking locations to provide a visual experience of urban development in the Neukölln district. This is achieved by allowing visitors to assemble large photos with historical motifs of the eight locations themselves using cubes - like in a puzzle. Anyone who 'reads' the photographs carefully is encouraged to pay attention to subtle changes in the cityscape and can thus compare different eras with each other.
Museum NeuköllnThe exhibition focuses on the history of the Wedding town hall from 1928/1930 onwards. The town hall building on Müllerstrasse embodied the idea of a new administration in the unitary municipality of Greater Berlin of 1920 as a democratically structured, functional city. At the same time, the exhibition draws a bow to the present: 100 years later, a new town hall is being planned in the Mitte district, in the building complex of the former 'Haus der Statistik‛. Does this too want to be a 'Town Hall of the future', like the Wedding town hall?
Mitte MuseumThe impoverishment of parts of the population due to the consequences of the war after 1918 and the economic crisis in the early 1920s particularly affected war widows and orphans as well as children and young people. Many young people were left without training or employment. The 'Greater Berlin Act 1920' and the associated municipal self-administration enabled the new Berlin districts to set their own political accents.
Museum PankowWhat led to the Spandau identity? In the area of conflict between the Berlin administration / Spandau magistrate and the everyday life of the inhabitants of Spandau, the themes of traffic, work, leisure, housing, and the military are presented. They were characteristic of Spandau around 1920 and fundamental for the (self-)perception of Spandau today. Objects, texts, and participatory possibilities reflect the change from the stubborn city to the self-ironic part of Berlin.
Municipal History Museum SpandauWhen 'Greater Berlin' was founded, the city lacked 130,000 dwellings. The existing dwellings often show considerable deficiencies, are damp, dark and overcrowded. Schöneberg and Tempelhof look for solutions and find their way out of the housing shortage. The exhibition series of the same name in the Schöneberg Museum and Tempelhof Museum examines this history.
Tempelhof MuseumWhen 'Greater Berlin' was founded, the city lacked 130,000 dwellings. The existing dwellings often show considerable deficiencies, are damp, dark and overcrowded. Schöneberg and Tempelhof look for solutions and find their way out of the housing shortage. The exhibition series of the same name in the Schöneberg Museum and Tempelhof Museum examines this history.
Schöneberg MuseumThe exhibition focuses on the 15 districts of Treptow-Köpenick and their attitude towards 'Greater Berlin'. The spectrum ranged from the greatest approval to efforts to leave Berlin again. The exhibition shows how lastingly an administrative reform changed people's everyday lives and focuses on the south-eastern periphery of the new urban community.
Museum Köpenick
