City tour: street renaming around Potsdamer Platz

Event accompanying the exhibition "rename?!"

Die Polizei entfernt am 2. Oktober 1994 die vom Aktiven Museum angebrachte Zusatztafel zur Clara-Zetkin-Straße. – Schwarz-Weiß-Fotografie: Ein Polizist entfernt ein zusätzlich angebrachtes Straßenschild des aktiven Museums, während ein weiterer Beamter im Gespräch mit einer Frau steht.

Potsdamer Platz and its surroundings are a concentration point of Berlin's history: the imperial Gründerzeit, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi era, division, reunification and a new beginning in urban development - all of this has been inscribed in the street names of this neighborhood, overlaid, erased and reset.

The city tour with Trille Schünke-Bettinger takes a look at these layers. Who are the people after whom streets and squares were named here? What decisions are behind the names that have remained - and behind those that have disappeared?

The tour is an accompanying event to the special exhibition "umbenennen?! Berlin's street names and their history" at the Mitte Museum and invites you to experience the themes of the exhibition directly in the urban space.Translated with DeepL

Meeting point: Meeting point: Auguste-Hauschner-Straße/corner of Berliner Freiheit

Booking: No registration required, admission is free.

Next date:

• Date Sunday, 31/May/2026 13:30 bis 15:30
• Venue Mitte Museum
• Address Pankstraße 47, 13357 Berlin-Wedding