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Weekend Tips: What to Do This Weekend in Berlin
October 9 to 11, 2026: Events, festivals, exhibitions and more things to do for your perfect weekend in Berlin. more
Vernissage: "freihand. Schrift, Schule, Gemeinschaft"
Date details
- Date Friday, 09/October/2026 15:00 bis 18:00
- Venue Mitte Museum
- Address Pankstraße 47, 13357 Berlin-Wedding
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U Pankstr.
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Brunnenplatz
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Humboldtsteg
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Berlin, Osloer Str./Prinzenallee
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Drontheimer Str.
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Berlin, Osloer Str./Prinzenallee
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Exhibition Opening: "freihand. Writing, School, Community"
Three Voices from One District: A Class Newspaper from the 1920s, Contemporary Calligraphy, and a New Community Newspaper
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On October 9, 2026, at 3:00 p.m., the Mitte Museum will open the exhibition “freihand. Writing, School, Community.” It features works by students from the Mitte district spanning roughly a century: calligraphy pieces from an art class at the Herbert Hoover School and twenty handwritten notebooks that children at the 308th Public School on Leopoldplatz wrote, drew, and bound themselves between 1926 and 1928. In both cases, the students decided what would be written on the paper.
The calligraphic works were created in 2025 as part of the Calliversity project. Under the guidance of artist Daniel Arab, sixteen students in an elective art course—taught by Hella Mittrücker and Ingolf Watzlaw—learned to work with pen and ink, fractals, and decorative letters. The result was abstract calligraphy, in which the script is detached from the meaning of the words.
The 308th Community School was a secular experimental school of the Weimar Republic. As a “community-based school,” it followed its own curriculum; each class drew up its own four-year work plans. “It was in the spring of 1926 when we founded the class newspaper,” H. Fink begins. After that, many contributed: essays about experiences, puzzles, comics, and a guide to linocut printing with exact amounts in pfennigs. The editorial staff changed, and the newsletter wasn’t always published on time.
In 1933, this progressive educational practice came to an end. Principal Heinrich Mäcke and Vice Principal Else Hiebsch were dismissed; former Principal Max Kreuziger was later interned in a concentration camp, and the school library was burned. The fact that the issues have been preserved is thanks to Bruno Stephan, who had been a teacher at the school since 1922 and became director of the Wedding Local History Archive after 1946.
In April 2026, the same students handled these booklets at the Mitte Museum—wearing cotton gloves—and deciphered the unfamiliar handwriting. Questions raised by the old articles inspired them to write their own texts. In art class, the students traced the illustrations with ink, colored them as they had in the second issue of the historical newspaper, and bound them into a booklet. This new collaborative newspaper is on display in the exhibition alongside the originals.Translated with DeepL
The calligraphic works were created in 2025 as part of the Calliversity project. Under the guidance of artist Daniel Arab, sixteen students in an elective art course—taught by Hella Mittrücker and Ingolf Watzlaw—learned to work with pen and ink, fractals, and decorative letters. The result was abstract calligraphy, in which the script is detached from the meaning of the words.
The 308th Community School was a secular experimental school of the Weimar Republic. As a “community-based school,” it followed its own curriculum; each class drew up its own four-year work plans. “It was in the spring of 1926 when we founded the class newspaper,” H. Fink begins. After that, many contributed: essays about experiences, puzzles, comics, and a guide to linocut printing with exact amounts in pfennigs. The editorial staff changed, and the newsletter wasn’t always published on time.
In 1933, this progressive educational practice came to an end. Principal Heinrich Mäcke and Vice Principal Else Hiebsch were dismissed; former Principal Max Kreuziger was later interned in a concentration camp, and the school library was burned. The fact that the issues have been preserved is thanks to Bruno Stephan, who had been a teacher at the school since 1922 and became director of the Wedding Local History Archive after 1946.
In April 2026, the same students handled these booklets at the Mitte Museum—wearing cotton gloves—and deciphered the unfamiliar handwriting. Questions raised by the old articles inspired them to write their own texts. In art class, the students traced the illustrations with ink, colored them as they had in the second issue of the historical newspaper, and bound them into a booklet. This new collaborative newspaper is on display in the exhibition alongside the originals.Translated with DeepL
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