Berlin plant. Stunde Null
In the organizer's words:
Opening: Friday, June 5, 2026, 7 pm
Curator: Hansjörg Schneider
Co-curators: Thomas Flierl, Simone Hain
Project management: Susanne Mierzwiak
Editing and reconstruction of the historical images: Daniel Lordick
An exhibition to mark the 80th anniversary of the "Collective Plan" urban development plan
With contributions and documents by Willy Karl (Wils) Ebert, Peter Friedrich, Ludmilla Herzenstein, Reinhold Lingner, Hans Scharoun, Luise Seitz, Selman Selmanagić, Herbert Weinberger and others.
The exhibition project Berlin plans. Stunde Null at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) reconstructs and contextualizes the historical exhibition Berlin plans - First Report, which presented the so-called collective plan for the reconstruction of Berlin after the Second World War to a broad public in 1946 in the provisionally prepared White Hall of the Berlin Palace. To mark the 80th anniversary of this radical urban planning design, the current relevance of this plan will be examined. A planning collective, whose inner circle included city planning officer Hans Scharoun, Wils Ebert, Peter Friedrich, Ludmilla Herzenstein, Reinhold Lingner and Herbert Weinberger, was responsible for the project.
The n.b.k. commemorates this historical exhibition, which anticipated pioneering ecological principles of building and pursued participatory approaches, with a walk-through reconstruction on a scale of 1:4. On display are original plans and materials, some of which have not been published, and the changing historical reception of the collective plan between rejection, suppression and continued impact is also reflected upon. The project also addresses the discourse surrounding the "zero hour". The controversial term implies both the unconditional surrender and the total economic and moral collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945 as well as the hoped-for new beginning without the burdens of the past.
Parallel to the exhibition, the n.b.k. is showing a cinema program with "Trümmerfilmen" in cooperation with Babylon, and on June 20, a one-day symposium will also take place at silent green Kulturquartier.
Discourse program
June 11 - August 2, 2026Film program at Babylon
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30, 10178 Berlin
Berlin 1945 - Tagebuch einer Großstadt, Part II (Volker Heise, 2020); Die Mörder sind unter uns (Wolfgang Staudte, 1946);Imaginäre Architektur - Der Baumeister Hans Scharoun (Hartmut Bitomsky, 1995); A Foreign Affair (Billy Wilder, 1948); Germania anno zero (Roberto Rossellini, 1948); Die Stunde Null (Edgar Reitz, 1977)
With talks and lectures by Michael Baute, Volker Heise, Edgar Reitz and Margarethe von Trotta
Further information and all screening dates can be found here
Saturday, June 20, 2026, 1-8.30 pm
Symposium at silent green Kulturquartier
Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin
With Michael Augustin, Ralf Bock, Greg Castillo, Andrea Contursi, Simone Hain, Christa Kamleithner, Christina Lindemann, Philipp Oswalt, Hansjörg Schneider, Axel Zutz, moderated by Thomas Flierl
Further information and the full program can be found here
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