Stadtführung zum ,Berliner Loch’: Flucht, Kontrolle, Erinnerung

In the organizer's words:

A hole in the wall. An almost forgotten chapter in Berlin's history.

In the 1980s, people seeking protection reached West Berlin via the GDR - through the so-called Berlin Hole. Among them were civil war refugees who found an unexpected way to Berlin in the midst of the Cold War.

Their arrival was not a simple new beginning, but often characterized by uncertainty, control and the attempt to arrive in a new political order.

Our dialogical city tour follows these traces between Neukölln, Kreuzberg and Treptow.

Who was allowed to move?
Who was controlled?
And what does this history tell us about the present?

Come with us on a search for clues.