From Times Past

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In 2023, the FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum received an extensive collection of postcards from the estate of Peter Plewka. This comprises over 5,600 postcards depicting Kreuzberg from around 1890 to 1945. The majority of the cards show streets, squares, businesses and everyday scenes from the district.

The exhibition is divided into several sections. We focus on the postcards as collector's items, examine their creation and shed light on the social and political background. In addition, we analyze the motifs of the cards in order to work out which themes and perspectives are visible and which are not.

Another part of the exhibition is digital. Master's students of Public History at Freie Universität Berlin have created online dossiers that offer thematic insights into the collection. The digital stations also give visitors the opportunity to search the entire postcard collection using keywords, street names and time periods.

This workshop exhibition questions the significance of collections, which are always created in a social and political context and reflect power relations. It invites visitors to take a critical look at collections, ask their own questions, explore historical images and constantly reinterpret and reclassify them.Translated with DeepL

Runtime: Fri, 11/10/2024 to Sun, 11/05/2025

Takes place here:

• Fhxb Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum