Public History | Completed Projects

Using an extensive body of exhibition photos, this project analysed the depiction of prehistory in museums of the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR as well as discourses that led to the alteration or persistence of conceptions of history.

The exhibition was opened in 2009 in the gatehouses of Schönhausen Palace in Berlin, seat of the first and only president of the GDR, Wilhelm Pieck.

The ZZF, in collaboration with the German Historical Museum, developed the exhibition and a catalogue of the same name.

In 2009, the exhibition was opened at and in the former Commandant’s Tower in Drewitz-Dreilinden together with the association Checkpoint Bravo.

From 19 August to 12 November 2014, the tweets, wherever possible in real-time, told the breathtaking events on the road to the peaceful revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, and the Municipal Museum Berlin have prepaired a joint exhibition on East Berlin in the Ephraim-Palais in the Nikolaiviertel (May 11 to November 10, 2019). It provided new perspectives on the former metropolis of East Germany. The social and cultural dimensions of urban life in East Berlin were the heart of the exhibition.

Located in the heart of historic Potsdam, the Lindenstrasse memorial site is a unique place of memory. The permanent exhibition at the Lindenstrasse memorial site has been open to visitors since September 12, 2013.

Together with the public relations department of the Brandenburg Landtag, the Public History section wrote texts for the pupil calendar 2019/2020 on the topic of "Friedliche Revolution". It explained both the Cold War and the SED dictatorship.

The permanent exhibition at the Seelow Heights Memorial Site informs visitors about the fighting west of the Oder at the end of the Second World War and the history of the memorial site since 1945.

The aim of the project was to promote public engagement with family biographical testimonies to the Second World War from German and Polish perspectives. To this end, photographs, letters and diaries from private collections documenting the German invasion of Poland were collected. Some of the material was digitized, historically classified and made available to the public in an online exhibition.