With contributions and documents by Karl Böttcher, Willy Karl (Wils) Ebert, Peter Friedrich, Ludmilla Herzenstein, Reinhold Lingner, Hans Scharoun, Luise Seitz, Selman Selmanagić, Herbert Weinberger, a. o.
June 6 – August 2, 2026
n.b.k. Showroom
June 6 – August 2, 2026
With talks and lectures by Michael Baute, Volker Heise, Edgar Reitz, and Margarethe von Trotta
Alongside the exhibition Berlin plant. Stunde Null, n.b.k. presents a program of films about postwar Germany (Trümmerfilme, literally “rubble films”) in cooperation with Babylon.
Thursday, June 11, 2026, 8 pm
Berlin 1945 – Tagebuch einer Großstadt, Teil II (Volker Heise, Germany 2020, 90 min, OV)
Introduction by Volker Heise (director and producer, Berlin), in German
Thursday, June 18, 2026, 8 pm
Die Mörder sind unter uns (Wolfgang Staudte, Germany 1946, 91 min, OV with English subtitles)
With Hildegard Knef, Ernst Wilhelm Borchert, Erna Sellmer, Arno Paulsen
Thursday, July 2, 2026, 8 pm
Imaginäre Architektur – Der Baumeister Hans Scharoun (Hartmut Bitomsky, Germany 1995, 65 min, OV)
Introduction by Michael Baute (author and lecturer, Berlin), in German
Thursday, July 9, 2026, 8 pm
A Foreign Affair (Billy Wilder, USA 1948, 116 min, OV with German subtitles)
With Jean Arthur, Marlene […]
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
Alongside the exhibition Berlin plant. Stunde Null, n.b.k. presents a one-day symposium at silent green Kulturquartier. It examines the many facets of the Kollektivplan and its development in relation to Stunde Null and the urgent demands for a radical new beginning for German society. In 1946, the Kollektivplan was at the cutting edge of urban planning and at the same time ahead of its time. Drawing on current research, the lectures explore the plan’s reference models, hidden biographical networks before, during, and after the Nazi period, and its divergent reception in East and West Berlin. Special attention is given to the Kollektivplan’s forward-looking impulses in urban planning, architecture, ecology, urban landscape, and participation. Looking back at this past vision for the future opens a space for retrospective and forward-looking discussion about our society’s present capacity for action and renewal, and asks: What […]