Walking tour: Neukölln Will Stay Red!

Thu Sep 23 2021 at 05:30 pm to 07:30 pm

Schwarzastraße 9, 12055 Berlin, Deutschland | Berlin

RevolutionaryBerlin Tours
Publisher/HostRevolutionaryBerlin Tours
Walking tour: Neuk\u00f6lln Will Stay Red!
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Neukölln has a reputation as a disreputable and dangerous neighborhood — and that reputation is older than the neighborhood itself. The independent city of Rixdorf was known for its nightlife. The city actually changed its name to Neukölln in a (clearly unsuccessful) attempt to improve its image.
What was once a small village of Moravian refugees turned into a massive workers' district right outside Berlin. When the revolution began in November 1918, a workers' and soldiers' council took over Neukölln's City Hall and the Police Station. Neukölln became part of Berlin in 1920 and was one of the city's reddest neighborhoods in the 1920s.
Attempts by the Nazi party to set foot in Neukölln met with massive resistance — and once in power, the Nazis persecuted Neuköllners workers with a vengeance. The neighborhood was home to communist revolutionaries of all stripes, including KPD chairpeople like Ruth Fischer and Leo Jogiches, the Comintern functionary Olga Benario, the Trotskyist leader Anton Grylewicz, and many more.
Neukölln bars were where the Communist Youth International was founded and where the insurrection of November 9, 1918 were planned. And when Berlin's social democratic government tried to prohibit the traditional May Day demonstrations in 1929, Neukölln workers defiantly took to the streets and built barricades. We will try to cover this in two hours walking around the neighborhood.
If you would like to attend a tour, please send an e-mail with your name and the date of the tour to: [email protected]. You will get a confirmation e-mail within one day. This is to make sure we have enough people (at least 5) but also not too many (no more than 25) for a tour to take place.
Our tour will be meeting in front of Café Geschwisterhaft at Schwarzastraße 9 near S-Bhf Sonnenallee. We will be meeting at 17:30 and leaving by 17:40. We will not be using public transportation — the tour will be entirely outside. The tour will end two hours later near U-Bhf Boddinstraße.
Suggested donation is 10 euros per person, but any contribution is appreciated and none is required.
We ask that you only come if you're fully vaccinated. If you have any questions, please send an e-mail: [email protected]
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Schwarzastraße 9, 12055 Berlin, Deutschland, Berlin, Germany

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