Thementag „Queere Bewegung“ - Podiumsdiskussion in der Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer, Besucherzentrum

In the organizer's words:

As part of the project "UM/BRUCH - Transformation Society East 1989-1994", the Gesellschaft zur Erforschung der Demokratie-Geschichte (GEDG) is organizing a theme day on the topic of "Queer Movement" in Berlin on 6 and 7 December 2025 .

Together with contemporary witnesses, experts and committed and interested citizens, we want to discuss how queer movement(s) organized themselves at the end of the GDR, what scope they were able to use to incorporate their interests and perspectives into the transformation process and how these have changed to this day.

December 7, 6-8 p.m., Berlin Wall Memorial: Panel discussion

Questions about the queer movement in transition will be discussed on the podium and with the audience. What did the fall of the Wall mean for queer people in the GDR, what scope for action opened up and what memories shape the queer perspective on the transformation period today?

In conversation

Barbara Wallbraun, director of the documentary film "Uferfrauen - Lesbisch L(i)eben in der DDR",
Paula Kreutzmann, who researches queer movements in social democratization in East Germany and Berlin during the transformation period, and
Peter Rausch, who has been active in queer emancipation groups in (East) Berlin since the 1970s. The discussion will be moderated by Liane von Billerbeck.

We look forward to your numerous participation and discussion!