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Theater, Theater

Theater on Schiffbauerdamm Located directly on the Spree River, the theater opened on November 19, 1892 as the Neues Theater on Schiffbauerdamm. It was privately run and thus less strictly subject to imperial censorship. The repertoire included mainly popular and entertainment plays typical of the time, but also plays by the naturalists and the world […]

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Café Josty

Artist café in Bellevue street Café Josty was a well-known artists’ café, located from 1880 to 1930 at Bellevuestraße 21 overlooking Potsdamer Platz. This was already the busiest transport hub in the city at the turn of the century, with the Potsdam long-distance train station, the subway, which opened in 1902, and numerous bus and […]

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School for female artists

Classes for women in Potsdamer Street Käthe Kollwitz’s first place of work in Berlin was the teaching studio of the Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen und Kunstfreundinnen zu Berlin on Askanischer Platz in 1897. Barely 10 years earlier she had attended a course of the association herself. In 1893, the association bought its own building for […]

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Siegmunds Hof

Studio house in Hansaviertel When her sons Hans and Peter were teenagers, Käthe Kollwitz looked around for a studio outside the apartment, mainly because she wanted to turn to sculpture. In October 1912, she found a room in the studio house Siegmundshof in the street Siegmunds Hof 11 directly on the Spree. Initially Kollwitz rented […]

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Sickingenstraße

“Moabit Riots” Together with her husband, Käthe Kollwitz also took part in demonstrations herself and drove through the city to accompany workers’ protests as an eyewitness. In September 1910, the riots on Sickingenstrasse in Moabit, one of the city’s most homogeneous working-class neighborhoods, were significant in social history. They are now called the “Moabit Riots.” […]