The EUROPAST team at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) Potsdam, together with the FHXB Museum, invite you to an evening tour through the current exhibition and the presentation of the digitised Plewka Collection—over 5,600 historical postcards from Kreuzberg, created between 1890 and 1945. These postcards show streets, squares, shops, and everyday life, offering a unique glimpse into Kreuzberg’s past. The event also explores key questions: What image of Kreuzberg emerges from these postcards? What remains hidden? 

As part of an interdisciplinary digitisation project of the FHXB Museum—carried out in cooperation with the ZZF Potsdam—master's students from the Public History course at the Freie Universität Berlin have developed an online presentation that tells selected stories about Kreuzberg based on the postcards. Two of these student projects will be presented as part of the event: ‘Where are the Queers at?!’ examines queer (in)visibilities in the maps, while ‘Persecution and Dispossession’ looks at Jewish life during the Nazi era, which is ultimately barely visible in the collection. Both projects exemplify what historical postcards can and cannot tell us about history today. 

Time: 17:30, 17 July 2025

Venue: FHXB Museum, Adalbertstraße 95A, Berlin, Germany

Free admission, no registration required

More information: https://www.fhxb-museum.de/news-detail/ansichtssache-historische-postkarten-neu-betrachtet

This event is part of a project that has received funding from the European Union under the WIDERA programme (EUROPAST project, Grant Agreement No. 101079466). EUROPAST connects Vilnius University with the ZZF in Potsdam, the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and Lund University to promote research and collaboration in public history. Together, we explore how history can be told—both in museums and online.