»Gibt es eigentlich noch Bäume im Tiergarten?« Der Tiergarten nach dem Krieg – Lesung mit Josefin Platt im Rahmen von "80 Jahre Kriegsende"

In the organizer's words:

"Are there actually any trees left in the Tiergarten?" asked Astrid Lindgren in a letter to a friend in Berlin shortly after the end of the Second World War. The Tiergarten was indeed devastated: cleared for firewood, it served as a potato field for the suffering population. When the former resident of the Tiergarten district, the court journalist Gabriele Tergit, returned to the Tiergarten district from exile, she described the bare stumps, the almost completely destroyed district. The actress Josefin Platt will read literary finds about the destroyed Tiergarten.

Venue due to the cold weather:
St. Matthäus-Kirche, Matthäikirchplatz, 10785 Berlin (instead of: Baumschule Kulturforum)

The reading is part of the city-wide theme week "80 Years of the End of the War - Liberation of Europe from National Socialism" on the initiative and sponsored by the State of Berlin, realized by Kulturprojekte Berlin with numerous partners.

Photo: Josefin Platt © Julian Baumann