Bernd Gehrke
Bernd Gehrke was born in 1950 and grew up in East Berlin. He now lives as a writer and historian in Berlin. He studied Political Economy in Leipzig and was subsequently local secretary of the Free German Youth (FDJ) and a research assistant at the Academy of Sciences. He was expelled from the Socialist Unity Party (SED) in 1978 for membership of an opposing Marxist group and professionally disbarred. In 1989 he represented the United Left at the Central Round Table and in its constitutional sub-committee. Until 1995 he was a member of staff for the parliamentary group NEW FORUM/Citizens’ Movement in the Berlin Assembly: since then he has been active as a contemporary historian and in educational work within the trade union movement. He has published numerous works on the “Wende” of 1989 within organizations and European workers in 1968 and most recently: “Documents from the Initiative for East German and Berlin Workers’ Councils, Staff Councils and Persons of Trust”, Berlin 2017.
As of February 2019
Past Events
Palast der Republik
Day 2: 1989/2019 - Come Together
with Boris Buden, Naika Foroutan, Bernd Gehrke, Alexander Giesche, Andrej Holm, Srećko Horvat, Anetta Kahane, Thomas Krüger, Bojana Kunst, Antonia Majaca, Irene Misselwitz, The Performance Bar, Vijay Prashad, Jörg Roesler, Andreas Siekmann, Jan Sowa, Gabriele Stötzer, Margarita Tsomou, Jeremy Wade, Anna Zett a.o.
in the evening: CHEAP
Palast der Republik
Day 1: Re-Vision
with Almuth Berger, Tatjana Böhm, Susan Buck-Morss, Boris Buden, Augusto Corrieri, Bernd Gehrke, Trajal Harrell, Max Hertzberg, Pan Daijing, Bénédicte Savoy, Bernhard Schlink, Technosekte + Henrike Naumann u.a.