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Das Ringbahnprojekt

Lina Majdalanie &amp; Rabih Mroué

In 1947, Bertolt Brecht was interrogated by the HUAC, the “House of Un-American Activities Committee,“ while in exile in the United States – an event he transformed into a “theatre scene” with his excellent rhetoric and broken English. The Lebanese artist duo Lina Majdalanie and Rabih Mroué draw on this memorable interrogation in their piece “Four Walls and a Roof“ (2024), linking it to their own experiences of exile. With critical humour and creative digressions, they weave historical documents with personal elements to shed light on current political and social conflicts as well as ideological aberrations – always fighting against preconceived opinions and judgements.

The Ringbahn Project

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For the 75th anniversary, Japanese artist Akira Takayama invites the audience of the Berliner Festspiele on four weekends to guided tours of the 27 S-Bahn stations on the Ring, which he proposes to developing by realising a site-specific artistic project at each one.

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What if Berlin projected the dreams of its citizens into the sky?

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What if Berlin hosted a European Youth Centre underneath the roof of U2?

House of Young Talents

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What if Berlin became an educational city?

Dammweg School

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What if Berlin created a system of urban citizenship for which you can register at Ringbahn kiosks?

I Am Berliner

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What if Berlin renamed Tempelhof station?

Citizens’ Forum

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What if Berlin rebuilt a lost archive?

Lili Elbe Archive

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What if Berlin opened a ham radio station for silenced voices?

Radio Glasnost

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What if Berlin perforated more and more walls?

The Wall

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What if Berlin were to set up a secret cultural network?

Secret Cooperation in the Cultural Sector

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What if Berlin used the Ringbahn for staging its human-and non-human history?

A History of Berlin

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What if Berlin reopened all 532 ideas for the Monument for Freedom and Unity?

Monument to Freedom and Unity

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What if Berlin created a spiral meditation path on Teufelsberg?

Meditation University

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What if Berlin were to digitally bring the history of its eastern part back to life in Ernst-Th&auml;lmann-Park?

Gasometer / GDR Technological Museum

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What if Berlin were to build over the AVUS with organic architecture?

Linear City Grunewald

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What if Berlin turned its city highway into a place of memory culture?

Overwritten. A Memorial for Europe’s Murdered Jews

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What if Berlin started a Ringbahn walking tour?

A Walk in Paradise

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What if Siemensbahn was used as a central infrastructure for a new district?

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What if Ringbahn became 27 theatres?

Theaterchen

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What if Berlin were to establish a shipping route to the Black Sea?

Eurasia

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What if Berlin used its S-Bahn as a school for hip-hop?

Agit Trains

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What if Berlin decided collectively about the future of the image gallery of Palast der Republik?

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What if water shaped the vision and design of Berlin’s next Olympics?

Olympics 2000

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What if Berlin created a monument for a future surveillance state?

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What if Berlinale created a section for unrealised films?

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What if Berlin were to launch another planning competition for the whole city?

Berlin Plans. First Report

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What if Berlin would actually build the central learning centre about the history of German colonialism?

Central Site of Learning and Rememberance

27 Stations on the Ringbahn

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