Will Blücherplatz become Eva-Mamlok-Platz?

She was arrested and after her release she founded a resistance group with other young women. She was deported to Riga and murdered in the Stutthof concentration camp in 1944.

The UpStadt e.V. association is now proposing that Blücherplatz, where her first resistance action took place, be renamed Eva-Mamlok-Platz. A memorial stele is also to be erected in memory of Eva Mamlok and her fellow campaigners. The initiative came about in August 2024 after members of the Kreuzberg History and Learning Centre [GLOX] visited the impressive exhibition ‘Eva Mamlok Group - Stories of Resistance’ at the FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum.

Eva Mamlok is to be honoured in Berlin, exactly where she resisted, very close to her home, with a square named after her, today's Blücherplatz.

At this authentic location, female and Jewish resistance, which are underrepresented in the cityscape and in research, are to be explicitly honoured and addressed. Furthermore, the application for the honour follows the resolution passed by the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district council in 2005 to name streets and squares after women until at least half of all streets and squares are named after women.

In the case of Eva Mamlok, the aim was to honour a person who not only courageously resisted the violence and reign of terror of the Nazis as a teenager, but also persistently organised resistance.

Filmmaker, curator and producer in Berlin. She has an MA in cultural studies, comparative literature and history. Her audiovisual productions include documentaries, short films and online formats. In 2020, she founded the project Galerie Auslage, which saw itself as a curatorial laboratory for art, books, objects and ideas and worked according to the principles of DIY culture, speed, mobility, experimentation and temporary and interim use based on the Berlin model. In 2023, she co-edited the book Radical Film, Arts and Digital Media for Societies in Turmoil (K. Verlag). In 2024 she produced and curated the exhibition Gruppe Eva Mamlok - Widerstandsgeschichten in collaboration with the FHXB Museum in Berlin as well as the D'Lounge screening programme of the first Dokumentale Festival.

Bertram Dudschus grew up in Berlin as an employee of the gallery owner Herbert-Jakob Weinand in the environment of the so-called Junge Wilden such as Salomé, Elvira Bach and Rainer Fetting, self-taught in the art and design world of the 90s. After not completing a degree in architecture, he worked freelance, conceptually and artistically in the fields of architecture, interior design and graphics.

In 2010, together with friends, he founded the Upstall initiative for inclusive, community-orientated and environmentally friendly urban development in order to campaign as an urban activist against the sale of the former Dragonerkaserne barracks on Mehringdamm to the highest bidder. After successfully campaigning for the common property, he is still a member of the Future Council in the model project Rathausblock Kreuzberg - a committee with equal representation in which municipal and civil society actors jointly develop the site in a socially and environmentally friendly way. As part of this process, he and other urban activists founded the non-profit organisation UpStadt in 2021, which has the task of establishing the Kreuzberg GLOX history and learning site in the Rathausblock.

Language: German