As part of the Open Monument Day, media artist Caroline Böttcher gives a guided tour of the piles of rubble in Humboldthain and talks about the history of the piles, their role as green spaces and their monumental value.
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Reste des Bunkers im Humboldthain
May 8, 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the end of the war and thus also the beginning of a drastic physiognomic change in Berlin: the piling up of unusable war rubble caused 20 artificial elevations to grow in the city.
Teufelsberg, with its height of 120 meters, is the largest of these so-called "mountains of rubble". Due to the planned backfilling and the adaptation of the rubble to the landscape, it is hardly apparent today that these mountains are so young - and were created by humans.
Rubble mountains are therefore ambivalent places:
As parks, they serve recreation and oblivion, the beautiful, the timeless, pleasure - while beneath the earth lies invisibly the part of the city, its architecture and culture that was destroyed by war. When we realize that we live in a time in which wars continue to exist all over the world, the mountains of rubble become a silent reminder, a memento mori.
With the book "Mont Klamott", the artist Caroline Böttcher publishes the results of her 10-year research on the Berlin rubble mountains. The book premiere will take place on September 14 at 2 pm at the Mitte Museum.
(IN GERMAN)
Additional information
Meeting point: Ramlerstraße corner Brunnenstraße, 13355 Berlin.
Booking: not required
Booking: not required
Dates
September 2025
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