antifascism

Rally on 23.6. at Prerower Platz in reaction to the right-wing motivated arson attacks in Neu-Hohenschönhausen

The square in front of the shopping center "Lindencenter" on a rainy day. Here is a pavilion, a photo wall against racism and some people with colorful umbrellas.

Even in pouring rain, anti-fascist and local initiatives as well as numerous residents of Hohenschönhausen gathered at the rally. They had come to protest against a neo-Nazi clique that has been carrying out arson attacks on residential buildings in the neighborhood for a year and a half for racist reasons. The rally was viewed critically by a large group of plainclothes officers from the Berlin LKA, among others. Even in times of racist attacks, for police authorities the enemy seems to be on the left. “It’s already burned several times at my place,” reports a resident, personal belongings in the basement have also come to harm. Other residents stand by and nod. Most of them live near Prerower Platz, but a few people from Alt-Hohenschönhausen have also come. They are angry about all the damage that has been done to their homes and would like to see reactions from property managers and politicians. Ultimately, the costs caused by the fires would be passed on to the tenants. This upsets many.

Summer, Sun, Antifa

Finally again champagne party!
We invite you to the next antifascist champagne party on July 16.
There will be drinking in solidarity as well as küfa, table tennis, strawberry daiquiris and a soli T-shirt stand. The proceeds will go to anti-repression work and local antifascist structures.
Musically we have wonderful DJanes performing. For those who want to sing themselves, there will also be karaoke!

Important: you have to take a daily test!

It starts at 16.00 o’clock in the Magda-Garden, Magdalenenstr. 19 in Lichtenberg.
We are looking forward to seeing you again!

Female Resistance Lichtenberg #2

The anti-fascist resistance in Lichtenberg would have been impossible without the commitment of numerous women. They courageously stood up to fascism. Often they are pushed into the background during the commemoration. We want to remember them and their deeds on 19.06 from 16 o’clock.

We invite you to the neighborhood walk through Alt-Lichtenberg, which will start at the Berliner Konsumgenossenschaft in Joseph-Orlopp-Str. 36.

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Antifascist commemoration of Klaus-Dieter Reichert

In the night from December 10 to 11, 1990, Klaus-Dieter Reichert died at the age of 24 in Berlin-Lichtenberg. In the apartment of acquaintances, he is threatened and brutally beaten up by several right-wing skinheads. In panic, he let himself fall from a window on the tenth floor of a high-rise building. After the fall, the perpetrators left the seriously injured Reichert lying in front of the building. He dies there shortly afterwards. The death of Klaus-Dieter Reichert poses many mysteries. Despite everything, it is clear to us that he is a victim of extreme right-wing violence. We want to remember his fate, even though he has not yet appeared in any official victim statistics. Neo-Nazi violence has many faces. We must not forget its victims!

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Rally: AfD out of the parliaments

Thu. 9.12. from 4pm in front of the BVV in Lichtenberg (Max-Taut-Aula at S Nöldnerplatz).

After we already stood last month before the BVV we are this time again there. It can be assumed that at the upcoming BVV the city council positions will be elected. Also the AfD may put one up for election, but nothing else than a clear “No” is acceptable, no matter who they dig out this time, no matter how many rounds of elections there already were or will be! We demand the same from the democratic parties in the new BVV:
Against the normalization of the AfD, against city council positions for the new fascists, against any cooperation with the AfD!

Note: The meeting of the BVV afterwards is public, but due to the 3G rule connected with a personal check.

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The “Zapfhahn88” closes down – a chronology

Zapfhahn88 at Konrad-Wolf-Strasse 88 was considered one of the few retreats of the extreme right in Alt-Hohenschönhausen since the closure of Wearwolf Streetware in 2008 [1] right next door (89). The BFC fan pub was the venue for the monthly meetings of the Lichtenberg NPD. Already on July 8, 2011, the bar served the NPD camouflage association “Pro Berlin-Lichtenberg e. V.” as a location for their meeting [2]. A little later, about a dozen neo-Nazis around Manuela and Dietmar Tönhardt met here every second Thursday of the month, supplied themselves with NPD material and usually went off afterwards to plaster stickers or damage civil society projects in the area [3]. Around 2015, actions against refugee accommodations and solidarity projects in the neighborhood were organized and carried out from here. Neo-Nazis photographed each other giving the Hitler salute during the NPD meeting or posed masked with pyrotechnics. All this happened with the knowledge and in the presence of the landlady [4][5].
After the racist mobilizations, the NPD quickly ran out of steam in the district. The activities of the Hohenschönhausen neo-Nazis were increasingly no longer carried out in the name of the local association, as is also shown by the sticker tours that continued to take place. Now, for example, propaganda of the Identitarian movement was increasingly being stickered. What remained of the NPD meeting place was a pub that continued to function as a retreat for Neo-Nazis from Berlin, as became apparent in 2019. The neo-Nazis of the NPD’s “Schutzzonen” campaign met here after standing guard elsewhere for the “Dienstagsgespräch” (regular event of fascist Hans-Ulrich Pieper with changing location). The bar was not open at the time, the group had a key [6].

The extreme right-wing activities that originated from the location had consequences. For this reason, we want to briefly summarize the antifascist interventions that we know about:

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Rally for the Eugeniu-Botnari-Square

Today an anti-fascist rally took place in front of the Kulturhaus in Karlshorst. The occasion was the meeting of the cultural committee of the district council. A worthy commemoration of Eugeniu Botnari should be debated there. Botnari was fatally injured more than four years ago during a right-wing assault in the Lichtenberg S-Bahn station. The rally reinforced the demand that it cannot be about any form of commemoration. The naming of the southern station forecourt after Botnari alone is appropriate to the cruelty of the act. In this way a worthy sign against right-wing violence in the district can be created. To show that many people think this way, an open letter was read out during the meeting with the demand. At the same time, a list with signatures of 173 supporters was handed over to the chairperson of the cultural committee, Camilla Schuler, and the city councilor for culture, district mayor Michael Grunst. He spontaneously put himself on the list of supporters.

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