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.
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!
Continue reading Antifascist commemoration of Klaus-Dieter Reichert
An antifascist neighborhood needs an antifascist culture of remembrance. That is what we are demonstrating for. We want to remember the victims of right-wing violence in Lichtenberg. Eugeniu Botnari and Kurt Schneider are two people we remember as representatives of unknown victims of right-wing violence. Unfortunately, their names are also unknown to many people in the neighborhood. We have to change that. We are committed to making their fates visible in the district. We demand places of remembrance that show the deadly consequences of right-wing ideas every day. Let’s fight together for these places and a neighborhood in solidarity.
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 07.08 from 15 clock.
Together with comrades of the VVN-BdA Lichtenberg, we, the Antifascist Network Lichtenberg (AVL), invite you to the neighborhood walk through the Lichtenberger Kaskelkiez, which starts at the place of the Red Chapel (Schulze-Boysen-Straße 12).
Disclaimer: The binary gender representation is a consequence of historiography. Also queer antifascists must not be forgotten, we are just not aware of any representatives in the context of our district.
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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.
Commemoration for Kurt Schneider – No victim of right-wing violence is forgotten!
06.10.2020 from 5 pm in front of the city hall Lichtenberg
On the evening before (05.10.2020) at 7 pm
Information event: “The murder of Kurt Schneider”
in the Remise of Magdalenenstraße 19
On October 6, we commemorate Kurt Schneider, who was murdered on this night 21 years ago by a group of neonazis for social-chauvinist motives. We want to draw attention to the fact that right-wing attacks are often not recognized as such. In Berlin there have been at least 20 victims of racist and fascist violence since the beginning of the 1990s.
Continue reading Commemoration weeks in Lichtenberg, Kurt Schneider – murdered by neonazis
Since we started the commemoration work last year on the anniversary of the murder of Kurt Schneider with the rally on October 6, we have not been idle. Encouraged by the popularity and the networking in the “Nobody is forgotten” campaign, the commemoration work for Eugeniu Botnari was also resumed.
We were fortunate to be able to network with initiatives, experts and committed people, whose experiences and expertise we put on paper together. The result is two brochures that thematically frame the memory of Eugeniu Botnari and Kurt Schneider and explain the circumstances and ideologies that led to the murders.
Commemoration for Eugeniu Botnari – No victim of right-wing violence is forgotten!
17.09.2020 from 5 pm in front of the train station Lichtenberg at Weitlingstraße
afterwards from 7:30 pm
Information event: “Social chauvism and fascism” (by Anne Allex)
in the shed of Magdalenenstraße 19
17.9.2020 marks the fourth anniversary of the deadly attack on Eugeniu Botnari. With a rally in front of the Lichtenberg train station, starting at 5 pm, we want to commemorate Botnari as a victim of right-wing violence. His death is not a sad isolated incident. It is an expression of the racist structures of devaluation that permeate the entire society. For this reason we demand that the station forecourt be named after Eugeniu Botnari. By giving back a place in public space to a victim of racist violence, the deadly consequences of right-wing ideology can be made visible.
