Category: Events
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Exhibition “UnSeen” – Artistic research as memory work?
From December 5, 2025, to January 6, 2026, the Department of Art Education/Didactics at the University of Potsdam, in close cooperation with the Förderkreis Alter Leipziger Bahnhof and under the curatorial direction of Drin. phil. Antje Winkler, will present the exhibition “UnSeen.” The exhibition will feature artistic works by students at the University of Potsdam…
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Vernissage of TRANSIT – Images from Excile
Will take place on Jan 9, 2025 | 6pmZentralwerk | Riesaer Str. 32 More to be announced soon…
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Remembering the Novemberpogroms | Nov 9, 2025 / 6pm
“I beg you. Be human, be human!” Margot Friedländer’s words are more relevant today than ever before. Talking to each other and searching for solutions so that what happened does not happen again – that is what we want to use this year’s commemoration of the November pogroms 87 years ago for. To this end,…
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Exhibition: Transit – Images from Exile
Exploring the themes of persecution, flight, and exile of a Jewish family from Dresden in the works of Argentine artist Mónica Laura Weiss from Buenos Aires WHERE: KABINETT at Zentralwerk e. V. · Riesaer Straße 32 · 01127 Dresden WHEN: January 9 to February 8, 2026, Thursday–Saturday 4–8 p.m., Sunday 3–6 p.m. Exhibition opening: Thursday, January…
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“Schweigen. Stille.” (Silence. Stillness.) Reading and discussion
We warmly invite you to a reading and discussion as part of the International Weeks Against Racism on March 31, 2025, from 6 PM at Zentralwerk, supported by various initiatives. Together, we will reflect on the importance of remembrance culture and discuss the continuities of racist violence. We will read from Ukraine Without Jews by…
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Remembering the Riga Ghetto 1941-1943
On January 21, 1942, approximately 785 Jewish people from Leipzig and Dresden were deported to the Riga Ghetto. It was the first mass transport of Jews from Dresden to the occupied territories in the east. The deportation began at Dresden-Neustadt freight station— today known as ‘Alter Leipziger Bahnhof’. In the lecture by Andrejs Zacarinnijs and…
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Expelled! October 28, 1938. The history of the “Polenaktion”
Touring exhibition: Opening: October 28, 2024, 7 p.m., Blaue Fabrik, Eisenbahnstraße 1, 01097 Dresden; Opening hours: October 28 – December 1, 2024, Mon and Sun, 2-6 p.m., Thu, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. A project of the Aktives Museum – Faschismus und Widerstand in Berlin e.V., expanded for Dresden by the Förderkreis Alter Leipziger Bahnhof.…
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Remembrance in Judaism
On August 29, 2024, a public lecture by Rabbi Moshe Barnett (Chairman of the Jewish Community Dresden e. V.) on the meaning and practice of remembrance in Judaism will take place in the cultural center Blaue Fabrik. The event is part of the series “Remember – Educate – Encounter”, which is taking place for the…
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Movie: “The Jews are gone”, June 27, 2024
Place: Blaue Fabrik e.V., Eisenbahnstraße 1, 01097 Dresden Date: June 27, 2024, 6 Uhr