NOTE ON EVENTS
The main events are on the parties Thursday and Friday nights - these are the ones you don’t want to miss. Other activities are optional, but highly recommended!
Stasi Museum Tour
STASI MUSEUM
11:30am - 1pm (meet at museum at 11:15am)
Private guided tour of the former headquarters of the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, the East German secret police. The centrepiece of the exhibition is the office and working quarters of the former Minister of State Security – i.e. head of the Stasi – Erich Mielke. The museum is operated by the Antistalinistische Aktion Berlin-Normannenstraße, which was founded by civil rights activists in Berlin in 1990.
Haus 1, Ruschestraße 103, 10365 Berlin
Cold War Tour of Berlin
2:45pm - 5:45pm
(Those attending the Stasi tour can have lunch with us and proceed to the Reichstag, where we'll meet up with Nigel)
Private walking tour by Maj. Nigel Dunkley MBE, a former British intelligence officer and military attaché during the Cold War. After graduating from Sandhurst Nigel served all over the world from Ft. Hood, Texas to Iraq, was made an MBE for service in the First Gulf war and was a covert intelligence gathering agent behind the Iron Curtain in communist East Germany. In the 1980s he also interpreted for Hitler's Deputy Rudolf Hess in Spandau Prison, Berlin. Nigel has appeared in documentaries on many TV channels round the world, including the "No Reservations" series with Anthony Bourdain.
Nigel will lead us on walking tour of Berlin, drawing from his intimate knowledge of Cold War and military history.
Meet at Restaurant Populär im Pavillon am Reichstag - Scheidemannstraße 1, 10557 Berlin
INTERRADIO KICKOFF
kosmetiksalon babette
8pm until late night
We think Babette is quite a special place--an intruiguing glass box on the Karl-Marx-Allee, the grand boulevard of East Berlin. It opened in the 1960s as a beauty salon, tucked between East Berlin landmarks like the Café Moskau and the Kino International, but for the last fifteen years it’s been a bar and art exhibition space. Sadly it’s closing in a few weeks, but we’ve managed to rent it for one night!
The party starts at 8pm; we’ll provide drinks, plenty of food (Arabic mezze), party games and dancing into the wee hours.
Karl-Marx-Allee 36, 10178 Berlin, Germany
