April 16 - May 16, 2021
The excise wall was built around Berlin in the 1730s and by the end of the 1860s it had been almost completely removed. More than half of it ran through what is now the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district.
The wall had many functions. Its primary purpose was to collect a tax called “excise”. However, it had not only an economic but also a controlling function to regulate the entry and exit of people into the city. At the same time, the wall prevented the desertion of the soldiers housed in the city. Besides, it was also a bulwark for the defense of the city.
Today the wall has almost completely disappeared as a structure and in memory. However, its course and the position of individual gates are present in the names of many subway stations: Kottbusser Tor, Hallesches Tor, Schlesisches Tor or Oberbaumbrücke. Only one gate has survived and become the city's landmark: the Brandenburg Gate.
The temporary exhibition “The Wall Before the Wall - The Excise Wall Lab” deals with the excise wall and also illuminates it with questions of the present in the embattled city of Berlin. The exhibition becomes an open laboratory about a historical topic that shapes the city up to its present and invites especially young residents* in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg to artistic workshops before and during the exhibition, whose findings will be incorporated into the exhibition installation and in the public space.
A collaboration between colleagues 2, 3 and the FRI-X BERG youth art school and the FHXB Museum.
Supported by funds from the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg District Culture Fund.
Ukuta wa kulipa kodi ulijengwa karibu na Berlin mnamo 1730 na mwishoni mwa miaka ya 1860 ulikuwa umefutwa kabisa. Zaidi ya nusu ya barabara hiyo ilipita katika eneo ambalo sasa ni wilaya ya Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. Ukuta huo ulikuwa na kazi nyingi. Kusudi lake kuu lilikuwa kukusanya kodi iitwayo <unk> excise<unk>. Hata hivyo, haikuwa na kazi ya kiuchumi tu bali pia ya kudhibiti kuingia na kutoka kwa watu jijini. Wakati huohuo, ukuta huo ulizuia askari-jeshi waliokuwa jijini wasiingie. Isitoshe, pia lilikuwa ngome ya kulinda jiji hilo. Leo ukuta huo umetoweka kabisa kama muundo na katika kumbukumbu. Hata hivyo, mwendo wake na nafasi ya milango ya mtu binafsi ni sasa katika majina ya vituo vingi vya reli ya chini ya ardhi: Kottbusser Tor, Hallesches Tor, Schlesisches Tor au Oberbaumbrücke. Lango moja tu ndilo lililookoka na kuwa alama ya jiji hilo: Lango la Brandenburg. Maonyesho ya muda <unk>The Wall Before the Wall - The Excise Wall Lab<unk> inashughulikia ukuta wa kodi ya kodi na pia huangaza maswali ya sasa katika mji wa Berlin ulioathiriwa. Maonyesho hayo yanafanyika kama maabara ya wazi kuhusu mada ya kihistoria ambayo inaunda mji hadi sasa na hualika hasa wakazi wachanga wa Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg kwa warsha za kisanii kabla na wakati wa maonyesho, ambayo matokeo yatatolewa katika uundaji wa maonyesho na katika nafasi ya umma. Mkutano wa FRI, FRI-XB, na FRI-XB, Shule ya Ufundi ya Vijana ya FRI-XB, na FRI-XB, Jumba la Makumbusho la FRI-XB. Imeungwa mkono na fedha kutoka Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Wilaya Utamaduni Fund.