Public prosecutors and lawyers in focus
Between 1951 and 1990, the Berlin-Mitte remand prison, or UHA II, was located on Keibelstrasse at Berlin's Alexanderplatz in the GDR. It was subordinate to the GDR Ministry of the Interior and was part of the East Berlin Presidium of the People's Police.
In the remand prison, people were imprisoned on various charges and awaited the outcome of the investigations and trials.
Keibelstrasse is a symbol of state repression and arbitrariness, reflecting notions of political opposition and social deviance, but also of "ordinary" crime in a dictatorship. From 1990 onwards, film and music producers used the lower floors of the former prison as a backdrop.
The GDR was not a constitutional state with an independent judiciary. The Socialist Unity Party (SED) exerted strong influence on judges and prosecutors, almost all of whom were party members.
This workshop examines how the lack of the rule of law manifested itself, among other things, in the Keibelstrasse remand prison:
- What powers did public prosecutors have?
- Whether and how could lawyers help the inmates?
The course also addresses fundamental questions about the purpose of criminal imprisonment in the GDR and what this reveals about socialist ideology.
(IN GERMAN)
Additional information
Booking: The event takes place in cooperation with the VHS Berlin-Mitte. Registration at: https://www.vhsit.berlin.de/VHSKURSE/BusinessPages/CourseDetail.aspx?id=741376 For further information, please contact anmeldung@keibelstrasse.de.
Dates
March 2025
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