The Green of Friedrichshain-Kreuberg want to Yorckstraße, named after Ludwig Graf Yorck von wartenburg, renaming.Photo: Kai-Uwe Heinrich
if you would like to discuss the street name, you must ask a very fundamental question: Which persons should be considered in our society with this special award?
That a road dedication of a tribute, you can not deny: it is Precisely in the capital, their squares, streets and avenues to women’s rights activists and resistance fighters, Federal chancellors and figures of reunification and would have been named-makers of the districts, is associated with a street name of a certain assessment. A street name has to mean something. He says: See, I have once done something or stand for something you still shall remember.
If this is the case of some military and battlefields of the war still to be the case, the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg with your BVV-request for the “demilitarization of public space” to discuss. In the application, the on 19. March will be discussed in the Committee on culture, specifically, to Yorckstraße, Blucher street and square, Horn, Möckern-, Gneisenau, Katzbach, Großgörschen, large berries and high trust road and hail Berger and Eylauer Straße.
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to order, As at 9. July was named in 1864 by a Cabinet order streets in Kreuzberg after battles and soldiers of the wars of liberation against Napoleon, were the General field Marshal Ludwig Graf Yorck von wartenburg or August Wilhelm Antonius Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau as persons who had used in the war against the enemy of France for Prussia, and which, apparently, is a tribute to the state. Also scenes of battles such as large berries, should be remembered. You were the namesake streets of Kreuzberg.
A different perspective on the war
Meanwhile, the liberation of her wars for over two centuries, the naming of more than 150 years. Has changed since then, the civil society perspective on the war. The leads to deaths, injuries, violence and discrimination. It shapes societies, and the self-understanding of their members over the generations, divides societies and families. That war is not a glorious thing, not a desirable event, but a cruel, avoid value fate for all people, an approach that is fortunately now much less controversial than in 1864.
it took Long enough, long enough to have tried countless people, both Large and Small, to the German-French friendship worthy of the name. Rightly, the Greens now ask, whether, in the context of European unification and of the longstanding special relationship between Germany and France on the retention of the celebrities, military vehicles and the war would have on this street is name useful.
The discussion is certainly important and appropriate. Just critical questioning of the dignitaries ensures that such an award means something. You should get the best candidates, not to those who were there earlier. That, in Kreuzberg, Berlin and the world have produced since 1894, to persons whose names would be a better trim for the cross mountain roads, may be regarded as certain.
Also in other districts, there is material for discussion
the renaming is optional, but is named in the BVV-application as a possible result. First of all, it goes only to certain streets in Kreuzberg, but discussion material is also available in other districts is not enough. What names are good, if we comprehend the dignitaries as social role models? It would do no harm if the questions would all of Berlin.
rename streets, but it also means a very practical effort, of personal documents, store signs, brochures, and all the other things on which the address is recorded, everything would need to be changed. A temporal, but also a financial burden of some residents to be too large is likely to hold.
conversions instead of renaming
But there are many other options: In some cases, the roads could be converted simply. The only ” big ” war, but a place is not berries, for example. Additional panels could refer to the conversion of, or at least the street name in the military context. Who would go through Kreuzberg, would then learn more about the history and could form an opinion.
A discussion is indispensable, and can lead to new projects, exhibitions or information boards is conceivable. Of the negotiation process, many people can benefit, but such approaches need to be discussed. All in Kreuzberg, but also other interested parties should be able to open-ended, like a controversial dialogue. You will need to discuss options such as renaming, reclassification, additional signs, and all other ideas from the civil society, policy and research. Because the name would be now, because in the military context, so clearly the attention was made to leave unquestioned and unmentioned in the public space, a re-assessment of the people and of the battles. Such a re-militarization of public space is to be avoided.
A discourse about street renaming – is that necessary? Click here to read the comment to the discussion on the streets of Kreuzberg.
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