The Ecumenical Plötzensee Days () are an annual event, commemorating martyrs and victims of

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. They take place at the catholic commemoration church Maria Regina Martyrum and at the Protestant Church of Plötzensee. The events take place around January 23, Helmuth James Graf von Moltke’s day of death, and January 27, the

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. Besides cultural programs as performances of opera, concerts or theater, lectures and

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are fixed parts in the calendar of events. Clarita von Trott zu Solz, Rosemarie Reichwein (1992), Bishop Albrecht Schönherr (1996), Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt (1998), Jizchak Schwersenz (1999), Günter Brakelmann (2009) and

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have been lecturing or preaching among others.

Topics

*1992: The

Kreisau Circle The Kreisau Circle (German: ''Kreisauer Kreis'', ) (1940–1944) was a group of about twenty-five German dissidents in Nazi Germany led by Helmuth James von Moltke, who met at his estate in the rural town of Kreisau, Silesia. The circle was co ...

and its meaning today *1993: Renate Wind: „Dem Rad in die Speichen fallen“ –

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Dietrich Bonhoeffer (; 4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the s ...

*1994: Friedrich Georgi: „Wir haben das Letzte gewagt“; Wörmann: „Widerstand in Charlottenburg“ *1995:

Helmuth James Graf von Moltke Helmuth James Graf von Moltke (11 March 1907 – 23 January 1945) was a German jurist who, as a draftee in the German Abwehr, acted to subvert German human-rights abuses of people in territories occupied by Germany during World War II. He w ...

’s 50th anniversary of death *1996:

and the preaching seminar in Finkenwalde *1997: Sigrid Jacobeit: Ravensbrück *1998: Being Christian after Auschwitz *1999: Jizchak Schwersenz *2000: Hans Krasa: Brundibár *2002: Ecumenical Vespers *2003: Harald Poelchau *2005: "60 years later" *2006:

’s 100th birthday *2007: "Mother Marija Skobtsova – Martyr of Ravensbrück" *2008: "Locations of audacity" („Silent heroes") *2009: Helmuth James von Moltke – in the land of godless people. *2010:

Franz Jägerstätter Franz Jägerstätter, (also spelled Jaegerstaetter in English; born Franz Huber, 20 May 1907 – 9 August 1943) was an Austrians, Austrian farmer and conscientious objector during World War II. Jägerstätter was sentenced to death and executed ...

External links

homepage of the Evangelical church at Charlottenburg North

press release of the Evangelical church Berlin-Brandenburg

press release of the Catholic church Berlin
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