Iron Curtain and Green Belt , 17−19 June 2018 Networks and Opportunities for Cooperation in a European Iron Curtain and Border Landscape Green Belt Conference on the occasion Networks and Opportunities of the European Year of Cultural for Cooperation in a European Heritage 2018 ummit Border Landscape Following the guiding theme of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, “Border Areas – Encounter Areas”, and focussing on CONFERENCE ON THE OCCASION OF THE EUROPEAN the inner-European post-war border of the Iron Curtain, the aim of CULTURAL HERITAGE SUMMIT WITHIN THE this international conference is to review, present, and discuss the difficult heritage of the Cold War as well as to explore the potential EUROPEAN YEAR OF CULTURAL HERITAGE 2018 for a transboundary cooperation and network. Memorial Location Berlin Wall Memorial, Visitor Centre Visitor Centre Bernauer Straße 119, 13355 Berlin Organisers www.berliner-mauer-gedenkstaette.de

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[1] Visitor Centre Bernauer Straße 119, 13355 Berlin Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Cultural Affairs and the Media Public Transport upon a Decision of the German Bundestag S-Bahn: , , , S26 Nordbahnhof U-Bahn: Bernauer Straße Tram: M10 Nordbahnhof Bus: 247 Nordbahnhof

, s25, s26 | June 2018 Otmar Fugmann (Cover); Design: Jolanda Todt Pictures: Berlin Heritage Conservation Authority, 2:00 pm European Initiatives along the Former Iron Curtain as 19 / 06 / 2018 programme Partners of the Initiatives “European Green Belt” and S e c tio n 2 “Iron Curtain Network” – Focus: Border Region of 9.30 am Definition of Joint Values of Natural and Cultural 17 / 06 / 2018 Austria / Hungary Heritage along the Former Iron Curtain – Strategies Chair: Jörg Haspel (ICOMOS Germany) S e c tio n 4 How to Proceed 8:00 pm Welcome Dr. Klaus Lederer, Mayor and Senator for Activities along the Austrian Green Belt for the Chair: Irmgard Zündorf (Centre for Contemporary History, Culture and Europe; Dr. Uwe Koch, Head of the offices of Preservation of the Natural Heritage Potsdam) the Deutsches Nationalkomitee für Denkmalschutz (DNK) Christine Pühringer (Naturschutzbund Österreich, Escape Tunnels, Border Relicts, Vehicle Barriers – National Focal Point Grünes Band Österreich) Berlin’s Contributions to an Archaeology of the 8:15 pm Public Evening Lecture: Unbuilding Walls The Tone of the Monument Iron Curtain Marianne Birthler and Thomas Willemeit (Graft Architects) Tibor Kuslits (ICOMOS Hungary) Torsten Dressler (ABD-Dressler) will be talking about the exhibition of the German architec- tural pavilion curated by Graft Architects and Marianne Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape: Challenges for The Iron Curtain as Reflected in the Memory of the Birthler at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2018. the Management of a Cross-border World Heritage Site World of UNESCO Ulrike Herbig (TU Wien, ICOMOS Austria) Joachim-Felix Leonhard Afterwards Reception of ICOMOS Germany and Šumava and Bavarian Forest National Parks – The European Green Belt – Structural and Concep- the Berlin Wall Foundation a Quarter Century of Cooperation tual Considerations for a Serial Natural and Cultural Martin Starý and Pavel Beckaˇ (TransParcNet) Heritage of UNESCO Leonie Glabau (ICOMOS Germany/ LDA Berlin) 3:30 pm Coffee Break Results of the “Feasibility Study Green Belt” 18 / 06 / 2018 (funded by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation 4:00 pm European Initiatives along the Former Iron Curtain as 9:00 am Welcome / Introduction Jörg Haspel, President of with funds of the Federal Environment Ministry) Potential Partners of the German Initiatives “European Katharina Diehl and Karl Heinz Gaudry

ICOMOS Germany; Axel Klausmeier, Head of the Berlin S e c tio n 3 Green Belt” and “Iron Curtain Network” (University of Freiburg) Wall Foundation; Kai Frobel, BUND; Michael Cramer, MEP Chair: Melanie Kreutz (BUND) The Feasibility Study in the Light of Recent Develop- 10:00 am The Path towards the Green Belt and The “Místa Zblízka” Project ments in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention the Iron Curtain Network Linda Kovárovᡠand Jan Albert Šturma (Czech Republic) Barbara Engels (BfN) S e c tio n 1 Chair: Thomas Drachenberg (BLDAM) The Past in the Present. Remembering the Cold War – German Green Belt: National Natural Heritage and a Danish Perspective 11:30 am Coffee Break Living Monument Gese Hansen and Peer Henrik Hansen Uwe Riecken (Federal Agency for Nature Conservation 12:00 noon Strategies for an Extension / Europeanisation (BfN), National Focal Point Grünes Band Deutschland) of Existing Networks S e c tio n 5 7:00 pm Public Evening Event – Exhibition Opening: Video Message The European Green Belt – Initiative for the pan- “Through the Eye of the Photographer – Berlin European Ecological Network Mechtild Rössler, Director, UNESCO World 28 Years after the Fall of the Wall” Heritage Centre Liana Geidezis (BUND, head of Grünes Band, regional coor- Wolfgang Bittner, Berlin Heritage Conservation Authority dinator Grünes Band Zentraleuropa and deputy chairperson Panel Discussion of the European Green Belt Association e.V.) Welcome Dr. Michael Gödde, Senate Administration for Susan Baumgartl (Iron Curtain Network); Roland Environment, Traffic and Climate Protection / Green Belt Berlin; Bernecker (DUK); Barbara Engels (BfN); Liana Geidezis Archaeology of the Iron Curtain Dr. Klaus Lederer, Mayor and Senator for Culture and Europe Anna McWilliams (Heritage Consultant and Researcher) (BUND); Gerry Woop (State Secretary for Europe) Opening Jörg Haspel, Head of the Berlin Heritage Chair: Jörg Haspel Network Iron Curtain: Remembrance and Civic Conservation Authority Educational Programmes Afterwards Lunch Break Mira Keune (Borderland Museaum Eichsfeld) Afterwards Reception of ICOMOS Germany and the Berlin Heritage Conservation Authority 1:30 pm End of Conference 12:45 pm Lunch Break Venue: Senatsverwaltung für Umwelt, Verkehr und Klimaschutz, Am Köllnischen Park 3, Modellsaal