In relation to the screening of Last exit Alexanderplatz, Hans Christian Post, director of the movie and cultural theoretician will held a lecture about the context of the film. By looking at cases such as Potsdamer Platz, Alexanderplatz, Palace of the Republic, and the Holocaust Monument, the lecture accounts in detail for the few “hits” and many “misses” in urban planning in post-unification Berlin, and explores more generally the intricate relationship of the built environment to both memory and identity politics.