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Thursday, November 27, 2025
Living room concert - Würfeltreff „kopflastig“
with Pascal von Wroblewsky and the „Lora Kostina Trio“

Doors open: 6:30 PM, show starts: 7:30 PM
Admission: €30.00
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Pascal von Wroblewsky, born in 1962 in East Berlin, has been a mainstay of the German jazz scene since the 1980s, shaping numerous ensembles with her four-octave voice. After initial stage experiences in a school choir, children’s theater, and a folk band, she studied vocal performance at the „Hanns Eisler“ University of Music in Berlin. During her studies, her first LP „Swinging Pool“ was released and earned a gold record.
Since then, she has performed with, among others, Joe Pass, Dizzy Gillespie, the Swingle Singers, and major orchestras like the HR and WDR Big Bands, and has released eight solo albums. Besides jazz, she increasingly explores the crossover between classical and jazz music, collaborating with musicians across genres and supporting emerging talent, such as the Anhalt Youth Big Band at the Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau.


   Pascal von Wroblewsky in the ’80s and today with the „Lora Kostina Trio“

Pascal von Wroblewsky, Lora Kostina, Daniel Werbach, and Tom Friedrich present their new project – the „DEFA Songbook“:

We find ourselves in the years 1961-89 AD. The entire GDR is occupied by censors. The entire GDR? No! A village inhabited by indomitable artists continues to resist the invaders. And life is not easy for the actors, musicians, directors who work as occupants in the fortified DEFA studio. They created cinematic artworks that were often banned or, through satire or intellectual mimicry, depicted life in the GDR and spoke between the lines.

The songs from these films remain full of power and beauty; they remind us of the time when we heard, sang, and shared them. Pascal von Wroblewsky and Lora Kostina - a now‑dream team - perform a selection of these songs on stage in newly created arrangements by Lora Kostina, looking back. Not in anger, but with critical affection.


www.wroblewsky.de
Friday, November 28, 2025
Living room concert - Würfeltreff „kopflastig“
with Dirk Zöllner and André Gensicke in the “Duo Infernale”

Doors open: 6:30 PM, show starts: 7:30 PM
Admission: €30.00
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„Die Zöllner“ already performed in the 1980s on the stage of the Würfel.
Their style and music already made them a perfect match for the Würfel audience back then. Thirty-six years later, the reunion at the familiar venue has the charm of a class reunion. Everything new – yet still familiar.

Dirk Zöllner, born in 1962 in East Berlin, and André Gensicke, born in 1961 in Magdeburg, are two distinguished musicians known for their work in the bands Chicorée, „Die Zöllner“, and „Die Zöllner im Trio Infernale“. Since the 1980s, „Die Zöllner“ have stood for soulful grooves as well as rock and pop music. Together they combine honest lyrics with stage charisma. In 1988 they performed at the „Beat Apartheid“ festival, opening for James Brown, and have since completed over 1,000 concerts. They also performed at the 40th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate before an audience of millions.


   Dirk Zöllner and André Gensicke in the ’80s and today

Here they perform as „Die Zöllner im Duo Infernale“, drawing from a vast repertoire of shared songs – intimate, humorous, and musically versatile. They combine musical virtuosity with spontaneous stories, delivering a particularly personal live experience.

www.die-zoellner.de

Saturday, November 29, 2025
Club night - Würfeltreff „beinlastig“
Get ready to dance

Doors open: 7:00 PM, show starts: 8:00 PM
Admission: €15.00
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In the 1980s, Karl-Marx-Stadt developed a vibrant youth club culture that provided many young people an outlet from the grey everyday life in the GDR. Beyond state control, small clubs and improvised meeting places emerged, offering space for western music, subculture, and alternative lifestyles. Here, young people could escape the confines of the system – at least for a few hours at night. The clubs became hotspots for creative exchange: venues for music, dance, and discussion beyond official ideology. Despite – or perhaps because of – societal restrictions, a positive spirit arose, driven by community, rebellion, and the yearning for freedom.

   Würfeltreff „beinlastig“

Many of you have surely dreamed of this over the past 36 years – not just us! Back once more in the small club on Wilhelm‑Firl‑Straße, which back then not only tried but often succeeded in momentarily opening the door to the big, wide world.

Legendary DJs Mpoint „Zeitklang“ Richter, Andreas „Wolle“ Wolske, and Peer „Emil“ Ehmke will bring you back to that time – with the greatest soul, funk, and pop hits of the ’80s. Come join, dance along – and take the chance to meet friends and old acquaintances again. A night for eternity!
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Retrospective – Gegenwind - Würfeltreff „kopflastig“
Stories and images in an exhibition:
The Würfel from 1985 – 2005

Starts at 1:00 PM, free admission

During the 1980s, the Fritz‑Heckert area in Karl‑Marx‑Stadt was one of the GDR’s largest new housing developments and the country’s third‑largest contiguous prefab complex. Planned and built from the mid‑1970s to address housing shortages and create modern living conditions, the area featured standardized prefab buildings alongside new schools, kindergartens, shopping facilities, and youth clubs like the Würfel. Despite functional architecture, a distinctive way of life developed – shaped by neighborhood bonds, youth culture, and daily life in the socialist settlement.

   Cornelia “Conni” Köhler & Andreas “Fred” Eckelmann / architecture of the youth clubs

We are showing photos and recordings of the „Friends of the Würfel“ – along with fascinating historic documents from the city archive. Discover forgotten and surprising details about the GDR youth club scene – and learn interesting insights about the architecture of the Würfel and its neighborhood.
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Identity - Würfeltreff „kopflastig“
Author reading with Patricia Holland Moritz

Doors open: 5:00 PM, reading starts: 6:00  PM
Admission: €10.00
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Patricia Holland Moritz was born in 1967 in Karl‑Marx‑Stadt and, after an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Leipzig and several years in Paris – later working in Berlin as a booker and publishing director – studied North American studies. She has published several novels and crime stories. Since 2021, she has been managing director of the SPD parliamentary group in Berlin‑Lichtenberg and is active in homeless aid.

   Patricia Holland Moritz at „KASCH“ in 1989 and today

Patricia Holland Moritz reads from two books, tracing a historical and social arc from the final months of the GDR to life in a new world.

„Kaßbergen“
An industrial town at the foot of an ore‑rich mountain range in the mid‑1970s: young Ulrike moves in with her father to Kaßbergen after her parents separate – a district above the city’s smelting stacks where the air is cleaner and people behind closed doors tell stories of a glorious past. Ulrike soon begins breaking free from confinement and meets Gonzo, a punk who introduces her to a world of artists and writers, the unorthodox. When he is arrested by the Stasi, Ulrike finds herself alone...

„Three Summers in Paris“

It was a good age to arrive in Paris. It was likely the right place on earth to begin life.
Ulrike holds nothing back in the land of prescribed life paths. It is the summer of 1989, when the 21‑year‑old sits on a train from Leipzig to Paris. Without a word of French but driven by immense curiosity, she discovers the city and – with it – a new world as an immigrant among immigrants...

www.patriciahollandmoritz.com
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