38,000 schoolchildren visited the school lab at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin:
Twenty years ago, on 29 November 2004, Klaus Böger, then Senator for Education in Berlin, opened one of the capital's first school laboratories. Since then, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), in cooperation with the…
After 15 years, the funding phases for the “Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences” at HU Berlin have been completed:
Since its founding in 2009, the Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences of Humboldt University in Berlin – IRIS Adlershof – looks back on 15 years of successful work. IRIS Adlershof has developed into an…
The Student Village Adlershof opened ten years ago:
Wood-clad façades with an accordion look, colourful blinds, and floor-to-ceiling windows: Construction on the Student Village Adlershof was completed ten years ago. Since then, 400 students from all over the world…
The first image was transmitted to Earth on 10 January 2004:
An extraordinary success story, and a long-lasting one at that. For 20 years now, DLR's High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Express orbiter has been providing the science…
It all began with a publication on PTB's radiometry laboratory at the former Berlin storage ring BESSY I from 1983 and became a success story:
On November 14, 2023, the 322nd PTB Seminar on VUV and EUV Metrology hosted a commemorative event on "40 years of metrology with synchrotron radiation". The occasion was the first publication on PTB's radiometry…
A conversation about 25 years of the high-brilliance radiation source in Adlershof:
BESSY II is a synchrotron, a storage ring, a high-brilliance radiation source. Or as Bernd Rech puts it: a high-tech X-ray microscope. For 25 years, it has been helping researchers from all over the world to uncover…
Spin-off from the Reiner Lemoine Institute celebrates company anniversary:
On September 11th, the employees of Localiser GmbH celebrated their 5th anniversary. Localiser is a spin-off from the Reiner Lemoine Institute: In September 2018, Kathrin Goldammer and Oliver Arnhold founded the…
The next generation takes over the management of Ahlberg Metalltechnik and Legler Objekt & Konzept:
Mario Ahlberg and Heike Legler have created two very successful companies, Ahlberg Metalltechnik GmbH and Legler Objekt & Konzept GmbH. They are both stepping back to let the next generation take the helm – and…
Biophysicist Helge Neumann says goodbye – the long-standing head of the WISTA International Office has carried the Adlershof model out into the world:
There are countless issues that Helge Neumann has addressed during his time in Adlershof. The biophysicist has been part of WISTA now for over 30 years. As different as his projects were, they were all characterised…
Sabine Berger was an animator on GDR television. An exhibition at Theater Ost commemorates the start of broadcasting:
Guten Abend, verehrte Fernsehfreunde – good evening, dear TV fans – were the fairly unspectacular words that launched the first two-hour broadcasts of German television in the former Soviet occupation zone, uttered by…
“We know how to handle even the divas among the molecules”:
When I first started telling my staff that we would relocate to Adlershof, they were dumbfounded. They asked if I had lost my mind,” says Holger Eickhoff. “Back then, everything here had the same address. There were…
30 years of IGAFA, the Joint Initiative of Non-University Affiliated Research Institutes in Adlershof e.V.:
A name that says it all: The Joint Initiative of Non-University Affiliated Research Institutes in Adlershof e.V. (IGAFA) was a driving force behind establishing Adlershof as a location for high technology. It…
A look back on becoming market leader in time-resolved optical measurements while not forgetting social responsibility:
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Berlin-based PicoQuant, a worldwide leader in the development and manufacturing of high quality photonic components and instrumentation. Rainer Erdmann, Managing Director and…
An entrepreneur, a scientist, and a project manager take a look back and a look ahead:
Has it really been 30 years?! Yes, indeed. The science and business location Adlershof is having a milestone birthday in March. An entrepreneur, a scientist, and a project manager from Adlershof look back, take stock,…
In view of the development of the science and technology location, Andreas Schütz, DLR's spokesperson, speaks of “an incredible success”:
Even after 30 years, Andreas Schütz, spokesperson of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), is still amazed when he arrives in Adlershof coming from his office in Berlin-Mitte. While he was working for DLR in Adlershof…
The costumes and props of the Adlershofer Fundus is the place to go for authentic film sets:
The Adlershofer Fundus is an institution of Berlin’s television landscape: both a piece of cultural history and a place where the city’s filmmakers meet. Many well-known film sets were equipped and are still equipped…
New on Instagram – Exploring the charm of forgotten places:
Adlershof reinvented itself after reunification. But some things outlived this historical turning point. Exactly how visible is former East Germany in Adlershof? We went out into the Science City to look for…
Light installations, art in buildings, historical monuments: an expedition through Adlershof:
The Technology Park Adlershof in autumn. Shiny new buildings, the doors of high-tech companies and institutes are locked, only few people are outside. Hurrying across the site, it could easily seem like purely…
The Johannisthaler Filmanstalten (Jofa) film studios were founded a hundred years ago:
The year 1920 began with some far-reaching changes for the German Empire. On 10 January, the Treaty of Versailles became effective. In Johannisthal and Adlershof, two then-rural communities on the south-eastern…
Time travelling through the Egg Room, the magnificent director’s office, and other hidden places:
A neon-lit corridor, cold and long, leads up to the director’s office – decorated with all kinds of insignia of power. The R1 building with its rather austere exterior was once home to the television broadcaster of…
