Between the Brandenburg and Nauen Gates

 

Café Heider by the Nauen Gate

The Edmund Stein Print Shop
Hegelallee 53

The oldest print shop in Potsdam was established in 1887. At that time, the address read: "Jäger-Kommunikation 9." It printed for the August Stein Publishing House, the Royal Government in Potsdam, the Royal Chief Presidency and the Ministry of Finance. After WWI the company specialized in printing journals. A highlight was the printing of the journal "Die Weltbühne" (The World Stage). Chief editor Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938), Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935) and Erich Kästner (1899-1974) were guests in the house.

In the nearby Café Rabin (now the Café Heider by the Nauen Gate), Carl von Ossietzky wrote many of his famous leading articles in the defence of democracy and he and Tucholsky jointly revised the pages of the journal. On March 14, 1933 the last issue of "Weltbühne" was destroyed, and the plates were melted down. Ossietzky had already been arrested on February 28. In 1935 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and he died in 1938 as a result of being tortured in various concentration camps.