About Sternfreunde Berlin & Brandenburg e.V.

We are a nonprofit astronomy club in Berlin and Brandenburg for observing, astrophotography, telescope advice, and learning the night sky together.

Our public club meetings usually take place on the first Sunday of each month from 3 p.m. at the Zeiss-Großplanetarium Berlin. Guests are welcome.

Since the establishment of the Pionierpalast (October 1979) in the Wuhlheide, children and young people have been actively introduced to astronomy.

After the political change in the GDR the Pionierpalast was renamed to Freizeit- und Erholungszentrum Wuhlheide, short FEZ. Until 1995 we had a lot of creative possibilities in the field of astronomy there. But in the course of downsizing and transferring the FEZ into a non-profit limited company, the astronomy position was eliminated.

In order to continue to offer astronomy in the FEZ, there was only one possibility:

We found a club!

Since June 24, 1995, we are a club. After a long correspondence with the district court and the tax office, it was done at the end of 1999. Since then, we have been allowed to call ourselves a non-profit organization and a sponsor of German youth welfare.

In summer 2021 we moved to the Zeiss-Großplanetarium and changed our name to Sternfreunde Berlin & Brandenburg e.V.. Since then, we support the Stiftung Planetarium Berlin with our work.