On May 9, 2026 we gather as a hundred thousand mothers.
We hand over our demands right at the beginning.
To 12:00 we start in Monbijoupark and march together through the political center of this city.
Against 1:30 pm we reach the Spreebogenpark in front of the Bundestag - where decisions are made that affect our lives.
The Bundesverband der Mütterzentren e.V. and the SelbstHilfeInitiative Alleinerziehender (SHIA) e.V. Berlin invite us to walk this path together.
We make visible what is otherwise overlooked. There are many people in need of care. And we are on the move.
Whether migrant, queer, black, people with disabilities, FLINTA* people with care responsibilities, working-class mothers, single parents, mothers of choice, biological or emotional mothers - we are all here to help.
we all count.
What we have in common: unequal conditions, lack of time, too little support -
and the daily attempt to keep care, work and life together.
Included are voices and sounds that move, remind and rouse:
- Manja Liehr and Türkân Deniz-Roggenbuck moderate and guide through the program
- Shereen Adam opens the room with the „Song of the mothers”
- Ela Fischer @maelamaela sends a message of visibility and social responsibility
- Dagmar and Frieda Hertle on birth and health
- Chamah Marzougui brings in perspectives from care and everyday life
- Ina Kurochkin shows a performative examination of visibility, responsibility - and the right to evade other people's expectations
- Aylin Kuşkaya-Loos on care, work and social reality
- Franzi Helms and Jo Lücke from LUA - Carewerkschaft sharpen the political focus on structural conditions
- Delia Keller Calls for „child benefit for all children”
- Sandra Carius comes from the #LiegendDemo - Making ME/CFS visible to us on stage
- Nanda Ben Chaabane - Mother Anders sings: „I sing today in honor of every tear, every rage”
- Ayten Kyazim and BATTAL (Yali) from kolibri. make violence and social responsibility visible
- Shila Behjat links the topics with political and global perspectives
- TOSHA sets a musical conclusion
We make visible what often remains invisible:
the reality of single parents,
the overburdening of families,
the consequences of structural inequality and violence.
We demand self-determination -
in health, in family, in work, in life.
Motherhood is not private.
It is political.
And it affects us all.