Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-212).
Contents:
1. How long is now? -- 2. The year of anarchy -- 3. Occupying the government district -- 4. At the Elektro, Mauerstrasse 15 -- 5. The nineteenth-century 'founders' of Berlin -- 6. USP.
Summary:
Berlin in the early 1990s: this is the place to be. Berlin-Mitte, the central district of the city, with its wastelands and decaying houses, has become the focal point of a new movement. Artists, musicians, squatters, club owners, DJs and ravers are reclaiming what used to be the heart of the ciry. In the months following the fall of the Wall, there is a feeling of immense possibilities: life is now. Ulrich Gutmair moved to West Berlin as a student in autumn 1989 and spend the next few years studying during the day in the West and exploring the squats, bars and techno clubs in the East at night. Ten years later he decided to write a book about the transitional period between the collapse of the old East Germany and the gentrification of the new Berlin, a period when utopia was a place that anyone could inhabit for a moment--back cover.
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