The First Days of Berlin. Ulrich Gutmair

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CONTENTS

      1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright

      4  Dedication

      5  Acknowledgements

      6  Preface to the English Edition

      7  1 How Long is Now? It reeks of Bitterfeld The man who sat by the kiosk outside Tacheles The vacant plots vanish

      8  2 The Year of Anarchy The Mitte Temporary Autonomous Zone The buried past The GDR is like a predigital Facebook The neighbourhood policeman The end of the VEBs From squatting to temporary licence

      9  3 Occupying the Government District The night the Wall came down West-Berlin, Westberlin, Restberlin In the mouse hole: Stadtmitte underground station A community of squatters

      10  4 At the Elektro, Mauerstrasse 15 ‘Full Customer Satisfaction’ In bed with Mo Anti-money-grabbing

      11  5 The Nineteenth-Century ‘Founders’ of Berlin The bulldozer moves in The crash of 1873

      12  6 USP All things are possible – Berlin is free

      13  Bibliography

      14  End User License Agreement

       List of Illustrations

      1 Map of LocationsFigure 1 Hotel Clou and the Wino store in Mauerstrasse 15. The picture was taken on 17 Feb…Figure 2 Map of Berlin showing locations mentioned in the book (© Studio Cocurio,…

      2 Chapter 1Figure 3 Children in Auguststrasse, May 1979 (© Hans Martin Sewcz)Figure 4 Wrecked car in Auguststrasse, 1990 (© Ben de Biel)

      3 Chapter 2Figure 5 Living room at Kleine Hamburger Strasse 5 in early 1991 (© Ben de Biel)Figure 6 View of the backs of the buildings at Kleine Hamburger Strasse 3–5 (© Ben de Bie…Figure 7 Looking for discards in Linienstrasse, 1990 (© Ben de Biel)Figure 8 Breakfast at Kleine Hamburger Strasse 5 in 1990 (© Ben de Biel)

      4 Chapter 3Figure 9 The WMF building on the corner of Leipziger Strasse and Mauerstrasse. The pictur…Figure 10 The Friseur at Kronenstrasse 3 in August 1995 (© Landesarchiv Berlin, F Rep. 290…Figure 11 Entrance to the Favela behind Mauerstrasse 15 (© Andreas Muhs)

      5 Chapter 4Figure 12 Mo Loschelder and Julian Göthe DJing (© Ulrich Gutmair)Figure 13 Party at the Elektro, with Jeff Mills and Electric Indigo in the crowd (© Tilman…Figure 14 An Elektro flyer announcing the Säkhö Group (© Daniel Pflumm)

      6 Chapter 5Figure 15 Demolition of the building at Mauerstrasse 15, filmed by Daniel Pflumm (© Daniel…

      7 Chapter 6Figure 16 The back of Tacheles, 1991 (© Ben de Biel)

      Guide

      1  Cover

      2  Table of Contents

      3  Title Page

      4  Copyright

      5  Dedication

      6  Acknowledgements

      7  Preface to the English Edition

      8  Begin Reading

      9  Bibliography

      10  End User License Agreement

      Pages

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