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Witness GentrificationPeter Woelck is dead The Case of Berlin photographer Peter Woelck![]() Greetings from East Berlin, watching the symbolic tumbling dices at the night of celebrating 20 years fall of the Berlin Wall, I would like to tell you something about gentrification in Berlin. We have an actual case which you might find interesting, of a quite prominent photographer from former GDR who lives in Prenzlauer Berg since almost 25 years, Peter Woelck Peter Woelck moved into Kastanienallee 36a in 1984. He still holds a lease contract of former GDR, the rental is low, he lives as a pauper. The house where he lives is located at the corner Schwedter Strasse/ Kastanienallee. He is reknown as a photographer who has an eye for the working class people of former GDR. He is integral part of this kiez Prenzlauer Berg, part of the so called creative and artistic community which people from outside find so attractive. Now the new owners of the house in which he lives and works since many years want to get rid of him, push him to move out by presenting specious pleaded reasons for the cancellation of his leave agreement at the court. They call it “Verwertungskuendigung” which means that the interest of the owner to get the most profit out of his real estate prevails the needs of the individual who is expelled out of the place where he is enrooted. They do not care about the individual fate. Some people say that the ones complaining of gentrification are gentrifier themselves ※ this is an argument raised by investors to justify what they are doing! We defy, and manifest our disappreciation on against the plans of the investors to destroy the Mauerpark by building up another series of townhouses: Against new walls! Tagesspiegel 15.07.09: Die Wut des Fotografen-Dinos Peter Woelck a reknown photographer of former GDR who lives in Prenzlauer Berg since 1989, is pushed to move out from his apartment by the new owners who plan to reconstruct and sell the flats in the house where he lives since many years. He defies and fights for his right to stay, the next hearing will be soon. Hello, I have a lease contract which dates from 1984 for a now all depends on me: if I refuse to move out the construction measures planned by the new owner will be delayed. the newspaper “tagesspiegel” has reported about my case, see link. now some people come to see me who have read this article, and express their condolences. one was from a radio station who gave me the hint that I should tell you/ AIM about this. another artist, from wedding district, wrote to me I wrote to him: many thanks for your acclamation and your offer to help. so, how can we fight against it? open the case as much as possible to the public !!! attached I am sending you the article from tagesspiegel. please pass it along to pass along to friends and well-known ... or print a few copies and distribute ... as many as possible people should express their indignation at this and write to me I collect written statements, and then submit them to the court. furthermore I am sending you a slightly older report about me in the FAZ. it is very well written and the reader learns more about me. yes, and so it is but yes, I might win the first instance, Finally, a pdf, the poster for my exhibition, I hope you well receive this email with all the 7 attachments ... have a nice evening I wish regards peter w. Monday, February 9, 2009 The Gentrification of East Berlin ...One famous such neglected outpost in P’Berg is this squat, with an anarchist bookstore next door. A large sign on the façade reads, “Kapitalismus normiert, zerstört, tötet” (“Capitalism homogenizes, destroys, kills”), and there are many similar smaller signs of protest... Time.com, Feb. 25, 2009 POSTCARD FROM BERLIN By STEPHANIE KIRCHNER / BERLIN In Berlin, a Gentrifying Neighborhood Under Siege ...Seems like Berlin has to brace itself for a long battle...Stefanel-Stoffel is surprised by the disapproval that her project has sparked among some of the neighborhood's residents... Save the date
From: Anselm Weidner
The grass grows on the death strip, the once hermetic boundary between the power blocs in the center of Berlin has healed. A new has emerged, at first sight, invisible, and it deepens from day to day. The new frontier in Bernauer Strasse could illustrate that it is not politics who imposed ideological barriers dividing people and nations, but the economy by the class boundaries. |
Monocle, 3 AUG 2010: Neighbourhood gentrification ※ Berlin, Writer: Markus Albers Time.com, Feb. 25, 2009 POSTCARD FROM BERLIN In Berlin, a Gentrifying Neighborhood Under Siege ...Seems like Berlin has to brace itself for a long battle...Stefanel-Stoffel is surprised by the disapproval that her project has sparked among some of the neighborhood's residents... Berlin is a divided city: not a city divided between capitalists and communists, but instead a city divided between bohemians and yuppies. When the Berlin Wall fell, the eastern half of the city emptied out, and property was generally cheap. Artists, slackers, anarchists, and other bohemians filled in the void, and made the once-dreary east an increasingly area to live. And as everyone knows, once the starving artists make a neighborhood desirable, yuppies swoop in to buy property. Exberliner Magazine Is Berlin's real estate party over? Joe Morgan has a look at the situation for Exberliner Magazine. ![]() |
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