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CurrentDIARY OF A SWANEESWAN – GERMANY, FOR A YEAR: Scenes from the culture war – 27.12.2009 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. Save Berlin! Send us your ideas by May 1! Twenty years ago the citizens of East Berlin brought down the Wall that divided their city in a peaceful revolution. Since then Berlin has developed into the city we love – an island of affordable civilization for outcasts and dreamers. But the city is also in danger! Mega-malls, fake Prussian palaces and luxury lofts are threatening to turn the city into a sterile global capital. Don't let grey bureaucrats and investors lacking imagination shape our future. DO SOMETHING! This November – on the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall – EXBERLINER's SAVE BERLIN project aims to present the best, boldest ideas by Berliners to rejuvenate and preserve the spirit of the city they love. Buildings, urban planning, demolitions, events, festivals – all types of urban interventions. .. It will be an exhibition and a special issue of our magazine. BE PART OF IT. We need your help! You'll find complete information HERE. Send your ideas to saveberlin@exberliner.com by May 1, 2009 for a first evaluation by our agit-prop committee... Looking forward to your proposals, your Save Berlin Executive Committee (SBEC) HOMESTORIES Homestories invites German and Ukrainian artists, architects and curators to present and discuss their impressions, critique, their ideas, hopes and visions about the notion of home as the interface between the private and the public. Key issues will be the privatisation of public housing, gentrification processes and forms of resistance. Homestories is a project by Ania Corcilius, Inken Reinert, Janine Sack and Inga Zimprich with: AltRoom (Kyryl Komarov, Anna Pugacheva), Larissa Babij, Christiane Büchner, Robert Burghardt, Ania Corcilius, Hiltrud Ebert, Kathrin Peters, Gruppa Predmetov (Olexandr Burlaka, Ivan Melnichuk), Mathias Heyden, Andrei Holm, Kerstin Karge, Alevtina Kakhidze, Folke Köbberling/Martin Kaltwasser, Volodymyr Kuznetsov, Lada Nakonechna, Nana Petzet, Inken Reinert, Janine Sack, Birgit Schumacher, Florian Wüst, Inga Zimprich, Anya Zvyagintseva and others. |
SPIEGEL ONLINE INTERNATIONAL Politicians, residents and investors are embroiled in a fight over the banks of Berlin's Spree River. Part of the issue boils down to the fundamental question of whether it will be citizens or the business community that shapes the city's image. Building Spree – Developers and Dreamers Battle Over Berlin Identity Gentrification in Prenzlauer Berg – walking tours 29 March 2009 
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