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watch the english streaming light on. i do channels plus thousands of our programs, the world winning documentaries, and get new support. subscribed to you choose dot com, forward slash al jazeera english. oh, all i i turn in on conventional capital city. ever changing and yet forever defined by its turbulent part divided by a concrete barrier for decade in the berlin wall, split the city and polarized germany into 2 peoples. a palpable political schism.

the symbol of the power, an ideological struggles between east and west, shattered reg, congress, germany is a graphic symbol of the desperate need and reconstruction off to the end of the 2nd world war berlin became the epicenter of the new world order. ah, divided between the wars victors, the u. s. u k. fronts and the former soviet union controlled different parts of the cities. the duplicate tensions between the eastern and western blocks eventually led to the cold war. the former zones controlled by east and west emerged as new nations. ah, the capitalist federal republic of germany, and the communist german democratic republic. at the peak of it, berlin was one of the most strategically critical places in the world. the in the early hours of august,

the 13th 1961. the 1st barrier of the berlin wall rose along the eastern border. the concrete block put up in the days, followed, marked an immediate new reality. cutting off families and friends the and the world of freedom, the probably is on daily. yeah. the clear statement of us policy in the week of the construction of the wall, the soviet leader nikita khrushchev maintained that as long as the concrete rules still stood, western leaders could not declare victory. but as the soviet union power and influence began to decline in the late 1980, it spelled the beginning of the end for the eastern block. ah,

the east german government couldn't keep functioning without the support of the soviets. change was coming in the early days of november, 1989 east germans turned out in huge numbers. demanding reforms. on the evening of november 9, 1989 history was made is unknown to november than the border ship. he did it grants and up the foxes among nathan. he taught them to invite office and the rest, as they say is history. i'm stephanie decker. and welcome to berlin, when the boarders opened presented the city with a whole new world of opportunities and also to the people who lived here and now was 32 years on the german capital. continue the process of transformation. city that's been described by many as being in a forever state. the common and never be,

ah, and perhaps that's what makes it the pulsating city. it is today. forever marked by the caution dogmas of east and west, ah, represented in every neighborhood in its public space in, in the way the city has been expanding, gentrifying and within its world renown street arch. ah, the will, may have come down the decades of polarizing ideologies and policies that it represented had been harder to break down. what is berlin today and has a barrier that this was created? been broken? is there still an e versus west on this edition of talk to algebra or in the field will be exploring berlin identity will be joined by berliners to discuss the city and his status quo legacy. and how much reflected what many consider to be europe, unapologetically, rebel, capital,

i thomas, stand my nose berlin. well, he studied here and parties here drink what many would say was it katie, in the 1990 s. and now in urban tanner, he has seen the city change over the years. so this is your vision for 2017, for that night, exactly berlin and on book. so that was the city itself, but also for the entire region focusing on sustainable development. he's looking ahead and how to manage a city is constantly evolving. what a fascinating effect after the fall of the wall. the city was like an open playground. there was so many empty buildings that haven't been used before. and that attractive, a influx of creative people and that occupied the space of at the same time,

there was of course, also a boom. expect that investment for that was a lot off buying off property. and trying to figure out who actually own something at the time, because even that was unclear on that period. but that economic boom that everybody expected barely enough the portal to eastern europe and so on. that just didn't happen because it attracted artist optimistic people, you know, your community is the best clubs and all that. and it became of the night life center here just because the boom didn't happen. so it was a different boom that happened. and i think that made the 50, very interesting, even though that was my plan. it just happened to me because it's organic. we are plan of year plan yet at the same time. that's exactly what you want to know and exciting plays with freedom. the freedom over the decade is attracted artists, musicians, party people,

creative thinker, berlin became known as a hub for street art and expression. the interesting thing was like a big place in the 90s, you had a nice building. you had huge industrial sites that you could work on without problems. so i think there's a lot of fear that get attracted by this freedom in the ninety's, also graffiti writers and then to 1000 the freedom of the street artist is also they travel a lot and they leave their traces behind in every city. so like space invaders from france, he left pieces here starting in 2003 or banks. he was here to he left pieces also here a little wraps. so many artist came here for that. the 3 daughters passing by so street, our tourism, or graffiti tourism because the graffiti writers knew it's easy here more easy to find space, maybe less police present. less control is brilliant,

still attracting artists to come here in the same way that it is before. i think now the artist that they get aware that the rents are higher. so maybe there's some less coming. but it's still attractive because it still has turner to have places, maybe an inspiring vibe or something like that. and amazing spaces, ah, ah, increasing rents, and then i could, housing is an issue, no facing berlin. we put that to thomas. after the fall of the rule, the reputation berlin was that you could come, anyone could come here a new very cheaply do whatever they wanted. but that seems to be changing now. 30 years later that changed to changing 1st of all, a tough book a longer. so the thing that initially didn't happen happened later and delayed for

some european larger companies, put their headquarters in berlin. moved here from frankfurt, or even from london. they recently of course, over the breakfast play the throne bucket may me ignore interestingly, is that to be freedom and creativity of, of so interesting that that became an attractive by its own company. if people thought out that environment, even if maybe they themselves weren't artists, they wanted to be close to them. you know, thought that were the 1st pioneers and then a bit more mainstream followed. and let's not forget that off all these great people, they just got older for their part it a bit less merry than married. suddenly they have children. maybe they even start at the company and now on the record label, what not. but it has become a real business and we see that happening now. is there a backlash to that? because berlin seems to be a city that if we're generalize or against rules, they don't want more expensive rents. gentrification seems to get

a lot of push back here at thoughtful, fascinating because it seems there are 2 parallel processes going on. on the one hand, there's the people here at the presents that they have always been in the neighbourhood . and often enough of what's happening. they might even ask, what are these creative people doing here, and why is my rent suddenly much more expensive? i don't want any of that. and then on could say that recently it's observable that there's almost a parallel world emerging power system of international capital coming in the apartment paid by the company, whatever it doesn't matter, let's just go for it. and so there's a huge gap between these 2 systems, and that indeed leads to backlash and to conflict at the moment. and to see that we see that, especially in courts, that if they have the fans to help opening the window, get smashed regularly. not because of a particular hate against that store,

but just to, you know, to try to them from the curve if you want your not to keep the speculation and the tech to repeat down. but that, of course, can't be the solution either. berlin has a very unique history with a wall east, west germany, and in general, how do you see that in berlin? how do you still see that today? you can see it if you know what to look for, for i think it depends very much. if you are from here, and maybe even though intuitively, you can also see it even and light of the bulk of the 3 lamp on the pattern of the sidewalk, whether you and the youth on the west. also importantly, there is a kind of heritage which is more to society and not for much in the built environment so that they are still thing for clichy, if which are typically eve, typically west. but maybe if you're new, come to the city yet, notice them, and that's possibly a good thing. you know that the difference was disappear. ah,

it's been over 30 years in the fall of the war. i wanted to understand, does east and west remain an issue to day? patrice buddha, bella is berliner specifically west berlin and t. v. presenter. how would you describe yourself these days? berliner does eastern western matter to you. to me it actually does. but just like barely because like some people don't even know. sometimes it's kind of, i feel offended in ways when sometimes i like travelling around with people and they asked me, so is this the east and i'm wondering why would they think it's the east although that we are in the west. so. busy because they're not really so familiar because so many things have been, have been billed or renovated within the last a few decades. so of course i understand it's really hard to tell you have some street signs which still indicates in which pods you are. it's very diverse, but also very chaotic and berlin. of course, it's not what it used to be like in the eighty's, which is not a bad thing,

but we have to figure out if it's a good thing. ok. you remember when the walk in was exciting, the thing was actually open. i actually live back in the back in the days and 89 i used to live in inventing, which was quite the area where both on the wall came out was really right of your neighborhood. yet it wasn't enabled in the way. and, and of course, it was shocking to a certain point and i already kind of felt like, well, i don't know if this turns out. well, it did turn well in some ways. but having after so many decades, still kind of an issue between east and west. some not really talked about if you just go for all these political currents, for instance, you see that there's quite a gap between what people in the western part of germany,

a voting and some of what people in the, in the eastern part of oil for so you can really tell that they're still kind of interesting. some people say that there's actually become more of a divide recently that the debate about the differences in eastern west has increased and that it's important to recognize other people would say that with time, these things should of should have lessened by now while ever set for my generations, east and west, something it's still an issue isn't going to remain an issue. now it's, it's gotta become something which is a global issue. it's going to be between that up and down. it's going to be between like wealthy and, and, and i was not, yeah, ah, i had been a, grew up in east germany for her divisions and challenges remain when it comes to east and west. she shows us a picture of her 1st ever trip to the west, and once the war came down,

she's written a book about the generation that grew up under those changes and challenges. her generation history always ended in 1989 with the people dancing on the wall and everyone is happy and then sort of unification. germany, boom, powerful country and that. but for us like the east germans, the 90s were still completely different than for the west germans, for the west, germans, everything continued as normal. that country just gotten a bit bigger. they had maybe more but unities to buy property or had new jobs. but for us, everything was upside down. one of the issues the day still that you feel people have issues with being from east germany having been from east germany. and do people still talk in the form of eastern watch? yeah, totally. i would say even more than ever, and i notice it in myself. i never, i never wanted to be in the room and i just wanted to be a german. the meaning of the word has changed because you get stereotyped so much.

it's germany, it's german. so you do that where your parents at this does he like to see for police or did you have enough to eat all these sort of stereotypes from the, from the ninety's have changed. they're not there, they're not so crude anymore. the stereotype says little bit more elaborate, maybe i would say like you always in a position to explain yourself and to justify yourself. because for me, because you're from these as a revolved, but i've often osland printed on a phone. so i was so minute i've, unless bunch of friends around in the that's pretty minor. one particular what happened here, just over 30 years ago, this is significant. and exactly, so people were rushing to the border crossing like was in berlin like what was one of them. and they were just sending that sort of quietly and demanding to be left

for because this is for the conference. they said now as immediately like they were waiting, waiting and inside the authorities to policemen, the soldiers, they were like super nervous and not really knowing what was going on or what, what they should do. and they couldn't reach any of the bosses. so like around 930, i think they made this decision by themselves more or less to open the bridge and people were flying over into the district of, of wedding to, to start to try to show you. i don't know. it's like, it's like a really big event and i'm really happy about that that, that happened. and that was part of my, my time. so the people made it happen. you know, piece would be like, not a single shot with hire. it's a big thing. you know, saw

a job and we didn't have too many people. revolutions off on friday and i remember my parents being very excited of the so called not the unification, but like something different. and i know it was in minority like people in the info just for safety, the noise mark the unification. but not everyone was like that. and that was the cause then said when there was this election in march, it was decided that would be a relatively quick unification. not as quick as it then happened. brutal. yeah. it felt like it felt like a brutal stop. because then suddenly it was like clear that everything would be taken over from the, from, from west germany and nothing from the judea was kept. and then with an idea in 1990 basically everything she and she'll even basic things like when they,

when the dodge mark arrives everything the supermarkets change, you can find any, any product from the past any more. and not that you one love these old products so much, but it was like a sort of like everything that was home suddenly changed. and in my school, the teachers disappeared because they started checkups and suddenly a while and knowing the legacy remain strong. the says in the legacy, even after 30 is remains very strong. now, you know, even now with this, this is also being being used to drive a competitive one could say, i mean, well, well, if you are an east german and you like want to have like a powerful position. also, you being checked, you know, there's a whole sort of chain of journalists who just sort of asked for files if there's anything you know, and the starting on the sogba file on the cell phone or in the 1st anything or is already enough to have like to cost the doubt to know that you were sort of like

a super mater also. and then you know, your, your korea can be ruined. i mean, so many people's career have been burned in the ninety's, and i'm not, i'm not sort of justifying what the study did. i mean, not at all. i mean people who were and so on this and did time, other people of color they shouldn't be in public position so so, but to do is also completely mean the whole system this dies inform those when the bad guy not just singularly the bad guys. i mean, who were the people behind them? i mean, then the party. oh, so the whole, the whole functionary lead and they weren't prosecuted. but if you were lucky enough to had like sort of in your eighty's when you were 20, a couple of checks with the wrong person, this could destroy your career now. so what do you want your children? i suppose when they're older, to remember and to take away from this and maybe to teach their children. this is a 1st generation i think what the use to west conflict won't be so prevalent

anymore. i mean, when i was growing up, they thought that my generation wouldn't be a topic anymore, but that was wrong to take much, much longer. but i want them to know, you know, that already now in kindergarten and it's just a little bit that they get this. yeah, that sort of east germany. the g d was this sort of prison stayed basically. and the life was horrible. and i, i just want them to differentiate between the state and the private lives and just sort of tell them that, you know, it was like much more complicated on a day to day, day to day basis. and it's also something to be, to be proud of this project legacy. ah, do you think your children will be affected still by the east west narrative? i think it needs to be there for them,

but already now i see unlike people who are like young like sort of like 30, maybe for them the concession emotional thing anymore. it's not sort of they don't have the feeling to justify thing. so to they don't have her maybe, ah, an emotional legacy that takes more than the pulling down of a wall to healed. but berlin is moving forward. how did the demolition of the wall affect the infrastructure and the development of the city? let's say from, from then until now to where we are now. much of it actually has been become an opportunity for development of holding which at the moment of awful folly needed. this is also a question of justification again, because these new buildings are very comparatively expensive. and that also means again, influx off new comers. so can afford the apartments to buy to own

brothers, to be also beautiful apartment here or building a completely different rent level. and all these words are clashing and that's why i see the gravity here, you know. so look at that, that may be also just tagging, right, but also a statement of lead us as soon as the facade is newly painted, put the graph t on top, because that might keep the ramp down a bit longer. you know, let's, let's resist a bit. and the resistance against the cation is now everywhere in the city where the influx of money meets, or it's in grown communities for, that's the same case. and for the fine, which was east in quite back, which is west. i'm so that way, if you read this against, against the change on the money but, but again, i want to also say that in principle,

this is not the bad thing because of course we want the 50 to become nice. so we want you talk to be fine and the city wants to collect more texas or maybe built more public transport. so all the things in principle are good. but what needs to happen is that the citizens in this neighborhood protect it from the negative effects of that so that they do not get pushed out or that they can still buy it if possible, to balance that. and i think that needs a careful balance between yes, that's free markets building new apartments also for the people are more money. why not? but at the same time, the people who have always been here to balance that and also to regulate that the change of at least don't happen too quickly and that no one is left behind. i think that's the important. thank you. a lot of your life here. you went to universe here

you parties. you went into this quite serious thing. re now you're helping plan the city. moving ahead like how do you feel about the changes and where the city is today? and in general, i feel good about it because yeah, i have enough out your tool and i miss some of the old pioneer dentist. open creativity and and therefore the ability also. but at the same time, look, i don't know, we have a much better choice of reference now. very much more international. we hear all kinds of language. and i think, and i hope that that makes specific just richer. why not as a reference to miss lee and stuff along? i don't i still, dan, you know, it's just, there's space for both. i think, i think for me

ah, when the freedom of the press is under threat. you know, you just because i thought genuinely about your thoughts towards the making government step outside the mainstream. the has been a implement here just some of access ports, the introduction shift, the focus, the panoramic that's turned out to be a handy little prefect of the prime minister to clamp down on the press covering the waves. the news is covered for listening post on a just a new generation of young people are more politically engaged than the one that came before. welcome to generation change a global feeling that attempts to challenge and understand the ideas that mobilize

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