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

a 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. france 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 barriers 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 problem is on a 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 19 eighties, 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 and his daughter said he did it a bit grants and up to them, and nathan taught them to invite off and the rest, they say is history. i'm stephanie decker. and welcome to berlin. when the boarders open the presents of 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. it's 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 cities. it is today. forever marked by the crashing dogmas, east and west, ah, represented in every neighbourhood 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 in the field will be exploring berlin identity will be joined by berliners to discuss the cities and his status quo legacy. and how much reflected what many consider to be euro unapologetically rebel capital

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

there was of course, also a boom expect investment for there was a lot of buying of property. and trying to figure out who actually own something at the time. because even that was unclear on the 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, you come in to use the best clots 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. i think that made the for the very interesting, even though that was not planned. it just happened to me because it's organic. we are plan of year, we are plan of yet that the same time. that's exactly what you want to know and exciting plays with freedom. that freedom over the decades is attracted artist 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. she had a huge industrial sites that you could work on without problems. so i think there is a lot of fear that get attracted by this freedom in the ninety's, also graffiti writers and then 2000 and 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 street artist passing by. so it's street our tourism, or graffiti tourism because the graffiti right, it's new, 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 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 can, 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 the changing. first of all, the tough took a longer, so the boom that initially didn't happen happened later and delayed for some

european larger companies put their headquarters in berlin. moved here from frankford or even from london. they recently, of course, over the breakfast, play the throne bucket. maybe even more interestingly, is that to be freedom and creativity was so interesting that that became an attractive by its own company. if people thought out that environment, even if maybe they themselves and artists, they wanted to be close to them. you know, thought that we were the 1st pioneers and then a bit more mainstream followed. and let's not forget that also 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 started 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 generalize or against rules, they don't want more expensive runs 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, the events that 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, and the ex 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 a 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 the light of the bulk of the 3 lamp on the pattern of the sidewalk, whether you are in the east, on the west. also importantly, there is a kind of heritage which is more on the society and not for much in the built environment for that. they are still thing for clichy, if which are typically eve, typically west. but maybe if you're new, come to the 50. you don't notice them, and that's possibly a good thing. you know, that the difference was disappear. ah,

it's been over 30 years since the fall of the war. i wanted to understand, does east and west remain and 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 one, sometimes i like travelling around with people and the 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 decade. 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 they are 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 is actually open. i actually live back in the back in the days and 89. i used to live in bedding, which was quite the area where both on the walk and 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 or 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 increase and that it's important to recognize other people would say that with time, these things should of should have lessened by now. well, as i said, for my generation that use and with something it's still an issue isn't going to remain an issue. now it's, it's got to 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, 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 wolf came down,

she's written a book about the generation that grew up under those changes and challenges her generation. the 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 cat 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, germany, 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, they're, 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 because you're from the revolved, but i've often also printed on a phone, so i will sit so minute i've unless one's a 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 crossings like was in berlin like what was, this was one of them. and they were just sending that sort of quietly and demanding

to be let through because this is for the conference. they said now 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 should, 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 western district of, of wedding to start to cry. i don't know. it's like, it's like a really big event and i'm really happy about that said that happened. and that was part of my my time the people made this happen. you know, piece will be like not a single shot with hired. it's a big thing, you know, saw

a german where didn't have to many people. revolutions off on friday that day. 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 and like people in the info, just board safety the noise mark the unification. but not everyone was like that. and that was of course then said when there was a selection in march, it was decided that would be a relatively quick unification. not as quick as it then happened. brutal. yeah, i felt like i 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 g d i was kept. and then with an idea in 1990, basically everything change, you know, even basic things like when the,

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 the old product 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 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, of the starting on the sogba file on the cell phone or in the 1st anything or it's already enough to have like to cost the doubt to know that you were sort of like

a super mato 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 come other people. of course they shouldn't be in public position so, so, but to do is also completely mean the whole system this die, the inform, those weren't the bad guy not just singularly the best guess. i mean, who were the people behind them? i mean, then the party also and the whole the whole functionary lead and they weren't prosecuted. but if you were lucky enough to have 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 it's just a little bit that they get this. yeah, the sort of east germany, the g d was this sort of prison said 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 much more complicated on a day to day to day basis. and it's also something to be, to be proud of this sort of democrat, your legacy. ah, do you think your children will be affected still by the east west narrative? i think it will still be there for them,

but already now i see unlike people who are like young like sort of like 30, maybe for them concession, emotional thing anymore. it's not sort of, they don't have the feeling to justify certain things. so too, they don't have to tug maybe an emotional legacy that takes more than the pulling down of a wall to heal. 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 the 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 awful, beautiful apartment here or building

a completely different rent level and all the fluids are clashing. and that's why i see the gravity here, you know, so look at that. that was maybe 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 i 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 in quite back, which is west. i'm so that way if you, if you read this against my, against the change on the mummy but, but again, i want to also say that in principle, this is not

a 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 these 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. but it is possible to balance that, and i think that needs a careful balance between yes, that's free markets building your power and 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 there with 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, know, very much more international. we hear all kinds of language. and i think and i hope that that makes the city just richer. why not has to miss lee and stuff along us to do nice, still, dan, you know, it's just their space for both. so i think that's me

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