to make -- [ laughter ] it is a good thing for us, you know? >> anthony: in the end, it all comes back to the godfather. we go up this beautiful mou mountain. it is an incredible town. it goes back to the 12th century. there are few places on earth more beautiful. but here we are sitting in one of the -- was like a godfather themepark. >> oh, look at the michael corleone married there. >> with the godfather t-shirt. oh, my god. why people get stuck on this, i don't know shooter, is this big sense of -- >> anthony: michael hoecht many options. he destroyed his family. everything he touched. >> in a way, it is fair. >> anthony: it is fair. >> love. >> anthony: he did not -- no.

>> no. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ >> anthony: 25 years later after the wall fell, what remains is obligated and unfinished. complicated by history and counter history, urban fabric and attempts to reorder it. berlin fascinates me. the people continues to be drawn to its darkness and its light. ♪ ♪ beautiful world ♪

♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ something good ♪ ♪ beautiful world. ♪ >> anthony: berlin is never berlin. they say. pounded into rubble by allied bombs and russian artillery in world war ii, surrounded then hacked into during the cold war, then reunited and reborn, berlin is a city of ghosts. and ever evolving space where

memories and new ideas live side-by-side. ♪ in between and after the wars, berlin has always been a play's refined what you want but what you think you need, what you can get back home. replace where that is' could come true. it is all here if you know where to look. it is no coincidence that it is a natural progression that berlin's nightlife of axis -- is excessive, completely and proudly in inhibitive and never ending. there are clubs for everybody and many are friendly towards whatever your personal lifestyle choice is. club culture is the part of

berliners that crossed millions of thrill seekers from all over the world. it is notoriously difficult to navigate, however. finding the right place with the right mix that will actually let you in the door, be a challenge. who decides who gets in cubes each place with its own personal nonjudgmental balance or people like frank. for 25 years, he has been the gatekeeper and bouncer at some of berlin. you were described as a legendary doorman. owner? >> the last three years, i owned the club. >> anthony: a professional partier in berlin? what time do they show up at the

club? >> 6:00 in the morning. >> anthony: no way. so you arrive at 6:00 a.m. >> they go from 7:00 in the evening to monday morning. so people go there normally sunday morning and then they dance sunday the whole day and the whole night and then go home monday morning. >> anthony: you are talking 24 hours. >> 36 hours. >> anthony: 36 hours. what are you doing for 36 hours? >> dancing, talking, chilling, hugging, or whatever. >> anthony: i don't want to do any of those things for 36 hours personally. [ laughter ] [ speaking german ] >> i have to begin, sorry. >> anthony: beautiful. as a large man with a physically challenging job, frank likes meat. as i do. so al a long establish good --

butcher shop is just what the both of us need. schnitzel with murky delicious brown gravy and roulette which i gather is german for meatballs is a working class food one wants and needs. so what attracted you to this business? >> in tonight, i always was attracted to the night. i think people people in the night when they are on alcohol or drugs, they open their mind. also because it is dark, they are more free in their mind. i found that interesting. >> anthony: berlin is world famous for its club scene. why here? >> i think because we are the last liberal city, green liberal, you know?

people can afford being here. it is cheaper to drink. it is cheap to live. it is cheap to eat and people come in because of the freedom to party and to get wasted as hard as possible. >> anthony: how about the police and the government at this time? you got thousands of people taking ecstasy and dancing all night to 11:00. >> i think the government knows. i know policeman and they know about, like, people who do drugs and they come to our clubs and do drugs by themselves or not or they drink. and they accept and everybody is cool. berlin is a party city. it is no real industry besides a party industry and so somebody tourists come only because of that, from spain, from italy, from russia, from the uk, to get totally lost and totally wasted but none in a bad way. just like in a buddhist takeaway. it is like in the moment, you get lost. you can't find yourself. i think what does that is what success is about.

>> anthony: come to berlin to get high and party. [laughs] ♪ >> anthony: the wall. an absurd tragic almost metaphoric but all too real expression of humanity's failure and depravity. 96-mile stretch of concrete and razor wire cut berlin into an eyelid of capitalistic west and great soul crushing repressive communist east. they keep a few trunks of it around. a reminder of terror, of crimes, or simply to taking selfies in front of. every day, fewer and fewer remember that the world almost ended right here.

even as the wall fell, techno music seem to express something that needed to be expressed. dance music and ecstasy in mammoth nightclubs exploded across the united berlin. during that time, djs like alan alien pioneers pioneers of a new sound and a new gene generation. east and west, a unified force. >> this is my favorite food. >> anthony: this is good. >> this is apple. >> anthony: lunch at a joint.

sausage of chicken. 's feet with smoked mashed potatoes and apple. we've shoulder raised and served with vegetables, potatoes, horseradish and god help me k kale. when did the wall come down? >> it was 1989. >> anthony: so it started in 18 it does 1989. >> everything started in 1989. it was based in the west side where the first techno club o open. i came down and everything came to the east because there was space and a lot of industrial places and its music was a meeting point of the east and west and meeting point of young people trying to move together and just happened in the club. and the wall came down, all of our music came together. it is in our blood. that is what it is so strong for me. so being a dj, the title was a very strong impact for my soul.

♪ >> anthony: over time, so many artists, musicians, writers, from elsewhere come to berlin. it has always been sort of a magnet for artists. for a lot of reasons. why do you think here of all places would be so welcoming and attractive to creative people? >> i think after the second war, everything was burst here. there was nothing. only broken stones. everything was gone. all the history. so people started building up the new berlin or whatever and during that process. and when you come here, you have the feeling that you have to

help. to build something here. i'm a part of it. when i go to the pairs, i'm not thinking i'm in pairs because there's so much history. >> anthony: right. >> i think the history. everything you can touch is the open air and here, you have the feeling you build something. i think that is why so many people come here. what i'm here, i start. because it is something to me. it is a quiet city but something humbling, you know? something that you have the feeling you want to be a part of. and i think that is why many people come here. >> anthony: there is no past. there's no -- only a future in a sense. you can create your own world here. >> yeah. exactly. yep. you're a night manager and mom, and the bill payer, baker, and nightlight maker?

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>> when i was a teenager, the real [indistinct]. they were already like, snow, snow, no. hi, this is anton. i'm going to tell you about what i did to make dinner. i used two legs of lamp. i washed them first. and i laid them down on the cutting board and staff to them. -- stabbed them. and i sliced cloves of garlic into small slivers. and i inserted those into the bowls. and i rub the lamb with olive oil. and i covered it in sea salt and black pepper and i sliced

potatoes and parsnips and carrots and a little bit of onions. inside a glass dish and i stacked those in the oven and got them very hard for a second. and then i turned it all the way down to about 25. and i let it go. >> anthony: anton newcombe is a legend. a true believer, the man behind the ever-changing entity known as the brian jonestown massacre, which is w -- was always basicay him. seen by many is the most promising musical force since bob dylan. he had a notorious correlation of self sabotage and sheer determination to do his own thing. his own way. completely independent of an industry he loathed.

♪ anton, who comes from southern california, has made berlin his home. his refuge. >> we're going to do 146. half of this is going to be two. like that. i love to see that. we are not going to change it. ♪ >> anthony: music, pains, and cooks in his studio. still tours to sold out shows, collaborates with other artists and continues to create and record incredible music his own way always. zero compromise. he is not just one of the most prolific recording artists in history but an excellent and enthusiastic cook, frequently combining both callings at the same time. >> this has to come out.

it is cooking from almost 1:00 to 6:00 maybe. i also made sweet potatoes and i got to stop those and wrap them in foil. and i covered the bottom of the oven with oil. because they tend to leak sugar. it is very hard to clean that stuff and that is what they do. ♪ i mashed potatoes very simply. [indistinct] >> good stuff. ♪ >> i think that is the basic stuff that we conduct. right there.

and with the lamb, it turned out good. so there you go. ♪ >> anthony: today, and has basically prepared a delicious feast for a large group of friends and wrote, composed, and recorded some new songs. it is entirely likely that he believed the record in the following days. for a guy with a reputation for being, let's say, difficult, by the way, he was with us always lovely. fine, indulgent, the host with the most, and he made a really good dinner. incredible soup. a mind-boggling array of side dishes, serious cooking chops. ♪ >> anthony: you have been edward you have been someone everyone wanted. you had a lot of people that a lot of people -- your and for.

of order. >> music is a puzzle to me because i'm self-taught. i basically have to teach myself every idea that is going to my mind and then going really quick. so it is like a race to accomplish it. >> anthony: what is your turnaround time because it is legendary between recording and releasing. >> we would be making a song a day in between cooking and able to record with her. are constantly challenged myself and i want my nice to have a certain amount of energy because i'm 50 and i want to prove to the people that it is irrelevant how old you are. i just enjoy playing music. when i'm 50 years old and playing music. you know what i mean? i just want to remind people that they can do what they wanted to do and i'm going to go ahead and do what i want to do.

meanwhile, i would love to -- the one thing that i can accomplish in my left was just to remind people that it is a possibility they could do what they want to do, that they want to do it. [laughs] >> anthony: did i hear you've make schnapps? >> i always got it going on. it is good. they have their own -- >> here. >> anthony: a nice. it is beautiful. >> everyone makes their own little. every area has their own types. there's a million little types, so this is ours. ♪ >> thank you. >> it will put hair on your chest, son. look everybody in the eye. you got to go so. >> wow. >> okay? [ laughter ] >> ready, here we go. ready? here we go. say it.

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>> anthony: people talk nostalgically about paris and the '20s, the flapper era in the states. but there was really no place like berlin at that time. we vividly recall with over the lives of national socialism, the nazis, but simultaneously to that, a bubble of creative fervent of x artistic expression, intellectual growth, open tolerance in all things all the constraints of the victorian age seem to be crumbling. for a while. during the era as it is called, people flock to berlin to its cabarets and clubs. its works and what led to the road escape from the hardships of daily life everywhere it seemed. this right alongside the rising tide of evil that would consume

half the world and produce much of it to the ashes. ♪ >> anthony: do you see any parallels between germany and the '20s and where we are today? >> yes. like other people from other countries, i mean, i mean, to germany, they say, oh, everything is so cheap and affordable and you can get anything. anything you want. >> here, it is just to go for it. people still come here just to disappear into the night life and live their fantasies. and it is exactly like in the '20s. it is the same, but just different. >> anthony: brandon nash is a historian who gives walking tours highlighting the areas. a promoter of '20s themed events throughout. le pustra has been called

cabaret's darkest news. he is the creator of a theatrical event that reimagines cabaret culture of the '20s with dark, brooding, sexual undertones. we meet at gross in west berlin. the promised 1920s style classic fair i was in this regard disappointed. the food was excellent, though. germany is cool with you know, coming to a our country to get high and party? [ laughter ] >> germany is berlin. >> anthony: berlin. >> and we say berlin is not a germany. i remember the first time i was in berlin when i was 14 years old. and i remember coming here and having almost physical feeling of freedom, like, i was a goth girl at that time, like, are

starting to only wear black. and when i came to berlin, i was like, yes. here, i can be who i want to be and it almost felt magical. >> yeah. >> anthony: do you think the people who came here from other countries back in the weimar era and now, people are looking for a dark side? do you think? >> with the people looking into things they cannot do, they are looking for things that are forbidden. you told the people who have come and gone crazy. >> it is capturing people's imaginations. people come here in search of the divine decadence and it is here. definitely is. >> anthony: during the weimar years and later just before and after the wall came down, berlin became a refuge for artists, writers, and musicians at a crossroads in their lives. ♪

most notably, in 1976, david bowie came here. >> have a seat. there we go. there we go. >> anthony: jim rakete is celebrated photographer. he began as a photojournalist and in 1976 captured the first moments of david bowie stepping off the train in west berlin. the city he would live and work in it for the next three years. but we was exhausted and burned out and looking for a new way to live and to work. and the music he created during that time was something truly groundbreaking and new. the result was both professional and personal rebirth and some of the most powerful and influential recordings of all time. classics which i would love to play here but cannot afford.

♪ >> he was not a big name at the time but it was a historical point because he to berlin a week after he split with his band. and from l.a., he went to the berlin. and to regenerate from joce sterman l.a. had been really bad. apparently existing only on cartons of milk and cocaine i think. not much out. >> yeah. >> anthony: given a chance to clean up. and a really bad place. and yet the music that he made here was very different than anything he had done before. anything he found for him that was good for him? >> he lived a pretty low-profile wife in berlin, i have to say that. he could be anonymous here like everyone -- but nobody talk to him. that is a big advantage. and a funny thing is, we have

that sort of visionary pregnancy that you say something is going to come, something is going to fall from this guy. it does. >> anthony: back in the early '70s when david bowie a rough, a lot of people -- was surrounded, i mean, essentially an island during much of that period. >> yes. >> anthony: outside of whatever but we was doing, what was it like in west berlin at that time? >> it was like pressure cooking. it was like pressure cooking. west berlin was surrounded by the wall and there were just three roads leading to west berlin and the -- they were controlled by the russians, basically. >> anthony: so why would a wall city sorted by hostile forces be such a hot house for art, music

and free expression? >> was berlin was always very international. we had people who were flying in from all walks of life, artists from all genres were here and we were surrounded by east. the wall was a solid resistance and you need a strong enemy to build a stronger muscles and people who were living here had to improvise a lot. >> anthony: what is seen by many as a golden period, the weimar area was in fact music and culture and art in between two really awful events followed by the war time followed by long period berlin was in ruins. when were the good times? >> i have a very complex answer

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>> anthony: sunday afternoon in berlin, the fleamarket is a place where artists and locals alike can find what they want and did not know they needed. >> adidas tracksuit. >> is a good look. frugal shoppers, we have some purchases in mind. >> this is usually where i take a cigarette break. >> anthony: it will help? >> what would you do if you had a five-year-old brain. the synapses are going like -- thank you. we spent one second with the records. >> anthony: oh, hell yeah. >> i'm mainly looking for beetles, mono, anything model from the '60s stuff. i will get two records.

quick enough, right? cool. thank you. if you ask me for the third time where i come from and then remembers that i'm in a band and i lived here for years. it is an interesting guy. tend to mona lok. -- cans to mone a lot. ♪ >> anthony: do you know what you are ordering for dinner? >> i think german food. ♪ >> anthony: thank you. i'm assuming that most days, you are working in the studio?

do you take days off? >> yeah, are like to create every day. sometimes i'm just too tired. that is why my studios are set up like a house, so i can lay on the couch and listen to music. the type of music i listen to is exactly the same endlessly. so that month becomes like a day and my sleep becomes like a nap. i just picked it off where i left off. so i can think on ideas on the back burner of my mind for weeks, you know. it is like what they would call out of the generation. you give yourself going, you know? >> anthony: thank you. super. i love this. this is what i come for germany for. >> it is the real deal. >> anthony: pork knuckle or more

accurately a big freaking shank. it is crispy. it is cured then boiled with spices until tender and fallen off the bone. usually served with sauerkraut and potatoes. schnitzel pounded breaded and deep-fried served with brown potatoes and cream mushrooms. what do people like here? i mean, do you even know? >> well, you know, it goes from cheesy to garage. people like techno. it is known for techno. real ethnic sing along, get drunk songs. >> anthony: do you play locally? >> no. >> anthony: because you live and work here and record here. >> i'm not interested in it too

much. because i have nothing to prove. i have been playing since i was 11 years old. >> anthony: do you think you have any responsibility as a musician of the then to make the best you got? >> i have a self set goals. i believe it is the duty of older people to hold the torch so somebody gets it and then even older people can look and go, awesome. they are following down the road. so that means an older rider can go, okay, all is not lost. it did not end in the '60s. here is this young guy who is 50. but it is my responsibility to hold that torch for other people who are younger than me down the road and even for the squares to leave just this tangled mess of your art and ideas and figure it out. don't spell it out. you know? but i love it up here. i think it is okay because people -- and you can be invisible. >> anthony: that must be nice.

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restaurant. the question of the day being, what german wines pair best with the utilitarian treat? right pork sausage smothered in catch-up with a dusting of curry power. how did this become a beloved dish? i have no idea. >> a lot of flavor. it is a spicy. it has solved. it is roasted. you have fries. >> anthony: i understand why people eat it. alcohol. >> yes. [ laughter ] but at the end, it is a very cheap thing, you know? you get two sausage with fries. with a beer. 10 euro. >> anthony: it is like a quick lunch. >> yes. >> anthony: what one would you suggest with this? >> we should try that. there's a place in berlin where there's champagne.

>> really? >> yeah, champagne really works, obviously. >> anthony: i like this. it is a good match. cool place where you can come and see movies like this. the film premiered in berlin in 1927 presenting troubling issues of its time and it turns out hours, corporate greed, political corruption, social inequality, and in the figure, the dangerous and powerful role the individual activist an impressive culture. she is a little cross side. >> yeah, but is sexy you know? [ laughter ] >> anthony: here we go. classic german food. and huge. >> yeah. you eat one. you know? >> anthony: i'm like, god, enormous. , bob was introduced in berlin by turkish immigrants.

>> at the end, it is something which is in every culture. you have something grain outside, bread and then something. you have salad with it. you have, spicy sauce and chili. and you are going to find it in all kinds of dishes. we should maybe try the red and see what it does. >> anthony: this is awesome classic food. it is greasy. it is messy. it is wet. it is crispy. it has got it all. >> and it is very easy to be done vegetarian. >> anthony: i need the beast. that meatloaf they put together, i don't know how they make it or whatever the hell it is. i don't care what it is. it is meat. i don't want grass fed colorado or australia lamp on my darn

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side. but you knew this. you don't have to look too hard. but renowned photographer has been looking with a fixed gaze on people in the margins for decade. -- decades. ♪ for over 40 years, he has worked diligently to capture at the world's darker shades. its most marginalized people, the outsiders, the transg transgressive, the forgotten, the desperate and depraved. always in a nonjudgmental, unblinking way. these are some of the shots we could put on tv. many we can't. i urge you to find them. ♪ a lot of hustlers, dope addicts,

prostitutes. how did you approach your subjects? do you establish a relationship? >> it is dependent on the situation. somewhere. others were exhibitionists. they had fights. but most of the time, i did not have any problems because of the situations. i better retreat or i get my ass kicked. an idea of how far you go. >> anthony: in recent years, he has been making films as well. shooting in abandoned spaces, so putting all of his taboo, all that is wrong, all that is right about berlin. with an unflinching gaze at a genuine affection for his subjects and characters.

berlin has a reputation as a place you can come and be anything you want to, behave pretty much as you want and nobody is going to ask. is that true, do you think? and why? >> endemic art is still possible. it is really important. you can create here independently affording your little space and to what the [bleep] you want to do. it is still the cheapest and more affordable. maybe you don't get anywhere. maybe you don't make much money. you can age-friendly. no artist in new york city or paris or london can do this. >> anthony: you can't even rent a space? >> no. really if you really establish artists, you can live in this place. you can come to berlin and you can have maybe a little show in a basement or sellout and at least it is a start and it is -- this is good and this is really good about berlin.

♪ ♪ >> anthony: echoes of lives lived, lives lost. no other city has been repeatedly so powerful than fallen so low. few other cities have been so shaken by individual imaginations either brilliantly creative or unspeakably evil. start again, start again. looked back at the past, never forget it. like an irish playwright said, you must go on. i can't go on. i will go on.

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