and since that will fall and nine hundred eighty nine even more musicians authors filmmakers etc have made their way here but is the rush over this balance still a mecca for the arts but it's all subject to day. so has become too expensive and too cool but is struggling office of lost the studios all rehearsal rooms to soaring rents or credit tree developers here's a clip from a documentary about two artists who left but eventually return. to pitch otto is a multimedia artist from the united states her husband alexander is best known as the basis for the band i'm still tonight out this film shows how they came to a point where they felt they couldn't breathe and brylin anymore. well then we blew out how wolves by giving up our house.

we left berlin back then because in two thousand and ten barely had arrived at a point in its development that was absolutely not can jussi to being an independent artist. so they packed everything up and tried to make their dream a reality some place else. like great is showing what we are like nomads they first headed to mexico then to new york and finally to prague they found more on their journey than just the individual places . but nowhere was like berlin. in twenty eighteen they returned to their big. love and city intending to open

a center for artists and musicians but why are. these men islands that everyone says that buying something in berlin or doing something is impossible ok but impossible is a word i will not accept. the documentary tom fed no or a dream catchers is about a couple who went away and came back having concluded that there is no place better than berlin. my guest is a legend of the underground music scene here in berlin but originally from manchester in england reader is a musician a record producer a filmmaker who amongst many other things organized the first of a punk rock concert behind the ball in east berlin i think got away with it he's now for forty years have yeah how here's the big question mark how's it changed in those forty years it's become more colorful perhaps i think you know but berlin the eighty's was very grey very bold it whittles and very desperate berlin now we some

more accessible place i think he said more expensive place of course but it's accessible and the fall of the wool did that alter things a great deal as well not immediately but obviously you know with the lights off the sea is lights of course it's a very different place barely which i quite live because it's you know i've moved into a new city without having to do the move. and what about alternative culture that your particular involving. is it still the best place to be like it was well i think it is you know i mean i don't think anything's really changed on that front really you know it's still a place that truck. from all over the world which you know in the past of a very few once the wall came down people realized the potential of the city for you know it was very very cheap back then. but in in-vitro compared say to paris

all alone dunno america you know like new york or san francisco berlin still really a cheap place to live is still an affordable place to live even though the reds have got up skyline. even though the berlin has complained about it or all when you're used to living in a place that cost like eighty knocks which is like forty or else. and then your rent goes out four hundred then you're going to complain exactly now gentrification is a dirty word for a struggling artist so let's see how the burnin boom in recent years has affected the. famous architect designing flashy new buildings and luxury lofts and condos sprouting up everywhere burnings fabled venues of fast disappearing. culture is losing ground to capital its most prominent victim tantalus the subcultural center of the ninety's and early two thousand right in the heart of pearl and.

after a long battle tackle is finally closed in twenty twelve. ounces workshops are being edged out all over ballin most recently here in paris are. over three hundred fifty studios disappear each year due to rising rents. in the district of bedding is one of the last big studio spaces in the center of the land they have also been sold to an investor so far artists have been paying a renter three to seven euros per square meter they couldn't afford. more ninety percent of them living on the breadline as it is doing odd jobs living. almost thirty years ago creative spirits were the first to take advantage of the historic changes in occupying on the used spaces and opening clubs it was then the berlin gained its reputation as a club as paradise party goes from all over the world still come here in droves and

back kind remains legendary but many of burnham's one hundred forty camps have had to close down in the great sun off continues. so that's what's happening today before we talk about it more let's have a quick look at some of my readers favorite homes in the old. but. the. evening. news. we're standing here. behind me is the legendary thirty six cloak which was the place where i first played the game in the back and i had no idea what was going to do and a friend of mine he called me just to see if i wanted to go out for

a drink and i said so. you can you see any way strange you. know what really it was wednesday would be called by a journalist the company and then there would be kate scholl to the studio the council which actually means the. i'm standing in front of the mind the house of the. vocals which is in east berlin the totem poles and. from us germany played the first king by a well. and creepier in the east village in one thousand nine hundred two but this is the only place in on a little tour as hasn't changed at all. this is the chance. all this is the place to which used to be such as. fortunately tore

it down a couple of years in this area anything goes you know there is there are no rules no regulations there's no problem see in the early ninety's it was a very unique club with a really really great place to go out to and there's nothing going to be like ever again. reco producer musician is mardi gras dancers or less now are concerned about straying. quite frankly my question is could you do it today to get me a gig next wednesday like from of the not know why. things have become a bit a little bit more regimented i think there are possibilities not buildings completely strangled itself you know it's not there are places you can go and berlin still got a lot of opportunities you know there's a lot of places where you could do things i find the fact that you know people come and take over certain properties and turn into flotsam things they forget the reason why people come to berlin in the first place they might just come on

a whim because they've heard about it they might want to go out to one of the club scene here and they experience a city but she's very culturally very vibrant and very relaxing in comparison to say some a lot longer do you think it's going to last i mean balance being cool for ages is a trucks always the same kind of people you know i saw i find met so many people in the meantime who've moved to berlin and and it's not just you don't spend the entire life a lot of you know money you can pay for a few years maybe and just experiencing the whole fine tunes you into so in some way and. you can gain certain experiences from being here and the way berlin kind of like presents itself on the club scene and music scene i'm not saying for that matter it creates a certain sort of light in the level of you know attainment you have to achieve right and then and then you can take that and go elsewhere ok now many people and by the now you through the film be movie n.s.a.

and movie folder about your life is over short look. in one nine hundred seventy eight mark reader worked in a manchester record store selling punk music. but it was german bands like cut back and tangerine dream that really appealed to him. so he headed off to west berlin the city with the wall the city that never sleeps. he lived in a squat where he paid no rent and witnessed the first street riots sparked by housing issues back then the problem in berlin wasn't luxury renovations but no renovations at all but the result was the same as now the demand for affordable apartments was greater than the supply. was the movie shows

historical documentary material supplemented by newly shot scenes made to look like the early one nine hundred eighty s. . mark reader watched the rise of famous german bands he later played in his own promising band but major success eluded them. you. see. the film ends with the fall of the berlin wall and the growing techno see new music a new opportunity new bands new parties new drugs a new era. and a new company that you create at the time you've recently revived it because you've been to china about a chinese band yeah baby moved to china just two months or a china i went to a festival saw this beyond the call stolen and i thought limited guilt they would be different and this kind of psychedelic techno rock music and decided ok i've worked with these guys i'm doing record with in the studio so i could psych

psychedelic techno wrote we're look out for the thanks very much you got it with us today i'm not so for this time on time forget website didn't you don't comb slash culture for more i'll leave you with pictures from the bubbling cultural scene back in the day because of a nap but we're still a bit crazy and thankfully authors do still flow here. you.

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