back of the office but it's all subjective. so as brolin become too expensive and too cool but is struggling office of lost the studios all rehearsal rooms to soaring rents credit tree developers here's a clip from a documentary about two artists who left but eventually return. the other depict choctaw is a multimedia artist from the united states her husband alexander is best known as the basis for the band i'm stoked and annoyed about this film shows how they came to a point where they felt they couldn't breathe and brylin anymore. well then we blew out our walls by giving up our house. because and. we left berlin back then because in twenty ten beilin had arrived at a point in its development that was absolutely not conducive to being an

independent artist. so they packed everything up and tried to make their dream a reality someplace else. like great is showing what we are like nomads they first headed to mexico then to new york then 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 beloved city intending to open a center for artists and musicians but wire. which meant i lose 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 felt no more 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 mark reader is a musician a record producer a filmmaker who amongst many other things organized the first of a punk rock concert behind the bowling ball in east berlin i think got away with it he's now forty years of. how here's the big question mark how's it changed in those forty years it's become more colorful. i think you know but in the eighty's was very gray and very bold it riddles and very desperate and burly now always a more accessible place i think he said more expensive place of course but it's

accessible and the fall of the wall 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 berlin 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 we were very few once the wall came down people realized the potential of the city is 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 something cisco 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 bourbon has complained about his or all when you're used to living in a place that cost like eighty knocks which is like forty or so. and then your rent goes up so at four hundred then you're going to complain exactly right now gentrification is a dirty word for struggling after so let's see how the burden 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 pcaob cultural center of the ninety's and early two thousand right in the heart of berlin . after a long battle tacklers finally closed in twenty twelve. ounces workshops are being edged out all over ballin most recently here in paris sodden stars are over three

hundred fifty studios disappear each year due to rising rents. in the district of vetting 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. because 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 a balance one hundred forty clubs have had to close down in the great some 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. east. we're standing here quite square. behind me is the legendary thirty six. weeks was the. place where i first played to be in with a bat and i had no idea what was going to and not and a friend of mine allister he called me just to see if i wanted to go out for a drink and i said to. you can you see any way stranger. than what brilliantly next wednesday would be called by

a journalist the accountant and then there was the case chalta to the on the cards in which actually means the. i'm standing in front of the good mind the house of the. in global's which is in east berlin the totem poles and. from us to me played the first game by a while. in preparing these early in one thousand extent well this is the only place in on a little tour as hasn't changed at all. this is that says. all this is the place to which seems to be. fortunately tore it down a couple of years in this area anything goes you know there was there were no rules no regulations you know policing 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 every

day. record producer musician is marg asked as your source now are concerned about straying. quite well my question is could you do it today and get me a gig next wednesday like from all the not know why. things have become a bit a little bit more regimented i think there are possibilities it's not like buildings completely strangled itself you know it's not there are places you can go and berlin is 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 the lane 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 the 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 buildings being cool for ages. attracts the always the same kind of people you know i saw i find 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 you can pay for a few years maybe in just experience if the whole find chines you into some 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 involved and now you through the film be movie n.s.a. and movie fold about your life as of a 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

cuff back and tangerine dream that really appealed to him. so he headed off to west berlin the city with the wall of the city that never sleeps. was he lived in a squat where he paid no rent and witnessed the first street riots sparked by housing issues that then the problem in berlin wasn't much of a 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 so that at the. few. days. 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 say months or china i went to a festival saw this beyond the call stolen and i thought limited guilt they made the difference and this kind of psychedelic techno rock music and i decided ok i'll fit with these guys and do a record for the misuse of psychic psychic psychedelic techno wrote we're look out for the thanks very much you're very with us today i'm not sold for this talk on

constantine forget website didn't you don't come slash culture for more i'll leave you with pictures from the bubbling cultural scene back in the day because even now but we're still a bit crazy and thankfully authors do still flow here. you . see.

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