Berlin's Separation | Kunsthaus Tacheles to be demolished

People living in cities always have a hard time feeling the changes in the city. They are often surprised that the changes will come many years later, some inadvertent morning. When you play basketball, you build a building, and then you realize that the city has changed.

Except for Berlin. Constant change, evolution or degradation, is the inner life of Berlin, if there is a little stagnation, it is not Berlin.

Having been in and out of this city for seven years and seeing Berlin change year after year, I don't know for sure whether she has become more special, or more like a capital of a country, a big city in the world (that is, more ordinary)? More and more people have a "Berlin Dream", but where are the people who originally came here with ideals to open up territory, and are now pushed by more new immigrants? Will Berlin remain the way I knew it? Or is it time I should make way for others waiting to experience life in Berlin?

Forget about the first few years in Berlin, I took my husband who was still my boyfriend in Berlin for the first time to visit Kunsthaus Tacheles, and then wrote this article:

 2012.06.22. Berlin, a sunny day for a walk, the temperature is just right.

Last weekend I went to the Kunsthaus Tacheles in the center of the city, a majestic old building full of graffiti from the corners to the ceiling. Can the building be considered dirty, or is it the illusion of too much graffiti? Just like an apartment with five or six floors, each floor has many rooms. Artists create, explain, buy and sell in it, and probably also live here, because each room shows not only the artists expressing their views on the world through their paintings opinions, and the way of life they advertise or proclaim.

The so-called artistic creation is by no means cheap. Artists painted pale-colored heads on palm-sized corrugated cardboard, with 35 written on the back. My roommate and I boldly asked if it was Euro or CENT? One can imagine the expression on the artist's face, this act of asking for a price can be said to be a complete desecration of the value of the work of art.

In fact, I came here very often during the first year of living in Berlin. This is the only way for the street car M1 to drive from Prenzlauerberg to Mitte. I often get off here for unknown reasons. Since the building is in front of me, there is no reason not to. Go in and have a look. Or, there is also a movie theater in it, unlike ordinary movie theaters where chairs are lined up, sofas of different sizes are randomly placed in the playroom, and when the movie in front is hot, it is easy for someone behind to sit comfortably like a bed. The sofa gets intimate, so every time I watch a movie, I feel the urgency to take a shower. It's hard to figure out what I've just sat on in the dim light.

After moving, this place was far away from my own site, but it became a weekend sightseeing spot. I had to "deliberately" bring my camera to change two buses. The relationship between people and places is really delicate.

To a certain extent, the history of Kunsthaus Tacheles is shady. At the beginning of the 20th century, a department store closed here; after changing hands several times, it became one of the Nazi administrative centers during World War II, and French war criminals were also imprisoned by the way; at the end of the war, The Allied forces bombed Berlin, and this place was unavoidable. After half of it was bombed, in the East German period, the apartment was left hanging there, like the posthumous son of a remarried woman's ex-husband. It was too expensive to keep, but it could not be discarded arbitrarily; After the reunification of the two Germanys, artists in West Germany who could not afford to live in a house rushed to East Berlin to occupy empty houses, and the plot was the king. Since then, the Kunsthaus (House of Art) has become a must-see attraction in Berlin travel books.

Of course, there is often only a thin line between art and paradise, as well as depravity. Kunsthaus Tacheles is located in Oranienburger Straße, which is the most fashionable place in Berlin, where emerging fashion designers from all over Europe show their skills and put on the stage. The galleries are also gathered here; but looking back at the walls on both sides of the street, the scenes of Eastern European prostitutes recruiting customers in the movie are staged with real guns and live ammunition. It is a must-have item for creation, no exception in ancient and modern China and abroad. 

The final question for all vacant home occupations is how will it end? The same goes for Kunsthaus Tacheles. When I first came to Berlin, I heard that the prospect of this graffiti house is not optimistic, but the wonderful thing is that it is the same as when we heard that the Leaning Tower of Pisa will fall and Venice will sink. After the year has passed, although the sound of closure has been heard from time to time, it still stands firm. Of course, the joint signature will continue, and so will the fundraising.
 
However, I wouldn't believe it if the Berlin government was to stand on the bank's side and forcibly demolish or relocate this most Berlin-style art center. After all, the whole Kunsthaus Tacheles is already the last landmark of Berlin's atmosphere unlike other European capitals (and I think all the places used as scenes by Goodbye Lenin are of this kind). 

When I walked into Kunsthaus Tacheles, of course, what I was thinking about had nothing to do with saving and discarding, but every time I saw those artists who woke up after three days, especially some Asian artists (personally I think they should be Japanese), they opened their eyes drowsily. A bottle of beer, sitting in a cluttered pile of desks and chairs, holding a laptop, and of course surfing the Internet—something I didn't have when I first visited, and I always thought to myself, I don't know how they all relate to my hometown. people explain the so-called "artist"? 

Of course, an artist is not an artist if he ends up explaining himself. So I wandered one room after another, and I couldn't get a postcard with the change I had, so I walked into the sunny street angrily, which was actually pretty good.                                                 

One of the sentences "However, if you say that the Berlin government should stand on the bank's side and forcibly demolish or relocate this most Berlin-style art center, I will not believe it if you kill me." Months later, the Berlin government still took tough measures, and the artists here finally gave up their struggle after so many years. After that, they were wandering around in the major markets (and I was surprised that in the past few months after leaving Berlin, there have been more in this city.) many new markets).

Hey, welcome to New Berlin, again.

Note: The original site of the Kunsthaus Tacheles has been wiped out.

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