ANOTHER BERLIN

Podcast
: katarina petrović w/
cody swanson
| y 2020

 

Listen to this episode from Another Berlin on Spotify. In this episode we start in the 1960s. Berlin was the center of a rising youth and protest culture and as the 70s began, a failed urban renewal policy stripped the city and provided the perfect environment for the start of what we consider to be the modern squatting movement in Berlin.

Listen to this episode from Another Berlin on Spotify. This episode we travel to East Berlin right after the fall of the Berlin wall. It was in this "vacuum period", lasting less than one year, where the second wave of squatting came, and then went. But don't let the short timeframe deceive you.

 

Listen to this episode from Another Berlin on Spotify. In this episode we take a moment to talk more about how a squat is, well, squatted and the everyday life of living in one. We also look into the reasons why so many were, and still are, attracted to this type of living and the lessons that can be learned for society in general.

 

Listen to this episode from Another Berlin on Spotify. For the final episode of this mini-series, the question we attempt to answer is - Can squatting still make a difference in Berlin today? In search of answers we visited the only living Berlin squat at the time, in Kreuzberg.