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- Sprache: Englisch
In this, the first book-length study of the cultural and political geography of squatting in Berlin, Alexander Vasudevan links the everyday practices of squatters in the city to wider and enduring questions about the relationship between space, culture, and protest.
- Focuses on the everyday and makeshift practices of squatters in their attempt to exist beyond dominant power relations and redefine what it means to live in the city
- Offers a fresh critical perspective that builds on recent debates about the “right to the city” and the role of grassroots activism in the making of alternative urbanisms
- Examines the implications of urban squatting for how we think, research and inhabit the city as a site of radical social transformation
- Challenges existing scholarship on the New Left in Germany by developing a critical geographical reading of the anti-authoritarian revolt and the complex geographies of connection and solidarity that emerged in its wake
- Draws on extensive field work conducted in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title page
Series Editors’ Preface
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Introduction: Making Radical Urban Politics
Spatialising the Anti-Authoritarian Revolt
The Squatted City
Towards a Spatial Grammar of Squatting
Chapter Two: Crisis and Critique
The Making of the Tenement City
Tenant Trouble: Rent Strikes in Weimar Berlin
Re-building a Divided City
Re-animating the ‘Housing Question’
Chapter Three: Resistance and Autonomy
‘The Berlin Commune’
Performing the Political
From Protest to Occupation
Spatialising the New Left?
Chapter Four: Antagonism and Repair
“Wir wollen alles und wollen es jetzt”: Re-imagining Protest in 1970s Berlin
From Demolition to Occupation: Squatting the City
Making ‘Free Space’: The Material and Emotional Geographies of Squatting
From Resistance to Pacification: The Decline of the West Berlin Scene
Chapter Five: Separation and Renewal
Schwarzwohnen: An Alternative History of Housing in East Berlin
Occupying a Vacuum: Squatting after the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Postscript
Chapter Six: Capture and Experimentation
Squatting as Art: Performing Architectural Activism in the New Berlin
From Creativity to Experimentation
Reclaiming the Radical City
The Autonomous City?
Chapter Seven: Conclusion: “Der Kampf geht weiter”
References
Archives and Archival Collections
Magazines and Periodicals
Newspapers
Secondary Sources
Index
End User License Agreement
List of Illustrations
Chapter 01
Figure 1.1 Arrest of the journalist Ulrike Meinhof at a protest occupation in the Märkisches Viertel in West Berlin, 1 May 1970 (Klaus Mehner, BerlinPressServices).
Figure 1.2 Map of squatted spaces in West Berlin up to the end of 1981. Map produced by Elaine Watts, University of Nottingham.
Figure 1.3 Map of the second wave of squatting in the former East of Berlin, 1989–1990. Map produced by Elaine Watts, University of Nottingham.
Chapter 02
Figure 2.1 Berlin’s ‘shanty town’. Image in
Die Gartenlaube
by Ludwig Löffler (1819–1876), p. 459.
Figure 2.2 The creative destruction of the Berlin tenement. Kreuzberg in the early 1980s. Skalitzer Straße between Kottbusser Tor and Görlitzer Bahnhof (Manfred Kraft/Umbruch Archiv).
Chapter 03
Figure 3.1 The Georg von Rauch-Haus (photo by author).
Figure 3.2 “The stones that hit your head are from the house you pulled down.” Cover of
Sponti
magazine,
Wir wollen alles
(Nr. 13/14, 1974) documenting the Frankfurter
Häuserkampf
(personal collection, author).
Chapter 04
Figure 4.1 Cover of TUNIX conference flyer, December 1977/January 1978 (personal collection, author).
Figure 4.2 The TUNIX conference in West Berlin, January 1978 (Klaus Mehner, BerlinPressServices).
Figure 4.3 Programme for TUNIX conference,
InfoBUG,
December 1977/January 1978 (personal collection, author).
Figure 4.4 The Fire Station on Reichenberger Straße in Kreuzberg, occupied in Spring 1977, cover of brochure produced in December 1977 (Papiertiger Archiv Berlin).
Figure 4.5 Bürgerinitiative SO36 Flyer announcing the occupation of two squatted apartment blocks in Kreuzberg, reproduced in the
Südost Express
, February 1979 (Papiertiger Archiv Berlin).
Figure 4.6 American soldiers conducting urban military exercises in Kreuzberg.
Südost Express
, December 1979 (Papiertiger Archiv Berlin).
Figure 4.7 Protests in the wake of the eviction of squatters from a house on Fränkelufer 48, Kreuzberg, 12 December 1980 (Michael Kipp/Umbruch Archiv).
Figure 4.8 DIY instructions in the
Instand-Besetzer-Post,
17.3.1981, p. 10 (Papiertiger Archiv Berlin).
Figure 4.9 The makeshift city: Rehabilitating occupied spaces in Kreuzberg (Umbruch Archiv).
Figure 4.10 The Regenbogenfabrik social centre in Kreuzberg (photo by author).
Figure 4.11 Intimacy and utopia: The Frauencafé in Moabit,
Instand-Besetzer-Post
, 12.6.81, p. 23 (Papiertiger Archiv Berlin).
Figure 4.12 “The city as festival”: Street performance in Charlottenburg on 21 September 1981 (Wolfgang Sünderhauf/Umbruch Archiv).
Figure 4.13 Map produced for TUWAT ‘spectacle’ in Kreuzberg, August 1981,
Instand-Besetzer-Post
(Papiertiger Archiv).
Figure 4.14 Second map produced for TUWAT ‘spectacle’ in Kreuzberg, August 1981,
Instand-Besetzer-Post
(Papiertiger Archiv).
Chapter 05
Figure 5.1 The eviction of squatters from Mainzer Straße in Friedrichshain, November 1990 (Umbruch Archiv).
Figure 5.2
Umweltblätter
, cover of dissident underground Samisdat publication of the Kirche von Unten, East Berlin, 1988 (Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft).
Figure 5.3 The occupation of abandoned apartments in Mainzer Straße by squatters in 1990 (Umbruch Archiv).
Figure 5.4 During the Mainzer Straße evictions in Friedrichshain, November 1990 (Umbruch Archiv).
Chapter 06
Figure 6.1 Performing architecture? Squatters occupying Kastanienallee 77, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg on 20 June 1992 (pamphlet produced by K77).
Figure 6.2 The ‘art’ of squatting (pamphlet produced by K77).
Figure 6.3 Kastanienallee 77 in 2009 (photo by author).
Figure 6.4 The ‘remains’ of the Brunnenstraße 183 squat after its eviction in 2009 (photo by author).
Figure 6.5 The Kotti & Co ‘
gecekondu
’ in Kreuzberg (photo by author).
Chapter 07
Figure 7.1 Montage of the West Berlin Squatter Scene in the
Instand-Besetzer-Post
, 30.4.1981, n.p. (Papiertiger Archiv Berlin).
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Cover image: Squatted House with banner (“It is better that our young people occupy empty houses rather than foreign countries”). Richardplatz, Berlin-Neukölln, June 8, 1982. (Michael Kipp/Umbruch Bildarchiv)
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List of Figures
1.1
Arrest of the journalist Ulrike Meinhof at a protest occupation in the Märkisches Viertel in West Berlin, 1 May 1970 (Klaus Mehner, BerlinPressServices).
1.2
Map of squatted spaces in West Berlin up to the end of 1981. Map produced by Elaine Watts, University of Nottingham.
1.3
Map of the second wave of squatting in the former East of Berlin, 1989–1990. Map produced by Elaine Watts, University of Nottingham.
2.1
Berlin’s ‘shanty town’. Image in
Die Gartenlaube
by Ludwig Löffler (1819–1876), p. 459.
2.2
The creative destruction of the Berlin tenement. Kreuzberg in the early 1980s. Skalitzer Straße between Kottbusser Tor and Görlitzer Bahnhof (Manfred Kraft/Umbruch Archiv).
3.1
The Georg von Rauch-Haus (photo by author).
3.2
“The stones that hit your head are from the house you pulled down.” Cover of
Sponti
magazine,
Wir wollen alles
(Nr. 13/14, 1974) documenting the Frankfurter
Häuserkampf
(personal collection, author).
4.1
Cover of TUNIX conference flyer, December 1977/January 1978 (personal collection, author).
4.2
The TUNIX conference in West Berlin, January 1978 (Klaus Mehner, BerlinPressServices).
4.3
Programme for TUNIX conference,
InfoBUG
, December 1977/January 1978 (personal collection, author).
4.4
The Fire Station on Reichenberger Straße in Kreuzberg, occupied in Spring 1977, cover of brochure produced in December 1977 (Papiertiger Archiv Berlin).
4.5
Bürgerinitiative SO36 Flyer announcing the occupation of two squatted apartment blocks in Kreuzberg, reproduced in the
Südost Express
, February 1979 (Papiertiger Archiv Berlin).
4.6
American soldiers conducting urban military exercises in Kreuzberg,
Südost Express
, December 1979 (Papiertiger Archiv Berlin).
4.7
Protests in the wake of the eviction of squatters from a house on Fränkelufer 48, Kreuzberg, 12 December 1980 (Michael Kipp/Umbruch Archiv).
4.8
DIY instructions in the
Instand-Besetzer-Post
, 17.3.1981, p. 10 (Papiertiger Archiv Berlin).
4.9
The makeshift city: Rehabilitating occupied spaces in Kreuzberg (Umbruch Archiv).
4.10
The Regenbogenfabrik social centre in Kreuzberg (photo by author).
4.11
Intimacy and utopia: The Frauencafé in Moabit,
Instand-Besetzer-Post
, 12.6.81, p. 23 (Papiertiger Archiv Berlin).
4.12
“The city as festival”: Street performance in Charlottenburg on 21 September 1981 (Wolfgang Sünderhauf/Umbruch Archiv).
4.13
Map produced for TUWAT ‘spectacle’ in Kreuzberg, August 1981,
Instand-Besetzer-Post
(Papiertiger Archiv).
4.14
Second map produced for TUWAT ‘spectacle’ in Kreuzberg, August 1981,
Instand-Besetzer-Post
(Papiertiger Archiv).
5.1
The eviction of squatters from Mainzer Straße in Friedrichshain, November 1990 (Umbruch Archiv).
5.2
Umweltblätter
, cover of dissident underground Samisdat publication of the Kirche von Unten, East Berlin, 1988 (Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft).
5.3
The occupation of abandoned apartments in Mainzer Straße by squatters in 1990 (Umbruch Archiv).
5.4
During the Mainzer Straße evictions in Friedrichshain, November 1990 (Umbruch Archiv).
6.1
Performing architecture? Squatters occupying Kastanienallee 77, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg on 20 June 1992 (pamphlet produced by K77).
6.2
The ‘art’ of squatting (pamphlet produced by K77).
6.3
Kastanienallee 77 in 2009 (photo by author).
6.4
The ‘remains’ of the Brunnenstraße 183 squat after its eviction in 2009 (photo by author).
6.5
The Kotti & Co ‘
gecekondu
’ in Kreuzberg (photo by author).
7.1
Montage of the West Berlin Squatter Scene in the
Instand-Besetzer-Post
, 30.4.1981, n.p. (Papiertiger Archiv Berlin).
Acknowledgements
The origins of this book can be traced to a bus tour of West Berlin that I was taken on by my mum in the summer of 1987 as a young child. While the tour took in all the expected sites, it also wound its way through the streets of Kreuzberg, a neighbourhood still reeling from the violent clashes between police and protesters on May Day and the subsequent police blockade which sealed off the district during the visit of American President Ronald Reagan. I was captivated, in particular, by the neighbourhood’s recent history as an alternative enclave in which artists, dropouts, migrants, students, and workers all made a home. I realise now that this is a powerful imaginary with its own biases and blind spots. I was, nevertheless, struck by the graffiti and the colourful exterior of many apartment blocks in the neighbourhood. My mum explained to me that these were houses that had been occupied in the early 1980s by squatters who lived in them without paying any rent and that some had been legalised while, in the case of many other houses, the residents had been evicted.
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