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.
We trace the evolution of counter culture events, the rise of communal living, and the evolution of squatting as a political and social movement as it takes over and transforms the fabric of West Berlin in ways that remain to this day.
\ FURTHER READING AND EXPLORING
\amazing book we love - Vasudevan, A., (2015), “Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin”, Wiley-Blackwell
\azozomox and Kuhn, A. “The History and Cycles of Squatting in Berlin (1969–2016)
\Martínez López, M. (2017), “The Urban Politics of Squatters' Movements”, Palgrave Macmillan US, The Pennsylvania University Press
\Karapin, R. (2007), “Protest Politics in Germany: Movements on the Left and Right Since the 1960s”,
\our favorite map - berlin-besetzt
\squatter
\squat.net
\Great place to follow the events in many former squats- radar.squat
\MUSIC
\ Marc Weiser under the name Arurmukha, off the album – 14·11·90 - Ein Akustisches Psychogramm (and at: https://soundcloud.com/karlrecords/arurmukha-schwarzer-montag) where each song was created from field recordings recorded at the eviction of Mainzer strasse, which is pretty cool.
and Cody’s experimental music.